(Giuseppe Ungaretti, filmed by Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1963 in Comizi d’amore.)
may 1–may 15, 2016
Books
- Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama
Films
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, directed by Irving Reis
- Bells are Ringing, dir. Vincente Minnelli
- Tea and Sympathy, dir. Vincente Minnelli
- The Lobster, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
- Under the Cherry Moon, dir. Prince
- Sun Don’t Shine, dir. Amy Seimetz
- The Leopard Man, dir. Jacquer Tourneur
- A Face in the Crowd, dir. Elia Kazan
- Carol, dir. Todd Haynes
Exhibits
- “Mit Jai Inn: Wett,” Gallery Ver
april 16–30, 2016
Books
- John Berger & Jean Mohr, A Fortunate Man: The Life of a Country Doctor
- Thomas Meyer, Beowulf
- Henry Green, Loving
Films
- Imagine the Sound, directed by Ron Mann
- The Jungle Book, dir. Jon Favreau
- Knight of Cups, dir. Terrence Malick
- 1991: The Year Punk Broke, dir. Dave Markey
- A Foreign Affair, dir. Billy Wilder
- The Panic in Needle Park, dir. Jerry Schatzberg
- Comfort & Joy, dir. Bill Forsyth
Exhibits
- “Lines from Three Lives: Chuan Leekpai, Chakrabhand Posayakrit, Nithi Sthapitanonda,” BACC
april 1–15, 2016
Books
- China Miéville, Embassytown
- Idra Novey, Ways to Disappear
- Georges Simenon, Three Bedrooms in Manhattan, translated by Marc Romano & Lawrence R. Blochman
- Samuel R. Delany, The Jewels of Aptor
- Samuel R. Delany, The Ballad of Beta-2
- Helen Phillips, The Beautiful Bureaucrat
- Georges Simenon, Act of Passion, trans. Louise Varèse
- Roald Dahl, Switch Bitch
- Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald
- Samuel R. Delany, They Fly at Çiron
Exhibits
- Liwan Museum, Guangzhou
- “Shen Shaomin: There Is No Problem,” Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou
- “Chinese Printmaking New Scene,” Tap Seac Gallery, Macau
march 16–31, 2016
Books
- Álvaro Mutis, The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll, translated by Edith Grossman
- Georges Simenon, Tropic Moon, trans. Marc Romano
- Georges Simenon, Dirty Snow, trans. Marc Romano
- Georges Simenon, Mr. Hire’s Engagement, trans. Daphne Woodward
- Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men
- Georges Simenon, Monsieur Monde Vanishes, trans. Jean Stewart
- Georges Simenon, The 13 Culprits, trans. Peter Schulman
Films
- Dark Passage, dir. Delmer Daves
- Macao, dir. Josef von Sternberg & Nicholas Ray
- The Big Knife, dir. Robert Aldrich
- The Creature from the Black Lagoon, dir. Jack Arnold
- The Anthem, dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy, dir. Kelly Makin
- The Forbidden Room, dir. Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson
- The Queen Of Versailles, dir. Lauren Greenfield
march 1–15, 2016
Books
- Gabriele D’Annunzio, The Child of Pleasure, translated by Georgina Harding
- Susanne Kircher, A Roman Scandal: The Story of Beatrice Cenci
- Mihail Sebastian, For Two Thousand Years, trans. Philip Ó Ceallaigh
Films
- What Happened, Miss Simone?, directed by Liz Garbus
- Hail, Caesar!, dir. Joel & Ethan Coen
there has not always been snow outside
“And what I really wish to record – as if otherwise I might forget it – is merely that there has not always been snow outside, that much else has occurred during this past year, bloom and harvest and the fragrance of resin throughout the woods, water dripping and trickling down over the rocks of the face of the Kuppron, wind blowing from afar and dying away, light that flamed and faded, and skies that changed from day to night and back again to day. All this occurred while my heart was beating, while wind and sun and clouds were there, all of them flowing through my hands and my heart.”
(Hermann Broch, The Spell, trans. H. F. Broch de Rotherman, p. 6.)
february 15–29, 2016
Books
- John Keene, Annotations
- William S. Wilson, With Ray: The Art of Friendship
- Eka Kurniawan, Man Tiger, translated by Labodalih Sembiring
- John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman
- Ann Beattie, Mrs. Nixon
- Elizabeth McKenzie, The Portable Veblen
Films
- Times Square, directed by Allan Moyle
- The East, dir. Zal Batmanglij
the dirt that is our lives
“ ‘Oh, excuse me, I would so love to stay and discuss this, but you see, I brought my pet tortoise with me and it has run away, and I must try to find it before it buries itself in the dirt that is our lives.’ ”
(Ann Beattie, Mrs. Nixon, p. 3.)
other than the world that is
“You may think novelists always have fixed plans to which they work, so that the future predicted by Chapter One is always inexorably the actuality of Chapter Thirteen. But novelists write for countless different reasons: for money, for fame, for reviewers, for parents, for friends, for loved ones; for vanity, for pride, for curiosity, for amusement: as skilled furniture-makers enjoy making furnitures, as drunkards like drinking, as judges like judging, as Sicilians like emptying a shotgun into an enemy’s back. I could fill a book with reasons, and they would all be true, though not true at all. Only one same reason is shared by all of us: we wish to create worlds as real as, but other than the world that is. Or was. This is why we cannot plan. We know a world is an organism, not a machine. We also know that a genuinely created world must be independent of its creator; a planned world (a world that fully reveals its planning) is a dead world. It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.”
(John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, p. 86.)