ISOLARII

ISOLARII is a media company founded in 2020 by Sebastian Clark with India Ennenga, known for its political activity and its unique palm-sized book format. Isolarii revives an extinct literary genre—the Renaissance "island books"—to form an archipelago of today's most avant-garde groups and figures. Each book is an island: an act of preservation or a point of orientation.

New York / London

www.isolarii.com

11 titles

Will Alexander
Charismatic Spirals

2023

English edition

currently out of stock

Charismatic Spirals is for an America circa 2024, where poetry—the art of developing new means of speaking—has never been of such artistic, technological and political consequences.

Sjón
Under the Wings of the Valkyrie

2023

English edition

currently out of stock

The English translation of the work that established the Icelandic author's literary career—an exploration of eroticism in extremism.

Scholastique Mukasonga
A Book of My Own

2023

English edition

currently out of stock

"For those who, despite everything, have decided to live, there will always be a home." A work on the experience of exile and migration, memory and selfhood, from legendary French-Rwandan storyteller Scholastique Mukasonga.

James Lovelock, Hans Ulrich Obrist
Ever Gaia

2023

English edition

currently out of stock

The most accessible introduction to the life and work of James Lovelock (1919-2022), and a guide to address today's "polycrisis."

In the Face of War – Ukraine 2022

2022

English edition

currently out of stock

At the time of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Yevgenia Belorusets, Nikita Kadan, and Lesia Khomenko answer an age-old question: what is art to do in the face of war? (the culmination of Yevgenia Belorusets's war diary, alongside monumental work by Nikita Kadan, and Lesia Khomenko).

Yevgenia Belorusets
Modern Animal

2021

English edition

currently out of stock

Modern Animal, a sort of anti-autofiction, knots together humans and animals, retelling interviews, folktales, memories, and visions of the people—bourgeois, urban, rural, Roma, working class—encountered on a multiyear journey through Ukraine.

Édouard Glissant, Hans Ulrich Obrist
Archipelago

2021

English edition

currently out of stock

15 years of conversations between Caribbean philosopher Édouard Glissant and his friend Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Robert Coover, Art Spiegelman
Street Cop

2021

English edition

currently out of stock

The collaboration of two American greats: master of metafiction Robert Coover and graphic legend Art Spiegelman.

Can Xue
Purple Perilla

2020

English edition

currently out of stock

A tiny collection of three short stories by Chinese author Can Xue that immerse readers in a world where reality and absurdity collide.

F Letter – New Russian Feminist Poetry

2020

bilingual edition (English / Russian)

currently out of stock

The first ever anthology of feminist poetry from Russia.

Cooking Sections
Salmon: A Red Herring

2020

English edition

currently out of stock

Salmon: A Red Herring questions what colours we expect in our "natural" environment. It asks us to examine how our perception of colour is changing as much as we are changing the planet. Adapted into the eponymous Turner Prize-nominated exhibition at Tate Britain, this book launched an international campaign against salmon farming.