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2025 (18)

February
11 Brooklyn Ariana Reines & Eileen Myles, Pioneer Works
10 London Review Bookshop: Our Current Bestsellers: Wave of Blood
09 London Readings: Nikita Gill, Ariana Reines & So Mayer, Conservatory, Barbican
09 London Somatic Cosmologies: Ariana Reines, Nikita Gill & Daisy Hildyard, Barbican
07 Margate Ariana Reines & Raymond Antrobus, Tom Thumb Theatre
07 The TLS: Lucy Scholes reviews Jane DeLynn's In Thrall
06 Glasgow Ariana Reines & Colin Herd, Good Press
05 London Ariana Reines & Alice Blackhurst: Wave of Blood, London Review Bookshop
03 Manchester Ariana Reines & Joseph Conway: Wave of Blood, House of Books & Friends
03 Newcity: Shapes of Suffering: A Review of Ariana Reines’ “Wave of Blood”
January
30 RofC: Announcing the 2025 Long list for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses: Divided Publishing for How to Leave the World by Marouane Bakhti
30 BOMB: Interview: Jane DeLynn by Taylor Lewandowski
26 Brooklyn Elisabeth Subrin and Ariana Reines in conversation, Participant
19 Malmö The Maddening Impossibility of Ending, Anti Bokhandel (Zupančič)
17 – 18 Copenhagen Reawakening Freud - International conference on Die Traumdeutung (Zupančič)
15 Vienna University of Applied Arts (Leung)
10 Public Parking: How long does a soul last? Filip Jakab in conversation with Ariana Reines
03 Antiphony: Sam Cha on Ariana Reines' Wave of Blood

2024 (88)

December
27 LARB Radio Hour: Ariana Reines’s “Wave of Blood”
14 London Bricks from the Kiln launch, Helen Marten Studio (Guo)
13 – 14 Brussels Editions, SB34 Manchester (Divided)
13 Graz Grazer Kunstverein (Reines)
12 The Millions: A Year in Reading: Emily Witt (Reines)
12 The Washington Post: ‘In Thrall’ is a flinty, funny novel about growing up
07 Berlin A Toast to St Martirià, Hopscotch Reading Room (Serra)
06 Los Angeles Wave of Blood launch with Harmony Holiday, 2220 Arts (Reines)
05 Los Angeles Read 2 Me, Soho House DTLA (Reines)
01 Brussels Brussels Ass Book Fair, KANAL–Centre Pompidou
November
30 Brussels How to Leave the World launch with Oscar Mathieu, rile (Bakhti)
29 – 30 Brussels Brussels Ass Book Fair, KANAL–Centre Pompidou
26 New York Magazine: A Witty and Ironic Coming-of-Age Novel From 1982
23 Brussels Open Studios, SB34 Manchester (Divided)
21 Huck: November Cultural Recommendations: Jane DeLynn’s LGBTQ+ coming-of-age classic, In Thrall
21 New York Cluny Journal launch, Russian Samovar (Reines)
19 Munich Kunstverein München (Guo)
15 Times Radio: Hannah MacInnes interviews Jane DeLynn
07 Paris Kadist (Bakhti)
01 4Columns: In Thrall
01 The Paris Review: Excerpt from In Thrall
October
25 Literary Hub: Love Learned Through Pain: On Why We Need to Record and Respect Grief
22 Frankfurt Städelschule (Leung)
21 Interview Magazine: Poet Ariana Reines Isn’t Afraid of Saying the Wrong Thing
17 – 20 Frankfurt HOW(EVER) Portikus Art Book Festival
17 Copenhagen Dora Budor invites Eleanor Ivory Weber–Divided: On running an independent publishing house, Simian
15 Cluny Journal: Three Poems from Wave of Blood
12 London Anarchist Bookfair, Rich Mix
11 – 13 Berlin Miss Read—Berlin Art Book Fair & Festival
06 London Chips, Sissy, Oslo House (Guo)
03 London Deleted Scenes, Beasy Bar (Bakhti)
02 London How to Leave the World Launch Event and Q&A, Brick Lane Bookshop (Bakhti)
01 Amsterdam De Ateliers (Leung)
September
26 London Review Bookshop Blog: In conversation: Marouane Bakhti & Lara Vergnaud
26 Paris Shmorévaz (Guo)
24 Oslo The Library, Oslo National Academy of the Arts (Leung)
18 London Biblioteka x South Parade (Guo)
13 Northampton Beneath the Mountain: An Anti-Prison Reader book release (James)
12 Amherst The W. E. B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts (James)
11 Amherst Amherst Books (James)
August
27 Hopscotch Reading Room: Publisher of the month–Divided Publishing
July
28 Bonn Camilla Wills in conversation with Fatima Hellberg, Bonner Kunstverein
17 Prison Radio: Revolutionary Love and Resistance: Joy James bundle
12 AnOther: “Life Should Be Filled With Magic”: The Hypnotic Cinema of Albert Serra
June
28 Paris A night with Albert Serra, A Toast to St Martirià book launch, After 8 Books
21 The Bookseller: Category spotlight: literary fiction in translation (Bakhti)
20 The London Magazine: Jamieson Webster on Disorganisation & Sex
17 Sight and Sound: The Summer 2024 Issue, Books: A Toast to St Martirià
12 London Verdurin (Webster)
08 London The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Webster)
07 Zürich Galerie Francesca Pia (Divided)
07 London Freud Museum (Webster)
07 Amsterdam Eye Filmmuseum (Serra)
04 Basel Kunsthalle Basel (Leung)
01 A Rabbit's Foot: Read an exclusive excerpt from Albert Serra’s exciting new book
May
15 HERO: Cult auteur Albert Serra selects five influential films
01 A Rabbit's Foot: Read an exclusive excerpt from Albert Serra’s exciting new book
April
29 Manchester Theatre A, University Place, Manchester University (James)
27 London Revolutionary Love, ICA (James)
26 London A Toast to St Martirià launch, Waterstones Gower Street (Serra)
25 5-7pm, Lady Brodie Room, St. Hilda’s College (James)
25 Online (Los Angeles) Regroup reading and study group on Disorganisation & Sex (Part Four) (Webster)
23 Leicester Stephen Lawrence Research Centre, De Montfort University (James)
18 Los Angeles Teach-In, Noname Book Club (James)
17 Claremont Sojourner Truth Lecture, Pitzer College (James)
09 New Haven Yale Divinity School, Niebuhr Hall (James)
05 San Diego San Diego College (James)
04 Washington Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology Conference (James)
March
28 Milan Illicit Bookshop, Image Culture (Guo)
28 Online (New York) Montez Press Radio (Leung, Zupančič)
28 Online (Los Angeles) Regroup reading and study group on Disorganisation & Sex (Part Three)
25 Online (Los Angeles) Virtual Book Study with Dr. Joy James, USC (James)
24 Perth Adult Contemporary Reading Group discuss Carla Lonzi's Self-portrait
23 New York Segue Reading Series, Artists Space (Howe)
14 Copenhagen Art Hub Copenhagen (Guo)
14 Online (London) Abolition, Settler Colonialism and State Crime, Queen Mary University (James)
12 London What about the Translation of Non-fiction Works? London Book Fair (Divided)
09 Chicago The Renaissance Society (Leung)
07 Philadelphia Book talk with Charisse Burden-Stelly, Making Worlds Bookstore (James)
01 Melbourne no no no: Fanny Howe's London-rose | Beauty Will Save the World
February
25 Perth Adult Contemporary Reading Group discuss Ghislaine Leung's Bosses
22 Online (Los Angeles) Regroup reading and study group on Disorganisation & Sex (Part Two)
03 New York Hard To Read, Picture Room (James)
03 London Terminal Projects (Guo)
01 Athens Hyper Hypo (Sagri)
January
30 Online (Los Angeles) Tavis Smiley on KBLA 1580 AM Talk Radio (James)
25 Online (Los Angeles) Regroup reading and study group on Disorganisation & Sex (Part One)
08 Rev Left Radio: Joy James on Du Bois, Liberation Struggles, & Revolutionary Love

2023 (89)

December
20 London Flock for Palestine, Avalon Cafe
17 London Cafe OTO Christmas Fair
16 Brussels Delay Today, NICC (Zupančič)
03 London we shape ourselves with the force of each other, ICA (Guo)
November
30 Rochester Neilly Author Series: In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love: Precarity, Power, Communities (James)
30 Glasgow Reading at The Common Guild (Guo)
28 London Reading at Hollybush Gardens (Guo)
25 London Reading at Peer (Guo)
22 Front Row: Ghislaine Leung, BBC Radio 4
20 Online (Lisbon) Jamieson Webster: Breathing and The Unconscious, Film and Death: Film-Philosophy as a Meditation on Death, Nova Institute of Philosophy
18 London Palestine Solidarity Market, The Horse Hospital
18 Brussels Delay Today, NICC (Leung)
17 Online (London) 'Masturbation Fantasies', Royal Holloway, University of London (Webster)
15 Cambridge Woodberry Poetry Room (Howe)
14 Berlin Knowledge Ties, Sinema Transtopia (Zett)
10 Cambridge MA: Joy James
07 London Burley Fisher Books with Amy Ching-Yan Lam (Guo)
04 London London Radical Bookfair
02 – 05 Montreal Bedour Alagraa and Felicia Denaud, 'Love, Study, Revolution: (A Roundtable) On the Recent Works of Joshua Myers & Joy James', American Studies Association annual meeting (James)
02 Online (London) ESEA Archives Book Club: World of Interiors (Guo)
October
31 e-flux: Excerpt from Alenka Zupančič's Let Them Rot
23 Amsterdam Autotheory and its Negativity: Ghislaine Leung, NICA (Divided)
19 – 22 Frankfurt HOW(EVER), Portikus Art Book Festival
16 Online (Tehran) Disorganisation & Sex, Psychoanalysis Wednesdays (Webster)
09 London Bosses launch, Cabinet Gallery (Leung)
07 London Anarchist Book Fair, Rich Mix
03 Lux Magazine: Interview with Joy James
01 Genk Apples and Oranges Book Fair
September
30 frieze: Excerpt of Ghislaine Leung's Bosses
30 London ESEA Archives, Hackney Chinese Community Services (Guo)
10 Brussels rile* (Guo)
06 – 09 Eugene: Hypatia 40th Anniversary Conference, University of Oregon (James)
August
25 The New York Times: Jamieson Webster: 'I Don’t Need to Be a "Good Person." Neither Do You.'
12 London Cafe Oto Summer Fair
July
10 Worms: Interview with Joy James
June
23 The Readings Podcast: Aurelia Guo in conversation
22 – 27 Chicago The American Library Association Annual Conference (James)
19 Lady Gaga reads In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love
18 Berea Dissident Feminisms: Inaugural bell hooks Symposium, The bell hooks center (James)
07 Fanny Howe receives Lifetime Recognition Award at the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings: a poet who is 'most at home in bewilderment'
01 Paris After 8 Books, with Santiago Amigorena and Sinziana Ravini (Webster)
May
26 Houston Texas People's Tribunal, Thurgood Marshall School of Law (James)
25 The Deep Dive: Making Revolutionary Love w/ Dr. Joy James
25 Online (Durham) Night School Bar: Joy James, Felicia Denaud, and Stevie Wilson discuss IPORL
23 Brussels rile* (Webster)
19 Melbourne Sick Leave, Collingwood House (Guo)
17 Melbourne Debris Magazine, The Alderman (Guo)
12 – 14 London Offprint, with After 8 Books
April
27 Scalawag: 'We may not know what this "exit plan" actually looks like ... '
26 Scalawag: 'the labor of the captive is driven by the love of their people ...'
24 Williamstown Williams College with Alexandra Nicome and Nat Sorscher (James)
21 Asymptote: 'Allison Grimaldi Donahue’s excellent English translation of Self-portrait represents the beginning of Lonzi’s international renaissance.'
21 Scalawag: 'James's shift to agape implies a new definition of death and maternity'
19 Scalawag: 'James's opening explanation of agape ...'
14 Chicago Inga Bookshop with Charles H. F. Davis III and rosalind hampton (James)
14 Scalawag: 'James' exploration of how the desires and the shame of the Black living inform ... the stories of our dead'
13 – 16 Chicago AERA (James)
12 Scalawag: 'Joy James understands that the generative power of the womb is the wild card'
07 Paris After 8 Books with Sam Riviere (Guo)
07 Scalawag: 'James' formulation offers transparency and uncensored truth ...'
05 Scalawag: 'For James, agape is a form of political will as love.'
04 Red Medicine Podcast: Joy James: Revolutionary Love and Black Liberation
March
31 Scalawag: 'Revolutionary Love becomes the force through which I understand death to be an essential and vital part of revolution.'
31 Atlanta Charis Books & Auburn Avenue Research Library: Joy James, Da'Shaun L. Harrison, Jalessah T. Jackson
30 Scalawag: 'James remains the most formidable political theorist of our contemporary moment'
28 Red Medicine Podcast: Jamieson Webster: Sexuality, Psychoanalysis, and Useless Organs
28 Inquest: Excerpts of Joy James' In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love: Precarity, Power, Communities
24 – 26 St. Louis ANWO Black Women's Convention (James)
24 Time Talks Podcast: Joy James on Revolutionary Love, Captive Maternals, and Autonomy
23 Online (Berkeley) University of California with David Antonio Maldonado and Ruth Wilson Gilmore (James)
19 New York The Word Is Change with RAW Wilcox (James)
16 Online (Atlanta) Emory University (James)
15 Black Agenda Report: Captive Maternal Roundtable on In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love: Da'Shaun L. Harrison
15 Black Agenda Report: 'James’s text makes a subversive attempt to reclaim revolutionary struggle from the academy and deliver it back to communities'
13 junge Welt: Für Radikale und Revolutionäre
11 Denver Mutiny Info Cafe with Chris Time Steele (James)
11 Ann Arbor University of Michigan (James)
10 Ann Arbor Third Mind Books (James)
04 junge Welt: Liebe als revolutionärer Akt
February
22 Lewisburg Griot Institute, Bucknell University (James)
16 Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Podcast: Joy James and K. Kim Holder, In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love
15 By Any Means Necessary: Revolutionary Love, Struggle and Abolition with Joy James
14 The Malcolm Effect Podcast: Joy James' In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love
13 The Oxonian Review: 'It seems like an appropriate trace of the kind of excitation that Webster elicits through her writing and thinking—propulsive, associative, scribbled'
06 Online: Guerrilla Intellectual University with Felicia Denaud (James)
02 PW-Magazine: Excerpt of Anna Zett's Artificial Gut Feeling
January
23 Online Guerrilla Intellectual University with K. Kim Holder (James)
20 London Natalie Mariko's Hate Poems at Burley Fisher Books (Guo)
17 Amsterdam Material Monopolies, Sandberg Instituut (Divided)

2022 (54)

December
18 SPAM: 'Even as subjecthood fissures and coalesces uneasily, the text is marked by an undeniable defiance. As Guo says herself, the book is testament to "how strong and indomitable the will can be."'
13 Various Artists: 'a recreation of an event, an occupation of 60 Wall Street in New York, an endangered public atrium, by psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster, her publisher Divided and Hard to Read, a literary social practice'
09 – 11 Vienna: Prosopopoeia Book Shop (Howe, Lonzi/Donahue, Webster)
09 European Journal of Psychoanalysis: 'Webster lets us in on some of the moments in her practice when she experiences sometimes painful ambiguities of working with the transference'
09 Paris Palais de Tokyo (Sagri)
08 The White Review: Fanny Howe and Jamieson Webster chosen as 'Books of the Year'
08 The White Review: Fanny Howe and Jamieson Webster chosen as 'Books of the Year'
02 Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour: 'Sex, Webster writes, is sometimes felt as a curse, not a cure—and by extension its disorganizing force is both highly guarded and legislated against'
November
29 Online (San Francisco) Eileen Myles' Pathetic Literature at City Lights (Howe)
17 Literary Hub: '[Webster is] one author whose psychoanalytic writing feels like an X-ray of my brain (and who is helping me finally approach reading Lacan)'
16 Cambridge Eileen Myles' Pathetic Literature at Harvard Book Store (Howe)
15 Online (Williamstown) Ontology of Betrayal: a conversation on Politics, Theory, Antiblackness, Gender and Freedom at Williams College (James)
10 Evanston Northwestern University (James)
October
31 Parapraxis: Excerpt from Jamieson Webster's Disorganisation & Sex
30 New York Woodbine (Sagri)
28 Spike Art Magazine: Excerpt from Jamieson Webster's Disorganisation & Sex
25 New York Hard to Read (Webster)
14 New Books in Psychology Podcast: Jamieson Webster's Disorganisation & Sex
08 London Iklectik (Guo)
05 Online (New York) The Brooklyn Rail (Webster)
04 London The Cock Tavern (Guo)
September
30 Stillpoint: 'Webster details both her own training as a psychoanalyst, case studies of several patients, and dream analysis ...'
22 New Books in Psychoanalysis Podcast: Jamieson Webster's Disorganisation & Sex
14 Paris Radicants (Ettinger w/ Kandis Williams)
07 Allison Grimaldi Donahue's translation of Carla Lonzi's Self-portrait shortlisted for the American Literary Translators Association's Italian Prose in Translation Award
August
06 Prishtina Manifesta 14 (Zett)
04 Anna Zett's Artificial Gut Feeling back in stock
02 The New Inquiry: Excerpt from Aurelia Guo's World of Interiors
July
09 rile books Podcast: Carla Lonzi's Self-Portrait, with Allison Grimaldi Donahue and Giulia Crispiani
02 Online (London) Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (Webster)
June
30 London ICA (Guo w/ Charlie Markbreiter)
26 Online (New York) Wendy's Subway (Guo)
24 Online (Berlin) ICI Berlin (Webster)
11 Venice Bruno (Lonzi/Donahue)
01 Berlin a.p. books (Guo w/ Mira Mattar)
May
27 Online (Belfast) Sublation Media with Douglas Lain (Webster)
16 The Baffler: 'Howe, like many of her fictional heroines, is at heart a wanderer, transfixed by the revolutionary potentialities opened through geographic, identitary, and spiritual restlessness.'
13 Bologna (Lonzi/Donahue)
11 Online (New York) The Brooklyn Rail (Howe)
09 Art Monthly: 'Arranged as an imaginary gathering which takes place only on the page, Lonzi constructs a polyvocal, fictional conversation ...'
05 Glasgow Good Press (Guo w/ Caspar Heinemann)
01 Harper's Magazine: Excerpt from Fanny Howe's London-rose
April
26 Bookforum: 'A Story of Supernatural Kindness', excerpt from London-rose
02 Milan Libreria delle donne di Milano (Lonzi/Donahue)
01 Queen Mob's Teahouse: Excerpt from Self-portrait
March
21 Online (Northampton) The Art of Translation, Smith College (Lonzi/Donahue)
10 Florence Lyceum Club Internazionale di Firenze (Lonzi/Donahue)
03 Online (Durham) Durham University, Centre for Poetry and Poetics (Howe)
February
23 Online (New York) Dia Art Foundation (Lonzi/Donahue)
19 Donostia/San Sebastián Tabakalera (Sagri)
18 ArtReview: 'no one else has exited so comprehensively or so stylishly as Lonzi.'
08 Online (Rome) Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Lonzi/Donahue)
07 NERO: Excerpts of Carla Lonzi’s Self-portrait (trans. Allison Grimaldi Donahue)
January
07 4Columns: 'Lonzi was not interested in tradition; she saw and heard what it did.'

2021 (23)

December
23 frieze:'Lonzi remains the conscious agent of a self-effacing self-portrait: one which refuses the death mask of its own success.'
22 Berlin Dyke Night Presents Artificial Gut Feeling (Zett)
12 London Cafe OTO Xmas Fair (Howe, Lonzi/Donahue, Sagri, What the Fire Sees)
05 Online (New York) Testing Assembling (Sagri)
November
26 Athens Misc (Sagri)
October
23 Hamburg Kunstverein in Hamburg (Lonzi/Donahue)
05 Mousse: 'Sagri is at her core an anarchist, hyperaware of the bureaucratization of action'
September
29 – 30 St Erme SpringMeeting, Performing Arts Forum (Sagri)
28 Paris After 8 Books (Sagri)
25 Brussels rile* (Sagri)
23 Amsterdam San Serriffe (Sagri)
22 Brussels Erg (Sagri)
20 Frankfurt Städelschule (Sagri)
18 Berlin Hopscotch (Sagri)
11 – 12 Athens Athens Art Book Fair (Teflon)
August
08 Online (Bonn) Bonner Kunstverein (Howe)
July
10 Art Monthly: 'Sagri reminds us to take responsibility as a right not bestowed upon you by a board of trustees or the market or anyone else.'
02 Online (London) Burley Fisher Books (Sagri)
June
15 Rome Artists' Library: 1989–2021, MACRO (Sagri)
May
19 Online (Yerevan) HayArt Cultural Center (Sagri)
14 NERO: Excerpts of Georgia Sagri's Stage of Recovery
January
21 Online (London) Night Philosophy Reading Group, Carlos Ishikawa
16 Online (Brussels) Studio K hosts Divided w/ Moesha 13 (Adamczak, Guo, Teflon, Lemmey)

2020 (25)

December
23 032c: 'There’s a new press in London called Divided that’s pursuing an agenda of philosophy, literature, and activism.' – Chris Kraus
October
29 The White Review: 'Howe rarely grants interviews and undermines the authority others might claim given her talents and family.'
September
26 – 27 Athens Athens Art Book Fair (Teflon)
13 Online (Marseille) NTS Radio w/ Moesha 13 (Adamczak, Guo, Teflon, Lemmey)
August
13 Action Books: 'Howe generates a mutually enriching constellation of the poetic, the personal and the political.'
July
30 Online (London) Ignota Hosts (Howe)
10 TLS: 'The pieces are held together by the strength of Howe’s thought and desire to understand where she has been as a person and writer ... this book is a spiritual autobiography.'
June
30 Online (Manchester) Murmur Reading Series (Guo)
17 Brussels Passa Porta (Howe)
16 DC's: 'Mine for yours: Dennis Cooper's favorite fiction, poetry, non-fiction, film, art, and internet of 2020 so far: Fanny Howe NIGHT PHILOSOPHY (Divided Publishing Ltd)'
10 Passa Porta: Public message: Two new poems by Fanny Howe
May
28 Co Limerick Glenstal Abbey (Howe w/ Myles, Reines)
27 Co Mayo [venue TBC] (Howe w/ Myles, Reines)
26 Dublin Connolly Books (Howe w/ Myles, Reines)
25 Liverpool Tate Liverpool (Howe w/ Myles, Reines)
24 Liverpool Bidston Observatory (Howe w/ Myles, Reines)
23 Cambridge Faculty of English (Howe w/ Myles, Reines)
22 London Miranda Bar, Ace Hotel (Howe w/ Myles, Reines)
14 Full Stop: 'Zett steers AI and AGF toward metaphors for society, casting heat as a metaphor for climate, social unrest, ideological urgency ...'
April
10 Vilnius Six Chairs Books (Zett)
04 Tallinn Lugemik (Zett)
March
28 Berlin TV bar (Zett)
20 Online (Berlin) HAU/dgtl fmnsm (Zett)
13 Leipzig ROTORBOOKS (Zett)
February
17 Bookforum: '"Utopia cannot include parents," Howe wrote ... and this line might be her credo.'

2019 (6)

November
29 Amsterdam San Serriffe (Zett)
14 AQNB: 'Zett looks for solace from a variety of spaces: feminist communities, other texts, boxing, myths, and science fiction'
03 Berlin M.I/mi1glissé (Zett)
01 Berlin ICI Berlin (Zett)
October
29 New York Codex Books (Zett)
20 Vancouver Vancouver Art Book Fair (Zett)