La Révolution, c’est de l’Eau… Sauver un cours d’Eau, aussi ténu soit-il, c’est un début pour sauver tout ce qui peut encore l’être.
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November 7 2025 06:30PM
Rencontre avec Alice Leroy, Clara Schulmann, contributrices, Cyril Neyrat et Tsveta Dobreva,…
November 14 2025 07:00PM
HOWLING about this ! Very happy to host two wonderful humans on this November night. Emily LaBarge will be in conversation with writer Laura Mclean-Ferris about her newly published book, Dog Days.
Dog Days…
November 15 2025 07:00PM
Join us in celebration for fresh out of the press: All Of Us Stars !
From 1974 to 1980, American photographer Bobby Busnach transformed a crumbling Upper West Side apartment into a theatrical stage, capturing…
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…
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…
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…
Slow Reading Club (SRC) is a semi-fictional reading group initiated and run by Bryana Fritz and Henry Andersen. Since 2016, in numerous contexts, they have rehearsed alternatives…
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…
This 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, his images move between diaristic…
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.…
BACK IN STOCK! 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…
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…
Featuring writing and artistic practices that trace the racialized and gendered relationship between bodies and land, A Grammar Built with Rocks explores artists’ engagement with…
Against the backdrop of the anti-trans panic, Perverts explores desire as a political problem. It asks two questions at the same time: whose desire is understood as dangerously excessive? And—a classic organizer’s…
In 1911, Sigmund Freud addressed his followers gathered at Nuremberg, where he restated the import of his practice: “the task of psychoanalysis lies not at all in the discovering of complexes, but in the dissolving of…
Née en 1940 à New York, Joan Nestle a grandi dans une famille monoparentale juive de la classe ouvrière, puis a fréquenté la communauté butch-fem avant de rejoindre les mouvements antiracistes, féministes et homosexuels.…
Becoming the Forest is a serial publication about ecology and music edited by Úna Hamilton Helle and Lotte Brown. It is part of a long-running art project by Úna Hamilton Helle, inspired by how the dense spruce…
PRESCRIPTIONS is a transcription of a handwritten manuscript, dated to approximately 1650, containing a wide range of medicinal and magical remedies. Currently housed in the Cornell University Witchcraft Collection, it…
In her Manifesto, Charlotte Posenenske (1930-1985) stated: “I find it difficult to come to terms with the fact that art can contribute nothing to the solution of pressing social problems.”
Developing…
“Beginning in the 1990s, the efflorescence of a technology-driven, ostensibly post-industrial ‘new economy’ brought with it a revival of interest in an array of concepts and discourses relating systems and systems thinking…
Musicians have often wanted to change the world. From underground innovators to pop icons, many have believed in the political power of music. Rulers recognise it too. Music has been used to challenge the political and…
Building loosely on the form of a pocket-sized travel guide, this artist’s book unfolds into a 731.52 cm wide miniature landscape. Composed of hand-painted and digitally illustrated images stitched together into a continuous…
Ce recueil d’absences fait ainsi un livre de relations. Pas vraiment au sens de récit, plutôt au sens où il fait état d’une relation possible entre corps flottants.
Dans le sens, enfin, où résulte de…
“In this book, I have bought together the transcripts of dialogues I recorded on tape in three girls' classes from the first, second and third year of a state middle school. For having proposed this unauthorised activity,…
A deeply moving and revelatory reading experience, the essays collected in Portrait of an Island on Fire form a searing account of Mauritius at a crucial moment in its history. Unceasing in its critiques…
Okwui Enwezor is widely regarded as a leader among the brilliant curators who emerged in the 1990s to set agendas for understanding the global expansiveness of contemporary art. Among his pathfinding exhibitions were the…
For those who seek to combat injustice, solidarity with the oppressed is one of the highest ideals, yet it does not come without complication. In this searing yet uplifting book, award-winning writer and cultural critic…
Dans un petit opuscule intitulé Sept ans de musique concrète, publié en 1955, on peut lire, de la plume de Jacques Poullin, le passage suivant : « […] la projection sonore en salle de concert constitue une suite…
Something in the Water marks a new chapter in Oscar Tuazon’s ongoing Water School project. Bringing together the work of 15 artists who engage with water as a living material and an artistic medium, the publication…
« Il existe bien une lutte des sexes où le sexe féminin, bien qu’en grande partie définissable en tant que classe, ne se comporte pas comme une classe ; il lui a été jusqu’à présent impossible de s’assumer comme…
American publisher and DIY architect Lloyd Kahn made a name for himself in the 1970s with publications on the self-build movement. As an eclectic meta-manual, Shelter Cookbook explores the content of these now…
![CALAND, Huguette; KHOLEIF, Omar - Huguette Caland [imagine/otherwise] (Sternberg Press)](/assets/images/products/_image-cache/36145/huguette.4045f900.jpg "CALAND, Huguette; KHOLEIF, Omar - Huguette Caland [imagine/otherwise] (Sternberg Press)")
Lebanese-born artist, Huguette Caland was a path-breaking figure in late modernism. The only daughter of the first Lebanese president, Bechara El Khoury, she produced a singular body of art that spanned media and continents.…
Gio Ponti (Milan, 1891–1979) was a key figure for Italian modernism; it is impossible to confine his legacy to a single creative field. From 1923 to 1930, Ponti was artistic director of the now cult Italian tableware manufacturer…
This volume expands David Reinfurt’s uniquely pragmatic and experimental approach to pedagogy into a collaborative project that weaves together a multiplicity of voices to present a polyphonic approach to design history…
"No one was born Butch. People were born babies and promptly burst into tears, which was most Un-Butch," declares Clark Henley's Butch Manual, a hilarious 1980s cult classic that reminds us that being "butch"…
Cabanes, bibliothèques, îles, grottes, maisons : au fil des siècles, une infinité de lieux ont été façonnés pour que les désirs et les vies lesbiennes se déploient. À l’abri des regards ou dans une affirmation politique,…
Cooking with Scorsese Vol. 4 continues the beloved series' exploration of cinematic cuisine, serving up another feast of unforgettable food moments on film. This latest volume features the visions of directors…
Since his on-screen “death” by erogenous torture device in Nine Inch Nails’ notorious “Happiness in Slavery” music video, writer and artist Bob Flanagan has been a looming legend in domains of art, pain and sex. First…
De Simone Weil à Lisa Robertson, tout le monde aime les cathares! Mais – des hérétiques les plus célèbres du Moyen Âge, il ne reste rien, sauf les châteaux qu’on leur attribue à tort. Nous ne les connaissons qu’au travers…
The critical orthodoxy is slowing; it’s tired, it's not especially good at the internet, it’s probably never manned a Starbucks counter or an anonymous cubicle. Its younger adepts—though digitally native—are chronically…
Artists in America have long battled against injustices, believing that art can in fact “do more.” The War of Art tells this history of artist-led activism and the global political and aesthetic debates of the…
American artist Kandis Williams works across collage, sculpture, film, performance, writing, pedagogy and publishing. Her multidisciplinary practice leverages the experience of the body alongside personal and communal…
Comment s’habilleront-elles cet été, les jeunes ouvrières de Maubeuge ? Et leurs copines caissières de Lille ou de Saint-Quentin ? Quels nouveaux vêtements accrocheront-elles au hit-parade de leurs envies…