Literature

A poetic, gestural, visual, and semantic exploration that extends the Canadian multidisciplinary artist's work on language and the body into the pages of the book.

The debut novel by Lisandre St-Cyr Lamothe, a shepherdess in the Swiss Alps after leaving behind her artistic life in Montreal and before becoming a flower farmer in the Mauritian countryside.

A reflection on the power of writing, based on the work of the Swedish artist and writer Öyvind Fahlström (1928–1976).

Leïla Grace Voight’s debut novel: the story of two parallel confinements, told in forty-three scenes by twenty-one women and twenty-two men—all visual artists—accompanied by an emerging AI, an anti-COVID superheroine.

Alphabet Soup collects the sayings of two multilingual girls as written down by their poet father.

The memoirs of the writer, poet, and Soviet dissident Varlam Shalamov (1907–1982) on the twenties Soviet avant-garde, never translated before.

Dunderhead is the book-length English-language debut of Tomoko Yoshida, age 92: three clinically precise stories of scarcity, pride, and resentment rooted in the afterlife of empire. Beneath the starkness of her world, there is a deep empathy for the "dunderheads" who carry it.

A selection of texts by Valentine de Saint-Point, emblematic of both the Belle Époque and anticolonial militancy.

Gender is Over is a story about Warsaw's queer art scene at the turn of the 2010s and 2020s, written from the inside (Polish edition).

What translation does to performance and what performance does to translation: a collective publication exploring the relationship between translation and performance, including the fields of theater, dance, sound and visual poetry, and film.

An important collection of poems by Jimmie Durham (1940–2021).

A text that is both humorous and political by visual artist and author Laurence Denimal.

Retail Vérité: Vancouverama is A Maior's second novella, and the outcome of writing workshops led by A Maior at Western Front in February 2025. Through a blend of improvisation, LARPing, and speed dating, the participants sketched the characters, narrative, and setting in real time.

P. Staff's first collection of poetry.

This revised edition of Louise Colet’s Voyage en Orient (1873)—a vivid account of the poet, novelist, and committed feminist journalist’s enchanted discovery of nineteenth-century Egypt—brings to light a passionate literary work that has long remained overshadowed by her famous, tumultuous romantic affair with Gustave Flaubert.

An unapproved Wikipedia draft authored under the conceptual label Jeff Wall Production, initiated by curator and essayist Pierre Bal-Blanc.

An exploration of the utopian labyrinth that has fueled the imagination and work of internationally renowned architect Rudy Ricciotti, through a quasi-cinematic montage of images and quotes, constituting a stroll through the mind of the “character” Ricciotti, each space visited punctuated—as in a voice-over—by a text by Jean-Louis Poitevin.

An exploration of the utopian labyrinth that has fueled the imagination and work of internationally renowned architect Rudy Ricciotti.

A series of poems written by Yoann Thommerel for the stage: 5 short stories, poetic and performative, conceived as scores, combining text and action.

Edited from archival lectures, AH!MERICA captures Allen Ginsberg's profound exploration of William Blake as a guide for modern perception and social consciousness. It offers a "poetics of attention," teaching readers to find beauty in overlooked details and use poetry as a tool for resilience against political and personal despair.

The "suspensive" artist Chloé Mogli invites authors, illustrators and researchers to write with her what the gesture of standing above the void generates as perceptions and thoughts, and invites us to suspend our perceptions of reality.

The artist's book of poems.

The author, artist, and curator Olivier Marboeuf takes us on a journey through myths, archives, and fables, where fire symbolizes Caribbean culture, colonial oppression, and ecological disasters, and where the echo of past revolts becomes the spark for future insurrections.

Pivot is an experimental, book-length poem exploring the profound act of "turning", with the Haitian Revolution as its cornerstone.

Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.

The 33rd issue of the cross-generational literary journal, focusing on the theme of ghosting and disappearance.

The first print edition of Daftar, the online media edited by Afikra, a platform focused on the history, debates, and cultures of the Arab world.

An exploration of the intermedial potential of literature, extending beyond the book format (into the fields of visual arts, theater, performance, cinema, and music), developed in and around the catalog of the publishing house P.O.L.

Jacques Dor delivers a unique poetic work in a book that explores identity, memory, and the transformations of existence.

Eiscafé Europa is a cartwheeling essay collection by Enis Maci on the culture, media, and politics of Europe. Comprehensive in its targets, the author mixes the personal and political to skewer and expose the media strategies and fascist lineage of the Identitarian Movement.

A cross-disciplinary and critical reflection on the philosophical stakes of so-called "artificial intelligence", from an epistemological, political and cultural point of view, beyond naive fascination and ignorant rejection.

A collection of poems by artist Tiziana La Melia.

The luxurious annual publication in large format Magma aims to return to the artistic, intellectual, and graphic standards of the avant-garde "revues d'art " from the previous century. The 3rd issue brings together 25 artists, writers, filmmakers, and composers from around the world, and showcases around 100 previously unpublished artworks and texts.

A poetic wander through the city of Kyoto, between observation and listening.

Olavi Laiho's aliterative anti-fascist text written in 1944 in Oulu prison just before his execution. First time published in its original Finnish and in English translation.

First English edition of the visionary play by German playwright and communist activist Berta Lask (1878-1967).

The first volume of sdvig: translingual avant-gardes is a Berlin-based poet Dinara Rasuleva's poems written in her native Tatar language.

The first English translation of Viktor Shklovsky's children book Journey to the Land of Movies, originally published in 1926 in Russian.

Amid the relentless and unprecedented violence of the ongoing assault on Gaza, On the Zero Line emerges as a polyphonic collection of diaristic writings from Gazan people, offering a raw and vital attestation to their daily struggle for survival, memory, and even moments of ordinary life under siege.

The first volume of essays devoted to the work of Liliane Giraudon explores the diversity of her oeuvre, its interdisciplinarity but also its coherence, and enables us to understand what makes its strength and importance in the contemporary literary landscape.

In a collection of interviews given over a period of almost twenty years, a poet seeks to find out a little more about what he makes by confronting his practice with other arts (plastic, sound, scenic).

Le Raï de l'homme approximatif, an invitation to an inner journey, an exploration of the meanders of the human soul, takes us on an existential odyssey where joys and sorrows mingle.

A 5-CD boxed set featuring the collaborative work that the BarDem duo (Vincent Barras & Jacques Demierre) has been carrying out for several years with Swiss and international artists, on the margins of the traditional categories of literature, poetry, performing arts and music.

A short story by Xavier Forneret (1809-1884), set to music by Nurse With Wound.

Moroccan author Khalid El Morabethi deconstructs language and representations of reality with radical, uncompromising writing that clashes words together, inviting us to immerse ourselves in a poetic universe and a sensory, almost visceral experience.

The inaugural issue of the journal of psychoanalysis and interdisciplinary discussions, around the figure of the fold.

A text by the Swiss artist, imbued with highly personal reflections on her relationship with creativity, notions of gender, motherhood, and the place of parenthood in the world of work (more specifically, the tensions inherent in the dual role of mother and artist).

In The Infinite Now, Taras Gembik crafts an intimate meditation on solitude, faith, and the search for meaning, ten years in the making. Moving between Ukraine and Poland, these twenty-five poems trace a decade-long journey of self-discovery.

A collection of texts and interviews, some previously unpublished, covering a period of almost 50 years, with rare illustrations.