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NEW IN: gitai play, Tomoyuki Koseko

A coloring book born from the experiments of the gitai collection. The planets here have been stripped of color and depth — their textures laid bare. What do you see in them? A slice of bread? A fried egg? A cut of ham? Here, the rule is simple: do not color these planets as planets. Instead, let yourself be guided by appetite. Find the color that makes a surface taste like something. In doing so, you are retracing the creative method at the heart of our work — the moment when one thing becomes, unmistakably, another.

Published by Koseko Bunko (小瀬古文庫)
Softcover
32 pages
210 x 297 mm

Pick up a copy in-store, or online at thelibraryproject.ie

Join us on Thursday 21st May @ 4pm to celebrate the launch of Vernal Thaw: A Novel of Love at a Slant

The graphic novel traces the entangling and unraveling of a q***r relationship through love and tumult over the course of a year in Vermont. Franky, a young adjunct professor haunted by encounters with violent men, falls into an intense relationship with Vera, an older neurosurgeon shaped by a childhood in homophobic Soviet-era Ukraine. As they attempt to build a life together, their shared desire snags on unhealed wounds. An ambiguous darkness drifts between literature, dreams, and reality—ghostly forms beneath the ice, a midwinter house flood, the death of a mutual friend, secret longings—testing the tenuous intimacy between Franky and Vera.

The Library Project will also be hosting an event at the International Literature Festival Dublin on 21 May @ 12:30pm in Merrion Square. This event will be free but booking is required.

NEW IN: The Circle: Timeline for a Constellation, Bouchra Khalili

The Circle: Timeline for a Constellation concludes Bouchra Khalili’s ten-year investigation into the Arab Workers Movement (MTA), focusing on its theatre troupes, Al Assifa (the tempest) and Al Halaka (the circle, the assembly). Formed by undocumented North African workers in France (1973-1978), the MTA’s theatre groups were central elements in Khalili’s works The Tempest Society (2017) and the book of the same title (Book Works, 2019), the sound piece An Audio Family Album (2020) and the multi-screen film installations The Circle, and The Storytellers (2023) and The Public Storyteller (2024).

The publication brings together archival materials, chronological elements, essays, interviews with members of Al Assifa and Al Halaka, performers from The Circle, and a contribution and conversations with the artist. This ‘constellated’ examination highlights the MTA theatre troupes’ pioneering exploration of emancipatory belonging, agency, and artistic expression as fundamental human rights. These experiments culminated in the 1974 presidential candidacy of Djellali Kamal, an anonymous member of Al Assifa. Despite remaining anonymous, Kamal’s candidacy symbolized the potential for a new, egalitarian community, brought to life through performance.

This publication invites a new generation of readers to reflect on the lasting legacy of Al Assifa and Al Halaka, exploring how performance and storytelling can harness transformative civic power.

Available in-store or online at thelibraryproject.ie

Join us at 4pm on Saturday, 9th May to launch the second issue of D**e Affair at The Library Project.

The evening will be a chance to celebrate the latest issue, as well as Issue 01, both of which are stocked at The Library Project. We’ll have contributors from both issues reading their work, including poetry, essays, and fiction.

D**e Affair, a tiny press by and for d***s everywhere, was formed in January 2025, at a time when far-right ideologies are gaining ground and q***r people are increasingly targeted around the world. DIY q***r publishing that’s passed from hand to hand, friend to friend, and lover to lover, is more important than ever, as a tool of resistance and celebration of our lives and voices.

D**e Affair’s editors are based in Dublin, Paris, and Lisbon, though they publish work by d***s all over the world. So far, they have published two issues of D**e Affair, as well as a poetry pamphlet, allowing them to donate funds to q***r mutual aid (The Small Trans Library, Visual AIDS, individual transition funds on GoFundMe, etc).

The Library Project
4pm
Saturday 9th of May