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A novel that describes, with devastating, darkly comic clarity, its narrator's experience of being diagnosed with AIDS.First published by Gallimard...

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 ...

A landmark anthology of Francesc Tosquelles's intellectual, clinical, and political writings, many available in English translation for the first t...

A young woman's fabulist search for her long-lost twin brother overturns all notions of motherhood, magic realism, and miscegenation.... as I poure...

Texts and interviews from the period that saw the publication of Deleuze's major works.People tend to confuse winning freedom with conversion to ca...

The first book-length monograph on Elaine Sturtevant, who has focused her career on the artistic copy.Asked to sum up her artistic pursuit, the Ame...

Seminal essays written by Baudrillard for a journal devoted to a radical leftist critique of architecture, urbanism, and everyday life.The Utopie g...

Key writings and projects from the group of architects, sociologists, and urbanists known as Utopie.“When the imagination reaches and oversteps the...

A novel about life under enlightened totalitarianism in the twenty-third century and the efforts of a mild-mannered junk dealer to change the human...

Video Green examines the explosion of late 1990s Los Angeles art driven by high-profile graduate programs.Video Green examines the explosion of lat...

Gary Indiana's collected columns of art criticism from the Village Voice, documenting, from the front lines, the 1980s New York art scene.In 1985, ...

A novel that captures the glancing intersections of a loose group of artists and lawyers, restaurateurs, philosophers, wine-makers, and boxers.Havi...

The first collected edition of legendary writer, actress, and adventurer Cookie Mueller's stories, featuring the entire contents of her 1990 book W...

A critique of capital through the lens of war, and a critique of war through the lens of the revolution of 1968.“We are at war,” declared the Presi...

Audio journals that document Wojnarowicz's turbulent attempts to understand his anxieties and passions, and tracking his thoughts as they develop i...

A writer takes on subjects as varied as vomit, Kathy Acker's wardrobe, and Occupy Oakland, in lyric explorations of illness, health, and the body.A...

Virno's meditation on speech as an intrinsically political practice mediating between biological invariants and changing historical determinations....

Chris Kraus examines artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art. In Whe...

A scathing critique of the Left from an indigenous anti-colonial perspective.Why am I writing this book? Because I share Gramsci's anxiety: “The ol...

A collection of interviews that deal explicitly with the relationship between daughter and mother, the sexuation of language, the symbolic order, a...

Stories that map the writer's artistic development, written with candor, detachment, and passion.Hervé Guibert published twenty-five books before d...