NONFICTION / POLITICS
No Politics But Class Politics
WALTER BENN MICHAELS & ADOLPH REED JR.
Adolph Reed Jr. is the towering radical theorist of American democracy of his generation.
–Cornel West
Walter Benn Michaels is cunning, brilliant, acutely suggestive, often exhilarating to read.
–Eric Lott, TRANSITION
RELIGION / HISTORY
Resistance to Christianity
RAOUL VANEIGEM
Nothing less than a complete historical account of the development of Christianity.
––Alastair J. Hemmens
ART / POETRY
Confessions
GABRIELE TINTI & ANDRES SERRANO
RELIGION / ART
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
HAL FOSTER
One of the most skilfull critics at work today.
––Barry Schwabsky, THE NATION
ART / BIOGRAPHY
Lucas Samaras: A Life
MICHAEL SKAFIDAS
A master of the self-portrait form.
––NEW YORK TIMES
ERIS gems
FICTION
Book of Water
ANDREAS PHILIPPOPOULOS-MIHALOPOULOS
You don’t so much read The Book of Water, you float in it. These haunting little fictions heighten some senses while softening others, to an effect that is curiously hallucinatory. Never have words felt so liquid, or stories so cool and refreshing.
—Robert Shearman
NONFICTION / QUOTATIONS
Only Too Much Is Enough
MICHAEL PEPPIATT
Peppiatt offers a window into the experiences and emotional intelligence of this great artist.
—NEW STATESMAN
NONFICTION / PHILOSOPHY
Treason of the Intellectuals
JULIEN BENDA
Benda’s book is the great twentieth-century defense of intellectual integrity. It has become extraordinarily timely again at a moment when social criticism often routes itself through the particular loyalties of racial, religious, and national identity.
––David Bromwich
PHILOSOPHY / POLITICS
Where Are We Now?
GIORGIO AGAMBEN
Agamben is right that our rulers will use every opportunity to consolidate their power, especially in times of crisis. That coronavirus is being exploited to strengthen mass-surveillance infrastructure is no secret.
––Marco D’Eramo, NEW LEFT REVIEW
ERIS dialogues
NONFICTION/POLITICS
A Vision for Europe 2020
DAVID ADLER & ROSEMARY BECHLER &
YANIS VAROUFAKIS
A book that gives hope and provides solutions to break the doom loop. A must-read for all citizens who do not want to abandon Europe to the neoliberals and the nationalists.
—Thomas Picketty
NONFICTION/ART THEORY
On Depiction
AVIGDOR ARIKHA
Throughout his whole development I have never ceased to admire the acuteness of his vision and his faultless insight into the art of the past.
—Samuel Beckett
ART
I Declare a Permanent State of Happiness
KENNETH GOLDSMITH