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Life of the Party
ISBN: 9781635902013
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: April 21, 2026
An archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture, produced alongside Harmony Holiday's first solo museum exhibition, Black Backstage.
Saving Utopia
Imagining Hopeful Futures in Dystopian Times
ISBN: 9780262554046
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 10, 2026
How utopian stories have preserved the vision of a better world in a cultural climate dominated by dystopia.
An Archive
ISBN: 9781635902402
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: January 6, 2026
An intimate memoir of growing up inside legendary Parisian publishing house Les Éditions de Minuit.
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An Exploration Of Literature's Dungeons from The Bibliothecha to Bastionland
ISBN: 9781913689957
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: October 28, 2025
A bibliographic deep dive into the subterranean imaginary that traces the fascination of underground spaces.
Rabelais and His World, a new translation
Rabelais and His World
ISBN: 9780262553131
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 14, 2025
A new and improved translation of Mikhail Bakhtin’s classic and celebrated study of carnival.
Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007
Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007
ISBN: 9780262553940
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 7, 2025
J. G. Ballard's collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation.
Lucretius and the Bat with Blue Eyes
Lucretius and the Bat with Blue Eyes
Explaining the Universe with the Alphabet
ISBN: 9780262554015
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 7, 2025
A novel reading of De rerum natura through the lens of neurolinguistics.
Re/Marks on Power
How Annotation Inscribes History, Literacy, and Justice
ISBN: 9780262551038
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 15, 2025
An interdisciplinary exploration of annotation that shows how this participatory act marks public memory, struggles for justice, and social change.
The Well-Read Game
On Playing Thoughtfully
ISBN: 9780262552233
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 25, 2025
How players evoke personal and subjective meanings through a new theory of player response.

Life of the Party
ISBN: 9781635902013
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: April 21, 2026
An archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture, produced alongside Harmony Holiday's first solo museum exhibition, Black Backstage.
Saving Utopia
Imagining Hopeful Futures in Dystopian Times
ISBN: 9780262554046
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 10, 2026
How utopian stories have preserved the vision of a better world in a cultural climate dominated by dystopia.
An Archive
ISBN: 9781635902402
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: January 6, 2026
An intimate memoir of growing up inside legendary Parisian publishing house Les Éditions de Minuit.
Down Down Down
An Exploration Of Literature's Dungeons from The Bibliothecha to Bastionland
ISBN: 9781913689957
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: October 28, 2025
A bibliographic deep dive into the subterranean imaginary that traces the fascination of underground spaces.
Rabelais and His World, a new translation
Rabelais and His World
ISBN: 9780262553131
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 14, 2025
A new and improved translation of Mikhail Bakhtin’s classic and celebrated study of carnival.
Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007
Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007
ISBN: 9780262553940
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 7, 2025
J. G. Ballard's collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation.
Lucretius and the Bat with Blue Eyes
Lucretius and the Bat with Blue Eyes
Explaining the Universe with the Alphabet
ISBN: 9780262554015
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 7, 2025
A novel reading of De rerum natura through the lens of neurolinguistics.
Re/Marks on Power
How Annotation Inscribes History, Literacy, and Justice
ISBN: 9780262551038
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 15, 2025
An interdisciplinary exploration of annotation that shows how this participatory act marks public memory, struggles for justice, and social change.
The Well-Read Game
On Playing Thoughtfully
ISBN: 9780262552233
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 25, 2025
How players evoke personal and subjective meanings through a new theory of player response.