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Our list moves between literary nonfiction, visual culture, criticism and books that are difficult to classify but easy to keep.
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Every edition begins with a question. We commission, edit and design slowly enough for the right form to emerge, then work with printers and makers to give it a useful, tactile life.
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Visual culture
Artists' books, image-led research and work between disciplines.
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