FRENCH-TO-ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS • EDITORIAL SERVICES
Under the spell of words…
Gila Walker
French-to-English Translations
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Three short story collections that sink into the lives of characters seeking meaning in a post-war world, available in a boxed set.
Sharp as a razor and as subtle as gossamer, Shmuel T. Meyer’s masterfully crafted stories evoke unique individual sensibilities and destinies, resonating with the sensual details, smells, tastes, music and sounds of a specific time and place. And the War Is Over brings together three collections of short stories set on three continents in the aftermath of war: World War II and the Shoah in Grand European Express, the Korean War in The Great American Disaster and the Arab-Israeli conflict in Kibbutz.
Characters both real and imagined run through a fabric so tightly woven that the threads of history and fiction can barely be separated: the Roman poet Clara who will never write again; Saul, a New York City police detective haunted by memories of the Pusan Perimeter; a brother out to avenge his sister’s murder; the son of a former Nazi who joins the Red Army Faction. Tracing moments of encounter, their paths cross those of Allen Ginsberg, Albert Cossery, John Coltrane and Duke Ellington. Characters travel by train from Venice to Paris, hike up the Val d’Annivers, listen to jazz in Greenwich Village and ride a motorcycle along the sandy road to Haifa. Under the shadow of war, with death lurking, these multifaceted, evocative lives move in a space between coincidence and fate.
"The translation from the French Et la Guerre Est Finie, by Gila Walker, lets the prose shine through. —Latha Anantharaman, The Hindu. Read the full review here
Challenging conventional notions of racial and regional identity, Léonora Miano provides a fresh perspective on the complexities of self-perception.
In this ground-breaking exploration, French-Cameroonian author Léonora Miano unveils a distinct sensibility shaped by her sub-Saharan African roots, setting her apart from those who identify as Afro-Europeans, or Afropeans, a group forged within the European context. Drawing on her unique perspective, Miano reveals the complexities that determine self-perception and complicate the bonds of identification and solidarity between Afro-Europeans and their sub-Saharan counterparts. Contrasting with France’s approach of lumping all citizens of sub-Saharan descent together under an “African” label, the author questions the effectiveness of such categorization in fostering a genuine connection to one’s country and assuming responsibility for its future.
Despite the many challenges, Miano finds hope in the Afropean identity—those who embrace the fusion of Africa and Europe within their self-designation—believing it holds the potential to embody a transformative, fraternal, anti-imperialist and anti-racist societal project. Yet, she acknowledges the persistent struggle for acceptance and understanding in a society grappling with identity tensions. In this powerful narrative, Miano examines the allure of rejection that exists on both sides of the divide, offering a nuanced examination of the delicate balance between cultures, identities and the pursuit of a utopian vision. Timely and captivating, this book is essential to understanding the Afropean perspective.
Critically Acclaimed
2023 Finalist in fiction for the French-American Translation Prize.
“. . . in Gila Walker’s translation from the French, a similar rhythmic and hypnotizing effect is crucial to each character’s stream of consciousness.
The incantatory quality of the writing conjures this heightened, almost religiously attentive feeling, creating a sense of mystical potential even as the story itself dwells in suffering. 'What we once were is now consigned to anthropology and ethnology books,' Madame laments, yet in Ms. Miano’s writing it seems to surge powerfully back into life.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Miano’s statement that she ‘thinks and writes’ in French brings into the limelight the credit that must go to Gila Walker for translating Torment of Twilight into English with obvious expertise. The powerful and lucid passages cited from the translated version amply show that not much has been lost in the process of translation. On the contrary, Walker’s aesthetically beautiful renderings will win for Miano a hugely enlarged audience in comparison to those who read her in the French original.” —Asymptote Journal
Best Books of 2018 (The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker & Washington Post list)
Longlisted for the 2019 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
‘Reading Miano’s brilliant, pitiless novel is like treading water in an undertow. The approaching wave — more than four centuries high and tens of millions of victims long — is invisible from within the story’s deliberately confined perspective. But the omission only enhances its force. . . . Narratively thrilling [. . .] profoundly original.’ —New York Times
‘Extraordinary novel [. . .] Miano’s feat is to restrict her perspective to the points of view of the Mulongo, conjuring afresh the horror and immediacy of an event that time has rendered matter-of-fact [. . .] The writing, benefiting from Gila Walker’s excellent translation from the French, is restrained and dispassionate, so that its fierce emotional energy seems to well up naturally from the characters rather than being imposed by the author from without [. . .] A work of remarkable fidelity and dedication, this novel, too, seems to possess the strength to bring back the stolen.’—Wall Street Journal
‘This work of historical immersion drops readers into the heart of an isolated African community devastated by the arrival of European slavers. Léonora Miano’s novel, in Gila Walker’s translation, dramatizes an unfathomable catastrophe, and its captivating portrayal of the lost world’s rites and customs makes it a vital act of restoration.’—Wall Street Journal, Best Books of 2018
Translations in Focus
In Around the world with writers, scientists and philosophers world-renowned philosopher Michel Serres takes us on a voyage that unveils a different map than the geographical or political world maps we are accustomed to. Using the tools of the ethnologist, Serres examines our Western cultures to reveal that our influential writers, philosophers, scientists and inventors have a worldview analogous to that of First Peoples.
This thought-provoking book takes on the form of an ode to curiosity to reveal the Great Story of the emergence and wandering of humanity.
In this Q&A Gila Walker shares her thoughts on the transformative power of translation and what keeps her enthralled by her profession.
2023 Finalist in fiction for the French-American Translation Prize.
TWILIGHT OF TORMENT
I. MELANCHOLY
A haunting, multivocal novel full of stories of the lives of women of African descent.
Four women speak. They speak to the same man, who is not there. He is the son of the first, the great-yet-impossible love of the second, the platonic companion of the third, the older brother of the last. Speaking to him in his absence, it is to themselves that these women turn, examining their own stories to make sense of their journey, from twilight to twilight, through a mysterious stormy night in the middle of the dry season.
Together, the voices in Twilight of Torment: Melancholy, the first volume of a two-volume novel, perform a powerful and sometimes discordant jazz-inspired chorus about issues such as femininity, sexuality, self-love, and the intrusion of history into the intimate lives of people of African descent. Blackness confronts African-ness, love is sometimes discovered in the arms of another woman, the African renaissance tries to establish itself on the rubble of self-esteem damaged by history. Each of these women, with her own language and rhythm, ultimately represents a specific aspect of the tormented history of Africans in today’s world, and at the end of the night, they will each arrive at a dawn of hope.
The incantatory quality of the writing conjures this heightened, almost religiously attentive feeling […] so skillfully represented in Gila Walker’s translation from the French […] —Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal.
TWILIGHT OF TORMENT
II. HERITAGE
A searing novel exploring the construction of masculinity in sub-Saharan Africa.
After beating his girlfriend and leaving her for dead on the street, Amok retraces his steps. Frightened by his act, which reproduces the violence of his father, he hopes to save the woman. But it is too late when he arrives at the scene; two women are already carrying the injured woman. Overwhelmed and not daring to reveal himself, he decides to find his father in order to learn how to rid himself of the dark force that he believes runs through the men of his lineage. He embarks on a journey that will be, more than anything, an inner one, forcing him to understand his story and choose a healthier way of being in the world. This second volume of Twilight of Torment is both intimate and political. Through the story of a man and his family, we discover an African bourgeoisie and its many social wanderings in a contemporary Africa whose future seems nebulous.
One might say that the womb of death—the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonization—gave birth to Black populations. Taking this observation as her point of departure, Nathalie Etoke examines Black existence today in her riveting new book, Shades of Black. In a white-supremacist world, Black bodies hold a specific position, invested with a range of meaning that maintains them in a fixed role, with a script they did not write. The white world has invented and defined the Black person according to its own interests, endowing her with a bereaved humanity. The Black person is confronted with an essential paradox—exist as Black or as a human being? Does the Black person exist for herself or for the other? In the white world, is the Black race the embodiment of a sub-humanity?
Situated at the crossroads of three countries—Cameroon, France, and the United States—Etoke is uniquely positioned for this polyphonic reflection on race. She examines what happens when race obliterates historical, social, cultural, and political differences among populations of African descent from different parts of the world. Focusing on recent and ongoing topics in the United States, including the murder of George Floyd, police brutality, and the complex symbolism of Barack Obama and Kamala Harris, Etoke explores the relations of violence, oppression, dispossession, and inequalities that have brought us here, face to face with these existential questions: Are you breathing? Are we breathing?
"Out of the Dark" by Georges Didi-Huberman
This essay, in the form of a letter written to director László Nemes in the immediate aftermath of viewing Son of Saul, is at once a critical reading of the film within a larger theoretical framework and a subjective emotional response to seeing on the screen something of the author’s own “most harrowing nightmares.” While bringing Nemes’s film into conversation with Maurice Blanchot, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, the Hassidic tale and ancient myths, Georges Didi-Huberman returns to his reflections in Images in Spite of All (2008) on the four photographs taken clandestinely of the gas chambers in Auschwitz by one of the Sonderkommando. Son of Saul presents the allegory of Saul whose job as a Sonderkommando is to drag countless corpses to the crematorium where they will be reduced to ashes but who sets out on a mad, single-minded quest to give a proper burial, complete with the recitation of kaddish, to the body of one boy. According to the author, the film marks the invention of the “documentary tale” genre, combining Benjamin’s notions of montage based on the document, as manifested in the work of Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Alfred Döblin, and that of the dying art of storytelling, intimately bound up as it is with the authority of the dying. Thus, the dead child drowning at the end of the film stands as an inversion of the story of Moses, a living child saved from drowning, just as the real historic death of the Jewish people reverses the mythical Biblical birth of the Jewish people.
In her searing memoir, Ethiopian-French actress Myriam Tadessé draws on her personal experiences as a biracial woman and her family history to explore the realities of life for mixed-race individuals in contemporary France.
Blind Spot traces Tadessé’s journey, from her adolescence in revolution-torn Ethiopia to her acting career in Paris. Tadessé exposes how the French film and theatre world appears unable to confront the individuality of the performers, who instead are required to correspond to categories, often based on race. Society then views as anomalies those who defy ethno-racial assumptions.
‘With damning acuity, Blind Spot exposes the cracks in the rose-tinted promise of French égalité, and reveals the darker underside of a country that, for all its Belle reputation, remains in thrall to the racial fixations of its colonial past.’—Rosie Eyre, European Literature Network
‘Myriam Tadessé’s memoir combines formal innovation with a candid look back on her life and the harrowing experiences she’s had with discrimination in her chosen field—and in French society as a whole. Blind Spot feels like a distillation of its author’s life, and a powerful testament to her day-to-day reality.’
— Tobias Carroll, Words Without Borders
Best Books of 2018 (The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker & Washington Post list)
Longlisted for the 2019 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
This powerful novel presents the early days of the transatlantic slave trade from a new perspective: that of the sub-Saharan population that became its first victims. Cameroonian novelist Léonora Miano presents a world on the brink of disappearing—a pre-colonial civilization with roots that stretch back for centuries. One day, a group of villagers find twelve of their people missing. Where have they gone? Who is responsible? A collective dream, troubling a group of mothers in a communal dwelling, may have some of the answers, as the women’s missing sons call to them in terror; at the same time, a thick shadow settles over the huts, blocking out the light of day. It is the shadow of slavery, which will soon grow to blight the whole world.
Miano renders this brutal story in deliberately strange, dreamlike prose, befitting a situation that is, on its face, all but impossible for the villagers to believe.
This volume gathers and expands upon the results of the research project “Theater, Garden, Bestiary: A Materialist History of Exhibitions,” held at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, and proposes a history of exhibitions sourced from a wide corpus reaching beyond the framework of art institutions. It undertakes a transdisciplinary history at the nexus of art history, science studies, and philosophy, exploring the role the exhibition played in the construction of the conceptual categories of modernity, and outlines a historiographical model that conceptualizes the exhibition as both an aesthetic and an epistemic site.
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A grand retrospective of works by an artist who rejuvenated our habits of perception
After celebrating its twentieth anniversary with three blockbuster exhibitions in 2017, the Fondation Beyeler and is starting the year 2018 with Georg Baselitz—without a doubt one of the most influential painters and sculptors of our time—is celebrating his eightieth birthday, and the Foundation is devoting an extensive retrospective to this provocateur. Many of Baselitz’s most important paintings and sculptures from the past six decades will be seen together for the first time. By displaying key works together, on an equal footing, it becomes easier to perceive the unique wealth of his formal and contextual innovations. Leafing through more than two hundred richly illustrated pages, the reader encounters the beautiful, the ugly, the ambiguous, and the disturbing.
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The complex oeuvre of the American artist Cy Twombly (1928–2011) comprises a time period of around six decades, during which it never lost any of its expressive power. Twombly was one of the most productive artists in the history of more recent art. Acclaimed as one of the most important painters of the second half of the twentieth century, he fused the legacy of American Abstract Expressionism with European and Mediterranean culture.
Edited by Jonas Storsve, the book focuses to a degree never before seen on his major cycles: Nine Discourses on Commodus (1963), Fifty Days at Iliam (1978), and Coronation
of Sesostris (2000). The artist’s development as a whole is traced based on nearly 200 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and photographs. This thus provides unique insights into the overall intellectual and sensual richness of the oeuvre. From his early works at the beginning of the nineteen-fifties, which are characterized by the use of text, to his compositions of the nineteen-sixties, his reaction to the minimal art and conceptual art of the nineteen-seventies to his final paintings, the overview of the oeuvre underscores the significance of the series and cycles in which Cy Twombly invented history painting anew.
With its polyphonic conception, the monograph offers numerous approaches with essays that shed light on the various aspects and phases of Twombly’s path as an artist. It comprises et al. the reflections and personal impressions of other artists as well as the memories of his assistant Nicola Del Roscio. These diverse testimonies make it possible to discover Cy Twombly not only as an the artist, but also as an individual.
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Calder, creator of famous sculptures in motion, particularly the mobile, was the "king of wire" who invented pre-war wire sculpture and who modestly built a miniature circus which was admired by the Parisian avant-garde. He then quite naturally went on to embrace the Parisian abstract art world and its great figures such as Mondrian, Léger and Arp. During the last fifteen years of his life, Calder lived and worked in his studio in Saché (Touraine) creating monumental metal sculptures designed for cities and buildings around the world.
The exhibition of between 60 and 80 works will feature: - sculptures (Mobiles, Stabiles, "wire" sculptures), gouache paintings and drawings from the Pompidou Centre, the Calder Foundation (New York), the Fondation Maeght, French and foreign museums, private collections and also from galleries including Maeght for a monumental work in the garden in front of the museum - portraits of the artist done by great photographers such as Ugo Mulas, Gilles Ehrmann, Marc Vaux, André Kertesz, and others.
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Born in 1956 in San Sebastian, in the Basque country, Cristina Iglesias has been a major figure of Spanish contemporary sculpture for the past twenty five years. However, she remains little known in France. Initially trained in chemistry, and later in sculpture at the Chelsea School of Art in London, she represents Iberian art at the international level. Through her highly sensual approach of space, she poetically combines and overlaps nature and architecture in often monumental constructions created for museum spaces as well as natural environments.
The catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition Cristina Iglesias at Musée de Grenoble, 2016. Texts by Giuliana Bruno and Guy Tosatto
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TRANSLATIONS
FICTION & MEMOIRS
Shmuel T. Meyer, And the War is Over… (Seagull Press, 2024)
Michela Marzano, Shame Shadow My Name (Gazebo Press, Forthcoming)
Léonora Miano, Stardust (Seagull Books, Forthcoming)
Léonora Miano, Twilight of Torment, volume 2: Heritage (Seagull Press, 2022)
Léonora Miano, Twilight of Torment, volume 1: Melancholy (Seagull Press, 2021)
Myriam Tadessé, Blind Spot (Seagull Press, 2021)
Leonora Miano, Season of the Shadow (Seagull Press, 2018)
Henri Alleg, Algerian Memoirs: Days of Hope and Combat (Seagull Press, 2012)
Tzvetan Todorov, Duties and Delights (Seagull Press, 2008)
Maurice Maeterlinck, The Intruder, a new translation for an exhibition by Ana Torfs (2005)
Luc Ferrari, Far West News (online journal, 1999)
Jean-Paul Kaufmann, L'Œil originelle / Primal Eye (Mollat, 1997)
IN THE VISUAL ARTS
Georges Didi-Huberman, “Out of the Dark” in Critical Inquiry (University of Chicago Press, Autumn 2020)
Seloua Luste Boulbina, “Doris Salcedo's Unsubmissive Hauntology" in Doris Salcedo, exhibition catalogue (Beyeler Foundation, 2024)
Michel Mourlet, “On a Misunderstood Art” in Critical Inquiry (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2021)
Agnès Vannouvong, “Giacometti & Genet: The Great Divide” in Giacometti: Face to Face, exhibition catalogue (Moderna Museet, forthcoming 2020)
Corinne Diserens, “Vincent Meesen: A blue thread in the inextricable labyrinth of history” in Blues Klair (Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, forthcoming 2020)
Rafael Mandressi “Anatomy Theater: The Order of Curiosity,” in Theater, Garden, Bestiary: A Materialist History of Exhibitions (Sternberg, 2019)
Thomas Golsenne, "The Creole Ninfa" in Eloj Kreyol – Field Essay 55.3 (Onomatopee Projects, 2019)
Stéphane Aquin, Georg Baselitz, exhibition catalogue (Hatje Cantz, 2018)
Corinne Diserens, “Letter to Susana,” Show Me Tomorrow, We Will Go There (HISK Higher Institute for Fine Arts Exhibition, Ghent, Belgium, 2018)
Something we Africans got: the new focus on African art and critical thought, issue no. 5 (Spring 2018)
Awotele 9, Panafrican Film Critic Magazine (Sudu Connexion, 2018)
Something we Africans got: the new focus on African art and critical thought, issue no. 3 (Fall 2017)
Jonas Storsve (ed.), Cy Twombly, Centre Pompidou Retrospective (Munich: Sieveking Verlag, 2017)
Ross Lovegrove: Convergence, Marie-Ange Brayer (ed.), texts by Frédéric Migayrou and Marie-Ange Brayer (Munich: Sieveking Verlag, 2017)
Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, The Arrow of Time: Notes from a Russian Journey 1989-1990, texts by Corinne Diserens (Milan: Humboldt Books, 2017)
Calder: Forgeron de Géantes Libellules, texts by Annie Cohen-Solal, Alfred Pacquement, Benoît Decron et al. (Gallimard/musée soulages, 2017)
Catherine Perret, Corinne Diserens et al., in Gestures and archives of the present, genealogies of the future: a new lexicon for the biennial, Taipei Biennial 2016 (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2017)
Awotele 7, Panafrican Film Critic Magazine (Sudu Connexion, 2017)
Jonas Storsve, Divine Dialogues: Cy Twombly & Greek Antiquity (Athens: Museum of Cycladic Art, 2017)
Éric Bourret, Carnet de Marche (Arnaud Bizalion, 2017)
Cy Twombly, Jonas Strovsve, Shepheardes Calendar (Paris: Éditions Dilecta, 2016)
Manon de Boer: Trails and Traces, texts by Christophe Wavelet, Yves Gevaert, Latifa Laâbissi (Secession, 2016)
Martin Le Chevallier, Utopies, monograph (Galerie Jousse Entreprise, 2016)
Guy Tosatto, “Rooms of Intranquility” in Cristina Iglesias, exhibition catalogue (Musée de Grenoble, 2016)
Vélodrome, Le Douzième Homme, texts by Christian Bromberger, Laura Serani & Lionel Briot (A. Bizalion / Le Garage Photographie, 2016)
Claude Lévêque, Benoît Decron, Claude Lévêque: Le Bleu de L’Œil (Musée Soulages, 2015)
William Guidarini, Ceux Qui Restent (A. Bizalion, 2015)
Daniel Quesney, La Côte normande: la Côte d'Albâtre photographiée il y a cent ans et aujourd'hui, La Seine-Maritime (Périple, 2015)
Jean-Louis Fabiani, Mer (A. Bizalion, 2015)
Guy Tosatto, Giuseppe Penone (Actes Sud, 2015)
Richard Castelli and Gottfried Hattinger, Robotic Art Robotic (Art Book Magazine, 2015)
Daniel Quesney, La côte normande: la Côte d'Albâtre photographiée il y a cent ans et aujourd'hui, La Seine-Maritime (Périple, 2015)
Bernard Plossu, Jean Louis Fabiani, Les Jardins du large (Bizalion, 2014)
Christophe Wavelet, Corinne Diserens, Rétrospective by Xavier Le Roy (Les Presses du reel, 2014)
Stéphane Couturier, François Cheval, Étienne Hatt, Alger, Climat de France (A. Bizalion, 2014)
Didier Ben Loulou (photographs and notes), Marseille (A. Bizalion, 2014)
Guy Tosatto, “Domenico’s World” in Domenico Gnoli: Beds, exhibition catalogue (Luxembourg & Dayan, 2014)
Anne-Marie Garat, Frédérique Citéra-Bullot, Bernard Brochand, Georges Rousse: Mediterraneo, la mer au milieu des terres (Actes Sud, 2013)
Bernard Marcadet, Guy Tosatto, Sigmar Polke (Actes Sud, 2013)
Elisabeth de Fontenay, “Adel Abdessemed: Urgency of a Decreation” (unpublished, 2013)
Corinne Diserens, “La Vigie/The Lookout Man” in Yasmil Raymond, Jean-Luc Moulène: Opus + One (Dia Art Foundation, 2012)
Nadine Descendre, Halim al Karim (Skira, 2012)
Guy Tosatto, Yves Peyré, Philippe Cognée (Actes Sud, 2012)
Tzvetan Todorov, The Limits of Art: Two Essays (Seagull Press, 2010)
Jonas Storvse, Sandra Vasquez de la Horra (Centre Georges Pompidou, 2010)
Jonas Storsve, “Anne-Maris Schneider’s Daily Writing” in Anne-Marie Schneider: Jambes Longues, exhibition catalogue (Museum Het Domein, Sittard, 2010)
Guy Tosatto, “La Mémoire des Statues” in Stephan Balkenhol (Actes Sud & Musée de Grenoble, 2010)
Jonas Storvse, Jim Hodges: Love et Cetera (Centre Georges Pompidou, 2009)
William Paris, Daniel Johnston R.I.P (capcMusée d’art contemporain online journal, 2009)
Pacôme Thiellement, Beyond the Valley of A Day in the Life: The Beatles, the Beach Boys and Stepping Outside History (capcMusée d’art contemporain online journal, 2008)
Vincent Labaume, Jean-Luc Moulène, Laymert Garcia dos Santos in Journal, a MUSEION publication (Bolzano, 2008)
Corinne Diserens, Yehuda Safran, et al, Peripheral Vision & Collective Body (Museion, 2008)
Présence Panchounette, exhibition catalogue (capcMusée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, 2008)
Daniel Quesney, Honfleur photographiée il y a cent ans et aujourd'hui (Périple, 2008)
Jonas Storsve, Silvia Bächli – Nuit et Jour /Night and Day Works (Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2007)
Andrei Nakov, Kasimir Malevich, Black and White. Suprematist Composition (1915) (Moderna Museet, 2007)
Daniel Quesney, La Côte normande: le Calvados (Périple, 2007)
Jonas Storsve, Vija Celmins: Drawings (Centre Georges Pompidou, 2006)
Maurice Maeterlinck, The Intruder, an installation by Ana Torfs (2005)
Thierry Kuntzel Title T K Notes 1974-1992 (Anarchive/Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, 2006)
Jean Torrent in Ana Torfs. Figuren / Projektionen 2000-2005 (Gesellschaft für Actuelle Kunst, 2006)
Jonas Storsve, Amelie von Wulffen (Centre Georges Pompidou, 2005)
Thierry De Cordier, Jonas Storsve, Thierry De Cordier: Drawings (Centre Georges Pompidou, 2004)
Jean-Charles Massera, Sex, Art, and the Dow Jones (Lukas & Sternberg, 2003)
Gilbert Fastenaekens, Catherine Mayeur, Noces (Arp, 2003)
Olivier Foulon, Michel Assenmaker, “En Coulisses, parfois, les artistes changent de costumes,” (Jan van Eyck Academie, 2003)
Maurice Fréchuret, Seventies Art in Question (capcMusée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux/Réunion des musées nationaux, 2002)
Michel Guerin, François Méchain: The Exercise of Things (Somogy, 2002)
Catherine Perret, Valérie Mavridorakis, and Eric Troncy, Peter Kogler, Stéphane Dafflon, Francis Baudevin, exhibition catalog (Villa Arson, 2002)
Jonas Storsve, Marlene Dumas: Name No Names (Centre Georges Pompidou, 2001)
Xavier Zimbardo, Monks Of Dust: The Holy Men Of Mount Athos (Rizzoli, 2001)
Christian Meynen, Willy Van den Bussche, Anne Wauters, Yves Robert, Cités de sable (Arp, 2001)
Miroirs-Reconstitution Photographique: Eugène Atget / Daniel Quesney (ARP Editions, 2001)
Joséphine Matamoros et al., Soutine: Céret 1919-1922 (Musée d’Art moderne de Céret, 2000)
Michel Dieuzaide, “De l'éphémère à l'immuable” in François Méchain, Hypothesis, sculpture / photographie, 1979-1999 (Galerie du Château d'eau, Toulouse, 2000)
Marie-Laure Bernadac, Jean-Charles Massera et al, Présumés innocents: L’Art contemporain et l’enfance (capcMusée d’art contemporain, 2000)
Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Between Centre and Absence: the photography of Jacqueline Salmon (Kehrer, 2000)
Pierre Restany, Jean-Michel Ribettes, Philippe Pasqua (Saga, 1999)
Michèle Chomette, Les Photographies de Dora Maar: une dernière rencontre (Piasa, 1999)
Hubert Damisch et Alain Fleischer, Michael Snow Panoramique : œuvres photographiques & films (Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, 1999)
Colette Garraud, François Méchain: L'Arbre de Cantobre, exhibition catalogue (Actes Sud, 1998)
Marie-Laure Bernadac, Renaud Camus, et al, Anish Kapoor, exhibition catalogue (capcMusée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, 1998)
Jacques Aumont, Gestes d'Henri Foucault, text for the Spirit exhibition (Galerie Michèle Chomette, 1998)
Henry-Claude Cousseau, Marie-Laure Bernadac, Niele Toroni, exhibition catalogue (capcMusée d'art contemporain, 1997)
Jean-Claude Lemagny, Xavier Zimbardo, Le Belles disparues (Natives, 1996)
Phillipe Sollers in James Bishep (Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1995)
Michèle Chomette, Pierre Marc Richard, Paul-Emile Miot : photographie 1857-1870, exhibition catalogue (Galerie Michèle Chomette, 1995)
Jacques Leenhardt, Annette Haudiquet François Méchain: Sculptures, exhibition catalogue (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Calais, 1994)
Catherine Grout, “L’Autorité et l’humilité au monde de François Méchain” in In Situ, François Méchain, exhibition catalogue (Le temps qu'il fait, Cognac, 1994)
Serge Salat, Françoise Labbé, Le Livre infini (Cedust, 1994)
Patrick Roegiers, Alain Fleischer: le cadre et le reflet (Massimo Riposati, 1993)
Marc Meyer, Catherine Bédard, Canada, A New Generation (FRAC des pays de Loire, 1993)
Denys Riout, Philippe Dubois, Éric Rondepierre (Ed. Espace J.Verne/ Galerie Michèle Chomette, 1993).
Jean Noël Vuarnet, Jean Charles Blais: Suites (Fonds régional d'art contemporain de Picardie, Amiens, 1992)
François Chapon, The Illustrated Books by Rouault (A. Sauret/M. Trinckvel, 1992)
Harper, Prudence O., Joan Aruz, and Françoise Tallon, eds., The Royal City of Susa: Ancient Near Eastern Treasures in the Louvre (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992)
Catherine David, “The Great Labyrinth” in Hélio Oiticica (Fundació Antoni Tàpies, 1992)
Gila Walker, Lisa Davidson-Petty, Catherine Eyquem eds. The Louvre Guides Bleus (Hachette, 1991)
Alfred Pacquemont et al, Jean Dubuffet : Les Dernières Années (English supplement edited by Gila Walker) (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1991)
Alfred Pacquemont, Pierre Dunoyer Tableaux, exhibition catalogue (Jeu de Paume, 1991)
Nadine Gasc et al., René Lalique : Jewelry, Glass (English version edited by Gila Walker) (Musée des Arts decoratifs/Reunion des musees nationaux, 1991)
Marie-France Bézier, Françoise Fromonot, Jeu de Paume: A History (Ed. de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1991)
IN PHILOSOPHY, POLITICAL SCIENCE & RELIGION
Michel Serres, Around the World with Writers, Scientists and Philosophers (Gazebo Books, 2024)
Lydie Salvayre, Irrefutable Essay on Successology (Gazebo Books, forthcoming)
Léonora Miano, Afropea (Seagull Press, forthcoming)
Nathalie Etoke, Shades of Black (Seagull Press, 2021)
Myriam Tadassé, Blind Spot (Seagull Press, 2021)
Georges Didi-Huberman, "Out of the Dark" in Critical Inquiry (University of Chicago Press, Autumn 2020)
Rafael Mandressi “Anatomy Theater: The Order of Curiosity,” in Theater, Garden, Bestiary: A Materialist History of Exhibitions (Sternberg 2019)
Olivier Surel “Mutations of Sergeant Sade,” Anna Long “Love in the Age of Algorithms,” Three Billion Perverts excerpts (including Michel Foucault’s testimony at the trial of Félix Guattari), in Glass Bead: Site 2. Dark Room: Somatic Reason and Synthetic Eros (2019)
Thomas Golsenne, "The Creole Ninfa" in Eloj Kreyol – Field Essay 55.3 (Onomatopee Projects, 2019)
Nicolas Bancel & Pascal Blanchard, “Politics of Colonial Remembrance in France 1980-2012” in Stefan Jonsson & Julia Willén, Austere Histories: Social Exclusion and the Contest of Colonial Memories (Routledge, 2016)
Sylvain Lazarus, The Anthropology of the Name (Seagull Press, 2015)
Shmuel Trigano, “Paris January 11: A Disturbing Event,” New English Review (April 2015)
Dan Jaffé, “Exta Ecclesiam nulla Salus Birkat ha-minim reconsidered: Text and Context” in Yavne Revisited: The Historical Rabbis and the Rabbis of History (Compendium Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum), ed. J. Schwartz, P. Tomson, CRINT series (Leiden: Brill, 2017)
Dan Jaffé, “Talmudic polemics and incantations in the name of Jesus: Saliva as materia medica” in Judaica, Beitrage sum Verstehen des Judentums (December 2015)
Dan Jaffé, “Index Librorum Prohibitorum: New Perspectives on the Tannaim and Jewish Christian Books” (unpublished, 2015)
Christophe Foultier, Regimes of Hospitality: Urban Citizenship between Participation and Securitization – the Case of the Multiethnic French Banlieue (Linköping University Electronic Press, 2015).
Jaffé D., « From the Maccabees to the Rabbinic Judaism : Canonicity, Martyrology and the Story of Reinvented Tradition », in M.-F. Baslez ; O. Munnich (eds.), La mémoire des persécutions. Autour des livres des Maccabées (Paris-Louvain-Walpole, 2014).
Shmuel Trigano, “Jews Alongside Non-Jews,” The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy. Ed. Kavka, Braiterman, and Novak (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Henri Alleg, Algerian Memoirs: Days of Hope and Combat (Seagull Press, 2012)
Dan Jaffé, “Contra-Martyrology in the Talmud or The Story of a Reinvented Tradition” (unpublished, 2012)
Tzvetan Todorov, Memory as a Remedy for Evil (Seagull Press, 2011)
Shmuel Trigano, Philosophy of the Law: The Political in the Torah (Shalem Press, 2011)
Tzvetan Todorov, The Limits of Art: Two Essays (Seagull Press, 2010)
Tzvetan Todorov, The Spirit of the Enlightenment (Grove Press, 2009)
Shmuel Trigano, Democratic Ideal and the Shoah, The Unthought in Political Modernity (SUNY, 2009)
Tzvetan Todorov, Torture and the War on Terror (Seagull Press, 2009)
Tzvetan Todorov, Duties and Delights (Seagull Press, 2008)
Sabine Hillen “Suspending Events, Loving the Margin: Solitude According to Barthes,” Paragraph 31 (March 2008)
François Laplanche, “Christian Erudition in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries and the Hebrew State,” Hebrew Political Studies, volume 3, number 1 (Winter 2008)
Tzvetan Todorov, “Moving Targets: An Interview by Danny Postel,” Critical Inquiry, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Winter 2008)
Alain Finkielkraut, “The Religion of Humanity and the Sin of the Jews,” Azure 21 (2005)
Jacques Derrida, “A certain impossible possibility of saying the event”, and “Final Words” in The Late Derrida, Ed. W. J. Thomas Mitchell, Arnold Ira Davidson (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
François Jullien, “The Shadow on the Picture: Of Evil or the Negative,” Critical Inquiry 32 (University of Chicago Press, 2005)
IN ARCHITECTURE & URBANISM
Paul Andreu Architect, retrospective exhibition texts (Cité de l'Architecture, Paris, 2024)
Notre-Dame de Paris. From builders to restorers (2023 – 2024 ), exhibition texts (Cité de l'Architecture, Paris, 2023)
Metro! Grand Paris in Motion (2023 – 2024), exhibition texts (Cité de l'Architecture, Paris, 2023)
Deco: France - North America (2022 – 2023), exhibition texts (Cité de l'Architecture, Paris, 2023)
Achille Mbembe, "The Earthly Community" in Coloniality of Infrastructure (E-Flux Architecture, 2021)
AJAP 2020, Album des Jeunes Architectes et Paysagistes (D'Architectures - SEA / Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine, 2020)
Alvar Aalto: Architect and Designer (March – July 2018), exhibition texts (Cité de l'Architecture, Paris 2018)
Margaux Darrieus, AJAP 2018, Album des Jeunes Architectes et Paysagistes (D'Architectures - SEA / Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine, 2018)
Globes: Architecture and Science Map the World (November 2017 – March 2018), exhibition texts (Cité de l'Architecture, Paris 2017-2018)
Urban Mutations, temporary exhibition (June 14, 2016 – 5 March 2017) Exhibition texts, multimedia, audiovisuals, subtitling (Cité des Sciences, Paris 2017)
Architecture and History – A tour of the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie, Audioguide (2016)
Christophe Foultier, Regimes of Hospitality: Urban Citizenship between Participation and Securitization – the Case of the Multiethnic French Banlieue (Linköping University Electronic Press, 2015).
Pascal Blin, Brunet Saunier Architecture: Monospace and Simplexity (Birkhäuser, 2012)
Alberto Alessi, ed., Singular Plural: Geninasca Delefortrie Architects (Birkhäuser, 2012).
Paul Ardenne, “ECDM in ten points: Vade-mecum for an architecture of practical grace” Once Upon a Time… ECDM, France (DD series, Damdi, 2010)
Serge Salat, Françoise Labbé, Caroline Nowacki, Cities and Forms: On Sustainable Urbanism (CSTB Urban Morphology Laboratory, 2011)
Annuel optimiste d’architecture/Optimistic Architecture Yearbook 2007 (French Touch, 2008)
Bruno Marchand, Quartier Ecoparc/Ecoparc Quarter (Birkhäuser, 2009)
Antoine Picon, Marc Mimram, Hybrid: architecture, engineer (In Folio, 2007)
Paul Ardenne, Manuelle Gautrand: Architecture (Birkhäuser, 2006)
Paul Ardenne, Contacts - Philippe Gazeau architecte (Archives d'architecture moderne, 2006)
Paul Ardenne, Codex: Rudy Ricciotti (Birkhäuser, 2004)
Anne-Françoise Jumeau, News: 25 Projects by Périphériques Architects (IN-EX projects / Birkhauser, 2004)
Périphériques architects, Your House Now: 36 Propositions for a Home (Birkhäuser, 2003)
“IN-EX 02” (IN-EX projects/Birkhaüser, 2001)
Jean-Louis Guigou, France 2015: Reconstructing the Territory – A Contribution to the National Debate (Verlag Peter Lang, 1999)
“IN-EX 02” (IN-EX projects/Birkhaüser, 1999)
Paul Andreu: Fifty Airport Terminals, a project book (Aeroports de Paris: 1998)
Rem Koolhaas oma, Living. Vivre. Leben. (Birkhäuser, 1998)
Charles-de-Gaulle Airport: Module 2F, a project book (Aéroports de Paris, 1996)
The Cross-Channel Terminal and Cité Europe (Aeroports de Paris, 1995)
Charles-de-Gaulle Airport : The Exchange Module, a project book (Aéroports de Paris, 1994)