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Join us for the launch of Erin Honeycutt’s book, Dear Enheduanna, with readings by the author, Jackqueline Frost and Darian Razdar! 

Part prayer, part performance, part poetic…

Expanding on Nat Pyper’s series of fonts whose letterforms derive from the life stories and printed traces of countercultural queers of the last several decades, this new book showcases overlooked biographies alongside…

A previously-untranslated classic of the queer canon, SMALLTOWNNOVELLA follows b, a teenaged, working-class communist who falls in love with leif, a popular jock. When leif becomes fearful of the consequences…

Black Bedouin is a book of the IMMEDIATE — written immediately (in the span of five days, very literally at the printing press at 1080PRESS) in response to the current genocide against, and in solidarity with,…

Twenty years ago a series of exhibitions entitled Fig1 (52 shows in 52 weeks) was concluded with a party at Notre Dame Hall in London’s Leicester Square where Michael Clark performed a version of Dancing to the Fall.…

The Journey of Things by Magdalene Odundo enters its fourth reprint! A result and testament to the book’s enduring resonance with long-standing and emerging audiences. The book features 44 of Odundo’s vessels…

Nemesiache is an informal feminist group co-founded in Naples in 1970 by the multidisciplinary and visionary artist and writer Lina Mangiacapre (1946-2002). The collective, which included up to twelve women (centered around…

After the birth of her baby girl, Sophie T. Lvoff tries to make her comeback in contemporary art. Before heading to the opening of her exhibition at a Kunstverein in Germany, she takes her students to Sainte-Marie-de-la-Mer…

Treatise of a Coat gathers for the first time works on paper by international artist Helen Marten. Featuring coloured pencil, watercolour, ink, airbrush, acrylic and graphite, alongside other more unusual media like sand,…

Autumn / Winter 2025–26

Featuring: Noreen Masud on Charleston House, Louis Fratino, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Zizipho Poswa, Valerie Giampietro & Alessandro Cicoria, Ignasi Monreal, Graciela Iturbide, the Lijadu Sisters,…

From 1974 to 1980, American photographer Bobby Busnach transformed a crumbling Upper West Side apartment into a theatrical stage, capturing hundreds of photographs of his family of friends. With dramatic lighting, cinematic…

In her darkly funny 1985 take on Dante’s Divine Comedy, Monique Wittig restages the journey through the circles of hell, limbo, and paradise from a lesbian feminist perspective.

Never-before published…

Lofa adore explorer la forêt et jouer avec ses amies, Marv le cafard, Kalo l'escargot, Tulaé l'araignée, Dame-Limace et Mumu la mouche. Mais cette fois, quelque chose a changé. Mamie Zélie, sa grand-mère, est partie pour…

everything has speed
an internal logic
a revolution –

ash,, there is a
minimum world

ash,, there is an 
irreversible world
to be in.
[…]

On the occasion…

Derrière une porte, entre quatre murs, la chambre, cet espace consacré de l’intime, du dedans, du privé, voit ses attributs un à un défaits. La caméra devient cet oeilleton à travers lequel se catalyse et se ramasse…

Qui a encore peur du black metal ? Pendant que Kanye West récupère l’esthétique de Burzum pour son merch, Varg Vikernes fait des vidéos complotistes dans son van. Alors qu’il a été le genre-repoussoir par excellence, il…

What can survive the end of the world? In Otherworlds, philosopher Federico Campagna constructs extraordinary stories and alternative histories of the Mediterranean, nexus of migrations and odysseys, ruins and…

_b_a_c_k_i_n_s_t_o_c_k_Read me while you walk. Hold me while you stand. Put me down while you take a pause.

“What might be considered the research output of a walking practice? Where and when does the research…

Stay away from nothing shines a spotlight on the deep relationship between Paul Thek and Peter Hujar through the artists’ letters and photographs. Beginning in 1956 and spanning two decades, the publication opens…

Back in stock : ) This flabbergasting book presents previously unpublished work by George Tourkovasilis (1944–2021), a photographer and writer who lived between Paris, London, and Athens. Spanning the 1960s to the 2000s,…

Dear chairs.

You are gathered now in our quiet red house.

You are above us. in the hall. as we sleep. The hall's volume is vast but your presence gives it weight. You are all…

Dog Days considers why we tell stories the way we do, and how we might tell them otherwise. Combining memoir and essay, cultural criticism and literary experiment, it begins with a personal trauma—the account…

Who is allowed to hate? Hatred, this grating, corrosive feeling, is omnipresent, roaring from the streets or whispered in bourgeois homes. It thrives in parliamentary speeches, conspiracy theorists' fantasies and children's…

Leonilson (José Leonilson Bezerra Dias, Fortaleza, Brazil, 1957—1993, São Paulo, Brazil) is a central figure in Latin American art and a key reference in the broader context of artists addressing queer themes. Although…

This issue of OEI proposes the first large-scale synthesis of Lettrist photography as a precise “system” – going through the Lettrist movement’s engagement with photography from the 1950s up until 2013. It reproduces…

Kevin Killian—the puckish poet, playwright, novelist, scholar, and impresario of the Bay Area arts community—channeled the charisma of the pop stars. Pulled from his legendary corpus, and long out of print, the work collected…

USB flash drive design by Roman Crouigneau.
Includes the full "Rando Random" EP.
Includes a lyrics-booklet risograph printed by R·DRYER STUDIO and design by Aude Van Wyller.

Wow this is the first monograph on the trans visionary artist Greer Lankton (1958–96), whose lifelike doll sculptures, which she began making as a child and produced obsessively until her death at age 38, were a means…

Durant un été montréalais caniculaire, Gabriel Cholette vogue de journées au skate-park en nuits d’excès. Il croise puis s’entiche d’un jeune homme au prénom vaguement familier, dont le magnétisme réveille chez l’écrivain…

A classic of postmodern fiction, Robert Glück’s Jack the Modernist portrays the slow disintegration of a love affair set in the early 1980s. Bob is excited and lonely. He meets and pursues the elusive Jack, a…

Quotidien et universel, l'acte de manger est autant un besoin physiologique qu'un geste culturel. « Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es » : en 1825, la mythique phrase du gastrosophe Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin…

Posting brings together a selection of feminist posters from Dutch archives to reflect on posting as an activist strategy, holding the potential to create counter-publics to mainstream culture and to fight against…

In I Am Still Alive: Dispatches from Gaza, Palestinian poet and cultural worker Mahmoud M Al-Shaer documents life during the ongoing war in Gaza with breathtaking clarity and devastating intimacy. Composed as…

The internet has become an integral part of all human activities. Its toxic aspects have fully permeated our personal, social and political lives, with people using it to attack others, normalise violence, spread fake…

Le temps ne guérit rien, on le dit souvent. Et c'est vrai. Les cicatrices restent, bien cachées sous la peau, surtout celle des enfants qu’elles marquent doublement .

Vie mort vie est le récit…

This issue examines the myriad of music and sound cultures of fashion. Entirely untethered from materiality and image, sound is the proof that fashion operates just as vividly in the purely atmospheric. From the artfully…

Amelie von Wulffen's Drawings/Zeichnungen is a fulminant new book featuring works from the last ten years that are being shown here for the first time. They are not primarily intended to be works of art; they…

À partir d’expériences pratiques, Désapprendre en traduisant s’appuie sur la traduction comme outil pédagogique, acte de résistance et geste de soin dans un contexte politique hostile. La curatrice, autrice, éditrice…

« Gaiamen » signifie « gaiement » en occitan, on y entend aussi gaia, la terre, et peut-être men : dans ce livre, des êtres queer inventent des modalités autres de faire tenir leur corps ensemble, pour notre époque, car…

Ultrablack is back! Iconic Frankfurt techno and experimental label Mille Plateaux returns with a new anthology of texts written by a collective of voices who assembled around the resurrection of the label, taking Ultrablack…

Centering on a period of Robert Rauschenberg’s career that has not received much attention, this book focuses on three series by the artist that feature fabric: the idiosyncratic Venetians (1972–73); the gauzy…

To move is to think, and to orient our bodies differently is to think otherwise. Since our political leaders put the Books of Laws at the service of the profit of a power-thirsty minority, ideology is now easily choreographed…

A collection of lyric poems that begin at the end of the world.

Rising out of Russell’s 2022-2023 Digital Fellowship for Pompeii Commitment.Archaeological Matters, the author and curator explores ash, filth, dirt,…

A classic of Arabic fiction and of what Kanafani termed “resistance literature” —

Three Palestinian men embark on a brutal and treacherous odyssey across the Iraqi desert to Kuwait, not for liberation but material…

Here it is – Chris Kraus’s much awaited new novel! 

On the Iron Range of northern Minnesota, at the end of the last decade, three teenagers shot and killed an older acquaintance after spending the day with him.…

Though his years in the New York free-jazz scene of the sixties cemented his reputation as "one of the most forceful and convincing composers and soloists in his field," saxophonist Sonny Simmons (1933–2021) was nearly…

How has technology shaped and been shaped by sexuality? This 700+ page artist book gathers anecdotes, artworks, and historical artifacts that reveal the pervasive and perverted origins of our digital tools.

This…

Dans une période à cheval entre la fin de la république de Weimar et les premières années de la dictature national-socialiste, le philosophe marxiste Alfred Sohn-Rethel, compagnon de route de Walter Benjamin et Theodor…

When Ursula K. Le Guin started writing a new story, she would begin by drawing a map. The Word for World presents a selection of these images by the celebrated author, many of which have never…

Gaza: The Story of a Genocide is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, art, and frontline reportage. Together, these works bear witness to the vast and ongoing destruction in­flicted…

The Trial is an extensive publication chronicling the decade-plus-long evolution of one of Rossella Biscotti’s seminal works, focusing on the trials of members of the revolutionary left-wing movement Autonomia…

We come from source
We return to source

Susan Cianciolo puts love into everything she creates. Long recognized for her clothing line, Run, Cianciolo’s boundless creativity is evident throughout her…

Clara Istlerová: A Life Among Letters is the first publication in the United States to delve into the design landscape of the former Czechoslovakia through the lens of Czech designer Clara Istlerová (born 1944).…

Contemporaneous with the Pop art movement, Chicago Imagism can be characterized as warm and wacky—a stark contrast to the cooler, more aloof styles in New York and London. The Imagist movement (a term coined by art historian…

First published anonymously in the notorious "Three Billion Perverts" issue of Félix Guattari's journal Recherches—banned by French authorities upon its release in 1973—The Screwball Asses was erroneously…

A leading voice in contemporary photography, Catherine Opie has been known for her portraits of the queer scene in California since the late 1980s. A fundamental element of Opie’s work is the observation of different gender…

Cette monographie comprend des textes inédits qui invitent chacun à porter un regard singulier et approfondi sur la pratique de Mimosa Echard. La variété des formes textuelles offre au lecteur des entrées multiples : une…

Not yet thirty, Bathory has assembled a peculiar résumé: model, sex worker, linguist, Latin scholar, and assassin. The last of these has been the family trade for generations. Growing up, Bathory, her mother, and her father…

In 2021, John Morgan published Usylessly—the result of a close observation of the blue cover and form of the first edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses. At the heart of the mostly blank 736 page book were…

Published in the middle of the latest genocide with increasingly horrific reports, this is a printing of the compilation of anarchist writings about Palestine put together by Seditionist Distribution in the UK. This is…

Warp & Weft gathers together ideas, radical frameworks and reference points to explore consciousness, and ways of understanding experiences of distress as they occur within our social and systemic contexts.

It…

Don’t try to dress like an artist at openings at galleries. They know who they are.
(I borrow someone’s diamonds, not jeans.)

Beverly Buchanan is best known for her later work, her sculptures of…

This book explores nearly four decades of Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam’s legendary artist-run bookshop and gallery. Founded in 1986 by a group of artists – Henriëtte van Egten, Pétur Magnússon, Rúna Thorkelsdóttir, Kees Visser,…

Artistic critiques have long revealed the gendered, classed and colonial power structures embedded within institutions. Recently, however, there has been a shift toward institutional self-critique, with even major museums…

Known for their unique approach to fashion and portrait photography, Dutch duo Anuschka Blommers and Niels Schumm create meticulously constructed images that appear effortless, yet every element is captured in-camera.…

For centuries, Palestinian women wrote the stories of their lives and land with a needle and thread. Their embroidery, or tatreez, inspired hundreds of artists who reinterpreted and transformed it into a symbol…

Thrilled to Death collects a bold, anarchic, and eclectic ensemble of Tillman’s fictions. By turns outrageous and melancholy, meditative and abrupt, these stories are animated by deliciously paradoxical characters…

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.…

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 half-truths to…

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.…

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…