NEWS:
A beautiful dialogue on butoh dance and Japan with the writer/filmmaker Romina Achatz for her FEM*POEM radio series, recorded and transmitted in September 2025:
Into the Wastelands was published by Diaphanes/University of Chicago Press in September 2025.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo258385247.html
A Sinister Assassin was published by Infinity Land Press (hardback) in March 2022 and by Diaphanes/University of Chicago Press (paperback) in March 2023:
https://www.infinitylandpress.com/a-sinister-assassin
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo161735590.html
Patti Smith devoted one of her website talks to the book in March 2023:
https://pattismith.substack.com/p/a-sinister-assassin
The Residues was published by Solar/University of Chicago Press in December 2020 and February 2021 (the first part in December 2020, and the second part in February 2021):
solarbooks.org/residues-part-one/
solarbooks.org/residues-part-two/
The Projectionists was published by Diaphanes/University of Chicago Press in July 2020:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/P/bo69431002.html
David Peace wrote on the book’s publication in the London Times Literary Supplement, 26 June 2020:
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/summer-books-list-tls-2020/
A new edition of The Art of Destruction was published in the USA in October 2020 and in the UK in January 2021, by Solar/University of Chicago Press:
https://solarbooks.org/art-of-destruction/
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/A/bo67673169.html
Stephen was interviewed on Butoh dance by the New York Times, 21 June 2020:
EVENTS:
Cafe Shy, Tokyo, December 2025 (date tbc)
CONTACT:
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