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Rile

rile* is a bookshop and project space for perfomance and publication. rile* organizes performances, meetings, launches, readings and workshops.

rile* is into poetry, theory, choreography, artist writing and various other text based experiments.

22/08/2025

New in ~ Al Hayya Issue 04 / Dreams of Liberation

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Issue #4 of Al Hayya traces resistance in the home, on the streets, across borders, and within the self. From Gaza, where genocide compresses time into isolated minutes, to everyday acts of defiance in diaspora, it explores the weight of struggle as both personal and collective. Featuring a rare interview with Palestinian revolutionary Leila Khaled, a conversation with Françoise Vergès, photo essays by Maen Hammad, Amal Al-Nakhala, Nader Bahsoun, Sarah Kontar, and Hannah La Follette Ryan, and reflections on sound, memory, and political devotion—this issue makes clear that resistance is not always loud.

Published in 2025
144 pages

17/08/2025

New in! These are addressed to you, by Sharon Kivland (Bricks From The Kiln, 2025)

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A collection of twenty-six abécédaire missives by Sharon Kivland, written and sent daily to the editors (MS & AWL) between Friday 7 February and Tuesday 4 March 2025. Interjected with melancholic ‘Mes horizons’ postcard erasures and an insert of abcedminded replies by Matthew Stuart titled ‘A Letter Always Suggests a Word’, this publication is both a standalone edition and precursor to BFTK #8, which focuses on letters (alphabets) and letters (correspondence).

‘These are Addressed to You’ addresses what it means to be addressed and to address, to write with love and scorn, to seal with a kiss and conceal impressions and hair within a letter’s folds, to inscribe with ink and thread, to speak with and to those we admire. Drawing on / from Freud and Lacan, Joyce and Carringdon, Camille Corot and many more, these letters are about writing and reading, about language falling and bumping you on the head.

Published in 2025, 48 pages

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16/08/2025

New in! ~ F Me Judith by Claire Star Finch (After 8, 2025)

Available in store and in our webshop at www.rile.space (shipping worldwide)

In Claire Star Finch’s first novel, love and the void question each other in action.

Judith, an academic celebrity, and Wendy, a slightly less famous academic celebrity, fall in love. They break up. In her ensuing grief, Wendy finds herself in a pornographic, epistolary haze that slumps toward the narrative. Fueled by the only things that cut through the pain—s*x and democratic theory—Wendy takes us along on her wild ride toward self-actualization.

Claire Star Finch is a Paris-based experimental writer & performer. Their literary performances and hybrid ficto-theories are regularly presented in art spaces, both as part of their solo work and with the collective RER Q. Their research centers on themes like di**os and vomit, defining these objects as forms of emancipatory literary technologies.

Published in 2025, 168 pages

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07/08/2025

New in! ~ Immemory: Gutenberg Version, by Chris Marker (Exact Change, 2025)

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In Immemory, Chris Marker originally used the format of a CD-ROM to create a multi-layered, multimedia memoir. The reader investigates “zones” of travel, war, cinema, and poetry, navigating through image and text as if physically exploring Marker’s memory itself. The result is a veritable 21st-century Remembrance of Things Past, an exploration of the state of memory in our era. With it, Marker both invented a literary form and perfected it. And yet the digital format he chose for his experiment was quickly rendered obsolete.

Immemory: Gutenberg Version reinvents this unique work for the printed page, a project the author dreamed up, titled, and developed with Exact Change before his death. Now finally realized, Immemory: Gutenberg Version brings this seminal work by Chris Marker into the present and future via a time-tested, durable format of the past — the book.

Edited & with an Introduction by Isabel Ochoa Gold

05/08/2025

New in ~ Pervert or Detective? Reba Maybury, Lucy McKenzie (No Place Press, 2025)

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Artists Reba Maybury and Lucy McKenzie dissect power and desire in a provocative conversation that probes the material erotic, appropriation, and s*x.

Maybury, who integrates her work as a political do******ix into her artistic practice, manipulates dynamics of control, compelling her male submissives to create art under her direction, only to claim it as her own. Through confession and humiliation, she dismantles notions of authorship, masculinity, and labor. McKenzie, known for her intricate trompe l’oeil paintings and conceptual installations, similarly blurs boundaries—between art and commerce, and authenticity and illusion. Her work challenges power structures and exposes the unstable nature of representation.

Introduction by Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen
Afterword by Susan Finlay

Essays, Conversations, Art, hardcover, 136 pages

29/07/2025

[Launch] We Circle Through The Night and Are Consumed by Fire — Sat 30 August 2025 17h00-19h30

Join us for an evening of readings and performances to celebrate the launch of We Circle Through The Night and Are Consumed by Fire edited by Simon Asencio and Pauline Hatzigeorgiou and published by SB34.

[full launch line up to be announced]

This publication acts as a postscriptum to the exhibition project Through The Valley of The Nest of Spiders by Simon Asencio for SB34—The Pool in Brussels. Dedicated to Samuel R. Delany’s sci-fi and s*xutopia novel, the exhibition was conceived as a process of annotating the book, expanding on the ethics discussed by the characters of the novel through installation, performative readings and with the complicity of other artists and their works. This devious object pursues such an intertextual process, extending and disseminating the writings forged by the exhibition.

Cette publication se présente comme le post-scriptum de l’exposition de Simon Asencio Through The Valley of The Nest of Spiders pour SB34—The Pool à Bruxelles. Dédiée au roman de science-fiction et de s*xutopie de Samuel R. Delany dont elle porte le titre, l’exposition a été pensée comme un processus d’annotation de ce livre, développant les formes éthiques mises en pratique par les personnages du récit, à travers des installations, des lectures et situations performatives, avec la complicité d’autres artistes. Cet objet interlope poursuit ce processus intertextuel, en prolongeant et disséminant les écritures forgées par l’exposition.

With contributions by / avec les contributions de: Reinhold Aman, Henry Andersen, Simon Asencio, Jen Brodie, Chloe Chignell, Jack Cox, Samuel R. Delany, Diana Duta, Loucka Fiagan, gladys, Stefa Govaart, Sean Gurd, Pauline Hatzigeorgiou, Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Bernard-Marie Koltès, David J. Melnick, Matthieu Michaut, Margaret Miller, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Anouchka Oler Nussbaum, Grisélidis Réal, Páola Revenióti, Sabrina Seifried, Raphaëlle Serres, Valerie Solanas, sabrina soyer, Megan Susman
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04/07/2025

[Reading] Survival Takes a Wild Imagination with Fariha Róisín
Sun 20 July 2025 (16:00)
We are delighted to welcome poet and activist Fariha Róisín to read from her most recent book of poems Survival Takes a Wild Imagination. Through the collection Róisín prays, claws, and scratches her way out of the grips of generational trauma on the search for the freedom her mother never received and the kindness she couldn’t give.

About the book
In Survival Takes a Wild Imagination, poet and activist Fariha Róisín is writing, praying, clawing, and scratching her way out of the grips of generational trauma on the search for the freedom her mother never received and the kindness she couldn’t give.

About the Author
Fariha Róisín is a writer, culture worker, and educator. Born in Ontario, Canada, they were raised in Sydney, Australia, and are based in Los Angeles, California. As a Muslim q***r Bangladeshi, they are interested in the margins, liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being. Their work has pioneered a refreshing and renewed conversation about wellness, contemporary Islam, degrowth and q***r identities and has appeared in Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Vice, Village Voice, and others.

Róisín has published a book of poetry entitled How To Cure A Ghost (Abrams), a journal called Being In Your Body (Abrams), and a novel named Like A Bird (Unnamed Press) which was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by NPR, Globe and Mail, Harper’s Bazaar, a must-read by Buzzfeed News and received a starred review by the Library Journal. Their first work of non-fiction Who Is Wellness For? An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who it Leaves Behind (HarperWave) was released in 2022, and their second book of poetry Survival Takes A Wild Imagination came out Fall of 2023.

They are a member of Writers Against The War on Gaza.

16/06/2025

Join us for the second edition of 'Talking With Time' - a Library Session all about time. In this coming gathering in Brussels we will study the relation between q***rness and temporality, futurity and history. The source of our reflections will be an email exchange organized by Elizabeth Freeman in 2006 with Carolyn Dinshaw, Lee Edelman, Jack Halberstam, amongst others. We will take our time reading, asking and thinking together. We hope to see you there!

The Library Sessions are organized by Bo Wielders within the context of Morpho Antwerp. The sessions aim to create a local archive with MORPHO's residents based on their interests and research. During these sessions we work in various ways around the act of gathering and sharing textual references as well as reading out loud. This session is a collaboration with Ros and Ire from rile* books in Brussels where they host the "...have ...word" reading group.

Printed texts will be provided as well as tea and snacks.

■ When: Thursday 26/6, 6pm-8:15pm
■ Where: rile*books, Rue des Commerçants 62, Brussels

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26/05/2025

[Gathering] Alice Notley Memorial Reading __ Thu 29 May 2025 (18:00-20:00)
On the evening of May 19 2025 the extraordinary poet Alice Notley passed away in Paris. We invite you to join us for an evening to gather around her poetry and share a drink. Bring your favourite Notley poems to read or come to listen.

24/05/2025

Our *new*website* has been quietly online now for a couple of weeks. Proudly featuring all of our books, events and podcasts, fully custom build by yours truly.

Give it a scroll at www.rile.space ♡

22/05/2025

Open today! 11-18 ~ new in! Witch: Anthology

An exploration of the Witch, as radical archetype, in ancient and contemporary life.

[[ Available in store and in our webshop at www.rile.space ]]

An adult woman haunted by her childhood muses on the foster system, institutions, and the medieval tale of a girl given to a witch. A genderq***r Brooklynite learns of their past life as a murdered sorceress. An uptight participant at a Northern California witch camp finds community in the kitchen. A professor uses magic to help students under attack by right-wing politicians.

In this collection of manifesto, poetry, playscripts, and prose, the archetype of the Witch is honored and unpacked, poked and prodded, owned and othered. From work centered in antiquity to writing which illustrates how primordial occult energies continue to enliven our world today, WITCH: Anthology lays bare a wilderness of myth, magic, trickery, and power swarming beneath the surface of contemporary life.

Edited by Michelle Tea.

With work from CAConrad, Edgar Fabián Frías, Amanda Yates Garcia, Ashley Ray, Brooke Palmieri, Yumi Sakugawa, Kai Cheng Thom, Ariel Gore, Myriam Gurba, Fariha Róisín, and many others.

08/05/2025

Come find us at Beursschouwburg for the 30th edition of Kunstenfestivaldesarts ♡ from May 09 until May 31st, every day from 14h until 20h. Excited to share a selection of our titles by Brussels and international based artists, dancer-writers, poets, and publishers.

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