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The complete art world story/essays of the fictional Madame Realism, collected for the first time.The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories gat...

In 1991, unhappily married Sylvie and her husband set off on a journey across Eastern Europe in search of a Romanian orphan to adopt.Sylvie wanted ...

An autobiographical incantation of adolescent shame, religious masturbation, and the salvation embodied in the creative act.I believe that destiny ...

A novel of lesbian identity and motherhood, and the societal pressures that place them in opposition.The daughter of an illustrious French family w...

An incantatory catalog of cultural artifacts either lost to time or never realized.• A boarder for two years following a national funeral, Mirabeau...

Wild new adventures in word-infatuated flânerie from a celebrated literary provocateur.This book of thirty-six poetic bulletins by the humiliation-...

Artist David Wojnarowicz on his work, his aspirations, his personal history, his political views; Wojnarowicz in dialogue with Sylvère Lotringer, a...

Seven friends in a continuous loop of eternal exile and youth embark on a road trip to the end of the world.My friends are merely effigies I keep t...

A novel set in post-9/11 New York City about a supermodel and the ultimate Broadway blockbuster.Set in post-9/11 New York City, Reena Spaulings was...

Mixing documents, interviews, fiction, theory, poetry, psychiatry and anthropology, "Polysexuality" became the encyclopedia sexualis of a continent...

Never-before-published lectures, Q&As, and squabbles from the conference that introduced French theory into America, with a facsimile of the jo...

Jean Baudrillard meets Cookie Mueller in this gathering of French theory and new American fiction.Compiled in 2001 to commemorate the passing of an...

The only first-hand document and contemporaneous analysis of the most innovative post-'68 radical movement in the West, the creative, futuristic, n...

A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation, bridging art and intellect, culture and politics, Europe and...

A restless inquiry into the cultural and psychic sources of insomnia by one of contemporary French literature’s most elegant voices.Plagued by inso...

The first complete edition of this notorious novel which maps the 1980s anarchic underground of Los Angeles.Published in excerpts over almost four ...

An acute reappraisal for our time of the very concept of revolution.In order to be effective, union struggles, struggles for national liberation, w...