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After 8 Books
7 rue Jarry
75010 PARIS

February 11 2026 07:00PM

Very excited to welcome the great Linda van Deursen at After 8 – for the release of Image Continuum, the first book in the “Slideshow” series published by the MA Graphic Design at the…

February 13 2026 07:00PM

En français c'est PNJ *>-<* ! We will be joined by Morgane Billuart, artist, researcher, and one of the contributors to the book, who will perform a reading of her text, followed by an informal talk with Vienna Kim, editor…

February 14 2026 07:00PM

WELCOME TO Studio of the South (L'Atelier du sud) ! 
A volume published by LUMA Foundation and JRP|Editions

Readings by Laura Owens, Julie Beaufils, Julie Boukobza, Charlotte Houette, François Lancien-Guilberteau,…

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,…

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…

In Spencer’s fantasies, the breezy, queer streets of Provincetown, MA, are utopia, a place where he can be free. Yet when a violent attack in his suburban Arizona schoolyard sends him to the hospital, he decides queer…

The Joy Lab. That’s what we call it. It’s our party on the roof of the multi-story building in the mid-Wilshire district of Los Angeles where I’m living. The them of our conversation is suburban life in the 1950’s…

A collection of transcribed travel notes from over 25 years of trip journal entries by Ryan McGinness. This artist’s book analyses his psychedelic visions with hindsight annotations and reproductions of artworks…

A 550-page tome surveying 10 years of images produced by Martine Syms! The artists’s practice, comprising most notably moving image, installation, publishing and performance, is characterised by acute observations examining…

From 1972 to 1973, Gordon Matta-Clark took over 1500 photographs of graffiti in New York City. These pictures are some of the earliest documentation of an emerging art form, and are an under-recognized body of work from…

Back on the shelves! A dirty lil tale written and translated by Amalia Ulman in which a woman gets a job in El Cobrador del Frac, thanks to the gender equality policy executed by the government to diversify the workforce.…

Already known as a “poet’s poet,” John Wieners (1934–2002) moved to Boston’s Beacon Hill in 1972, where he was involved with anti-war and gay liberation movements and organizations devoted to the rights of people with…

This book is the first to focus on the life and work of Susan Brockman (1937–2001), a prolific American filmmaker and artist who was involved in the feminist art movement, the documentary filmmaking community and the downtown…

From the 1970s until her death, Louisiana-born artist Tina Girouard (1946–2020) was a dedicated experimental artist, collaborator and art worker. Alongside her individual creative endeavors, she nurtured and was a part…

Using hand puppets, Wouter van Riessen – analogous to the poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal by French writer Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) – depicts the story of a man and a woman who identify so strongly with…

The first ever English translation of Bruno Munari’s Design and Visual Communication (1968) fills a gap in Munari’s output for the English-speaking world and provides a highly relevant guide to bridging architecture…

distinguish the limit from the edge is an intergenerational dialogue between Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Jimmy Robert. Their connection emerges through the intersection of text and image between selected work from Cha’s…

Fury brings together a new series by Marie Quéau, winner of the 5th LE BAL/ DAGP Prize for Young Creation. The work focuses on bodies confronted with extreme states: stunt performers repeatedly thrown through…

“Jo Barchi has written a breathless, feverish, ‘hysterical materialist’ satire from their final boss fight at level whatever of the service industry. The drop from the boss? A ‘new ugliest sentence yet’. Natural Wine…

“Nazareth Hassan’s devastatingly brilliant Slow mania is a powerful document of senses and sense-making where estrangement and ugliness meets longing and beauty. The artist begins with a photographic sequence:…

BACK IN STOCK! 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,…

I guess it’s too late to live on the farm
I guess it’s too late to move to a farm
I guess it’s too late to start farming
I guess it’s too late to begin farming
I…

If there is a centre around which the language of this pamphlet circulates, then it is Palestine. As this centre, Palestine enables a transformative power that persistently and steadfastly turns repression and silencing…

Holdings (2015-2025) offers a more expansive view of Ghislaine Leung’s work – with a comprehensive list of her scores, plus the non-score works that have punctuated her exhibitions.

Central to Leung’s…

 “I’ve been controversial ever since I started. I can’t help it. I’m neither ashamed nor proud of it. That’s just what happened.”
—Bruce Goff, 1979/80

AMAZING ONE!!

This mesmerizing catalogue accompanies…

Domestic Terrorism: War Rugs From America is an artist book that grew out of Johannah Herr’s 2020 solo show of the same name at the Elijah Wheat Showroom. The show was comprised of a series of machine-tufted rugs…

Christopher Wool’s See Stop Run debuted in 2024 on the 19th floor of an empty high-rise in Manhattan’s financial district. Curated by Anne Pontegnie, the exhibition featured 75 works set against the raw architecture…

In The Slicks, Maggie Nelson positions culture-dominating pop superstar Taylor Swift and feminist cult icon Sylvia Plath as twin hosts of the female urge toward wanting hard, working hard, and pouring forth—and…

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