july 16–31, 2021

Books

  • Dante, Purgatorio, translated by John Aitken Carlyle, Thomas Okey & P. H. Wicksteed
  • Dante, Purgatory, trans. J. G. Nichols
  • Dante, Paradise, trans. Alasdair Gray
  • Jamie McKendrick, editor, The Faber Book of 20th-Century Italian Poems
  • Sandro Penna, Within the Sweet Noise of Life: Selected Poems, trans. Alexander Booth
  • Jaume Subirana, The Silent Letter, trans. Christopher Whyte
  • Italo Calvino, Numbers in the Dark, trans. Tim Parks
  • Charles Portis, The Dog of the South
  • Charles Portis, Norwood
  • Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers

Films

  • Graceland, directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong
  • Nightfall, dir. Anocha Suwichakornpong & Tulapop Saenja
  • The Secret Life of Edward James, dir. Patrick Boyle
  • Renaissance, dir. Walerian Borowczyk
  • No Sudden Move, dir. Steven Soderbergh

july 1–15, 2021

Books

  • Dao Strom, You Will Always Be Someone from Somewhere Else, translated by Ly Thuy Nguyen
  • Evelyn Waugh, Remote People
  • Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Tattoo, trans. Nick Caistor
  • Olivia Laing, Everybody: A Book about Freedom
  • Italo Calvino, Last Comes the Raven, trans. Archibald Colquhoun, Peggy Wright, Ann Goldstein, William Weaver & Ben Johnson
  • Forrest Gander, Twice Alive

Films

  • Fantastic Fungi, directed by Louie Schwartzberg

june 16–30, 2021

Books

  • Giorgio Scerbanenco, A Private Venus, translated by Howard Curtis
  • Evelyn Waugh, Labels: A Mediterranean Journal
  • Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge
  • Giorgio Scerbanenco, Traitors to All, trans. Howard Curtis
  • Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures

june 1–15, 2021

Books

  • Gabriel Weisz Carrington, The Invisible Painting: My Memoir of Leonora Carrington
  • Manuel Vásquez Montalbán, The Angst-Ridden Executive, translated by Ed Emery
  • Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Italian Journey 1786–1788, trans. W. H. Auden & Elizabeth Mayer
  • Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders
  • Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Southern Seas, trans. Patrick Camiller
  • Dante, Purgatory, trans. Alasdair Gray

Films

  • Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project, directed by Matt Wolf

may 16–31, 2021

Books

  • Leonardo Sciascia, Equal Danger, translated by Adrienne Foulke
  • Jacques Vallée, The Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist
  • Jonathan Ames, A Man Named Doll
  • Zakir Hossain Khokan, Bhing Navato, Poh Yong Han & Joshua Ip, editors, Call & Response 2: A Singapore Migrant Poetry Anthology
  • Linda Collins, Sign Language for the Death of Reason
  • Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
  • Eduardo Berti, An Ideal Presence, trans. Daniel Levin Becker
  • Stewart Brand, The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT
  • Stewart Brand, Two Cybernetic Frontiers
  • Andrea Camilleri, The Cook of the Halcyon, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
  • John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley in Search of America
  • Alasdair Gray, A History Maker

Films

  • We Are as Gods, directed by David Alvarado & Jason Sussberg

may 1–15, 2021

Books

  • Trevor Winkfield & Miles Champion, How I Became a Painter: Trevor Winkfield in Conversation with Miles Champion
  • John Swartzwelder, The Time Machine Did It
  • John Swartzwelder, Double Wonderful
  • Karen An-Hwei Lee, A Maze of Transparencies
  • Raquel Salas Rivera, While They Sleep (Under the Bed Is Another Country)
  • James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times
  • Leonardo Sciascia, The Wine-Dark Sea, translated by Avril Bardoni
  • Leonardo Sciascia, The Day of the Owl, trans. Archibald Colquhoun & Arthur Oliver

Films

  • À bout de souffle (Breathless), directed by Jean-Luc Godard
  • Cold Case Hammarskjöld, dir. Mads Brügger
  • The Birds, dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  • Mister America, dir. Eric Notarnicola

april 16–30, 2021

Books

  • Marcel Proust, The Mysterious Correspondent: New Stories, translated by Charlotte Mandell
  • Jamie McKendrick, Crocodiles & Obelisks
  • Donna Leon, Acqua Alta
  • Karen Pinkus, The Montesi Scandal: The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi in Fellini’s Rome
  • Sandi Tan, Lurkers
  • Jamie McKendrick, Out There
  • Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, trans. R. D. Hicks
  • Dante Alighieri, Inferno, trans. Mary Jo Bang

Films

  • Mulholland Drive, directed by David Lynch
  • Brick, dir. Rian Johnson
  • Breathless, dir. Jim McBride

april 1–15, 2021

Books

  • Shawn Levy, Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome
  • Muriel Spark, The Public Image
  • Donna Leon, The Anonymous Venetian
  • Donna Leon, Death & Judgment
  • Tim Parks, Italian Life

Films

  • Godzilla vs Kong, directed by Adam Wingard
  • Roman Holiday, dir. William Wyler

march 16–31, 2021

Books

  • Wayne Koestenbaum, Andy Warhol: A Biography
  • Curzio Malaparte, Diary of a Foreigner in Paris, translated by Stephen Twilley
  • Paul Scheerbart, Munchausen and Clarissa: A Berlin Novel, trans. Christina Svendsen
  • Ed Lin, Motherfuckerland
  • Georges Simenon, A Man’s Head, trans. David Coward
  • Roberto Bolaño, Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles, and Speeches 1998–2003, trans. Natasha Wimmer
  • M. John Harrison, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again
  • Donna Leon, Death at La Fenice
  • Lee Jing-Jing, And Other Rivers
  • Donna Leon, Death in a Strange Country

Films

  • Ignoti alla città, directed by Cecilia Mangini
  • Tommaso, dir. Cecilia Mangini