"Now for the first time, Duvert's most highly crafted novel is available in English. Poetic, brutally frank, and outright shocking, Diary of an Innocent recounts the risky experiences of a sexual adve
First published in 1999, Gary Indiana's Three Month Fever is the second volume of his famed crime trilogy that is being republished by Semiotexte (following Resentment in
Tangier is a possessed city, haunted by spirits of different faiths. When we have literature in our blood, in our souls, it's impossible not to be visited by them. To sta
Writing is how I attempt to repair myself, stitching back former selves, sentences. When I am brave enough I am never brave enough I unravel the tapestry of my life, my c
In Aberrant Movements: The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, David Lapoujade offers one of the first comprehensive treatments of Deleuzian thought. Drawing on the entirety of
I had to rediscover who I was. And that's why I left the apartment.... And there Iwas, right in the heart of the Arab world, a world that never tired of making the same mistakes overand over.... I had
"So the One Orb has imploded -- now the foams are alive." -- from Foams Foams completes Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated Spheres trilogy: his 2,500-page "gran
The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories gathers together Lynne Tillman's groundbreaking fiction/essays on culture and places, monuments, artworks, iconic TV shows,
When it was first published in French in 1980, Cinema's Ordinary Man signaled a shift from the French film criticism of the 1960s to a new breed of film philosophy that d
"I loved Michel as Michel, not as a father. Never did I feel the slightest jealousy or the slightest embitterment or exasperation when it came to him. It was something th
Sylvie wanted to believe that misery could simply be replaced with happiness. Time was a straight line, stretching out before you. If you could create a golden kind of time and lay it right beside the
Told by six women in one family, Veronica Gonzalez Pena's The SadPassions captures the alertness, beauty, and terror of childhood lived in proximity tomadness. Set against the backdrop of a colonial p
Ronnie Reagan's bizarre legs are sufficient reason to watch John Loves Mary(1949), a picture so ordinaire it needs this bizarre touch. When the faces in this historic still from the Museum of Modern A
Originally published in 1997, Resentment was the first in Gary Indiana's now-classic trilogy (followed in 1999 byThree Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story and in 2003 by Depraved Indifference) chron
The Well-Dressed Wound is Derek McCormack's play script "seance": a fashion show by the dead for the living. In the depths of the Civil War, in a theater in P. T. Barnum's American M
As any good magician or psychoanalyst knows, it's the deliberate chalking of a particular square that allows for the discovery of personal order and private mythology. -- fromThe Irresponsible Magicia
May '68 in France expressed a fundamental version of freedom: not freedom to succeed, but freedom to revolt. Political revolutions ultimately betray revolt because they cease to question themselves. R
Masha Tupitsyn's Beauty Talk & Monsters is a debut collection of stories toldthrough the movies. Equally influenced by Brian De Palma and Kathy Acker, Tupitsyn revisits theruins of a childhood and
A moment later, Lacan is chattering with me, and giving me some crayons to draw with.-- from I, Little AsylumFounded in 1951 and renowned in theworld of psychiatry, the experimental psychiatric clinic
Octavio Paz: "If you love art, do something, Fantomas!"Fantomas: "I will, you candepend on it."First published in Spanish in 1975 and previously untranslated,Fantomas versus the Multinational Vampires
