A dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel Leiris’s masterwork, perhaps the most important French autobiographical enterprise of the twentieth century

Though Michel Leiris defined himself as a poet until the end of his life, long after he had abandoned poetry for prose, criticism has consistently ignored his poetry. Through semiotic…

This book analyzes the appropriations of ethnology in Carl Einstein’s and Michel Leiris’s contributions to the journal Documents (1929-1930). As the role occupied here by the primitive Other recalls the…

Texts by Georges Bataille and his associates relating to the College of Sociology and the Society of Acephale in Paris in the 1930s. This book traces how an eminent group…