The Reading Room | Select Bacchus Editions:
No Kingdom Comes
No Kingdom Comes: On Blasphemy and the End of Empire is the most philosophically dense book published by Bacchus Editions to date. As such, it has a life beyond its published pages.This room brings together an expanded index, an interconnected bibliography, further writings on the book's references and footnotes, reflections on its writing, and selected correspondence. Readers may follow its many paths into related works, explore the larger Dancing in the Backwoods series, and return as new materials are added.
This reading room is laid out as follows:
The Bibliographical Labyrinth
Explore the complete bibliography and follow its references into further writings, histories, and related works.
The Alphabetical Index
A clickable guide to the names, ideas, texts, and historical references encountered throughout the book.
Dancing in the Backwoods
Explore the six volumes of Dancing in the Backwoods and the wider literary and philosophical project to which this book belongs.
The Author & the Book
Reflections on the writing of No Kingdom Comes, its origins, and the questions that gave rise to it.
Word From Elsewhere
Reviews and commentary on No Kingdom Comes.
No Kingdom Comes: On Blasphemy and the End of Empire, Fíona Vivienne. Dancing in the Backwoods, Book VI. Bacchus Editions, 2026.
424 pages of anarchist philosophy, with an extensive bibliography and index. Hardcover.
The Bibliographical Labyrinth
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