Composer, pianist and writer Erik Satie was one of the great figures of Belle Époque Paris. Known for his unvarying image of bowler hat, three-piece suit and umbrella, Satie was…
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June 25 2025 07:00PM
Pamenar Press and Tripwire Journal invite you to an evening of readings in celebration of two new publications by French poet Leslie Kaplan, in English translation. Publishers David Buuck and Ghazal Mosadeg will join,…
June 26 2025 07:00PM
For the summer, Daisy reissues Pati Hill’s cult novel Impossible Dreams, originally published in 1976. Released fourteen years after Hill declared she had « quit writing in favor of housekeeping », Impossible…
June 27 2025 07:00PM
Join us for yet another incredible book on Pippa Garner’s work !
Featuring a selection of images that includes never-before-seen photographs and editorial projects spanning from the 1970s to the 1990s, Personal…
Un pack 3 en 1 = SABR #1 : Trois dattes et une dent de Fanny Souade Sow + SABR #2 : Un scorpion dans l'épicerie de…
Quelques perles coulent entre ses doigts. Les récits de Larem se délient du temps que l’on connaît. Elle raconte, superpose, recule et avance, jouissant des temps qu’elle invoque.
Emma Berger-Pierre…
Slobbering, gibbering, and venomous. . .
a poetry seemingly stupefied that it is poetry at all.
Jourdain Barton is the most frightening poet of her generation.…
Karl Marx spent three consecutive summers in the spa town of Karlsbad (now Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic) in 1874, 1875 and 1876. Egon Erwin Kisch’s 1946 text Karl Marx in Karlsbad reconstructs these three…
Unravelling the semantics of the ugly jumper, the ratty cardigan and the squishy mittens. Softness is a poetic reflection on hand- knitting and the neglected objects that give us nourishment. A straggly jumper,…
I acquired Sonia’s copy of Fraser Darlingʼs book in 2010 when my cousins, sister, and I were going through Soniaʼs house following her death. From one of her glassed-in bookshelves, the spineʼs distinctive artwork…
Twenty-three innovators from corresponding fields of practice – including art, education, philosophy, curating, public health, journalism, the church, museology, theatre, music, and anthropology – speculate about the benefit…
Hey culture worker! Are you feeling alone and afraid while the world burns? It’s Too Late. Do It Anyway! is two books in one, created for cultural workers who want to get off the racial capitalist high-speed-train-to-nowhere…
"Three Subtle Stories," told in 200 drawings on 28 pages, was created between January and May 1973 in Zurich and Carona and published in 1974 in a limited edition of 500 by Galerie Stähli in Lucerne. In 2014, "Three Subtle…
Voir l'initiale pour l'endroit où je veux aller dans un cercle, caractères très foncés. Je pense que c'est l'endroit où je veux. VEUX dans l'air. OK, pas vraiment envie d'aller dehors ce soir. CE SOIR en travers de…
En deux décennies, les services et les produits numériques ont pénétré nos quotidiens, connecté nos intérieurs et modifié nos villes, conférant un rôle stratégique aux entreprises qui les développent. À Paris, le fournisseur…
Ce recueil de textes choisis et inédits en français offre une plongée dans le mouvement féministe américain du début des années 1970 et le rôle déterminant qu'y ont joué les lesbiennes. Entre 1969 et 1974, des textes majeurs…
“This collection is such a lyrically beautiful and meaningful demonstration of her unwavering commitment to both acknowledging and being a part of an inspired community. These poems are powered by love and a belief system…
The festival is a space of communion and celebration, a romanticized collision of bodies, music and magic. The revolution will look like a festival, we’ve been told by philosophers, writers, artists, and marketers. But…
The first English translation of Leslie Kaplan's crystalline novella Miss Nobody Knows, about the lived aftermath of May '68: its hopes and failures and how they continue to resonate today.
“Ostensibly about the…
Youpidou! An acrobat, carpenter, railroad repairman, and two-time naval war veteran, sculptor H. C. Westermann (1922–1981) rose to prominence in Chicago in the 1950s with new forms inspired by his personal experiences.…
Mobilisant différentes formes d’écriture (essai, récit, poème, journal) et des images photographiques tirées de sources diverses (archives personnelles, presse, portraits vernaculaires, etc.), Comment réparer : la…
This book offers a visual and thematic journey through avant-garde, concrete, visual, and experimental poetics as they appeared in ephemeral little magazines and small press publications from the 1960s onward. This book…
An adult woman haunted by her childhood muses on the foster system, institutions, and the medieval tale of a girl given to a witch. A genderqueer Brooklynite learns of their past life as a murdered sorceress. An uptight…
Should art be determined by political ideals? In recent decades art institutions have sought to embody liberal values of universal equality and social justice. This move toward greater inclusivity has borne witness to…
When Jean, a young translator of French and Russian, receives a mysterious commission, she leaps at the chance to escape her current life—and husband—and relocate to Montréal. Marriage has destroyed her sense of self,…
Thomas Wilfred (1889–1968) devoted his life to the creation of a new art form, the art of light, which he termed "Lumia." In the 1920s, Wilfred toured the US and Europe to great acclaim staging colored-light recitals with…
Une cinquième tendresse avec des textes de : Nanténé Traoré & Luz Volckmann, Corentin Garrido, Maïmouna Tirera, Cindy Bannani, Marguerin Le Louvier, Laura Vazquez, Tony…
Dans un contexte où le capitalisme et les grandes entreprises détruisent la planète avec une impunité croissante et où les guerres néocoloniales menacent les vies de toustes les vivant·es, de nombreuses sociétés sont sous…
From the nursery to the prison, from the clinic to the commune, Mother Media tells the story of how we arrived at our contemporary understanding of what a mother is and how understandings of “bad” mothering formed…
Loïe Fuller’s (1862–1928) luminously radical dance performances at the turn of the century were unlike anything that had ever been staged or seen before. She was a true pioneer in creating special effects and using electricity…
“‘The two’ is not simply a couple, Le Deux at stake is neither a fusion of two into one, not a ‘two’ as a sum of one plus one. In a way, Le Deux is neither one (constituted of two complementary parts)…
Je crois qu’il n’y a rien à faire aujourd’hui, à part regarder MTV. Le classement des meilleurs clips de l’année.
Ce sera sûrement les Destiny’s Child.
Heureusement que j’ai un vélo et MTV.
À…
In Becoming Lesbian, historian Tamara Chaplin argues that the history of female same-sex intimacy is central to understanding the struggle to control the public sphere. This monumental study draws on undiscovered…
Everything Is Political (EIP) is a platform and community amplifying independent culture, research, and ideas with a bias towards freedom & liberation for all. A place to build power, infrastructure, and share…
Phylactère est une revue à voix multiples, née du désir d’explorer l’écriture de l’oralité et les possibilités de retranscription de performance, à travers des visions authentiques, subjectives et spontanées.…
The hardest thing in the world is to live only once.
But it’s beautiful here, even the ghosts agree. Mornings, when the light rinses this place the shade of oatmeal, they rise as mist over the rye across…
À rebours des opérations politiques libérales promettant à Marseille une hégémonie de capitale culturelle et économique, ce numéro s’ouvre à une pluralité de voix pour dire les désirs qui résistent aux fractures et aux…
The tenth and final anthology from Blank Forms explores the early electronic work of French composer Éliane Radigue, whose radical approach to feedback, analog synthesis, and composition on tape has long evaded historical…
What is magic? And what can it do? In this book, Jessica Backsell interrogates the magic of the art world and culture’s stubborn habit of foregrounding art as representative of an alternative value system. Through the…
“The walls shift; sometimes they are stars, sometimes ruins, sometimes the skin of a planet I once walked in silence. There is a table, a chair made of woven air. Ink drips upward. Clocks melt into birds. I am where thought…
Stephanie Davidson dessine, enseigne, enquête, construit, converse, rencontre, relie dans un mouvement énergique et joyeux.
Avec Georg Rafailidis, sous le…
Mia DM la publication de @emotional_support_dyke
Lesbians are allowed to do whatever they want.
"she blew up a planet"
Okay and? Your lesbophobia is showing.
Depuis…
« Et donc, il ne me manque que la parole ? Eh bien, c’est que vous êtes sourdingue. » Oui, car c’est un chat qui parle. Chemoule est un chat, un chat français. Ou plus exactement une chatte, mais à la naissance on a cru…
How often can you empty a bag of letters onto the ground and have them land as perfect sentences, or even as pieces of writing?
This is the 4th in a series of excellent books of writing by students…
The Leksell Stereotactic System is not a tool but a vow. To operate is to whisper into the folded gray. Error is blasphemy. Precision, the only liturgy.
From handmade to mechanized, from the body to the…
If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth
and some strings,
(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while…
This book considers two modalities through which vision and motion have converged against the crises of late capitalism. The first is the dashcam recording that has proliferated in recent years, as seen in the accumulation…
ENGLISH / SPANISH edition. 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.…
A collection of Philippa Snow’s celebrated writing, Snow Business articulates with majestic precision the thorny, unbreakable bond between mass media, popular culture, and art. Kim Kardashian’s novel is as much…
“People don’t realize that they burst like fireworks”
Lots of plusieurs conversations in this new issue of dans ce 3e numéro de Suckcess, magazine in English and en français éditéd by K. Desbouis:…
Back in stock : ) Motherhood is a theme that stands at the core of life, but has nevertheless been kept in the private sphere for a long time, haunted by clichés, stigmas and myths. Motherhood has always been seen as trivial,…
From credits to subtitles to title cards and beyond, texts play a critical role in cinema. Yet, away from the world of mainstream film, these textual—and visual—elements have often been overlooked. In Read Frame Type…
The ultimate Forrest Bess monograph! With an essay by Amy Sillman : ) Published in the aftermath of the 2020 exhibition at the Fridericianum, this book offers an opportunity to discover one of the most extraordinary figures…
Oldie but goodie ; ) No more jobs, no more taxes, no more checkbook, no more bills, no more credit cards, no more credit, no more money, no more mortgages, no more rent, no more savings, no more junk mail, no more junk,…
La nouvelle catastrophe subie par le peuple palestinien à Gaza est pire que la Nakba de 1948. C’est le premier génocide perpétré par un État industriel avancé depuis 1945, avec la participation des États-Unis et le soutien…
Frances Bethune is desperate to lose weight before her husband’s return from India―in just two weeks. On the advice of a bad-breathed spirit, Frances undertakes…
⚑ BACK IN STOCK ☭ ☯︎
Celebrating what could have been but remains unlikely. One size fits all, bad hair days welcome. Disclaimer: book that hotel at your own risk ! // Une collaboration qui n'existe que dans (sur)…
“Over the last few years we have been collecting vintage bar mats from in and around Barcelona. A lot of these places have already closed but their incredible logos and stories live on. Here’s a compilation of our personal…
In this first critical volume and biography of the Indian artist Lalitha Lajmi, author Skye Arundhati Thomas delves into Lajmi's archives, papers, letters, and sketchbooks in pursuit of clues about the artist's character…
The new numéro of la revue Habitante, avec des textes de Clara Baudy – sur une esthétique architecturale qui semble avoir émergé de son fil Instagram, l’Antespace –, de Lou Cavallo – « Qui érode le Sénégal…
A collection of dialogues with contemporary writers and artists conducted over great distances and extended periods of time. These conversations focus on poetics, both the theory of poetry (its forms, histories, and critical…
Lyrical drifts warped by syntax into blizzarding softness; odes to beauty, meaning, and inexperience splintered by history and grammar. An aqueous surface marbled with the lightest…
Physique showcases over 250 rare physique photography prints from the private collection of renowned critic and curator Vince Aletti. Spanning the 1930s to the early 1960s, these photographs chronicle a hidden,…
He said he would understand if it was too much for me, that I could leave him, that I was young, I should be living, I said to him, I am living.
Johnny Grant faces stark life decisions. Seeking answers,…
'Sah-ten' صحتين is the Arabic equivalent to ‘bon appetit’. It roughly translates to ‘two healths', and is often said in Palestine when food is placed on the table.
The book is a portrait of the skateboarding scene…
I Am Abandoned documents a little-known, but visionary performance by Barbara T. Smith. Taking place in 1976, it featured a conversation in real time between two psychoanalytic computer programs (known today as…
Fashion & Interiors. A Gendered Affair explores the relationship between fashion and interiors from a gender perspective.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, bourgeois ladies embellished both…
Artist François Pain (b. 1945) worked at psychiatric clinic La Borde where he met major representatives of Institutional Psychotherapy Francesc Tosquelles, Jean Oury, and Félix Guattari. Pain became the leading film chronicler…
Gran Fury (1988–95) was a New York–based activist artist collective that emerged from ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an organization founded in 1987 to raise awareness about the HIV/AIDS crisis in the United…
COUSIN Collective and Light Industry present the first critical anthology devoted to Indigenous experimental cinema. Temporal Territories brings together newly commissioned pieces alongside reprints of…
Héctor Viel Temperley (Buenos Aires, 1933-1987) écrit Hôpital Britannique peu de temps avant de mourir. Dans un entretien que nous avons intégré à cette édition, il précise les circonstances dans lesquelles ce…
The publication concludes Julia Gaisbacher's long-time exploration of Hanne Darboven's Künstlerinnenhaus and at the same time continues her own work on "dream houses." The Viennese artist's photographs provide sensitive…
« Pour faire un film, il faut être dans une obscurité lumineuse. »
— Philippe Grandrieux
Les crimes ont lieu à l’intérieur d’une maison située dans une zone de guerre, échappant à tout contrôle. Chaque nuit…
This is a book for all of those who need the rave. Who need to dance. Who have at some point needed that beat in their lives. This is a book for all those who have journeyed through the night, through sound, through movement,…
This book, A Model, parallels the exhibition A Model at Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean. The museum’s director Bettina Steinbrügge conceived this exhibition as a conversation with…
Lapo Tanbou ka ekzaminé Matinitjé kon an zouti pou libérasion kolektif Matinitjé é kon an manniè pou eksprimé kò-nou, an pratik mizikal é dansé bèlè. Adan zin-tala, langa a ka man ka eksploré’y pou nou pé sa konprann…
Pontus Hultén (1924 – 2006) was a pioneering art curator who fundamentally reshaped the relationship between art, museums and society. He played a pivotal role in founding cultural institutions such as Moderna Museet,…
!! Jack Whitten <3 <3 Over nearly six decades, he dared to invent new forms of abstraction, constantly transforming both perception and our understanding of art in society. Raised in the segregated Jim Crow South in the…
Le quatrième numéro de la revue Le Signe Design, Cahiers du centre national du graphisme, est placé sous le signe du Japon, en lien avec trois expositions qui ont été présentées au Signe en 2022 et 2023 : Mangas,…
In this fictional work by Isabelle Graw, fear indeed eats the soul of the protagonist as she struggles to survive in a world increasingly defined and divided by money, addressing the situation with psychoanalytic depth.…
When you’re a good painter, you know how to put the paint on just where you want it and sometimes mine fails meserably but I can think up the dieas. The art has to do with ideas here.
—Gertrude Abercrombie
This…
Human history is filled with unacceptable sounds: high-pitched voices, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing and ritual shouts. Who makes them? Those deviant from or deficient in the masculine ideal of self-control:…
Numéro inaugural de la revue Bye Bye Binary – éditée par la collective franco-belge du même nom !
Bye Bye Binary explore de nouvelles formes typo·graphiques adaptées à la langue française en prenant pour…
« Bonjour Estelle, Bonjour Robyn,
Je m’imaginais vous écrire une lettre pour vous proposer de réaliser ce numéro tout à fait spécial, magiquement hors-série. Car pour la première fois, il s'agit d'une proposition…
"It's like when you go to read your own poetry, you get all choked up" DJ
A significant figure in outsider, lo-fi, and alternative scenes, Daniel Johnston inspired musicians and listeners for decades. From his…
Titles beginning with “The Man Who…” have become a prevalent trope in storytelling over the past century and a half. Compiling 243 titles from 1869 to 2023 across literature, theater, and film, this collection lays bare…
Through newly commissioned essays from music historians Wolfram Knauer and Richie Unterberger, journalist Ignacio Juliá (“On Signing the Velevet Underground and Nico” ;), and essayist Pacôme Thiellement, this book, the…
Naseej, meaning “tapestry” in Arabic, is a book about diverse forms of life, communities, histories and continuities in Palestine. It compiles essays, short stories, poetry, interviews, and visual art to tell…
En 1968, Miriam Makeba et Stokely Carmichael quittent les États-Unis pour s’installer à Conakry, capitale de la Guinée socialiste. Réfugiés politiques en exil, la chanteuse sud-africaine mondialement connue et le militant…
From social media to so-called ‘AI’, from cyberpunk society to automated apartheid, The New Flesh asks and answers the same questions: What does it mean to live in an increasingly online world and what is it doing…
I like eating cold, clammy wraps from big pharmacies that are open late and sell just a few foods like protein bars and powders.
Flower is a book of realistic admissions, likes, dislikes, memories…
The Compost Reader series sees the world as an interconnected being, where all its parts relate to one another. Composting as a way of cultivating consciousness through questions instead of answers, and…
Fatal*e et Arthure Rimbaud constatent que le langage est épuisé. Il n’y a pas de riposte possible puisqu’il n’y a plus d’accroche. Alors, elles entrent en résistance. Fatal*e est une épopée contemporaine avec…
« Je me sens moins abimée ces derniers temps. Oh, pas saine d’esprit pour autant, certainement pas normale, ni même belle (certainement pas belle), mais puissante, secrète, sagace. Et bon sang, j’adore ça. »
Six…
Ce monde est chaotique […] C’est pour ça que nous fuyons, car nous pensons que c’est la seule façon d’être libres.
—Pirateflavor (Tumblr, 2023)
Valentina Tanni nous guide à travers la culture web…
In The Rose, award-winning poet Ariana Reines navigates the intersection of power and surrender.
Drawing on the history of “romance”…
This book is the final piece of an international project initiated in Portugal, which has established an online archive for experimental underground and protest sounds – encompassing both the “real socialism” of Eastern…
All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older woman, by revolution, by army discipline, by any escape or any subjection,…
A transdisciplinary and experimental collection of critical and artistic engagements with listening as both a practice and a way of being.
Featuring contributions from an extensive roster of international thinkers,…
![SHIN, Sarah; TAMÁS, Rebecca (eds.) - Spells. 21st Century Occult Poetry [new edition] (Silver Press)](/assets/images/products/_image-cache/28181/spells.4045f900.jpg "SHIN, Sarah; TAMÁS, Rebecca (eds.) - Spells. 21st Century Occult Poetry [new edition] (Silver Press)")
Expanded edition!
Spells are poems; poetry is spelling.
Spell-poems take us into a realm where words can influence the universe.
Spells…
Continuities and ruptures between the early Soviet (c.1917) and late state socialist (c.1980s) periods are examined through detailed discussions of a wide range of women’s artistic practices, including Liubov Popova, Varvara…
Get down on your knees for BUTT no. 36. The thickest and most holy issue yet is filled cover to cover with revelations from passionate queens around the world. There’s a lot to gag over inside the alternatingly porny and…
Books in dreams were once made of scrolls and parchments. Once, books in dreams could only manifest themselves as clay. Scratches became meaningful. Books still tumble down. Most rooms are flooded; the waters are generally…