Huge Site Expansion| New Reading Rooms | Searchable Index’s
We've been making some rather substantial updates to the Bacchus Editions website, and there's quite a bit of new material to explore!
First, The Reading Room now has its own place in our main website navigation, making it much easier to find and explore our growing collections. We've reorganized and expanded the room, added new materials and dedicated spaces, and made it easier to move between the different areas of the library.
When you enter the Reading Room, you'll find a directory near the top of the page with five sections: Archives & Collections, Selected Bacchus Editions, Rare Books & Materials, Historical Translations, and Photographs & Ephemera. Each heading is clickable, taking you directly to its corresponding collection below. From there, the illustrated doors lead into the individual archives and rooms.
There's plenty more to come, but the new organization is already in place, and we'd love for you to have a wander through it.
A Reading Room of Its Own: No Kingdom Comes
One of the biggest additions to the website is an entirely new Reading Room dedicated to Fíona Vivienne's No Kingdom Comes: On Blasphemy & the End of Empire, the sixth volume of Dancing in the Backwoods.
The first printing is already nearly sold out, so if you've been meaning to get your hands on a copy, now is an excellent time! You can find it in our Bookshop.
We especially encourage readers to explore the new Reading Room with the book in hand. It was designed as a companion to the printed work, offering a much deeper engagement with its philosophical arguments, historical references, and the extraordinary range of thinkers and ideas encountered throughout its pages. The materials gathered here provide additional context, open paths into related histories and writings, and allow readers to follow questions that extend well beyond the book itself.
No Kingdom Comes; Blasphemy & The End of Empire is a demanding philosophical work, and this new space is intended to make the experience of reading it all the richer. Rather than simply providing supplementary information, the Reading Room opens up the larger intellectual world surrounding the book, inviting readers to explore its references, trace its disagreements, and discover connections that might otherwise remain tucked away in a footnote.
At 424 pages, No Kingdom Comes is the most philosophically extensive work we have published to date. Its historical references, philosophical disagreements, and interconnected questions extend far beyond what can be explored within the printed volume.
So we've given the book a room of its own, where readers can follow those threads as far as their curiosity takes them!
Inside, you'll find The Bibliographical Labyrinth, an expandable bibliography containing 238 references, alongside The Index, a navigable guide to the people, histories, philosophical concepts, and recurring questions encountered throughout the book.
We've also made the complete typeset index available to download and print.
The room includes Dancing in the Backwoods: An Unfolding Body of Thought, bringing together all six volumes of the series, with images, descriptions, and links to their individual editions.
And there's much more underway! We'll be adding further writings on the book's references and footnotes, reflections on its composition, selected correspondence, interviews with our author, and reviews. The idea is to give readers somewhere to explore the intellectual life surrounding the book, including the histories and questions that could never be contained within its covers.
Enter the No Kingdom Comes Reading Room
Have Something Marvelous? Bring It Along!…
We have also set aside a section for your own reading rooms! We invite you to become part of the Reading Room itself.
Have an unusual document tucked away? A rare anarchist publication, a photograph, a forgotten correspondence, an unpublished translation, or some curious piece of literary history? Your own work? We'd love to hear about it and host it for others to enjoy.
Collectors, researchers, translators, readers, and fellow enthusiasts of the obscure and marvelous are warmly invited to share their discoveries for consideration. You don't need to part with an original treasure to contribute. Photographs, scans, bibliographic information, research leads, and stories surrounding unusual materials can all help expand the collection.
We're particularly interested in historical archives, rare books, independently prepared translations, photographs, posters, pamphlets, and the little surviving fragments of lives and histories that might otherwise disappear from view.
All contributions will be considered individually, with appropriate attribution. While Bacchus Editions stands behind its own editorial and translation work, independently submitted translations may also find a place in the Reading Room, clearly identified as the work of their respective translators.
The Reading Room is a growing collection, and some of its most interesting future additions may well come from the bookshelves, boxes, and personal archives of the people who visit it.
So come have a look around, open a few doors, follow a footnote somewhere unexpected, and if you've got something marvelous hiding away, find the form at the bottom of the Library Main Room, and let us know.
~Bacchus Editions
