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  • Victor Serge – Last Times
    Victor Serge – Last Times
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    Last Times, Victor Serge’s epic novel of the fall of France, is based—like much of his fiction—on firsthand experience. The author was an eyewitness to the last days of Paris […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Curzio Malaparte – Diary Of A Foreigner In Paris
    Curzio Malaparte – Diary Of A Foreigner In Paris
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    In 1947 Curzio Malaparte returned to Paris for the first time in fourteen years. In between, he had been condemned by Mussolini to five years in exile and, on release, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jean Genet: Alberto Giacometti (german text)
    Jean Genet: Alberto Giacometti (german text)
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    Jean Genet’s essay on Giacometti paired with photos of his work and studio. TEXT ENTIRELY IN GERMAN Scheidegger & Spiess, 2004 Hardcover edition. Light general wear. TEXT ENTIRELY IN GERMAN

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Herve Guibert – Ghost Image
    Herve Guibert – Ghost Image
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    Ghost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays—meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems—and not a single image. Hervé Guibert’s brief, literary rumination on [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jean Cocteau – The White Book
    Jean Cocteau – The White Book
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    Le Livre Blanc, a “white paper” on homosexual love, was first published anonymously in France by Cocteau’s contemporary Maurice Sachs, and was at once decried as by the critics [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Structure Of Magic II
    The Structure Of Magic II
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    These seminal works in neurolinguistic programming (NLP) help therapists understand how people create inner models of the world to represent their experience and guide their behavior. Volume I [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ismail Kadare – Doruntine
    Ismail Kadare – Doruntine
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    Doruntine or Who brought Dorontine is a novel by Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. It is based on the old Albanian legend of Constantin and Doruntine Book is in “Like New” […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Heinrich Von Kleist – Michael Kohlhaas
    Heinrich Von Kleist – Michael Kohlhaas
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    Michael Kohlhaas has been wronged. First his finest horses were unfairly confiscated and mistreated. And things keep going worse—his servants have been beaten, his wife killed, and the lawsuits [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Roland Barthes – Incidents
    Roland Barthes – Incidents
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    French philosopher and literary theorist Roland Barthes was one of the leading influences on the post-structuralist movement in twentieth-century literary thought, and some of his best-known [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jenny Erpenbeck – Not A Novel
    Jenny Erpenbeck – Not A Novel
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    Jenny Erpenbeck’s highly acclaimed novel Go, Went, Gone was a New York Times notable book and launched one of Germany’s most admired writers into the American spotlight. In the New […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jean Genet – The Criminal Child
    Jean Genet – The Criminal Child
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    The Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate about improving the French reform-school […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky – Memories Of The Future
    Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky – Memories Of The Future
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    Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s—but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher—the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s boundless imagination, black [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ken Schles – Night Walk
    Ken Schles – Night Walk
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    Twenty-five years after the printing of his seminal 1988 book, Invisible City, Ken Schles revisits his archive and fashions a narrative of lost youth: a delirious, peripatetic walk in the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Ursula K. Le Guin – Conversations On Writing
    Ursula K. Le Guin – Conversations On Writing
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    When the New York Times referred to Ursula K. Le Guin as America’s greatest writer of science fiction, they just might have undersold her legacy. It’s hard to look at her vast […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • H.D – Nights
    H.D – Nights
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    H.D.’s Nights is about one woman’s attempt to get to the essence of her bisexuality and failed marriage through an illicit heterosexual affair––an attempt that eventually ends in suicide. Much [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Joy Williams – Ninety-Nine Stories Of God
    Joy Williams – Ninety-Nine Stories Of God
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    This series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. It’s the Book of Common Prayer as seen through a looking glass―a powerfully [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini – St Paul
    Pier Paolo Pasolini – St Paul
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    Presented here for the first time in English is a remarkable screenplay about the apostle Paul by Pier Paolo Pasolini, legendary filmmaker, novelist, poet, and radical intellectual activist. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Unica Zurn – Dark Spring
    Unica Zurn – Dark Spring
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    Dark Spring is an autobiographical coming-of-age novel that reads more like an exorcism than a memoir. In it author Unica Zürn traces the roots to her obsessions: the exotic father […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cornelia Parker – Verso
    Cornelia Parker – Verso
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    This diminutive artists book was specially commissioned by Ivorypress as part of an ongoing series. Verso is a previously unpublished work by British sculptor and installation artist Cornelia [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Rachel Kushner – The Flame Throwers
    Rachel Kushner – The Flame Throwers
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    Reno, so-called because of the place of her birth, comes to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Vasily Grossman – Stalingrad (UK Edition)
    Vasily Grossman – Stalingrad (UK Edition)
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    In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will culminate in the greatest battle in human history. Hundreds of miles away, Pyotr Vavilov […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alasdair Gray – Of Me And Others
    Alasdair Gray – Of Me And Others
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    Engraved on the wall outside the Scottish Parliament are the words “Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.” Attributed to Alasdair Gray, Scotland’s national […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • John Williams – Stoner
    John Williams – Stoner
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    William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cesare Pavese – The Moon And The Bonfires
    Cesare Pavese – The Moon And The Bonfires
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    The nameless narrator of The Moon and the Bonfires, Cesare Pavese’s last and greatest novel, returns to Italy from California after the Second World War. He has done well in […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Georges Rodenbach – The Bells Of Bruges
    Georges Rodenbach – The Bells Of Bruges
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    There are three loves in the life of Joris Borluut, the town carillonneur of Bruges. He marries the fiery Barbe, whose dark beauty is a reminder of Belgium’s Spanish heritage. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Julio Cortazar – All Fires The Fire
    Julio Cortazar – All Fires The Fire
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    A traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro meet on a mountaintop during the Cuban Revolution. A flight attendant becomes obsessed with a small Greek […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Richard Bandler – Reframing: Neuro-Linguistic Programming
    Richard Bandler – Reframing: Neuro-Linguistic Programming
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    The meaning that any event has depends upon the “frame” in which we perceive it. When we change the frame, we change the meaning. Reframing is not new. Reframing appears […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Richard Bandler – Frogs Into Princes
    Richard Bandler – Frogs Into Princes
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    NLP is an explicit and powerful model of human experience and communication. Using the principles of NLP it is possible to describe any human activity in a detailed way that […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mathias Enard – Zone
    Mathias Enard – Zone
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    Francis Servain Mirkovic, a French-born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Services for fifteen years, is traveling by train from Milan to Rome. He’s carrying a [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • George Konrad – The City Builder
    George Konrad – The City Builder
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    An architect in an unnamed city considers his life, his work, and the many-layered history of the city he and his family―architects all―have contributed to building. In the days after […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Yukio Mishima – The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion
    Yukio Mishima – The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion
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     In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting and vivid portrait of a young man’s obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Celine – Rigadoon
    Celine – Rigadoon
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    Often comic and always angry, the first-person autobiographical narrator, with his wife and their cat in tow, takes the reader with him on his flight from Paris to Denmark after […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Marlen Haushofer – The Wall
    Marlen Haushofer – The Wall
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    While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Marlen Haushofer – The Loft
    Marlen Haushofer – The Loft
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    A 1960s Austrian housewife is forced to re-examine her past when pages from old diaries begin to arrive mysteriously in the letter box at her family home. Each day after […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Olga Tokarczuk – Primeval And Other Times
    Olga Tokarczuk – Primeval And Other Times
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    Set in the mythical Polish village of Primeval, a microcosm of the world populated with eccentric, archetypal characters and guarded by four archangels, this novel from Nobel Prize winner Olga [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Olga Tokarczuk – House Of Day, House Of Night
    Olga Tokarczuk – House Of Day, House Of Night
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    Nowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, an area that has been a part of Poland, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia in the past. When the narrator moves into […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Stig Dagerman – Sleet
    Stig Dagerman – Sleet
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    A selection of stories from Sweden’s greatest post-war writer. “Dagerman wrote with beautiful objectivity. Instead of emotive phrases, he uses a choice of facts, like bricks, to construct an [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Thomas Bernhard – Extinction (1st US Edition)
    Thomas Bernhard – Extinction (1st US Edition)
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    The last work of fiction by one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Extinction is widely considered Thomas Bernhard’s magnum opus. Franz-Josef Murau—the intellectual black sheep of a [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Claude Simon – The World About Us
    Claude Simon – The World About Us
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    A loosely related series of scenes from the past and the present are combined in a fictional collage. Book is in “Like New” condition. Some light superficial wear and/or remainder […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Plague Mother – Carrying Your Halo
    Plague Mother – Carrying Your Halo
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    For more than a decade Plague Mother has occupied a highly influential position in the noise underground. The artist boasts a unique sound that blends haunting ambiance with crushing walls […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Breaking The Will – Mortal Terrain Incendiary
    Breaking The Will – Mortal Terrain Incendiary
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    Human terrain systems. Operational art. Combat maneuver. Unrelenting harsh electronics exploding at a breakneck pace. The first Breaking The Will full-length since 2015’s “Choosing [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Richard Ramirez – Volume 2
    Richard Ramirez – Volume 2
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    New Forces is proud to present Richard Ramirez Volume 2, a 6-CD boxset compiling some of the best work by noise legend Richard Ramirez: Supply and Shutdown, Nature’s Afterbirth, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Form Hunter – Dread Harvest
    Form Hunter – Dread Harvest
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    Form Hunter returns with their first full-length album since 2021’s “Violent Adaptation” (Troniks / Helicopter). Dread Harvest refines their signature blend of in-the-red tape [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Commuter – No Longer Penitent
    Commuter – No Longer Penitent
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    “No Longer Penitent” is the new full-length from Commuter, a project from Portland’s Jackson Abdul-Salaam (Herukrat, Junta Cadre) that blends harsh noise and urban field [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Koufar – The Death Of Myself
    Koufar – The Death Of Myself
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    To celebrate the tenth anniversary of New Forces we are excited to reissue an album from the label’s first batch of releases. At the time, Koufar’s “The Death of Myself” [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Cryocene – Exclave
    Cryocene – Exclave
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    “Exclave” is the debut of NYC-based duo Cryocene, comprised of Stefan Aune (Kjostad) and Matt Boettke (Scant). Over the course of 5 tracks Cryocene weave together an ominous landscape [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Jerman* / Nordwall* – Topology
    Jerman* / Nordwall* – Topology
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    Jeph Jerman (Hands To) and Joachim Nordwall (Organ of Corti) present “Topology,” a stunning collaboration that brings out the best from both artists. Jerman’s trademark field [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Hunting Lodge – Harrington Ballroom – Exhumed & Reanimated
    Hunting Lodge – Harrington Ballroom – Exhumed & Reanimated
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    Industrial legends Hunting Lodge was founded in May of 1982 by Lon C. Diehl, Carla J. Nordstrom & Richard Skott Rusch. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the band’s inception […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Shredded Nerve – Third Sign
    Shredded Nerve – Third Sign
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    The long-awaited follow up to 2020’s “Acts of Betrayal,” Justin Lakes returns with “Third Sign,” a psychedelic noise masterpiece that will cement Shredded [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Appendix N, Revised and Expanded Edition: Weird Tales from the Roots of Dungeons & Dragons
    Appendix N, Revised and Expanded Edition: Weird Tales from the Roots of Dungeons & Dragons
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    Drawing upon the original list of “inspirational reading” provided by Gary Gygax in the first Dungeon Master’s Guide, published in 1979, as well as hobbyist magazines and related [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive