Literature

The Photograph Looked Back at Me is a series of prose miniatures, each born from an image the author cannot turn away from: a ghostly plant printed in a book about Chernobyl; a miner's face obscured by smoke, hanging in a Kyiv gallery; a picture of Katja Petrowskaja's parents, from an old family album.

A personal reflection on fragmentation, language, and place.

Fierce Unworking highlights Ko Murobushi's role as an unparalleled pioneer of contemporary paradigms such as body language, the third space or embodied knowledge. Ten years after his death, this volume brings together writings, poems and diary fragments in collaboration with the Ko Murobushi archive in Tokyo, making many of which are available in English for the first time.

A reflection on the autonomy and eternity of art by Canadian writer Madeleine Thien, based on a mural in the Thousand Buddha Grottoes of Bezeklik, China.

The last writings of Antonin Artaud published in English and brought together in one edition for the first time.

A novel about the coming-of-age of a gaze.

A collective work examining fifty years of poetic activity by Bernard Heidsieck (1928-2014), a central figure in sound poetry and performance poetry, a major poet of the second half of the 20th century, along multiple axes.

Fifty verses by New-York musician Moondog (new edition).

Bianka Rolando's first book published in English, Inselbergs is a volume of poetry accompanied by the author's own lithographs, combining word and image to reflect her interdisciplinary practice.

A programmatic book for rethinking and implementing montage as a medium in contemporary art.

Writer and artist Jérôme Game is an author associated with the 2024 exhibition season of La Kunsthalle Mulhouse. He immersed himself in the universe of the exhibitions, and composed freely around the works and ideas he perceived there.

Selected texts.

The English translation of Matthieu Peck's third novel, in which he confirms his talent as a stylist.

Gender is Over is a story about Warsaw's queer art scene at the turn of the 2010s and 2020s, written from the inside (Polish edition).

An essay on the figure of the writer-

Julien Blaine's poetic bestiaries.

The first monograph devoted to the entire multidisciplinary and unclassifiable body of work of French poet, writer, musician, and director F.J. Ossang, spanning more than half a century.

A short story by Victor Segalen (1809-1884), set to music by Nurse With Wound.

A vinyl record somewhere between scratching and sound poetry.

A collection of poetic, dreamlike and synesthetic texts by the Polish writer and artist.

A collection of essays on audio archives of poetry.

How the police infiltrated French cinema; a conversation with Rébecca Chaillon; independent publishing breaks the chains of the book industry; undermining imperialism from within, with Louisa Yousfi; Kazakhstan is de-Russifying itself, from language to culture; crypto-divination: artists delve into the inner workings of AI...

An immersive road trip in the footsteps of American writer Harry Crews (1935–2012), by Yann Stofer and Julien Perez: a book featuring film photographs, video clips, and audio excerpts, set in "an America unaccustomed to visits from foreign tourists."

This book brings together poetic and theoretical texts about Callisto (a woman with a bear's head, a writer and a mythical figure), using metaphors as a form of anti-capitalist resistance.

A poetic, gestural, visual, and semantic exploration that extends the Canadian multidisciplinary artist's work on language and the body into the pages of the book.

The debut novel by Lisandre St-Cyr Lamothe, a shepherdess in the Swiss Alps after leaving behind her artistic life in Montreal and before becoming a flower farmer in the Mauritian countryside.

A reflection on the power of writing, based on the work of the Swedish artist and writer Öyvind Fahlström (1928–1976).

Leïla Grace Voight’s debut novel: the story of two parallel confinements, told in forty-three scenes by twenty-one women and twenty-two men—all visual artists—accompanied by an emerging AI, an anti-COVID superheroine.

Alphabet Soup collects the sayings of two multilingual girls as written down by their poet father.

The memoirs of the writer, poet, and Soviet dissident Varlam Shalamov (1907–1982) on the twenties Soviet avant-garde, never translated before.

Dunderhead is the book-length English-language debut of Tomoko Yoshida, age 92: three clinically precise stories of scarcity, pride, and resentment rooted in the afterlife of empire. Beneath the starkness of her world, there is a deep empathy for the "dunderheads" who carry it.

A selection of texts by Valentine de Saint-Point, emblematic of both the Belle Époque and anticolonial militancy.

What translation does to performance and what performance does to translation: a collective publication exploring the relationship between translation and performance, including the fields of theater, dance, sound and visual poetry, and film.

An important collection of poems by Jimmie Durham (1940–2021).

A text that is both humorous and political by visual artist and author Laurence Denimal.

Retail Vérité: Vancouverama is A Maior's second novella, and the outcome of writing workshops led by A Maior at Western Front in February 2025. Through a blend of improvisation, LARPing, and speed dating, the participants sketched the characters, narrative, and setting in real time.

P. Staff's first collection of poetry.

This revised edition of Louise Colet’s Voyage en Orient (1873)—a vivid account of the poet, novelist, and committed feminist journalist’s enchanted discovery of nineteenth-century Egypt—brings to light a passionate literary work that has long remained overshadowed by her famous, tumultuous romantic affair with Gustave Flaubert.

An unapproved Wikipedia draft authored under the conceptual label Jeff Wall Production, initiated by curator and essayist Pierre Bal-Blanc.

An exploration of the utopian labyrinth that has fueled the imagination and work of internationally renowned architect Rudy Ricciotti, through a quasi-cinematic montage of images and quotes, constituting a stroll through the mind of the “character” Ricciotti, each space visited punctuated—as in a voice-over—by a text by Jean-Louis Poitevin.

An exploration of the utopian labyrinth that has fueled the imagination and work of internationally renowned architect Rudy Ricciotti.

A series of poems written by Yoann Thommerel for the stage: 5 short stories, poetic and performative, conceived as scores, combining text and action.

Edited from archival lectures, AH!MERICA captures Allen Ginsberg's profound exploration of William Blake as a guide for modern perception and social consciousness. It offers a "poetics of attention," teaching readers to find beauty in overlooked details and use poetry as a tool for resilience against political and personal despair.

The "suspensive" artist Chloé Mogli invites authors, illustrators and researchers to write with her what the gesture of standing above the void generates as perceptions and thoughts, and invites us to suspend our perceptions of reality.

The new “left-wing Catholics”; education under Trump and the American brain drain; theater, porn, and bullfighting with Lorraine de Sagazan; an X-ray journey with the nuclear nomads; soccer, Gen Z, and algorithmic governance in Morocco; Pedro Rhino, cinema at the end of the neocolonial mirage...