Printing Complete: Our Ethic by Renzo Novatore

Designed as a small black object, the book carries shadowed imagery from Edvard Munch across its cover, pairing naturally with Novatore’s fevered, incendiary prose.

The scale, the pure black, the stark physical presence of the volume itself all belonged to these writings from the beginning.

Collected here are texts written primarily between 1917 and 1920, during the final years of Novatore’s life, many drawn from scattered libertarian publications including Iconoclasta! and Cronaca Libertaria. Most have remained difficult to access for decades outside rare Italian editions and fragmented archives.

Again et encore, these writings strike with the same hostility toward every morality demanding obedience, usefulness, ideological identity, or submission to an external measure. Priest, reformer, social apostle, revolutionary tribunal, Novatore tears through them all with lyricism, contempt, hunger, and dangerous laughter.

The translations were done by Wolfi Landstreicher, with restoration work and light corrections by Fiona Vivienne to preserve the unstable cadence and feral intensity of the original texts.

The first printing vanished quickly. This second run is larger, but still limited, as the format and ink are tough stuff! :)

Our Ethic begins shipping May 23, 2026.