“Stagg delicately suspends her narrator between the book’s two poles: the intensity of memory and the skepticism of the present.” —Katie Pruden reviewing Natasha Stagg’s latest novel, Grand Rapids. @semiotexte.bsky.social publicseminar.org/2026/05/revi...

Good news for Idris: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It has a cover! 💫 Coming from @semiotexte.bsky.social in September! mitpress.mit.edu/978163590284...

In other non-work book news, I finally got a hold of a copy of Natasha Stagg’s new novel Grand Rapids, which is set in GR in 2001, and I am prepared to have Some Thoughts, though I don’t as yet know whether they will be pro or con

Der Reporter, der in Roberto Bolaños Roman „2666“ zahlreichen Morden an jungen Frauen nachging, war keine Fiktion. Ich traf Sergio González Rodríguez im März 2012 in New York, wo er sein Buch „The Femicide Machine“, erschienen bei Semiotext(e), vorstellte.

Currently reading In My Room by Guillaume Dustan. This new edition from Semiotext(e) is really good. There's an introduction to the collection and then shorter intros for each of the three novels from Thomas Clerc.

So I'm reading Guillaume Dustan right now. And it's great. The new Semiotext(e) edition of his first 3 novels is really beautifully done. The into(s) from Thomas Clerc are well researched and place Dustan in the cannon. But there is a glaring issue with Clerc's intros...

(NEW!) The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer leftwingbooks.net/products/the-revolt-eclipses-whatever-the-world-has-to-offer A series of reflections surveying the events of an ailing country traversed by civil war on multiple fronts.

Congratulations to Constance Debré on her pub day for “Offenses” (Semiotext(e), 2026), featured as an Editor’s Choice by Henry Broome in our Spring 2026 issue. The novel blurs distinctions in fact and fiction and guilt and innocence.

Published by our friends @semiotexte.bsky.social!

An interview I did with Sylvère Lotringer in 2009. Never got around to publishing it. Did not know him well, but I learned so much from him. @semiotexte.bsky.social

Big news!!!🌷🌷🌷My next book, SOCIAL DISTANCING, will be published by @semiotexte.bsky.social in March 2027!!!🎉🎉🎉 Watch out, world...💐💐💐

Excellent news that an anthology of anthology of Francesc Tosquelles's intellectual, clinical, and political writings is coming this May from @semiotexte.bsky.social. Edited by Joana Masó, translated by Robert Hurley and Mara Faye Lethem. mitpress.mit.edu/978163590255...

“Love is romantic, and then all of a sudden you’ve got diapers, the fridge, getting up early in the morning . . . everything becomes prosaic. Children and making a film: two reasons why guys leave me.” Catherine Breillat from I Only Believe in Myself (@semiotexte.bsky.social). buff.ly/0wtgaAe

“I’ve realized that I wasn’t such a good mother. It’s not enough to love your children, that’s too easy, and I think I’m completely selfish.” Catherine Breillat from I Only Believe in Myself ( @semiotexte.bsky.social ).

Great interview with John Tottenham at LARB:

A beautiful piece by Vivian Gornick: www.bostonreview.net/articles/cre...

Radu lounging with an immaculate pairing, the Penman being from @semiotexte.bsky.social.

Late Night Read: Ian Penman's Fassbinder Thousands of Mirror, put out by @semiotexte.bsky.social

Now available for pre-order from our site (everywhere excluding N. America - MEMORY is publishing with @semiotexte.bsky.social in NA, also Nov 2025). Use the code AUTUMNPREORDER at check-out for 10% off (applies to all forthcoming books): www.silverpress.org/collections/...

Probably my favorite essay I've written this year. Mainly on The Missing Pieces by Henri Lefebvre (@semiotexte.bsky.social) + my own brief list of literary and artistic gaps. Might keep adding to this list... Thank you to Ben & @libraryofamerica.bsky.social www.loa.org/news-and-vie...

De-con-struc of ass-up dooky-dent flip 'Castle F****t' [guessing the uncensored title will get flagged] by Derek McCormack [published by @semiotexte.bsky.social ] that turns Disneyland into Doodyland and the brown shit inside the crypt into hyperreal everything. psychoholosuite.com/2025/07/16/d...

Recent buys from Type Books in Toronto @transitbooks.bsky.social @semiotexte.bsky.social @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #Books

'That's how it is: you're exhausted now, not just physically; your mind, which is also a little bit your heart, has sustained damage as well. Or your heart, which is also a little bit your mind [...]' From Seasonal Associate by Heike Geissler, tr. Katy Derbyshire, out via @semiotexte.bsky.social

Emmett Rensin: ?"I have read very few like Airless Spaces. I have loved it for years in large part because it does not profer any story, does not comfort, and does not pretend to have anything at all to do with the Shulamith Firestone who came before her break." thepointmag.com/criticism/ha...

“You can buy it over the counter. The instructions say it’s to be used to soothe stomachache. All the junkies take it when they need a fix.” From Name, Constance Debré, published in April by @semiotexte.bsky.social. Translated from the French by Lauren Elkin.

I reviewed John Tottenham’s excellent debut novel for @washingtonpost.com. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

an excerpt of John Tottenham's Service in Lithub:

SERVICE by John Tottenham Semiotext(e) May 6th 2025 A book review by Alexander Laurence portable-infinite.blogspot.com/2025/04/serv...

Thanks Jasmine Vojdani for selecting John Tottenham's Service in VULTURE's 8 Books you should read in May. www.vulture.com/article/new-...

How to Fuck Like a Girl (Vera Blossom, Dopamine/Semiotext(e)), Defund (Calvin John Smiley, Haymarket Books), and, both by Joy James from Pluto Press: Beyond Cop Cities & Engage. @haymarketbooks.org @plutopress.bsky.social @semiotexte.bsky.social #BookSky #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books 💙📚 9/10

Loved this piece by Syd Staiti: www.smallpresstraffic.org/the-back-roo...

An excerpt of Constance Debré's new book NAME in the Paris Review: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/04...

An impossible decision for my train journey! Do I: a) read from a new book (Dodie Bellamy’s Bee Reaved arrived yesterday) OR b) listen to ‘The Giver’ on repeat until I reach Waterloo?

Detournement, “A Canadian Dream” from Semiotext(e) #17, 1994

Reading very slowly this year, but just finished the republished semiotext(e) edition of IN THRALL by Jane DeLynn. It was so tender and lovely. Recommend if you want a sad lesbian coming of age novel. With an intro by Colm Tóibín, no less! www.semiotexte.com/in-thrall

Kinda cool book from Semiotext(e). Really interesting reviews. Clever but also insightful. Here's a review of it: www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

Didier Eribon pioneered the white working-class memoir. Now he has tackled extreme old age, in a "sociobiography" of his mother, who died only weeks after entering an old-age home. My @financialtimes.com interview with the sociologist, on "coming out" as gay and then working-class on.ft.com/4hnmaXz

“In Lippens’s books, the messiness of life is stylized, or sharpened into sensibility.” @lindsaylerman.bsky.social interviews @natelippens.bsky.social about his new novel RIPCORD @semiotexte.bsky.social , friendship, gatekeeping & more…🌀 southwestreview.com/a-porous-exc...

Didier Eribon's The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman, translated by Michael Lucey, in the Financial Times.

If I achieve the ridiculous deadline I set myself for chapter 5 edits I can treat self to reading this @semiotexte.bsky.social book ❤️

“Women and Love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.” --Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex For 4Columns I wrote about Firestone and her only work of fiction, Airless Spaces, reissued by @semiotexte.bsky.social 4columns.org/phillips-jul...

#booksky for #literaryfiction #booklovers 📚💙 An important review of Shulamith Firestone's only collection of autobiographical #shortstories, just republished, and a profile and appreciation of the author, including her landmark feminist book, The Dialectic of Sex. wapo.st/41fd74X #feminism

Great essay on Heather Lewis's Notice by Gracie Hadland in The Nation:

Cool, cool. My books from Massive Bookshop rocked up #BeyondCopCities and #ConspiracistManifesto Interested to read Conspiracist Manifesto, the last book I got from the Semiotext(e) series was Gore Capitalism which was ace

Amazon Strike Seasonally appropriate reading