Next Wave 2019 Reading List

The Great Tamer, photo: Julian Mommert

Want to go deeper into Next Wave? We asked this year’s presenting artists for some suggested reading to give greater context for their productions or practice. Reference copies of these books and others can be found in venue lobbies, and this list will be updated throughout the summer.

Cruel Optimism | By Lauren Berlant

Selected by: Nat Randall and Anna Breckon
Show: The Second Woman

Cassavetes on Cassavetes | By John Cassavetes, and Ray Carney

Selected by: Nat Randall and Anna Breckon
Show: The Second Woman

Reality Television, Affect and Intimacy: Reality Matters  | By Misha Kavka

Selected by: Nat Randall and Anna Breckon
Show: The Second Woman

26666 | By Roberto Bolaño

Selected by: Christiane Jatahy
Show: What if they went to Moscow?

1Q84 | By Haruki Murakami

Selected by: Christiane Jatahy
Show: What if they went to Moscow?

Água Viva | By Clarice Lispector

Selected by: Christiane Jatahy
Show: What if they went to Moscow?

Heart of Darkness | By Joseph Conrad

Selected by: Christiane Jatahy
Show: What if they went to Moscow?

The Sound and the Fury | By William Faulkner

Selected by: Christiane Jatahy
Show: What if they went to Moscow?

Lincoln in the Bardo | By George Saunders

Selected by: Ben Kidd and Bush Moukarzel
Show: Hamnet

Interviews with Francis Bacon | By David Sylvester

Selected by: Ben Kidd and Bush Moukarzel
Show: Hamnet

Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life | By Philippe Aries

Selected by: Dead Centre
Show: Hamnet

The Disappearance of Childhood | By Neil Postman

Selected by: Dead Centre
Show: Hamnet

Shakespeare: The Biography | By Peter Ackroyd

Selected by: Dead Centre
Show: Hamnet

Children of the Queen's Revels | By Lucy Munro

Selected by: Dead Centre
Show: Hamnet

Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life | By Adam Phillips

Selected by: Dead Centre
Show: Hamnet

Untangling the Web: What the Internet is Doing to You | By Aleks Krotoski

Selected by: Dante or Die
Show: User Not Found

The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography | By Graham Robb

Selected by: Pamela Carter
Show: The End of Eddy

Merde!: The Real French You Were Never Taught at School | By Genevieve

Selected by: Pamela Carter
Show: The End of Eddy

Paul Bright's Confessions of a Justified Sinner | By Untitled Projects

Selected by: Stewart Laing and Pamela Carter
Show: The End of Eddy

Autobiography of Red | By Anne Carson

Selected by: Dimitris Papaioannou
Show: The Great Tamer

The Essential Rumi | Translated by Coleman Barks

Selected by: Dimitris Papaioannou
Show: The Great Tamer

Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters | By David Hockney

Selected by: Dimitris Papaioannou
Show: The Great Tamer

The Symposium | By Plato, Translated by Christopher Gill

Selected by: Dimitris Papaioannou
Show: The Great Tamer

Cloud Atlas | By David Mitchell

Selected by: Inua Ellams
Show: Barber Shop Chronicles

The Palm-Wine Drinkard | By Amos Tutuola

Selected by: Inua Ellams
Show: Barber Shop Chronicles

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa | By Walter Rodney

Selected by: Inua Ellams
Show: Barber Shop Chronicles

Invisible Man | By Ralph Ellison

Selected by: Kyle Marshall
Show: A.D. & Colored

The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America | By Frances FitzGerald

Selected by: Kyle Marshall
Show: A.D. & Colored

NIV, Pew and Worship  | By Zondervan

Selected by: Kyle Marshall
Show: A.D. & Colored

The Autobiography of Malcolm X | By MALCOLM X

Selected by: Kyle Marshall
Show: A.D. & Colored

Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity | By Elaine Pagels

Selected by: Kyle Marshall
Show: A.D. & Colored

The Greek Vase: Art of the Storyteller | By John H. Oakley

Selected by: Marlene Monteiro Freitas
Show: Bacchae: Prelude to a Purge

The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music | By Friedrich Nietzsche

Selected by: Marlene Monteiro Freitas
Show: Bacchae: Prelude to a Purge

The Theater and Its Double | By Antonin Artaud

Selected by: Marlene Monteiro Freitas
Show: Bacchae: Prelude to a Purge

The Bacchae and Other Plays | By Euripides, Translated by John Davie

Selected by: Marlene Monteiro Freitas
Show: Bacchae: Prelude to a Purge

Twilight: Photographs by Gregory Crewdson | By Rick Moody

Selected by: Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier
Show: 32 rue Vandenbranden

Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema | By Andrey Tarkovsky

Selected by: Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier
Show: 32 rue Vandenbranden

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories | By Raymond Carver

Selected by: Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier
Show: 32 rue Vandenbranden

Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation | By Richard Sennett

Selected by: Kate McIntosh
Show: In Many Hands

How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human | By Eduardo Kohn

Selected by: Kate McIntosh
Show: In Many Hands

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