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Join us on November 5th at 12pm ET for a live recording of Four Questions, Ayin’s new podcast with Báyò Akómoláfé (@bayoakomolafe) and adrienne maree brown (@adriennemareebrown), facilitated by Rabbi Nate DeGroot. Grounded in Jewish wisdom, yet reaching far beyond it, Four Questions brings together diverse thinkers for wide-ranging conversations that explore the act of questioning as a spiritual, artistic, and universal practice. Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-recording-of-four-questions-bayo-akomolafe-adrienne-maree-brown-tickets-2002562967744 A posthumanist polymath and “trans-public” intellectual, Báyò Akómoláfé has produced a vast body of work that presents a startling picture of the world in perpetual process and radical relation. Through an ever-growing archive of books, articles, interviews, social media posts, workshops, and rituals, Akómoláfé seeks to interrogate the fundamental assumptions and epistemological gaps in our current culture in crisis. adrienne maree brown (she/they) is growing a garden of healing ideas. Informed by decades of movement facilitation, somatics, science fiction scholarship and doula work, adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Loving Correction as ideas and practices for transformation. adrienne is the NYT-bestselling author/editor of several published texts, a ritual singer-songwriter, co-generator of the Lineages of Change Tarot Deck, and co-creator/host of the How to Survive the End of the World podcast with Autumn Brown. adrienne’s latest book, Loving Corrections, is now available from AK Press. This event is cosponsored by The Shalom Center, The Emergence Network and For The Wild. Order Selah: https://shop.ayinpress.org/products/selah-a-bayo-akomolafe-reader by @aorabooks
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Revealing the cover of Wherever You Are: Essays from East to West by Yahia Lababidi (@yahialababidi) — with artwork by Maryam Lameiharvani (@maryamlameiharvani) and design by Melissa Weiss. Preorder your copy today. The book will be shipping on February 23rd, 2027. In the not-quite-aftermath of the Gaza War, Wherever You Are offers urgent reflections on Palestine as both lived inheritance and moral imperative. Lababidi’s work speaks to audiences weary of overly simplistic thinking: he writes from between East and West, exile and belonging, mysticism and modernity, offering a rare, lyrical perspective that refuses easy binaries. A writer caught between worlds — Palestinian by blood, American by circumstance, and by temperament a stranger to easy belonging — Lababidi composes a spiritual autobiography disguised as cultural criticism. In these essays, Yahia Lababidi moves between high and low, sacred and mundane, resisting the comfort of choosing. He writes of Oscar Wilde and belly dancers, of Rumi and Ramadan television, of raising pigeons on a Florida balcony while the world burns in Gaza. These are essays in the truest sense, affirming that a life of letters is a form of resistance. Preorder the book at the link in our bio.
https://loom.ly/WrCbnZU About the Author
Yahia Lababidi is the author of sixteen books, including Palestine Wail (Daraja Press, 2024) and What Remains to Be Said: Aphorisms (Wild Goose Publications, 2025). His work has appeared in Liberties, Salmagundi, The New Statesman, World Literature Today, AGNI, The Best American Poetry, and The New Arab, and has been featured on PBS NewsHour, NPR, and ABC Radio National. Book Details
Designer: Melissa Weiss
Artwork: Maryam Lameiharvani (@maryamlameiharvani)
 Publication date: February 23rd, 2027 by @aorabooks
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Today we celebrate the publication of Selah: A Báyò Akómoláfé Reader, a profound, playful, and kaleidoscopic collection from one of our most evocative contemporary philosopher-poets. The author adrienne maree brown (@adriennemareebrown) has said “Báyò Akómoláfé is a philosopher who is pushing us to think outside of every narrative we take for granted. In this text, he guides us to reconsider how we relate to the world—and to internalize the fact that earth and all of nature are alive, relating to us.” The book is edited by Eden Pearlstein, cofounder of Ayin. Order the book: loom.ly/2TGTgeU About Selah:
A posthumanist polymath and “trans-public” intellectual, Báyò Akómoláfé has produced a vast body of work that presents a startling picture of the world in perpetual process and radical relation. Through an ever-growing archive of books, articles, interviews, social media posts, workshops, and rituals, Akómoláfé seeks to interrogate the fundamental assumptions and epistemological gaps in our current culture in crisis. Selah: A Báyò Akómoláfé Reader presents a poetically arranged selection of Akómoláfé’s short-form writings, which draw inspiration from Édouard Glissant; Gilles Deleuze; Gregory Bateson; Octavia Butler; Fernand Deligny; Chinua Achebe; the adventures of Esu, the Yoruba monster-trickster and crossroads figure; and more. A tightly curated composition of aphorisms, anti-epiphanies, prose poems, and philosophical fragments, Selah invites readers into the thicket of Akómoláfé’s thought, weaving together threads of his most critically creative concepts—such as ontofugitivity, ecocognitive assemblage theory, parapolitics, and postactivism. Taking its title from an enigmatic Hebrew word that appears throughout the Book of Psalms—one that suggests a moment of ecstatic exclamation or musical notation—Selah is a book that can be read in an hour or studied for years, kept by your bedside or passed among friends like an open secret. Book Details
122 pages | Paperback | 5 1/16 x 7 3/4 in. | ISBN: 9781961814318 | e-ISBN: 9781961814356
Publication date: March 10th, 2026
Book design by Melissa Weiss
Cover art by Krista Dragomer (@kristadragomerart) by @aorabooks
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Introducing Ayin Audio, a new home for Ayin podcasts and other audio offerings. Our first original show, Alef Bet, hosted by Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie (@amichailaulavie), launches September 23rd, followed by our flagship series Four Questions on October 22nd. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be sharing more about each show, their hosts, and what to expect from Ayin Audio. Stay tuned. Logo Designer: Avi Bohbot (@funnycars) Music Composition: Alexis Cuadrado (@alexiscuadrado) Motion Designer: Shrenik Ganatra (@shrenik18) Creative Direction: Tom Haviv (@tmhaviv) Reboot Studios (@rebootjewish) is a co-producer on Alef Bet. by @aorabooks
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We are honored to share that SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide by Cannupa Hanska Luger (@cannupahanska) and designed by Cem Eskinazi (@cemeskinazi) is a 50 Books | 50 Covers Winner (@aigadesign), which recognizes the best of book and book cover design from around the world/ Read the announcement and order SURVIVA at the link in our bio. Part graphic novel, part art book, SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide offers readers a view beneath, beyond, and between the lines of Luger’s ever-expanding artistic universe. In this ecstatically hybrid work, Luger transforms a 1970s military survival guide through poetic redaction, speculative fiction, and iterative line drawing—deftly surfacing and disrupting the colonial subconscious that haunts this vexed source text. An epic and timely meditation on planetary life in the midst of transformation, SURVIVA boldly presents an earth-based, demilitarized futuredream that foregrounds Indigenous knowledge as critical to humanity’s survival. The jurors write: “A cover design that highlights the artifact as the argument: Indigenous knowledge overwriting a militarized original. The use of a translucent layer layers mirror-reversed text bleeding through from behind, so the page reads as palimpsest—old myth dissolving into new— and reworks it through poetic redaction: red overprinting, blackout bars, and handwritten insertions.” Congratulations to Cannupa and Cem and all of this year’s 50 Books | 50 Covers winners! Photos by @elenaclaverol.photo by @aorabooks
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SURVIVA wins AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers 2026 Award, a longstanding survey recognizing the best of book and book cover designs from around the world. @aigadesign AIGA on SURVIVA:

SURVIVA is a speculative artist book by Cannupa Hanska Luger that reclaims a U.S. Army survival manual as a future artifact shaped by use, loss, and adaptation. Rather than presenting survival as institutional knowledge or militarized preparedness, the book reframes it as relational, ancestral, and lived: knowledge carried forward through practice rather than authority. Writing, design, and material decisions evolved simultaneously through an iterative, collaborative process. A custom OpenType typeface derived from the author’s handwriting introduces controlled variation, resisting mechanical uniformity while preserving internal logic. Erasure, limited inks, exposed binding, and constrained production methods further reinforce the illusion of an object altered over time rather than newly produced. All commercial metadata is isolated on a removable, screen-printed plastic jacket, allowing the book itself to exist as an autonomous object outside contemporary publishing systems. The red-and-black palette, die-cut title, and visible structure position SURVIVA as evidence of survival rather than a finished commodity. As part of Cannupa Hanska Luger’s broader Future Ancestral Technologies practice, SURVIVA imagines Indigenous futures beyond colonial time. Survival here is not framed as individual endurance, but as collective memory—knowledge preserved through care, adaptation, and continued use. Concept, Story, Writings, Illustrations: Cannupa Hanska Luger Book Design, Jacket/Cover Design, Typesetting, Typeface: Cem Eskinazi @cemeskinazi Book Development, Editing, Redactive & Lifted Poetries: Eden Pearlstein Printed by Albe De Coker, Antwerp, Belgium @albedecoker Published by Aora Books @aorabooks, an imprint of Ayin press @ayinpress Photos of SURVIVA by Elena Claverol, 2026 @elenaclaverol.photo by @aorabooks
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Check out Ayin author Báyò Akómoláfé (@bayo.akomolafe) and our Cofounding Editorial Director Eden Pearlstein in conversation at The Long Now (@theinterval). Báyò and Eden unpacked concepts like the untimely, temporal fugitivity, and alternatives to linear progress narratives, among much else. Watch the full conversation at the link in bio. Photography by Christopher Michel (@chris_michel). by @aorabooks
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San Francisco Saturday! @deyoungmuseum Join acclaimed artist and cultural innovator Cannupa Hanska Luger for a talk about his expansive creative art practice and his award winning book SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide, followed by a book signing. Luger’s Special Forces, a recent commission made for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, is currently on view in the newly reimagined Arts of Indigenous America galleries at the de Young. Talk + Book Signing with Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger Saturday July 18 1 pm de Young Museum San Francisco CA Images: 1-3: Special Forces, Cannupa Hanska Luger, 2025. Installation view of “Arts of Indigenous America,” at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, 2025. Photograph by Gary Sexton. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. 4-5: SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide @aorabooks @ayinpress 6: Artist talk at NONAM Switzerland Photo credit: Labusch taken in de Young Museum by @aorabooks
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Following SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide’s recent win of the 2026 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, we’re sharing an excerpt from a conversation between author Cannupa Hanska Luger (@cannupahanska) and Ayin Editorial Director Eden Pearlstein — two old friends and longtime collaborators who developed the book’s experimental approach and hybrid form together. Listen to the audio and read the excerpt at the link in our bio or visit: https://loom.ly/KLYdMNs “[With SURVIVA], I am generously offering a survival manual that’s made through the redaction of a language that took ancestral knowledge. We weren’t redacted from it. We were omitted from it. There was no acknowledgement of source material in that original text. I just saw it [knowledge in practice] because I grew up learning it from somewhere else [my community].” —Cannupa Hanska Luger Cannupa Hanska Luger is a multidisciplinary artist who creates monumental installations, sculpture, and performance to communicate urgent stories of twenty-first-century Indigeneity. Born on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, Luger is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and is Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, and Lakota. His work is in numerous permanent museum collections and has been exhibited around the world. Image: Muscle, Bone & Sinew, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Film Still, Cinematographer: Lucas Mullikan, 2021 Product Photography: Jackson Krule (@jacksonkrule) Book Design: Cem Eskinazi (@cemeskinazi) by @aorabooks
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To read Báyò Akómoláfé (@bayo.akomolafe) is to enter a world of unexpected encounters between thinkers, traditions, and stories you would never have imagined in conversation.  Drawing on the relational poetics of Édouard Glissant, the queer art of Jack Halberstam, the critical imagination of Octavia Butler, Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of becoming, Yoruba trickster tales, and so much more, Báyò inherits and translates a polyvocal rhizome of stories and thought.  The result? A body of work that is labyrinthine, even Talmudic. It is oral and literate, with no clear point of entry. It is nonlinear, fractally intertextual, attuned to both the all-too- and more-than-human worlds, and obsessed with loopholes.  Order the book at the link in our bio or visit: https://loom.ly/UcBMbTQ  Book design by Melissa Weiss Cover artwork by Krista Dragomer (@kristadragomerart) by @aorabooks
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Revealing the cover of Who Do You Think You Are? by Yuli Novak featuring artwork by Addam Yekutieli (Know Hope) (@thisislimbo) and type design by Melissa Weiss. Preorder your copy today. The book will be shipping on December 15th, 2026. Braiding intimate travelogue with searing political memory, Novak traces the story of a personal and political unraveling, exploring the relationship and tension between militarism and masculinity, silence and survival, home and exile. In the wake of the ongoing destruction of Gaza, Who Do You Think You Are? reflects on the path that has carried Israel into a regime of extremism and unrestrained violence, offering a necessary meditation on conscience, complicity, and the search for another way. Who Do You Think You Are?, the English translation of the bestselling Hebrew memoir, is an intimate and unflinching account of what it means to confront a system of violence from within. In 2015, as director of Breaking the Silence — a controversial group of Israeli army veterans resisting the occupation — Yuli Novak found herself branded a traitor by the Prime Minister, vilified by the media, subjected to death threats, and caught in the crosshairs of a nation unwilling to face its own reflection. Two years later, Novak stepped down from her role, packed a bag, and bought a one-way ticket out of the country. She set off alone, traveling from the moon-like landscape of Iceland to the beaches of Portugal and the heart of South Africa, navigating waves of grief, rage, love, and belonging. Preorder your copy at the link in our bio or visit: https://loom.ly/pceQFFE About the Author Yuli Novak is an Israeli human‑rights activist, lawyer, and former Israeli Air Force officer. In 2023 she was appointed Executive Director of B’Tselem (@btselem), Israel’s leading human-rights organization. This project was produced in partnership with @albi__world. Albi is a fund, institute and lab that uses cultural vehicles to create and amplify paradigm-shifting narratives by and about Israel-Palestine. Book Details Paperback | ISBN: 978-1-961814-40-0 Publication date: December 15th, 2026 by @aorabooks
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Báyò Akómoláfé (@bayo.akomolafe) defies neat categories. A widely celebrated writer, teacher, posthumanist thinker, and self-styled “trans-public” intellectual, he has produced a dynamic body of work that presents a startling portrait of the world in perpetual process and radical relation. Born in Nigeria, raised in Germany and Congo, currently living with his family in India, and calling Brazil his spiritual home, Báyò is a true global citizen. Rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, he is the visionary founder of the Emergence Network (@the_emergence_network), and currently lectures at Pacifica Graduate Institute and Macalester College. Through an ever-growing archive of articles, books, interviews, films, social media posts, workshops, and rituals, Báyò seeks to interrogate the fundamental assumptions and epistemological gaps in our current culture in crisis. Weaving together the most luminous threads of his thought, Selah invites readers into the thicket of Báyò’s body of work. Order the book at the link in our bio: https://loom.ly/UcBMbTQ Book design: Melissa Weiss Cover artwork: Krista Dragomer (@kristadragomerart) by @aorabooks
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