Literature

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together 25 artists, writers, filmmakers, and composers from around the world, and showcases around 100 previously unpublished artworks and texts.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.

Vincent Broqua twists translation to vandalize literary classics in a sensual act, and expresses the wish for a gay ethic for our time. Queer beings are inventing alternative ways of holding their bodies together: Vincent Broqua expresses the wish for a gay ethic for our time.

Drawing on feminist criticism and gender studies, the Brazilian poet creates a counter-discourse in which poetic language becomes a place for questioning stereotypes and redefining feminine identities.

A long narrative poem punctuated by 12x2 drawings, a montage of statements and notations in which a poetess (fat and old) keeps a kind of diary in which the destruction of the private body is articulated to that of the social body.

Jean-Marie Gleize continues a poetic and narrative cycle initiated 35 years ago by composing variations on the inexhaustible and elusive theme of memory.

In this text-visual poem, Denise Le Dantec summons Rosa Luxemburg who, despite the violence, the multiple disappointments and the imprisonments, never ceased to believe in the necessity of emancipatory struggles.

The first book by Jacques-Henri Michot, which has remained unpublished, where we find all the writing techniques used in his subsequent works, with, as its main compass, writing as a weapon against barbarism.

Investigation into data centers in Marseille; the birth and death of international law in Nuremberg; behind the scenes of news reporting in Syria; inside the mind of a fascist woman with Hélène Frappat; interview with Joris Lacoste...

In the tradition of poets such as Charles Olsen, Alice Notley and Sappho, Allison Grimaldi Donahues poetry connects the history of breath and language with narratives about the discovery and loss of our own voice.

A resolutely contemporary author, Emmanuel Adely revisits the fairy tales of Perrault and Grimm and brings them up to date with his lively, sharp writing.

A funny and cruel tale about precariousness and the urgency of living.

Winner of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, Michael Lentz's Motherdying is a radical, avant-garde masterpiece that redefines the language of grief through a visceral chronicle of the dying body.

Through the operative concept of literary and political extremism, this volume explores the links between the revolutionary aspirations of far-left socio-political movements and the quest for a new articulation between literature and reality in 1970s Italy, a dynamic exemplified by poet and novelist Nanni Balestrini (1935-2019).

With her debut chapbook, award-winning author and curator Legacy Russell returns to poetry with her GAY POMPEII, a collection of lyric poems that begin at the end of the world.

The reproduction / reconstruction of Lautréamont's extremely rare text by artists Vincent Labaume and Jean-Luc Moulène, who, with the help of photocopying, photography and digitization, continue a century-old tradition.

A fictional text by Geneva based artist Timothée Calame aka T. Freakson Calame: a collection of short stories that follow the urban wanderings of a protagonist through a series of unlikely events and encounters.

A reflection on the reconstruction of the Berlin Palace and its contradictory use as an ethnological museum.

A narrative of the early modern Indian sculpture known as the Mithuna couple.

A new narrative by Léonora Miano around Mandu Yenu, a throne from the ancient Kingdom of Bamum (present day Cameroon). 

Artaud's last unpublished work.

An urban investigator has been commissioned by a global corporation to determine how cities worldwide are being engulfed and destroyed by the wastelands that are mysteriously appearing in their heart. They are being "wastelanded," generating turmoil and catastrophic technological meltdown in every global megalopolis.

The 2025 Villa Medici residents catalogue.

Jérôme Game, a poet working at the intersection of words, sounds and images, has invited two of his stage partners, Chloé and Jean-Michel Espitallier, to create a duo piece with him for this sound poetry album, between beat inspiration, krautrock motorick and literary glitch.

How the Right is ruining culture; the return of magic in agriculture; art, war and video by Hito Steyerl; a counter-visit of Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport with its nocturnal inhabitants; coming out of the 20th century with Mélanie Plouviez; the solitude of scroll with writer Sheena Patel, after nature with economist Cédric Durand...

All that grows: nature and writing chronicles the author's upbringing in Argentina, her exile to Spain, and her resulting reconciliation of place, memory, loss, and growth.

Pati Hill's cult novel, available for the first time since 1976.

Pati Hill's cult novel, available in French for the first time since 1976 (also available in English edition).

A collection (montage) of biographies and themes written by Jairus Banaji (new edition).

The first complete translation of Egon Erwin Kisch's Karl Marx in Karlsbad. Originally written in 1946, this book recounts Marx's visits to the spa town of Karlsbad (now Karlovy Vary in Czechia) in 1874, 1875 and 1876.

A both poetic and political text which supports the French social movement that began on 31 March 2016.

Written in the stirring style of an intense inner monologue, Isabelle Graw captures the various manifestations and effects of fear in relation to money or the lack of it.