Literature

 
 
Victor Segalen - Dans un monde sonore (book + CD)
2026
French edition
Lenka lente
forthcoming
A short story by Victor Segalen (1809-1884), set to music by Nurse With Wound.
Meenakshi Chakraverti - Night Heron
2025
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
Meenakshi Chakraverti's first novel.
Antonin Artaud - Last Writings (box set)
2025
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
forthcoming
The last writings of Antonin Artaud published in English and brought together in one edition for the first time.
Jacques Donguy - De Jeff Golyscheff à Stelarc - De l\'avant-garde à la post-humanité
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
forthcoming
A collection of texts and interviews, some previously unpublished, covering a period of 40 years, with rare illustrations.
Bernard Heidsieck - Poésie debout
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
forthcoming
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.
Julien Blaine - 2025
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
forthcoming
Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.
Khalid El Morabethi - Servir
2025
French edition
Supernova - Poetry and storytelling
forthcoming
Moroccan author Khalid El Morabethi deconstructs language and representations of reality with radical, uncompromising writing that clashes words together, inviting us to immerse ourselves in a poetic universe and a sensory, almost visceral experience.
Rawi Hage - The Call
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
A personal reflection on fragmentation, language, and place.
Ko Murobushi - Fierce Unworking
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
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.
Madeleine Thien - The Artisans
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
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.
Viktor Shklovsky - Journey to the Land of Movies
2025
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
forthcoming
The first English translation of Viktor Shklovsky's children book Journey to the Land of Movies, originally published in 1926 in Russian.
Enis Maci - Eiscafé Europa
2025
English edition
Hela Press
forthcoming
What can resistance look like today? In search of an answer, Enis Maci draws a line from Jeanne D'Arc via Sophie Scholl to the Albanian Sworn Virgins.
Jacques Donguy - Catalogue raisonné de l\'œuvre de Jean-François Bory
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
forthcoming
Jean-François Bory - Roman en ruine
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
various
forthcoming
Jérôme Game - Intr/ansitif - Poétique de l\'interstice
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Figures
forthcoming
In a collection of interviews given over a period of almost twenty years, a poet seeks to find out a little more about what he makes by confronting his practice with other arts (plastic, sound, scenic).
Magma - Archive of the Future
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Magma
forthcoming
The luxurious annual publication in large format Magma aims to return to the artistic, intellectual, and graphic standards of the avant-garde "revues d'art " from the previous century. The 3rd issue brings together 25 artists, writers, filmmakers, and composers from around the world, and showcases around 100 previously unpublished artworks and texts.
Jacques Demierre - BarDem - Bar & Dem & (5 CD box set)
2025
various
forthcoming
A 5-CD boxed set featuring the collaborative work that the BarDem duo (Vincent Barras & Jacques Demierre) has been carrying out for several years with Swiss and international artists, on the margins of the traditional categories of literature, poetry, performing arts and music.
Noor\'s Heroes - Mahmoud Darwish
2025
English edition
Kaph Books
forthcoming
In this moving story, published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world, young readers follow Mahmoud Darwish, the celebrated Palestinian poet whose words became a voice for the displaced.
Jocaste
2025
French edition
Jocaste
Empire - Jocaste
forthcoming
The inaugural issue of the journal of psychoanalysis and interdisciplinary discussions, around the figure of the fold.
Caroline Schattling Villeval - No Kids, More Coke!
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Clinamen
forthcoming
A text by the Swiss artist, imbued with highly personal reflections on her relationship with creativity, notions of gender, motherhood, and the place of parenthood in the world of work (more specifically, the tensions inherent in the dual role of mother and artist).
Taras Gembik - The Infinite Now
2025
English edition
Hela Press
forthcoming
In The Infinite Now, Taras Gembik crafts an intimate meditation on solitude, faith, and the search for meaning, ten years in the making. Moving between Ukraine and Poland, these twenty-five poems trace a decade-long journey of self-discovery.
Liliane Giraudon - Fragments polyphoniques
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
forthcoming
The first volume of essays devoted to the work of Liliane Giraudon explores the diversity of her oeuvre, its interdisciplinarity but also its coherence, and enables us to understand what makes its strength and importance in the contemporary literary landscape.
Xavier Forneret - Le diamant de l\'herbe (book + CD)
2025
French edition
Lenka lente
forthcoming
A short story by Xavier Forneret (1809-1884), set to music by Nurse With Wound.
Mouvement
2025
French edition
Mouvement
Investigation into data centers in Marseille; the birth and death of international law in Nuremberg; behind the scenes of news reporting in Syria; inside the mind of a fascist woman with Hélène Frappat; interview with Joris Lacoste...
Allison Grimaldi Donahue - The History Of Breathing
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
In the tradition of poets such as Charles Olsen, Alice Notley and Sappho, Allison Grimaldi Donahues poetry connects the history of breath and language with narratives about the discovery and loss of our own voice.
Emmanuel Adely - Trois contes et quelques
2025
French edition
Vroum - Editions
A resolutely contemporary author, Emmanuel Adely revisits the fairy tales of Perrault and Grimm and brings them up to date with his lively, sharp writing.
Gauthier David - Sibylle et le monde rigolo
2025
French edition
Vroum - Editions
A funny and cruel tale about precariousness and the urgency of living.
Ada Tosatti - L\'extrémisme littéraire et politique - Nanni Balestrini et les années 70
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Through the operative concept of literary and political extremism, this volume explores the links between the revolutionary aspirations of far-left socio-political movements and the quest for a new articulation between literature and reality in 1970s Italy, a dynamic exemplified by poet and novelist Nanni Balestrini (1935-2019).
Legacy Russell - Gay Pompeii 79 A.D.
2025
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
With her debut chapbook, award-winning author and curator Legacy Russell returns to poetry with her GAY POMPEII, a collection of lyric poems that begin at the end of the world.
Isidore Ducasse - Poésies II
2025
French edition
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
The reproduction / reconstruction of Lautréamont's extremely rare text by artists Vincent Labaume and Jean-Luc Moulène, who, with the help of photocopying, photography and digitization, continue a century-old tradition.
Timothée Calame - Scatofiction (T. Freakson Calame)
2025
French edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
A fictional text by Geneva based artist Timothée Calame aka T. Freakson Calame: a collection of short stories that follow the urban wanderings of a protagonist through a series of unlikely events and encounters.
Priya Basil - Locked In and Out
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
A reflection on the reconstruction of the Berlin Palace and its contradictory use as an ethnological museum.
Meena Kandasamy - A Wise One, a Warrior
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
A narrative of the early modern Indian sculpture known as the Mithuna couple.
Léonora Miano - Ladies of the Throne
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
A new narrative by Léonora Miano around Mandu Yenu, a throne from the ancient Kingdom of Bamum (present day Cameroon). 
Antonin Artaud - Watchfiends and Rack Screams - Artaud\'s last unpublished work
2025
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
Artaud's last unpublished work.
Stephen Barber - Into the Wastelands
2025
English edition
Diaphanes - Forward Fiction
An urban investigator has been commissioned by a global corporation to determine how cities worldwide are being engulfed and destroyed by the wastelands that are mysteriously appearing in their heart. They are being "wastelanded," generating turmoil and catastrophic technological meltdown in every global megalopolis.
Cambiare la prosa del mondo (Changer la prose du monde) - Pensionnaires de la Villa Médicis 2024-25
2025
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Empire - Books
The 2025 Villa Medici residents catalogue.
Jérôme Game - Light turbulences (vinyl LP)
2025
DUUU
Jérôme Game, a poet working at the intersection of words, sounds and images, has invited two of his stage partners, Chloé and Jean-Michel Espitallier, to create a duo piece with him for this sound poetry album, between beat inspiration, krautrock motorick and literary glitch.
Mouvement
2025
French edition
Mouvement
How the Right is ruining culture; the return of magic in agriculture; art, war and video by Hito Steyerl; a counter-visit of Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport with its nocturnal inhabitants; coming out of the 20th century with Mélanie Plouviez; the solitude of scroll with writer Sheena Patel, after nature with economist Cédric Durand...
Clara Obligado - All that grows - Nature and writing
2025
English edition
X Artists' Books
All that grows: nature and writing chronicles the author's upbringing in Argentina, her exile to Spain, and her resulting reconciliation of place, memory, loss, and growth.
Pati Hill - Impossible Dreams
2025
English edition
Daisy editions
Pati Hill's cult novel, available for the first time since 1976.
Pati Hill - Rêves impossibles
2025
French edition
Daisy editions
Pati Hill's cult novel, available in French for the first time since 1976 (also available in English edition).
Jairus Banaji - Wanting Something Completely Different - 111 Vignettes of Left-Wing Figures, Themes, Films, and Writers
2025
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
currently out of stock
A collection (montage) of biographies and themes written by Jairus Banaji (new edition).
Egon Erwin Kisch - Karl Marx in Karlsbad
2025
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
The first complete translation of Egon Erwin Kisch's Karl Marx in Karlsbad. Originally written in 1946, this book recounts Marx's visits to the spa town of Karlsbad (now Karlovy Vary in Czechia) in 1874, 1875 and 1876.
Florence Pazzottu - Frères numains - Discours aux classes intermédiaires
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A both poetic and political text which supports the French social movement that began on 31 March 2016.
Isabelle Graw - Fear and Money - A Novel
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
Written in the stirring style of an intense inner monologue, Isabelle Graw captures the various manifestations and effects of fear in relation to money or the lack of it.
Hamid Barrada - Anthologie d\'entretiens - Volume I, 1977-2012
2025
French edition
Kulte Editions
Much more than a selection of interviews conducted by Moroccan journalist and intellectual Hamid Barrada, this book immortalizes a lively memory of the history of the Maghreb, the African continent and the regimes born in the wake of independence.
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