A fascinating mixture of surreal political fable and romantic crime story, Yuri Herrera’s prize-winning novel Kingdom Cons will be available in English for the first time this June from the publisher And Other Stories. For this screening, Herrera selects Robert Altman’s equally surreal Raymond Chandler adaptation The Long Goodbye.

Occasioned by the release of his recent novel White Tears—a razor-sharp mystery about America’s history of greed, revenge, exploitation, and music—Hari Kunzru will present Passport to Pimlico, Henry Cornelius’s cheeky satire about secession in postwar England.

Katie Kitamura’s latest, A Separation, is a suspenseful account of intimacy and infidelity, unfolding in a remote Greek Village. To pair with her highly acclaimed new work, Kitamura has chosen Claude Chabrol’s seminal relationship thriller Le Boucher.

Alexander Chee’s recently released second novel, The Queen of the Night, is an enthralling tale of a 19th-century Parisian opera star. No wonder he has selected this piercing tale of love and loss, in which Max Ophüls’s celebrated, unchained camera whirls dazzlingly through the ballrooms, opera houses, and bedrooms of La Belle Époque Paris.

In Chuck Klosterman’s But What If We’re Wrong? (Blue Rider Press), the acclaimed dissector of pop culture examines the “certainties” of contemporary life and how future generations might amend or topple them. Fittingly, Klosterman will present Peter Watkins’s underseen Privilege, a politically charged black comedy that envisions a future in which the forces of government and celebrity interact in startlingly sinister, but disturbingly believable, ways.

Poet, writer, theater artist, and performer Corina Copp will introduce Eric Rohmer’s Venice Golden Lion–winning masterpiece The Green Ray with a reading from her new book of poems of the same name, to be published in March by Ugly Duckling Presse.

Print Screen invites our favorite authors to present films that complement and have inspired their work. On the occasion of the publication of his novel City on Fire, author Garth Risk Hallberg joins us to present John Cassavetes’ dreamy crime-thriller/fantasy Gloria, with a discussion and book signing to follow.

Jacob Wren’s Rich and Poor is a rare work of literary fiction that cuts into the psychology of politics in ways that are off-kilter. He has selected Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-up, a masterful exploration of the nature of truth and cinematic illusion with a distinctly offbeat sense of humor, which has been widely hailed as one of the greatest films of the 1990s.

Novelist James Hannaham will join us to present a screening of Japanese New Wave iconoclast Yasuzo Masumura’s lurid melodrama, based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki, which renders an intersecting, bisexual affair with a liberating intensity, effectively rebelling against Japanese social norms of the time.

Print Screen invites our favorite authors to present films that complement and have inspired their work. On the occasion of the paperback release of his debut novel, Wolf in White Van (September 1 from Picador), Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle joins us to introduce a screening of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s interpretation of Medea, followed by an on-stage discussion and book signing.

On the occasion of the U.S. release of Book Four in his brilliant, widely acclaimed My Struggle series, we invited Karl Ove Knausgaard to make a carte blanche selection. A devotee of Dogme 95, Knausgaard selected Lars von Trier’s sui generis The Idiots, which he will introduce. A Q&A and book signing will follow.

Lydia Millet’s chilling new novel, Sweet Lamb of Heaven, a blend of domestic thriller and psychological horror that follows a mother fleeing her estranged husband, is a perfect companion piece to Hideo Nakata’s horror classic Ringu, in which a mother investigates the chilling mystery surrounding a haunted videotape to save herself and her young son from its fatal curse.

Part of our new series Print Screen, this reading, screening, and discussion launches The Argonauts, the latest book by Maggie Nelson (Bluets, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning). Nelson will read from her new book and introduce a screening of three recent works of performative video art that focus on language and the body, followed by a post-screening discussion with her partner Harry Dodge and a book signing.

Print Screen invites our favorite authors to present films that complement and have inspired their work. On the occasion of the publication of her latest collection of essays, The Quarry (November 10 from New Directions), poet Susan Howe joins us to present a screening of Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterful meditation on memory, The Mirror, with a discussion and book signing to follow.

On the occasion of the publication of his latest novel, Satin Island, acclaimed writer and artist Tom McCarthy will introduce and discuss a double bill of Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, Johan Grimonprez’s essay film on the history of airplane hijackings, and Antony Balch and William S. Burroughs’s seminal collage film, Towers Open Fire.

Paul La Farge’s The Night Ocean is a spellbinding new novel about secrets and scandals, inspired by the lives of H. P. Lovecraft and his circle. La Farge has selected The Haunted Palace, the gothic horror film made by Roger Corman amid his vaunted “Poe Cycle.”