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2026
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
Philippe Jaffeux explores each letter of the alphabet through experimental poetry, continuing the tradition of the Lettrist movement.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Brook
The second book in the "Brookinette" children's book series (published by Brook), We Look Alike is a book for little ones and older children alike that tells the story—through the drawings of Dutch artist Kinke Kooi—of encounters, friendship, and little mistakes, featuring a cast of snails, flowers, fruits, and ladybugs.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
forthcoming
A comprehensive study of the multifaceted practice of Argentine artist Edgardo Antonio Vigo (1928–1997)—sculptor, printmaker, poet, mail artist, performance artist, typographer, designer, etc.—focusing on his publishing activities in the 1960s and 1970s, set against an extremely repressive political backdrop marked by instability, coups d’état, and violence.
2026
English edition
Humboldt Books
A project by Francesco Bertocco dedicated to the cultural legacy of Franco Basaglia, a key figure in the transformation of modern psychiatry and a champion of a radical critique of total institutions.
2026
Italian edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
Andrea De Fusco captures, through Polaroid photographs, the boat crossings from Naples to the Aeolian Islands, as the seasons and years go by.
2026
English edition
Wirklichkeit Books
A heterodox and uniquely incisive model of ideology critique, Furio Jesi's work offers us a powerful insight into some of the deeper determinants of Western political rationality and its stigmatizing, inferiorizing, and racializing dynamics.
2026
English edition
Wirklichkeit Books
The debut-novel of the Lebanese-born and Berlin-based writer Edwin Nasr—a "work of hysterical fiction."
2026
English edition
MER. Books
A visual travelogue that critically captures the 2025 World Expo on Yumeshima, Japanese for "Island of Dreams," which took place from April to October 2025.
2026
French edition
Zamân - Zamân Books
Reissue of a primordial work in the history of the art of the countries of North Africa and West Asia, a major reflection on the artistic currents of the Arab world in the 20th century which responds more than ever, thirty years after its first publication, to the need to decolonize the knowledge.
2026
English edition
Zamân - Zamân Books
Reissue of a primordial work in the history of the art of the countries of North Africa and West Asia, a major reflection on the artistic currents of the Arab world in the 20th century which responds more than ever, thirty years after its first publication, to the need to decolonize the knowledge.
2026
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
Artist's book.
2026
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This array of source material from Peter Wächtler's 2024 show at Simian, Copenhagen, traces a free-spirited voyage towards the outer edges of professional exhibition-making and beyond.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
A retrospective of 10 years of graphic and typographic research by Coline Sunier & Charles Mazé during their residency at the Brétigny Art Center, presented as an alphabet book comprising 901 collected letters and symbols.
2026
Sub Rosa
One of Phill Niblock's final compositions, commissioned by bassist Robert Black, completed in late November 2023,
based on recordings of acoustic bass and bass clarinet performed by Neil Leonard and Robert Black under Niblock's direction in 2021.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lendroit éditions
This first book by Valentin Fleuret presents his 2025's iconographic research among books destined for pulping at the Rennes 2 University Library. Comprising 30 iconographic plates containing more than 200 images, this book follows in the tradition of appropriation while renewing it through the subject it addresses.
2026
French edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Fictions
A labyrinthine collection of 100 short stories written by Peter Greenaway throughout his career, serving as sources of inspiration, provocations, or ideas for unmade films, paintings, or exhibitions, illustrated by the strange fairy-tale characters of Italian filmmaker and stop-motion animator Stefano Bessoni.
2026
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Fictions
A labyrinthine collection of 100 short stories written by Peter Greenaway throughout his career, serving as sources of inspiration, provocations, or ideas for unmade films, paintings, or exhibitions, illustrated by the strange fairy-tale characters of Italian filmmaker and stop-motion animator Stefano Bessoni.
2026
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
The script (with drawings) for Peter Greenaway's film tells of a 19th century Chinese love affair and its consequences, based apparently upon a real historical situation taking liberties with history to make an extravagant fantasy.
2026
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A wide-ranging investigation into the architectural legacy of the rural utopian communities that settled in California in the 1970s.
2026
French edition
Arsenicgalerie
A comprehensive retrospective of Gilles Berquet's fetishist photographic work, presented as a tribute to Pierre Molinier.
2026
Sub Rosa
This recording (2002) captures the two instruments central to Conrad's practice at the time: his self-built Long String Instrument and his amplified violin. He performed hidden behind a large sheet, and the nature of what unfolded behind it was never disclosed to the audience.
2026
English edition
7L Éditions
As part of the 7L's Correspondances program, Katrien de Blauwer explored the collection of books and magazines of Karl Lagerfeld's library at 7L, and reinterpreted it through a new series of photomontages in which the images serve as both a reference and a mirror.
2026
English edition
Neural
Led By Donkeys, Kenneth Goldsmith, Annette Gilbert & Andreas Bülhoff, Silvio Lorusso, Jasia Reichardt ephemeral's archive, Active and emancipatory publishing in France: the cases of Déborder Bolloré and WHOISBN, In the Aspyxiating Culture of the Total Library, Transmediale 2026 + Echoes of Tumult exhibition, Screentime/s; The Lure of the Image...
2026
French edition
7L Éditions
A journey through the twists and turns of the history of the hat, via a rich and eclectic collection of images where different styles and eras coexist—from the headgear of Greek laborers to the bell hats of the Roaring Twenties, and from Phrygian caps to modern baseball caps.
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
An examination by artists, publishers, and scholars of recent publishing concepts emerging from the experimental literature and art scene (new edition).
2026
French edition
Tombolo Presses
La Gauchère is an illustrated book that chronicles several years of research on left-handedness. It calls for left-handedness to be viewed as a creative force, beyond the pejorative connotations commonly attributed to the term and to those who are mal à droite (uncomfortable with right-handedness and awkward).
2026
English edition
Lenz Press
The very first book on the influential American choreographer and dancer Trajal Harrell.
2026
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
currently out of stock
Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History revisits the founding principles of architectural and landscape discourse in the Arabian Peninsula. The publication explores instances of pre-oil planning, ranging from desert kites to fish traps and water channels, upending the toolset for thinking through architecture's relationship to its context.
2026
English edition
MER. Books
Reference monograph.
2026
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
X Artists' Books
First monograph.
2026
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
The first major poetry collection by Jesse Feinman, a graphic designer known for his work on numerous books and album covers, founder of the photography publishing house Pomegranate Press, and a remarkable poet.
2026
French edition
ENSAB (Brittany National College of Architecture) - Books
A broad exploration of precariousness—whose contours and realities are constantly evolving—examined through the lenses of architecture, the city, and the landscape.
2026
French edition
ENSAB (Brittany National College of Architecture) - Books
A renewed and expanded approach to writing the history of architecture and the profession.
2026
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A companion to Kosovar artist Brilant Milazimi's exhibition for the Republic of Kosovo Pavillion at the 2026 Venice Biennale that reflects on waiting, clenching, sovereignty, perseverance, and teeth.
2026
quadrilingual edition (English / Spanish / French / Japanese)
KBB
New expanded edition featuring 75 drawings/watercolors by Sigismond de Vajay.
2026
French edition
Incertain Sens
A philosophical perspective on photographic images.
2026
English edition
Diaphanes - Objects Talk Back
Of Interest to the General Public is a narration by the Ethiopian writer and photographer Maaza Mengiste inspired by the history of the 1868 Napier expedition and the burning of the palace fortress at Magdala.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
Jonathan Crary decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception—in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography.
2026
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph.
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Myriorama
A portrait gallery of creators on the margins of folk art and art brut gardens, houses and environments, of which Francis David has compiled a monumental photographic inventory since the late 1970s.
2026
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Nieves
A series of previously unpublished interior paintings by Karen Kilimnik.
2026
English edition
Suture Press
Poetry and Revolution brings together three previously untranslated essays by the Czechoslovak avant-garde theorist Karel Teige (1900-1951), accompanied by a polemical introduction by Peter Zusi placing Teige's thinking in the context of debates on "Western" and "Eastern" Marxism.
2026
Spanish edition
KBB
An artist's book conceived by Jorge Macchi as a return—both literal and conceptual—to the city of Buenos Aires as a field of investigation.
2026
English edition
Suture Press
What is the relationship between mathematics and philosophy? How does the project of "mathematical ontology" redefine the link between multiplicities and being? M=O? brings together leading scholars exploring and questioning Alain Badiou's thesis that "mathematics is ontology" and its evolution.
2026
English edition
Artforum
Anna Homler by Rachel Hahn, Gabriele Stötzer by Elisa R. Linn, Cao Fei by Pablo Larios, AI for Modernists by Mario Carpo...
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Antoine de Galbert Foundation
All 693 images in a series created by Luc Delahaye over several years using details from photographs cut out of newspapers, marking a turning point in the evolution of this great photographer's work, which bridges documentary and artistic practices.
2026
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph on the Anmatyerre Aboriginal artist Emily Kam Kngwarray (c. 1914–1996).
2026
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph on the Anmatyerre Aboriginal artist Emily Kam Kngwarray (c. 1914–1996).
2026
English edition
Lenz Press
Museums of Tears extends Francesco Vezzoli's 2024 exhibition at Museo Correr, Venice, combining historical works and new commissions to explore antiquity, emotion and illusion. Conceived as an artist's book rather than a catalogue, it transforms the museum guide into a hybrid archive and portable museum of memory, beauty and mourning.