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Baudrillard's remarkably prescient meditation on terrorism throws light on post-9/11 delusional fears and political simulations.Published one year ...

A touchstone novel of lesbian adolescence, set years before gay liberation.“Dear Miss Maxfield … what I’m really afraid of is that I am a homosexua...

The conclusion of a radically philosophical and personal series of Fanny Howe novels animated by questions of race, spirituality, childhood, transi...

Activists explore the possibility that a new practice of communism may emerge from the end of society as we know it.Society no longer exists, at le...

Foucault's previously unpublished doctoral dissertation on Kant offers the definitive statement of his relationship to Kant and to the critical tra...

Selections from the work of radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin, famous for her antipornography stance and role in the feminist sex wars of the ...

Previously unpublished plays and writings by one of today's foremost satirical authors.Before publishing his celebrated first novel, Horse Crazy, i...

An almanac of every bad thing that happened in the film industry from March 2024 to March 2025.From A. S. Hamrah, the film critic at n+1 and the au...

A memoir of a friendship with Michel Foucault that changed the author's life.“I loved Michel as Michel, not as a father. Never did I feel the sligh...

Leash extends the logic of S&M to its inexorable and startling conclusion, darkly and hilariously revealing the masochistic impulse as the urge...

Ann Rower’s forgotten turn-of-the-millennium classic that looks at the lives of Lee Krasner and Elaine de Kooning with obsessed, louche brilliance....

A posthumous collection of writings by Deleuze, including letters, youthful essays, and an interview, many previously unpublished.Letters and Other...

Hervé Guibert's incandescent correspondence with Belgian poet Eugène Savitzkaya.In 1977, Hervé Guibert discovered the first novel written by Eugène...

An archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture, produced alongside Harmony Holiday’s first solo museum exhibition, Black Backstage.Li...

The best of contemporary Argentine author Cecilia Pavón's short stories.Poet, writer and translator Cecilia Pavón emerged in the late 1990s as one ...

A vision of the city as a web of interactive, informational networks that turn our world into a prison-house of illusory transcendence.“Where does ...

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

A poet’s spacious exploration of time, memory, and art, in homage to Bernadette Mayer.A spiritual homage to Bernadette Mayer’s monumental artwork o...

It's 2150, and Eddie Ryan is a prisoner on Mercury, ruled by the qompURE MERKUR: compelling future-history sci-fi by the author of Venusia.Publishe...

The post-'68 psychoanalyst and philosopher visits a newly democratic Brazil in 1982 and meets future President Luis Ignacia Lula da Silva: a guide ...

The influential Italian thinker offers three essays in the political philosophy of language.Multitude between Innovation and Negation by Paolo Virn...

A rumination on survival, queer aging, and estrangement that was a finalist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize.My dead friends are back. I lie...

In a novel set against a transforming Berlin, an artist confronts a diagnosis of breast cancer.Going to openings and parties, setting up a studio a...

A searing disavowal of identity and inheritance, which completes Constace Debré's acclaimed trilogy.I have a political agenda. I am in favor of the...