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

The third of Gary Indiana's famed crime trilogy tells a story inspired by the virtuoso con artistry of mother-and-son criminals Sante and Kenneth K...

A fascinating anthology of texts and interviews written over 20 years by renowned French philosopher Gilles Deleuze."One day, perhaps, this century...

Now in English, Duvert's shocking novel about a sexual adventurer among a tribe of adolescent boys in Northern Africa."I'd find it amusing if, in a...

Sad and funny and bitter and true, a novel about grief, discovering your own story, and trying to listen for those stories that are not yours to te...

Raunig develops a philosophy of dividuality as a way of addressing contemporary modes of production and forms of life.The animal of the molecular r...

A dark yet compassionate comedy of art aspirations and friendships come to naught.First published in 2003, Gary Indiana’s turn-of-the-millennium no...

Examining the genre-bending writing of Dodie Bellamy, whose work has focused on sexuality, politics, feminism, narrative experimentation, and all t...

In this collection of essays and interviews from 1970-72, Jean-François Lyotard explores and drifts, as we drift, between art and politics, the "fi...

A cult classic in France, the first translation of a novel that captures a subjective stroll through an underground, glamorous Parisfinally there a...

Sasha Frere-Jones’s evolution as a writer and musician with the deceptively casual intelligence that marks all of his work.Shuttling between his fi...

A masterful study of the elusive French composer, on the centenary of his death.Composer, pianist, and writer Erik Satie was one of the great figur...

With the economy deindustrialized and the working class decentralized, a call for alternative horizons for resistance: the university and the art w...

The first translation of Julio Cortázar's genre-jumping meta-comic/novella, featuring Cortázar himself, Susan Sontag, and Octavio Paz in a race to ...

A memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents of the New Narrative movement.Fascination brings together an early memoi...

A kaleidoscopic study of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, and mystery, Thousands ...

An early work in which Baudrillard became Baudrillard.When Fatal Strategies was first published in French in 1983, it represented a turning point f...

The emergence of a geopolitical war scenario, establishing a form of global governance that utilizes methods of surveillance and control.In times o...

The final volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated Spheres trilogy, on the phenomenology of community and its spatial peripheries.“So the One Orb ha...

The early essays of the most influential French film critic of the post-68 period.The Footlights (1983) was the first book by Serge Daney, a film c...

Characterizing it as a "mythic discourse," Jean Baudrillard proceeds, in this brilliant essay, to dismantle the powerful, seductive figure of Miche...

The most accessible and exhaustive introduction to Foucault's thought to date, including every extant interview made by Foucault from the mid-60s u...