La Révolution, c’est de l’Eau… Sauver un cours d’Eau, aussi ténu soit-il, c’est un début pour sauver tout ce qui peut encore l’être.
Une…
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Writing a story is a little like dragging a tree out of a dark wood and then wrapping it with strings of starry lights.
Be welcome to an evening of readings by author Camille Roy. She will share with us…
October 19 2025 07:00PM
You are allowed to join us for a celebration of Rebecca Maybury's grandness and her beautiful little book, From Paris With Love. This is Mistress Rebecca’s account of having eight different submissive men make…
Bourgeois coldness refers to an affective strategy that offers an explanation for how self-preservation works. Bourgeois coldness is one of the most advanced affective and aesthetic forms of preserving the structure of…
MsHeresies is a publication series about the ornamental in feminist collaboration. It is made by Elisabeth Rafstedt and Johanna Ehde of Rietlanden Women’s Office, Amsterdam. In this sixth issue they publish A Manager from…
In these essays by scholar and self-initiated witch Brooke Palmieri, occult history, the eternal now, and our magickal queer futures align, connecting us to an enchantment both contemporary and classic. Drawing upon the…
Natasha iconic Stagg is back with a new novel ! *(°^°)*
Installed alongside the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, Alexander Calder’s public sculpture La Grande Vitesse has come to symbolize the city.…
BACK IN STOCK! The practice of yoga promises peace, self-realisation and release, thanks to the power of its “mystic” Indian origins. But what if this is just hype? In Fascist Yoga, Stewart Home sweeps away the…
Torrington Project is an artist book by Tom Burr documenting his three-year occupation of a repurposed 19th-century factory in Torrington, Connecticut. A subversive take on the catalogue raisonné, it blurs the…
My name is Elaine Lillian Joseph and I’m a Black British writer, audio describer, and translator who creates aesthetic experiences through embodied description. I have a soft, flattened out Birmingham accent with the…
The first institutional publication on Precious Okoyomon's work is an extraordinary artist's book offering a wealth of visual and textual material that stimulates our minds, senses, and imagination.
Precious Okoyomon's…
2026 IS HERE ALREADY !!
Here come the legendary Slingshot organizers straight from Berkeley, California. – spiral bound pocket version (4.25 inches X 5.5 inches) – working title “Slingshot deviant” or maybe “Slingshot…
Radical Rediscoveries: Performance Texts from the Women’s Theatre Movement 1969–1987 is the first of three volumes by Unfinished Histories as part of Montez Press imprint Scores, in collaboration with the Associate…
Lots of straight-talking in BUTT no. 37. Catch Édouard Louis shot by Nan Goldin, Bruce LaBruce meeting Omar Apollo, real talk with Brazilian deputy Erika Hilton and dirty talk with Martin Margiela and Jean Paul Gaultier.…
The success of new far-right movements cannot be explained by fear or rage alone – the pleasures of aggression and violence are just as essential. As such, racism is particularly intense when it is erotically charged,…
Ursula K. Le Guin began writing as a poet, before writing across genres for her entire life. This elegiac collection of poems, completed shortly before her death in 2018, reflects on the soul, mortality and the mysteries…
Aria Dean’s moving image work Abattoir, U.S.A.!, presented in the eponymous exhibition at the Renaissance Society between February and April 2023, surveys the interior of an empty slaughterhouse. This slaughterhouse…
L’un des inénarrables « livres illisibles » de Bruno Munari, où, à la place du texte, le papier, ses couleurs, ses découpes, sa séquence, la manière dont le·a lecteur·trice s’empare du volume, créent une forme spécifiique,…
Bibliographic Performances & Surrogate Readings delves into the imaginative realm of books and libraries and the interpretive structures of subject bibliographies. It is the first monograph of its kind to historicize,…
Nous avons passé du temps ensemble pendant trois après-midi, dans la mezzanine de la Maison des Métallos, et aussi un peu dans la cour, pour se présenter, fumer une cigarette…
This book collects photographs taken by Pietro Perotti – a worker at the Fiat Mirafiori plant in Turin – who, starting in 1985, created protest writings and drawings in the factory toilets to oppose the oppressive policies…
Le fascisme n’est pas que haine, destructivité et mort, il promet aussi de répondre à des attentes, des frustrations, des angoisses et des désirs. Dans ce processus de régénération infinie de la race blanche, il capte…
Practicing Dying is a literary anti-memoir documenting life in a Zen Buddhist monastery in rural France where the protagonist, a woman in her late twenties, attempts to overcome chronic drug addiction and mental…
DIRECT ACTION est un livre élaboré dans la continuité du film DIRECT ACTION tourné sur la ZAD de Notre-Dame-des-Landes par Ben Russell et Guillaume Cailleau.
Alors que le film se veut contemplatif…
Stories about witches are by their nature stories about the most basic and profound of human experiences—healing, sex, violence, tragedies, aging, death, and encountering the mystery and magic of the unknown. It is no…
Le male gaze façonne nos imaginaires, sexualise les corps, euphémise la violence et compartimente les savoirs. Partout dans notre littérature, des classiques incontournables aux poètes maudits, de l’antiquité…
Maghreb noir replace Algérie, Maroc et Tunisie au cœur de l’effervescence panafricaine des années 1960 et 1970. Sembène Ousmane, Jean Sénac, Sarah Maldoror, Amílcar Cabral, René Depestre, Mário de Andrade, Abdellatif…
Bruno Munari wrote: “In nature, everything changes. Trees take on different shapes, snakes shed their skins [...]. So it’s pointless for artists to try to create eternal works of art. Art has to keep renewing itself. Organic…
Genpei Akasagawa, writing under the pen name Katsuhiko Otsuji, was already a giant of the Japanese contemporary art world when he began writing these stories, which earned him Japan’s two most prestigious book awards.
In…
In four parts, Susan Howe’s new book opens with the arresting long prose poem “Penitential Cries,” followed by a group of word-collages “Sterling Park in the Dark,” “The Deserted Shelf,” and finally a brief sparrow poem.…
In Pervert or Detective?, artists Reba Maybury and Lucy McKenzie dissect power, desire, and subversion in a provocative conversation. Maybury, who integrates her work as a political dominatrix into her artistic…
BACK IN STOCK! Yes we love Frimkess : ) This publication brings together over 140 works produced over the past twenty-five years by the Venezuelan American artist Magdalena Suarez Frimkess. Frimkess’s hand-built ceramic…
In each issue of Public Domain, a distinct voice is invited to select a sequence of images culled from the public domain. Expanding and accessible grants, broadband internet and affordable scanning technology…
Fanzin sa nou ka danse !
Un zine rassemblant playlists, essais critiques, archives, photographies, et autres documents pour inviter les lecteur·trices à plonger dans l’histoire musicale d’Haïti. De Toto…
The Homosexual, whether he likes it or no, is perhaps the best example of a good Situationist. Uncensorable, emotionally sluttish, always horny for destruction – and with tendencies to be good at stealing – the Homosexual…
Featuring writing and artistic practices that trace the racialized and gendered relationship between bodies and land, A Grammar Built with Rocks explores artists’ engagement with…
Against the backdrop of the anti-trans panic, Perverts explores desire as a political problem. It asks two questions at the same time: whose desire is understood as dangerously excessive? And—a classic organizer’s…
In 1911, Sigmund Freud addressed his followers gathered at Nuremberg, where he restated the import of his practice: “the task of psychoanalysis lies not at all in the discovering of complexes, but in the dissolving of…
Née en 1940 à New York, Joan Nestle a grandi dans une famille monoparentale juive de la classe ouvrière, puis a fréquenté la communauté butch-fem avant de rejoindre les mouvements antiracistes, féministes et homosexuels.…
Becoming the Forest is a serial publication about ecology and music edited by Úna Hamilton Helle and Lotte Brown. It is part of a long-running art project by Úna Hamilton Helle, inspired by how the dense spruce…
PRESCRIPTIONS is a transcription of a handwritten manuscript, dated to approximately 1650, containing a wide range of medicinal and magical remedies. Currently housed in the Cornell University Witchcraft Collection, it…
In her Manifesto, Charlotte Posenenske (1930-1985) stated: “I find it difficult to come to terms with the fact that art can contribute nothing to the solution of pressing social problems.”
Developing…
“Beginning in the 1990s, the efflorescence of a technology-driven, ostensibly post-industrial ‘new economy’ brought with it a revival of interest in an array of concepts and discourses relating systems and systems thinking…
Musicians have often wanted to change the world. From underground innovators to pop icons, many have believed in the political power of music. Rulers recognise it too. Music has been used to challenge the political and…
Building loosely on the form of a pocket-sized travel guide, this artist’s book unfolds into a 731.52 cm wide miniature landscape. Composed of hand-painted and digitally illustrated images stitched together into a continuous…
Ce recueil d’absences fait ainsi un livre de relations. Pas vraiment au sens de récit, plutôt au sens où il fait état d’une relation possible entre corps flottants.
Dans le sens, enfin, où résulte de…
“In this book, I have bought together the transcripts of dialogues I recorded on tape in three girls' classes from the first, second and third year of a state middle school. For having proposed this unauthorised activity,…
A deeply moving and revelatory reading experience, the essays collected in Portrait of an Island on Fire form a searing account of Mauritius at a crucial moment in its history. Unceasing in its critiques…
Okwui Enwezor is widely regarded as a leader among the brilliant curators who emerged in the 1990s to set agendas for understanding the global expansiveness of contemporary art. Among his pathfinding exhibitions were the…
For those who seek to combat injustice, solidarity with the oppressed is one of the highest ideals, yet it does not come without complication. In this searing yet uplifting book, award-winning writer and cultural critic…
Dans un petit opuscule intitulé Sept ans de musique concrète, publié en 1955, on peut lire, de la plume de Jacques Poullin, le passage suivant : « […] la projection sonore en salle de concert constitue une suite…
Something in the Water marks a new chapter in Oscar Tuazon’s ongoing Water School project. Bringing together the work of 15 artists who engage with water as a living material and an artistic medium, the publication…
« Il existe bien une lutte des sexes où le sexe féminin, bien qu’en grande partie définissable en tant que classe, ne se comporte pas comme une classe ; il lui a été jusqu’à présent impossible de s’assumer comme…
American publisher and DIY architect Lloyd Kahn made a name for himself in the 1970s with publications on the self-build movement. As an eclectic meta-manual, Shelter Cookbook explores the content of these now…
Lebanese-born artist, Huguette Caland was a path-breaking figure in late modernism. The only daughter of the first Lebanese president, Bechara El Khoury, she produced a singular body of art that spanned media and continents.…
Gio Ponti (Milan, 1891–1979) was a key figure for Italian modernism; it is impossible to confine his legacy to a single creative field. From 1923 to 1930, Ponti was artistic director of the now cult Italian tableware manufacturer…
This volume expands David Reinfurt’s uniquely pragmatic and experimental approach to pedagogy into a collaborative project that weaves together a multiplicity of voices to present a polyphonic approach to design history…
"No one was born Butch. People were born babies and promptly burst into tears, which was most Un-Butch," declares Clark Henley's Butch Manual, a hilarious 1980s cult classic that reminds us that being "butch"…
Cabanes, bibliothèques, îles, grottes, maisons : au fil des siècles, une infinité de lieux ont été façonnés pour que les désirs et les vies lesbiennes se déploient. À l’abri des regards ou dans une affirmation politique,…
Cooking with Scorsese Vol. 4 continues the beloved series' exploration of cinematic cuisine, serving up another feast of unforgettable food moments on film. This latest volume features the visions of directors…
Since his on-screen “death” by erogenous torture device in Nine Inch Nails’ notorious “Happiness in Slavery” music video, writer and artist Bob Flanagan has been a looming legend in domains of art, pain and sex. First…
De Simone Weil à Lisa Robertson, tout le monde aime les cathares! Mais – des hérétiques les plus célèbres du Moyen Âge, il ne reste rien, sauf les châteaux qu’on leur attribue à tort. Nous ne les connaissons qu’au travers…
The critical orthodoxy is slowing; it’s tired, it's not especially good at the internet, it’s probably never manned a Starbucks counter or an anonymous cubicle. Its younger adepts—though digitally native—are chronically…
Artists in America have long battled against injustices, believing that art can in fact “do more.” The War of Art tells this history of artist-led activism and the global political and aesthetic debates of the…
American artist Kandis Williams works across collage, sculpture, film, performance, writing, pedagogy and publishing. Her multidisciplinary practice leverages the experience of the body alongside personal and communal…
Comment s’habilleront-elles cet été, les jeunes ouvrières de Maubeuge ? Et leurs copines caissières de Lille ou de Saint-Quentin ? Quels nouveaux vêtements accrocheront-elles au hit-parade de leurs envies…
More Harry Smith! This time with a big monograph – published in the aftermath of the exhibition coorganized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Carpenter Center at Harvard University in 2024.
The first…
Oh oh quite a lovely one.
In the House of the Trembling Eye is a compendium by Allison Katz that draws out unexpected affinities across artworks and centuries—from Pompeian fresco fragments to Katz’s own…
Description et analyse d’un dictionnaire écrit, illustré et conçu par le fascinant Paulo de Cantos (1892-1979) – éditeur, bibliophile, éducateur, philanthrope, typographe, figure à part de la modernité artistique au Portugal.…
Bespoke online archives like PennSound and Eclipse host an astounding array of “old media” artifacts, posing a handcrafted counterpoint to the immense databases aggregated by digital titans like Google and Facebook. In…
KIMIA’s last name was Salée which means salty in French. I heard sablé in the name; sandy, like her skin and like a cookie. She was sweet. We spoke French with each other at École Internationale…
It was in August I discovered the “Debs” white orchid, across the river from Hode, in its twin city, Spode. Specifically, it was in the Clothing Wing of the Wealth Museum. Mummers and I were standing in front of ferns…
While the child psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto stands alongside Jacques Lacan as a leading light of the Other French School, she has been little translated and remains curiously unknown in the English-speaking world. First…
Slides of a Changing Painting is a new artist book by Robert Gober that takes as its point of departure the artist’s highly influential, yet rarely seen, early work of the same name—a slide presentation documenting…
Here are David Wojnarowicz’s most intimate stories and sketches, from the full spectrum of his life as an artist and AIDS activist. Four sections—”Into the Drift and Sway,” “Doing Time in a Disposable Body,” “Spiral,”…
Like Paris in the 1920s, New York City in the 1960s was a cauldron of avant-garde ferment and artistic innovation. Boundaries were transgressed and new forms created. Drawing on interviews, memoirs, and the alternative…
Menko Toys celebrates both a collectable class of ephemera and reflects Parisian artist, Antwan Horfee’s anthropological mind.
This book, a sequel and expanded view of Horfee’s collection of Menko cards, presents…
Issue #4 of Al Hayya traces resistance in the home, on the streets, across borders, and within the self. From Gaza, where genocide compresses time into isolated minutes, to everyday acts of defiance in diaspora, it explores…
Becoming the Product: The Critical Internet Researcher as a Virtual Intellectual traces the evolution of critical internet research. Examining the pioneering work of early net critic Geert Lovink, the influencer-style…
Holding the Camera shows a pictorial genre from the now extinct era of analogue photography: How one tilts the camera, holds it with both hands in front of the waist. How one looks through the viewfinder, gazes…
Unbound accompanies Karel Martens’ upcoming solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. The book brings together a wide-ranging body of work Karel made and collected over the entire span of his decades-long…
A Work Will Be Shown presents a selection of artist exhibition announcements and invitations cards that the artist Maurizio Nannucci began collecting in the 1960s. Since that decade of radical avant-garde art…
The 5th book in the annual “Series of Open Questions” published by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and Sternberg Press takes as its starting point the timely themes in the work of Anicka Yi, including AI, umwelt,…
Layering is a great way to play with cowgirls-gone-wild.
They're perky, edgy pretty with a tank peeking out under a sense of humour
their thongs hanging out
after…
Features collage compositions by Ehsan Morshed assembled from found print fragments collected at flea markets and estate sales, alongside text contributions by Steven Warwick, Angharad Williams, Rafaela Figurski, Felix…
The selection of key essays collected here presents Berardi’s prescient interventions into a decade-plus of social turmoil, offering a tour through the cataclysms that have rocked the foundations of the global order in…
Vestales, pythies, druidesses, sorcières, médiums, les figures féminines semblent être des intermédiaires privilégiées entre les mondes visibles et invisibles. En s’intéressant au spiritisme français du XIXe siècle, Stéphanie…
The first solo cookbook from Ottolenghi co-founder Sami Tamimi, Boustany is anhomage to Palestinian food and culture. “Boustany” translates from Arabic as “my garden,” which reflects Sami’s signature style and…
PROVENCE UNCONSCIOUS draws inspiration from the Zurich-based office's proximity to the C.G. Jung Institute in Küsnacht—recently and notably visited by Pamela Anderson, who also appears in the publication. PROVENCE UNCONSCIOUS…
Catalog issue 25 How to get -> there features contributions by artists, designers, writers Phil Baber, Carlo Canún, Lieven Lahaye, Meg Miller and Noah Emanuel Morrison. Their contributions look at traces of cruising,…
"Columns" is a 60-pages-long narrative based on scripts from several years of performances and readings, largely centred around an artist-writer who after squeezing through "the compulsory kissing-on-the-cheeks in the…
The artist Vaginal Davis certainly moves on dangerous ground with her transgressive shuffling of gender and genre boundaries. The self-described "sexual repulsive" co-founded several art/punk bands in her expansive 40-year-plus…
Catastrophes, bombed-out cities, large-scale political transformations: "Image complexes" of humanitarian and ecological upheaval document the world as a sequence of catastrophes. But who decides how events are presented,…
Vous m’avez interrogé sur la résistance non violente. La détonation de l’explosif hier a brisé toutes les fenêtres de la maison familiale. J’étais en train de me faire servir du thé et de jouer avec les deux petits…
Au beau milieu des leads, des beats et des sons de CHLOÉ, _system_ error_ fait entendre une I.A. conversationnelle par la voix de Jérôme Game en train d’apprendre à raconter des histoires.Dans cette poésie postplantage…
“May my story be beautiful and unwind like a long thread . . .”, she recites as she begins her story.
The storyteller is the living memory of her time: at once an oracle, weaver, healer, warrior, witch,…
IONE is a Dream Keeper: a facilitator of dreams. Sharing this intimate part of our being, she believes, can be the start of new ways of being with one another.
Exploring the reality of the dream and the dream of…
Back on the shelves – A dirty lil tale written and translated by Amalia Ulman in which a woman gets a job in El Cobrador del Frac, thanks to the gender equality policy executed by the government to diversify the workforce.…
miniskirt is a fashion magazine from Kraków and New York. Stories, essays, poetry, etc about clothes and the people who wear them. This volume gathers 5 issues: each is 8-page long, and features 4 texts.
Violet…
Our computational devices—increasingly powerful, increasingly “intelligent”—can now think for us, perceive for us, pay attention for us, write for us. Lest we forget how to do these things ourselves, we dearly need new…
L’idiot utile is a journal interested in clothing, fashion, its images, its aesthetics, its economy and its professions. It’s also a super slow multilingual publication. [publishers’ note]
Contributors:…
A disaffected young woman seeking self-estrangement and withdrawal from the world decides to quit her day job as a bookseller to live out, or live in, an experiment: to become a full-time narrator. She moves through sentences,…