Jump Cuts: Essays on Surrealism, Film, Music, Culture, and Other Utopian Topics by Mark Polizzotti

*Pubdate is August 5th, 2025!*

*Presale begins in July, 2025*

Mark Polizzotti’s books include Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton, Highway 61 Revisited, Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto, and Why Surrealism Matters. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Apollo, The Nation, Bookforum, and elsewhere. His translations, including works by Gustave Flaubert, Arthur Rimbaud, Scholastique Mukasonga, Patrick Modiano, Marguerite Duras, and André Breton, have won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and been shortlisted for the National Book Award, the International Booker Prize, and the NBCC/Gregg Barrios Prize. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature. He directs the publications program at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.