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After 8 Books
7 rue Jarry
75010 PARIS

February 19 2026 07:00PM

We are so delighted to share with you the launch of Aiden Farrell’s new chapbook “control” in Paris.

The environment is not as I envision it. It is outside of my vision. These poems formed over the course of…

February 21 2026 07:00PM

Please join us in celebration of this wonderful anthology edited by the team behind legendary Girls Like Us magazine. 
Jessica Gysel will introduce the project, with a conversation. The manifestos highlighted in this…

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…

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”…

The point of departure for the book Black Ark with Lee “Scratch” Perry (1936–2021), a Jamaican musical and visual artist who was based in Switzerland, is a detailed…

Gathering female voices in 20th century Georgian poetry – feminist voices who have been censured or forgotten throughout time – this anthology comprises works by 6 female poets from the end of the 19th century to the 1960s:…

In Image Continuum, graphic designer Linda van Deursen speaks on the subject of her own image consumption, and how the process of image editing, selecting and sequencing presents itself in her work and teaching.…

BACK IN STOCK! « Luuvv a été écrit au contact de deux ensembles de textes : l’anthologie des textes de troubadours et trobairitz établie par Jacques Roubaud, d’une part ; les discussions avec un modèle automatisé…

A leading figure in the Post-Minimal and feminist movements in New York since 1964, Japanese-American artist Kazuko Miyamoto (b. 1942, Tokyo) elaborated overs the 1970s and 1980s ambitious spatial installations – notably…

A book about the Studio of the South residency – a project hosted in Arles by LUMA and artist Laura Owens between September 2020 and July 2023—in a house where 23 artists came to stay, work, and live.

During her…

Since 1995, Brice Dellsperger has been working on remakes of cult film sequences, which he has collected under the generic title “Body Double.” The artist works with one actor or actress, who then doubles all the characters…

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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…

Still tired? More recipes! So fresh, exciting – to keep you in good health for the winter season. 

From “lazy” home fries to carrot dogs, broth bases and Gramma’s appel crumble, this new book in the successfull…

“We don’t make things in America anymore”: like clockwork, this refrain resurfaces in political discourse, a reflection of yearning for a bygone era of industrial productivity. In his latest work, Grant Farred uses the…

he wrote “I have AIDS
and kissed this wall”
X marked the spot
I wrote “I’m not afraid”
and kissed him back
wherever he is

SIN BUG is a new book by poet-activist CAConrad combining essay,…

We’re excited to announce Worms 11: Faith & Worship, available now! The theme for each issue of Worms tends to emerge steadily as…

Completed shortly before John Morgan died in September 2025, Baskerville’s Teardrop Explodes: A Selection of Books as Muses presents his selection of 31 books as Muses. Chosen primarily for their visual appearance…

What happens when politics is everywhere, yet nothing seems to change? From the abandoned dance floors of Thatcher’s London to the mass mobilizations of Black Lives Matter, Anton Jäger traces how pub­lic life has become…

Gathering more than 200 artworks from public and private collections in Brazil and abroad, Queer Histories is organized into seven sections: "Love, family and communities," "The sacred and the profane," "Signs…

Plutôt qu’une force de transformation sociale, l’enseignement supérieur semble devenir le lieu d’une acculturation à la précarisation du travail qui caractérise les formes d’exploitation contemporaines. De la mise en concurrence…

Années 1930-1940 : les surréalistes rejoignent la lutte antifasciste. Ni « femme de », ni muse, ni amante, Claude Cahun discute d’égale à égale avec les figures du mouvement. Sa présence, flamboyante et déroutante, sème…

Set during a single twelve-hour night shift in a factory, plastic is a book-length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet. Bringing together memoir, ekphrasis and satire, plastic is based…

In today’s world, something strange is happening: celebrities like Kat Von D and Russell Brand are embracing Catholicism, finding allure in its newfound status as a counter-cultural symbol among media personalities, influencers…

New Ancient Words is the first translation of Ellen Lima Wassu's poetry into English. A trilingual edition between her native Tupi indigenous language of the land of Pindorama, now Brazil, Portuguese, and English,…

The Whitney Review of New Writing is expanding literary criticism. Bringing together author interviews, literary essays, and short-format book reviews, it offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the culture…

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