On and Off-Screen Imaginaries with Tiffany Sia
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On and Off-Screen Imaginaries (Primary Information, 2024) is a collection of six essays by filmaker,...
Full Circle: A Life In Rebellion, by Ben Morea + 1000 Voices Collective, w/ Ariel Uesseler and Sabu Kohso
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Morea is primarily known for his central involvement with the print magazine Black Mask and the ...
RELAUNCH: The Unseen Book Club returns!
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Unseen Book Club returns! Max and Dan do some light bibliomancy, reflect on the past and cast ou...
Event Factory by Renee Gladman
30 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Event Factory is the first in a cycle of novellas by Renee Gladman. An unnamed linguist-traveler arr...
Publishing The Commune, w/ Mitch Anzuoni of Inpatient Press
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mitch Anzuoni of Inpatient Press on discovering Marios Chakkas and finding a translator who would do...
The Commune by Marios Chakkas, w/ translator Chloe Tsolakoglou
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Marios Chakkas wrote The Commune in 1972 shortly before his death of cancer at the age of 41. Chakka...
Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Leslie Marmon Silko, Laguna Pueblo author and prominent figure in the first of wave of the Native Am...
Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, by French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, is a landmark w...
The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Writer and translator Bela Shayevich joins the Unseen Book Club to talk about Mikhail Bulgakov’s T...
The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Kingdom of this World, written by French-born Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier in 1949, is a cosmol...
Danton's Death by Georg Büchner
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sasha Warren of the Unsound Mind blog returns to the Unseen Book Club to talk with about the life an...
El Apando by José Revueltas
11 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
José Revueltas, revolutionary communist and writer, wrote El Apando (The Hole) while incarcerated i...
Make the Golf Course a Public Sex Forest with Jimmy Cooper and Lyn Corelle
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Make the Golf a Public Sex Forest is an eponymously themed and self-published anthology of queer smu...
Mezzanine with Mitch Anzuoni and Peter Christian
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a break from our usual format, we interview Mitch Anzuoni and Peter Christian of Inpatient Intera...
The Tricking Hour and My Pleasure by Irene Silt
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to poet and writer Irene Silt about their two new books published by Deluge Books in October...
Episode 18.1 Translating Marx’s Capital into Spanish
19 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 18, we talked about Raquel Salas Rivera’s use of key lines from Marx’s Capital in Lo ...
Lo Terciario/The Tertiary by Raquel Salas Rivera
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lo Terciario/The Tertiary, a book of auto-translated poems by Raquel Salas Rivera (based in Puerto R...
Minneapolis Book Event Recap
15 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Unseen Book Club recaps the Minneapolis Everything for Everyone reading event from back in Aug...
Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072 with authors M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072, co-authored by Eman Abde...
Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In which Max and Dan tackle a work by Roberto Bolaño, one of the truly great novelists of the late ...
Trouble on Triton by Samuel R. Delany
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1976, one year after the publication of his masterpiece Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany wrote Trouble ...
Sitt Marie Rose by Etel Adnan
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sitt Marie Rose, by Lebanese-American poet-painter Etal Adnan (1925-2021?), is a searing, vibrant st...
Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Victor Serge (1890-1947), Belgian-Russian revolutionary, novelist, intellectual, political prisoner,...
Reflections on Mumbo Jumbo
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A short supplement to our main episode on Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo. We talk about essays in G...
Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mumbo Jumbo is a “Neo-Hoodoo” detective story, a post-modern satire, a touchstone of Afro-futuri...
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, Parts IV-V
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We return to Les Miserables after completing the second half of the book, which depicts the Paris Up...
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, Parts I-III
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Les Miserables, one of the great literary works of the nineteenth century, was written by novelist, ...
Post-exoticism in 10 Lessons: Lesson 11, by Antoine Volodine
13 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Post-exoticism in 10 lessons is a sweltering, dreamlike study of narrative under conditions of extre...
His Name Was Death by Rafael Bernal
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
His Name Was Death is a 1947 science fiction novel published by Rafael Bernal, a Mexican writer, sch...
Too Salty Too Wet by Tiffany Sia
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Hong Kong protests of 2019-2020 were a geopolitical, ideological, and media discourse flashpoint...
Industrial Park by Patrícia Galvão
30 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Patrícia Galvão (Pagu) published Industrial Park in 1933 at the age of 21. It was translated into ...
Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This first novel in Abdelrahman Munif’s masterful quintet depicts sweeping social and economic tra...
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is Arundhati Roy’s second novel, written after she spent twenty y...
Memory of Fire, Vols. II and III by Eduardo Galeano
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Memory of Fire, a trilogy written by Eduardo Galeano between 1981-86 while in exile from his native ...
Memory of Fire, Vol. I: Genesis by Eduardo Galeano
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Memory of Fire, a trilogy written by Eduardo Galeano between 1981-86 while in exile from his native ...
Embassytown by China Mieville
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss Embassytown, China Miéville's weird science fiction novel about a colonial outpost ...
The Unseen by Nanni Balestrini
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Balestrini’s breathless novel of student and worker rebellion during the upheaval of the 1970s in ...
Introduction
28 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why the Unseen Book Club? How is it that everything is political but it is so difficult to act polit...