ANFANG/BEGINNING: BERLIN 1994-99 by Christian Stemmler (IDEA, 2025)
Underage in the underground: at 17, Christian Stemmler left home, lived in a squat, worked a club—and photographed Berlin’s 1990s scene.
PAUL THEK & PETER HUJAR, STAY AWAY FROM NOTHING, edited by Francis Schichtel (Primary Information, 2025)
Letters and photographs trace the bond between Paul Thek and Peter Hujar, opening a window onto two intimate decades beginning in 1956.
DIAGRAMS: A PROJECT BY AMO/OMA, edited by Mario Mainetti (Fondazione Prada, 2025)
DIAGRAMS examines how data visualisation shapes knowledge, meaning, and power. Unfinished by design, the book’s uncut pages and colour codes function as diagrams.
PUBLIC IMAGE LIBRARY: NYC RESTAURANT ADS 1981-1998, edited by Nikki Igol (Blurring Books, 2025)
The book documents Manhattan’s dining culture through magazine ads, capturing shifting tastes, graphic design, and the hunt for the next “it” spot.
BLUE HOUR by Senta Simond (Mörel, 2025)
Senta Simond, known for rethinking representations of the female body, now photographs the male form through a close personal relationship.
CRAFT, edited by Nicolas Trembley (After 8 Books, 2025)
CRAFT reflects on arts, crafts, and design, questioning hierarchies through exhibition history, objects, and modes of display.
FLESH by David Szalay, (Penguin Random House, 2025)
From adolescent isolation and trauma in Hungary to London’s worlds of money and power, FLESH shows what makes a life—and what breaks it.
HARDSTYLE by Peri Rosenzweig and Nick Royal (Hardstyle / Ornament, 2025)
With no artists, advertisers, or publishers to please, stylists Peri Rosenzweig and Nick Royal present HARDSTYLE, a 200-page radical visual manifesto with a metal cover.
DAVIDE SORRENTI JOURNALS VOLUME 1: 1994-1995 (IDEA 2025)
The first journals (1994–95) by photographer Davide Sorrenti form a living archive of images, notes, and ideas from his short-lived career.
HOOLICARDS, A FOOTBALL CALLING CARD ARCHIVE VOL 2
Hoolicards archives UK football hooligan calling cards from the 1980s–90s, documenting the rituals and aesthetics of casual culture.
DAVID ARMSTRONG CONTACTS, edited by The David Armstrong Archive (Mack, 2025)
This first posthumous exhibition catalogue of David Armstrong (1954–2014) brings together 286 previously unpublished contact prints from 1974–94, reproduced at a 1:1 scale.
PECHE POP. TRACING DAGOBERT PECHE IN THE 21st CENTURY, edited by Lilli Hollein, Claudia Cavallar and Anne-Katrin Rossberg (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2025)
PECHE POP revisits Dagobert Peche, “enfant terrible” of the Wiener Werkstätte, whose decorative designs subverted logic and utility across diverse materials.
THE SILVER BOOK by Olivia Laing (Penguin, 2025)
A queer love story and noir thriller set in 1970s Italian cinema, where desire and illusion turn dark.
ROOMS WE MADE SAFE by Michella Bredahl (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2025)
Photographs and autobiographical texts span decades of intimate portraiture, beginning with images made with Bredahl’s mother’s camera.
I REGRET ALMOST EVERYTHING by Keith McNally (Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster, 2025)
Marked by ambition, illness, and reinvention, McNally reflects on a life from working-class London to building New York restaurants such as the iconic Odeon, Nell’s, and Balthazar.
MEDARDO ROSSO. INVENTING MODERN SCULPTURE, edited by Heike Eipeldauer (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2025)
The rediscovery of a still underappreciated artist who, alongside Auguste Rodin, reshaped 19th-century sculpture, shown in dialogue with artists including Degas, Bourgeois, and Warhol.
DON'T LOOK NOW AND THEN, (Filmstock Press, 2025)
Unpublished photographs and documents from the making of Nicolas Roeg’s seminal film DON'T LOOK NOW (1973).
IL DITO IN BOCCA by Fleur Jaeggy (ADELPHI, 2025)
Faced with Lung, the young protagonist of this novel, doctors—and not only them—are left perplexed: she has never abandoned the habit of putting her finger in her mouth; she answers questions by displaying the polish on her nails; she recounts the events of her life lucidly, lightly, yet this clarity is deceptive, and it is easy to lose oneself in her sparse words.
I WILL KEEP YOU IN GOOD COMPANY, Liz Johnson Artur (MACK, 2025)
Pages from over twenty personal workbooks show how Ghanaian-Russian artist Liz Johnson Artur shaped her photographic language through layering, annotation, and cutting since the early 1990s.
AIR by Christian Kracht, (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2025 / Liveright, 2026)
AIR is Kracht’s most seductively disorienting work yet: a haunting journey through a world that may be a dream, the afterlife, or reality’s inverted twin.
STUDIO SAURUS by Fabian Marti (Rookie Books, 2025)
Swiss artist Fabian Marti reimagines dinosaurs as wiggly, surreal forms—an accessible entry point into art for our young readers.
HUYSMANS VIVANT by Agnès Michaux, (Le Cherche-Midi, 2025)
Michaux combines documentary rigor with novelistic momentum, reviving not only the author Huysmans but also the era when fin-de-siècle Paris was the capital of the arts and ideas.
