Tiny books, the size of a pack of cigarettes. But I love their design, their embossed covers, and they show that the most ground-breaking ideas can be held in the hand. Founded in 2020, ISOLARII revives an extinct literary genre: the Renaissance “island book,” or isolario – to map the world’s most defiant and unruly intellects. “Authored by figures who interrogate the shape of the avant-garde, what it is, and what it could become, these volumes offer readers fully formed, high voltage ideas that can be finished during a commute yet felt for weeks”. (Sebastian Clark, editor)
There are 15 of these little gems in the Archipelago, but the 5 titles I have in stock for now, are here.
