FORTHCOMING Fall 2026
Red Lives: Our Years in the US Communist Party (1950–2000) is the first collection of historical analyses and reminiscences by members of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and the Communist youth movement in the US from the 1950s through the 1990s. The nearly fifty first-person testimonies bring to life a missing chapter in the history of[…]
Imprint: Dead Letter Office
FORTHCOMING Spring 2026
The Xeno-Monde: Worlds of Strangers emerges as a response and challenge to the history of “being” in philosophy. The discourse of “being” and “being” in a world is an ancient one, to which Martin Heidegger returns in his early lectures and writings. Indeed, existential philosophy, if it has foundations at all, emerges as a way[…]
Imprint: Les Figues
FORTHCOMING Fall 2026
2×6 consists of short “stanzories”—stanzas that are also stories, each one relating an encounter between two people. Appearing in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, and Polish, the stanzories are generated by a similar underlying process, even as they do not neatly correspond to one another the way a translation typically does to a source text.[…]
FORTHCOMING Fall 2026
What if intimacy wasn’t defined by identities, couples, or other congruencies, but by incongruity and the seemingly empty moments of anonymity and solitude? In this compelling final volume of his trilogy on “the intimacy of the Outside,” John Paul Ricco articulates the aesthetics and ethics of finitude, exploring how the ordinary limits of our bodies,[…]
FORTHCOMING Summer 2026
The Malleus Daemonum provides an exciting introduction into the religious world of early modern Italy. It consists of a series of personal exorcisms which the Italian Observant Franciscan Alessandro Albertino composed and which he claims have proven themselves by experience. It bears witness to the end of a period in which priests could freely compose[…]
FORTHCOMING Summer 2026
Unexpected Flourishing is a book about rotting logs, higher education, and critical hope. Katina L. Rogers draws on the hope and possibility of mycorenewal to ask what possibilities for unexpected flourishing we can find within higher education’s decay, and how we can cultivate conditions where these possibilities can thrive: a mycelial university. In a forest,[…]
FORTHCOMING Summer 2026
Asterisks collects thirteen essays that explore literature, cinema, history, and queerness, while persistently returning to the question of how to write, create, and live in a world roiled by fascism and suffering. Beginning with memories of growing up with a father who was a gun dealer and participating in AIDS activism in the 1990s, Matthew[…]
Imprint: Risking Education
FORTHCOMING Summer 2026
Educated People identifies a specter haunting the discourse of critical thought and it isn’t communism. It is the unseemly figure of the bourgeois individual, the obscene subject and agent of capitalist culture. This subject is the educated person, the protagonist of a historical culture rooted in human exploitation and a hypocritical social myopia, whose trajectory[…]