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        Life of the Party

        Life of the Party

        Life of the Party

        by Harmony Holiday

        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

        Saving Utopia

        Saving Utopia

        Imagining Hopeful Futures in Dystopian Times

        by Joe P. L. Davidson

        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

        An Archive

        An Archive

        by Mathieu Lindon

        Translated by Bruce Benderson

        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.
        MEMORY

        MEMORY

        MEMORY

        by Dorothea Lasky

        ISBN: 9781635902594

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: November 4, 2025

        A poet’s spacious exploration of time, memory, and art, in homage to Bernadette Mayer.
        Down Down Down

        Down Down Down

        Down Down Down

        An Exploration Of Literature's Dungeons from The Bibliothecha to Bastionland

        Edited by Stu Horvath

        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

        Rabelais and His World, a new translation

        Rabelais and His World

        by Mikhail Bakhtin

        Foreword by Caryl Emerson

        Translated by Sergeiy Sandler

        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

        Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007

        by J. G. Ballard

        Edited by Mark Blacklock

        Foreword by Tom McCarthy

        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

        Lucretius and the Bat with Blue Eyes

        Explaining the Universe with the Alphabet

        by Andrea Moro

        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

        Re/Marks on Power

        Re/Marks on Power

        How Annotation Inscribes History, Literacy, and Justice

        by Remi Kalir

        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

        The Well-Read Game

        The Well-Read Game

        On Playing Thoughtfully

        by Tracy Fullerton and Matthew Farber

        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.
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