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December 9 2025 07:00PM

Delighted to invite you to the launch of ) Heureuxes de vous inviter au lancement du nouveau livre de ) Charlotte Moth ’s A Rounded Landscape ) Un paysage arrondi – published…

Sans voyageur takes the form of a large unbound tabloid, a poetic editorial project built as a constellation between print and sound design, weaving…

Confession sur le désir (l’action et l’objet du), les liens de mutualité et de résistance, Sexe 2 alterne prose et versification en 27 fragments numérotés à l’adresse plus ou moins dure, plus ou moins sincère,…

A provocative essay by Swiss photographer and academic Olivier Richon which rethinks the act of looking through the language of appetite, taste, and consumption. Drawn from a series of influential lectures delivered during…

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Writers are like that: remembering where we were, what valley we ran through, what the banks were like, the light that was there and…

Back in stock >> Candid and instantly engaging, this will be the go-to introduction to Lynne Tillman for readers everywhere and is a must have for any fan. A breakthrough for the legendary underground icon, who…

For this book, Rainer dancer and choreographer Emmanuèle Phuon worked with Yvonne Rainer to gather teaching notes from her dance classes and workshops, passages from her creative journals, and her newer thoughts on movement…

Ces dessins ont été réalisés par Karl Nawrot en février 2023, lors de la conception de la police de caractères NOVA pour le projet Neurovague de James Langdon: un site web qui génère des images abstraites destinées aux…

In 1978 and 1979, David Wojnarowicz took a series of photographs of a man wearing a paper mask bearing the visage of Arthur Rimbaud, the French poet equally known for his fervid verse and dramatic life. Rimbaud was the…

Magic Architecture was the architect Frederick Kiesler’s most ambitious book project, an epoch-spanning history of human housing from prehistory to the atomic era, submitted to editors after World War II but left…

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 techno scene,…

Finally there it is ! After multiple marketing brainstorms and ethical issues forums, we ended giving in the popular demand: After 8 Books has a (mini) tote bag ! It comes in neutral with surprise shades of color prints,…

A collection of essays and poems/songs situating Aymara ancestrality and Andean Poetics within the ongoing decolonization project – an archive of Andean traditions and a powerful call to address urgent futures – KIRKI…

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…

100 years ago, playwright Berta Lask was commissioned by the German Communist Party to write a play marking the quatercentenary of the German Peasants’ War. She agreed, staging the reappearance of its leader Thomas Müntzer—who…

In Lostlingual – the first volume of the sdvig series, dedicated to translingual avant-garde writing is Rasuleva – a Berlin-based poet, returns to Tatar, the language of her childhood. She had used it only rarely…

the dream is rained

only I smelt the rain

only I felt the rain

only I could make it stop raining.

Gnocchi Gnocchi who's there is a picture-book by Anna Haifisch and Stefanie Leinhos.

Life is a combination of magic and pasta (Federico Fellini)

Everything you see I owe to Spaghetti (Sophia Loren)

No…

In Bad Language, So Mayer blends memoir and manifesto as they explore the politics of speech, while looking at how language has been used – and abused – in their own life. What is the relationship between language…

BACK IN STOCK!! Arriving at a moment when the planet itself hangs between collapse and renewal, Suzanne Treister’s HEXEN 5.0 emerges as the long-awaited sequel to her cult classic HEXEN 2.0.

Its 78 luminous alchemical…

According to Ad Reinhardt’s (1913-1967) own tongue-in-cheek chronology published in 1966 for his show at the Jewish Museum in New York the same year, his 1930s formative years in the same city were spent studying art,…

BACK IN STOCK : ) The seventh volume of the series dedicated to the life and work of Ilya Zdanevich - Iliazd presents the first English translation of the “Albanian” issue of Bloodless Murder magazine,…

Ulises Carrión (1941–1989) was one of the most remarkable artists and writers of the second half of the 20th century – the founder of the legendary Other Books & So, a trailblazing bookstore-gallery that became a hub for…

This provocative book is a manifesto for an alternative architectural philosophy: it treats bacteria as the real architects, construction workers, maintenance crews and inhabitants of buildings. Colomina and Wigley…

What can we know, and what remains beyond our reach?

In 1979, Annie Dillard witnessed the solar eclipse in Yakima, Washington. In Total Eclipse this celestial event becomes a metaphysical reckoning. With…

The Cosmic Oval is a nocturnal entrance into an exploration of feminist cosmologies, storytelling and the many ways of knowing and imagining the hot blue beginnings of time. By turn dreaming and waking, Ella Finer…

The Tinklers are Charles Brohawn & Chris Mason from Baltimore. They have been writing songs and making books, charts, and paintings in Baltimore since 1979, in kind of a Fluxusy way. This book combines 5 of their publications:

1. The…

Back in stock with a new cover!
The story of failure asks one question only: What do people who lose do next? “Let the best one win.” War is one way. The other way is religion. Let me at…

Sex is beautiful words,
because i can tell you
and you can tell me,
and i can ask you,
and you can ask me,
and you can say no, and say yes,

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,…

Since the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to vlogs, tweets to memes: for the first time in history, making art became the fundamental form of communication.

What…

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.…

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