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After 8 Books
7 rue Jarry
75010 PARIS

Une soirée de lectures et de célébrations avec Gailė Pranckūnaitė, Marek Voida, Justina Zubaitė-Bundzė, Ethan Assouline, Teddy Coste, Théo Robine-Langlois, pour le lancement de Alphabestiaire / Abėcėlinė, une…

Very happy to host Alexander Dumbadze and François Aubart, for a talk about Dumbadze’s new book, Jack Goldstein: All Day Night Sky !

A poignant account of the life and work of legendary artist Jack Goldstein, Dumbadze’s…

Yes, it’s conversation week, and this vendredi, Henrike Kohpeiß and Jackqueline Frost will be at After 8 to discuss Kohpeiß’s Bourgeois Coldness (Divided Publishing, 2025), an examination of coldness…

This anthology – the 3rd in an ongoing series of publications, workshops, and programs exploring queer and trans exploration and experiments in typography – features 11 GenderFail protest-inspired open-source fonts drawn…

Ce texte de Charles Mazé – designer graphique, dessinateur de caractères typographiques et enseignant – retrace l’histoire des normes nationales appliquées à la création typographique, en mettant en lumière des principes…

L'interprète dis/paraît est l’aboutissement d’une enquête menée entre 2019 et 2023 par la commissaire d’exposition, éditrice et traductrice Virginie Bobin auprès d’interprètes et traducteur·ices professionnel·les…

Printed books did not reach West Africa until the early twentieth century. And yet, between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries, literate and curious readers throughout the region found books to read—books that were…

As a member of rock group, the Red Krayola, since its formation in 1966, Mayo Thompson has made a body of innovative and radically experimental music. The group has been a vehicle for prolific collaboration with contributions…

Poétesse africaine-américaine, Pat Parker a milité dans de nombreuses organisations noires, féministes et lesbiennes. Sa poésie est farceuse et documentaire : elle y déploie son esprit tranchant et sa voix sardonique pour…

The Town I Never Told You About gathers poems written by celebrated Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan between 2022 and 2024, at a time of intensifying conflict ravaging his homeland. Emerging from both memory and…

Dark Rides is like the best carnival dark ride you've ever been on: funny and frightening, short and shocking. Dark Rides is a collection of stories about gay teenagers growing up in a small city in Canada in the 1950s.…

A defining figure of the 1970s–80s New York art world, Jack Goldstein’s wide-ranging body of work, which included immaculate color films and radiant paintings of appropriated images composed by assistants, is both seductive…

In this spirited conversation, Paul Chan and Devin Kenny engage bootlegging as a lens to unpack wide-ranging concerns around technology, access, and power. Probing its entanglements with copyright, racialized dynamics…

First published in Japan in 1955, Yoshiko Shibaki’s Susaki Paradise is a collection of six interlinked short stories revolving around the ramshackle Bar Chigusa and its no-nonsense landlady, Tokuko. This outpost…

Boudinot’s novel follows a cast of mystics, frauds, and profoundly incompetent cult leaders through Iceland, Seattle, black holes, and a few blown minds on a quest to reboot reality itself.
Lee is one of the most…

A poet, painter and philosopher, Etel Adnan's life and work was shaped by a profound and vibrant exchange between Arab and Western cultures. In 2024, the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture in Dhahran is organizing…

Ariella Azoulay offers a new perspective on four crucial years in the history of Palestine.

The book reconstructs the processes by which the Palestinian majority in Mandatory Palestine became a minority in Israel,…

The God of the Word is a witty and wry retelling of the Kojiki (“Record of Ancient Matters”), completed in 712 CE, which is considered the oldest extant Japanese text. It is a myth-history documenting (read: legitimising)…

Nous marchons tout près, côte à côte.
Nous sommes là où nous sommes censés être.
Quelle est la nouvelle carte ?
Qui consomme les lieux?

Un recueil de poésie et…

 Une famille de l’immigration algérienne part enterrer le père au pays. Au cours de ce voyage, perturbé par des apparitions, quelque chose se décante : le secret des peuples que l’exil échoue à faire oublier.

La…

BACK IN STOCK! A rare and acidic journey into the parallel circuits of Japan’s rave scene., this book is the first of its kind: a visual collection documenting over a decade of flyers and artifacts from Japan’s hardcore…

Two Intersecting Loops of Silence turns silence into rhythm and time into matter.  Side A features two locked silent grooves, each centred around one of two centre holes: one central, one off-centre. When played…

Amsterdam-based graphic designer Hans Gremmen has created over 400 books. While making these books, a miscellaneous pile kept growing in his studio: notes, sketches, photos, printed matter, screenshots, ephemera, and other…

Un récit littéraire vertigineux, cru et violent, sur l'identité, la transition de genre et la découverte de soi. McKenzie n'a que six ans quand on lui apprend le décès de sa mère. L'enfant, qui a grandi dans une petite…

Zéros+Uns propose une contre-histoire du lien entre genre et technologie. Croisant critique sociale, cyberculture et écriture spéculative, l’ouvrage élabore un cyberféminisme en révélant le rôle essentiel mais…

Produced for Magdalene Odundo’s first exhibition at Xavier Hufkens, this publication offers an intimate glimpse into the Kenyan-born British artist’s work. At the heart of the presentation is a series of ceramic vessels,…

Today, we do not believe in images anymore. This incredulity is, in part, the product of technology. From brainrot to deepfakes, from NFTs to sloppy content, the function of the image is not representation but only the…

Melon #2 invites readers to look beyond the fashionable image of “Asian food.” What appears today as trendy, comforting, or exotic often carries complex histories of colonial extraction, agricultural reform, and…

Malandre is a fanzine around Latin American post-club culture and electronic music. This 2d issue incorporates new grays—visual and conceptual—that permeate the scene, music, and design. Printed on recycled paper,…

Paying Attention gathers nearly seventy of the best and varied examples of Lynne Tillman’s writings in reference to art and culture published over the course of forty years. In essays that operate outside typical…

Love & Lightning: A Collection of Queer and Feminist Manifestos is a thematically ordered, inconclusive collection of queer, feminist and queer-feminist manifestos. Girls Like Us Magazine and author Sarah…

Re fracting
Re configuring
Re visiting
Re garding

Carrie Yamaoka’s visually arresting, ground-breaking works reveal how materiality, temporality, and form connect, calling…

Having fled to France in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, the Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles joined the Saint-Alban psychiatric hospital, where he carried out a transformative clinical practice for over…

“… Ever since its inception as a profession, graphic design has exhibited its necessity to make information public. Its urge to expand and to reproduce reflects its capitalist inheritance. This desire however isn’t always…

Depuis 2020, l’ONG d’investigation Index mène des contre-enquêtes sur les violences policières en France. De la mort d’Adama Traoré à celle de Nahel Merzouk, ses rapports ont pour objectof d’établir les faits dans des…

A book that brings together the contributions of 8 theorists, curators, artists, journalists and game modders, each offering a distinct lens on what it means to be a “non-playable character”…