ISOLARII

ISOLARII is a media company founded in 2020 by Sebastian Clark with India Ennenga, known for its political activity and its unique palm-sized book format. Isolarii revives an extinct literary genre—the Renaissance "island books"—to form an archipelago of today's most avant-garde groups and figures.
 
New York / London
 
12 titles
 
Philip K. Dick - How To Build A Universe That Doesn\'t Fall Apart Two Days Later
2024
English edition
In this prophetic 1978 essay, legendary science fiction author Philip K. Dick explores the nature of reality, the power of media, and the authenticity of human experience, offering startling insights that resonate eerily with our modern world.
Will Alexander - Charismatic Spirals
2023
English edition
Charismatic Spirals is for an America circa 2024, where poetry—the art of developing new means of speaking—has never been of such artistic, technological and political consequences.
 Sjón - Under the Wings of the Valkyrie
2023
English edition
The English translation of the work that established the Icelandic author's literary career—an exploration of eroticism in extremism.
Scholastique Mukasonga - A Book of My Own
2023
English edition
"For those who, despite everything, have decided to live, there will always be a home." A work on the experience of exile and migration, memory and selfhood, from legendary French-Rwandan storyteller Scholastique Mukasonga.
Hans Ulrich Obrist - Ever Gaia
2023
English edition
currently out of stock
The most accessible introduction to the life and work of James Lovelock (1919-2022), and a guide to address today's "polycrisis."
In the Face of War - Ukraine 2022
2022
English edition
At the time of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Yevgenia Belorusets, Nikita Kadan, and Lesia Khomenko answer an age-old question: what is art to do in the face of war? (the culmination of Yevgenia Belorusets's war diary, alongside monumental work by Nikita Kadan, and Lesia Khomenko).
Yevgenia Belorusets - Modern Animal
2021
English edition
currently out of stock
Modern Animal, a sort of anti-autofiction, knots together humans and animals, retelling interviews, folktales, memories, and visions of the people—bourgeois, urban, rural, Roma, working class—encountered on a multiyear journey through Ukraine.
Hans Ulrich Obrist - Archipelago
2021
English edition
15 years of conversations between Caribbean philosopher Édouard Glissant and his friend Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Art Spiegelman - Street Cop
2021
English edition
The collaboration of two American greats: master of metafiction Robert Coover and graphic legend Art Spiegelman.
 Can Xue - Purple Perilla
2020
English edition
currently out of stock
A tiny collection of three short stories by Chinese author Can Xue that immerse readers in a world where reality and absurdity collide.
F Letter - New Russian Feminist Poetry
2020
bilingual edition (English / Russian)
The first ever anthology of feminist poetry from Russia.
 Cooking Sections - Salmon: A Red Herring
2020
English edition
currently out of stock
Salmon: A Red Herring questions what colours we expect in our "natural" environment. It asks us to examine how our perception of colour is changing as much as we are changing the planet. Adapted into the eponymous Turner Prize-nominated exhibition at Tate Britain, this book launched an international campaign against salmon farming.
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