Forthcoming books are listed in Current

As author

• Mina Loy: Apology of Genius , Reaktion Books, 2022
• Creative Gatherings: Meeting Places of Modernism , Reaktion Books, 2019
• Snail Time , PostMedia Books, 2018
• Undoing Art , with Michel Delville, Quodlibet, 2017
• Blaise Pascal: Miracles and Reason, Reaktion Books, 2017
• Glorieuses Modernistes , written with Anne Reynes Delobel, Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2016
• The Modern Art Cookbook , Reaktion Books; University of Chicago Press page (distributor); 2013 - errata
• Pierre Reverdy , editor and co-translator, New York Review Books, 2013 - erratum
• How Vita Matters, No. 61 in the Bloomsbury Heritage Series, Cecil Woolf Publishers, 2011
• Salvador Dalí (Critical Lives series), Reaktion Books; University of Chicago Press page (distributor); 2008
• Provençal Cooking: Savoring the Simple Life in France , Pegasus Books, 2008 - errata
• Glorious Eccentrics: Modernist Women Painting and Writing , Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
• Surprised in Translation , University of Chicago Press, 2006. An excerpt is online at the PEN American Center.
• Henry James (Illustrated Lives), Overlook, 2006
• Pablo Picasso (Critical Lives Series), Reaktion Books; University of Chicago Press page (distributor); 2005
• To the Boathouse: A Memoir , University of Alabama, 2004
• Marcel Proust (Illustrated Lives), Overlook, 2003 (Featured at Chicago Humanities Festival, November, 2003)
• Robert Motherwell with Pen and Brush , Reaktion Books; University of Chicago Press page (distributor); 2003
• Virginia Woolf (Illustrated Lives), Penguin, 2001; Overlook, 2002
• Picasso's Weeping Woman: The Life and Art of Dora Maar , Bulfinch Press, 2000; Dora Maar With and Without Picasso: A Biography, Thames and Hudson (London), 2000; Les Vies de Dora Maar: Bataille, Picasso, et les surrealistes , Thames and Hudson (Paris); Dora Maar con y sin Picasso, Destino (Spain); Dora Maar: Die Kunsterin an Picassos Seite , Nicolai (Berlin)
• Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends, written with Sarah Bird Wright, Oxford University Press, 2000
• Carrington & Lytton: Alone Together, No. 6 in the Bloomsbury Heritage Series, Cecil Woolf Publishers, 1998
• Bloomsbury in Cassis, No. 4 in the Bloomsbury Heritage Series, Cecil Woolf Publishers, 1998
• Staging Surrealism , co-written with Donna De Salvo, catalogue for Wexner Center's "Surrealism and the Art of Display" exhibition, 1998
• The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter, MIT Press, 1997
• Robert Motherwell: What Art Holds, Columbia University Press, 1995 (supported by a grant from the Getty Foundation)
• Women of Bloomsbury: Virginia, Vanessa, and Carrington, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1990
• The Art of Interference: Stressed Readings in Verbal and Visual Texts , Princeton University Press, 1989
• Edmond Jabès, Editions Rodopi, 1988
• Reading Frames in Modern Fiction, Princeton University Press, 1985
• Yves Bonnefoy, Twayne, 1984
• L'oeuvre filante de René Char, Nizet, 1981
• A Metapoetics of the Passage: Architextures in Surrealism and After, University Press of New England, 1981
• The Eye in the Text: Essays on Perception, Mannerist to Modern, Princeton University Press, 1981
• La Main de Pierre Reverdy , Droz, 1979
• The Surrealist Voice of Robert Desnos, University of Massachusetts Press, 1979
• René Char, Twayne, 1977
• The Presence of René Char, Princeton University Press, 1976
• André Breton (World Authors Series), Twayne, 1971; updated edition, 1996
• The Inner Theatre of Recent French Poetry: Cendrars, Tzara, Peret, Artaud, Bonnefoy, Princeton University Press, 1972
• The Poetry of Dada and Surrealism: Aragon, Breton, Tzara, Eluard, Desnos, Princeton University Press, 1970
• Surrealism and the Literary Imagination: A Study of Gaston Bachelard and André Breton, Mouton, 1966

As editor

• Beginnings of the Prose Poem: All Over the Place , with Michel Delville, Black Widow Press, 2021
• The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem , with Michel Delville, Edinburgh University Press, 2021
• The Milk Bowl of Feathers: Essential Surrealist Writings , New Directions, 2018
• Inventing the Real: Edith Wharton and Henry James , Feminist Press, 2008
• Surrealism , with Jonathan Eburne, Phaidon (Themes and Movements), 2004
• Yale Anthology of 20th Century French Poetry (ed. and co-tr.), Yale University Press, 2004
• Maria Jolas: Woman of Action , University of South Carolina Press, 2004
• Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings , Palgrave, 2002; paper, 2003
• Surrealist Love Poems (also co-tr.), Tate Modern Museum, 2001; University of Chicago Press, 2002; reprint, 2003
• The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Europe (co-ed. with Nicola Luckhurst), for the British Academy, 2000; Continuum, 2001
• MANIFESTO: A century of Isms, Modernist Manifestos and Statements, University of Nebraska Press, 2001
• Surrealist Painters and Poets, M.I.T. Press, 2001; paper, 2002
• Yves Bonnefoy (co-ed.), Fall 1996 issue of L'esprit créateur (vol. 36)
• Écritures de Femmes: Nouvelles Cartographies (co-ed. with Mary Jean Green, Marianne Hirsch, Ronnie Scharfman), Yale University Press, 1996
• Free Rein (by André Breton, translated by Michael Parmentier and Jaqueline D'amboise; French Modernist Library Series), co-ed., University of Nebraska Press, 1995
  "Introduction" available online at Studio Cleo
• Carto-graphies (co-ed. with Mary Jean Green, Marianne Hirsch, Ronnie Scharfman), Yale University Press, 1995
• Contre-Courants: Les femmes s'écrivent à travers les siècles, (co-ed. with Nancy K. Miller, Elizabeth Houlding, and Cheryl Morgan), Prentice Hall, 1994
• HarperCollins World Reader (Chief Editor), HarperCollins, 1994
• Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind: Selected Journals, Letters, and Files, Thames and Hudson, 1994
• Surrealism and Women (co-ed. with Ruedi Kuenzli and Gwen Raaberg), M.I.T. Press, 1991
• City Images, Gordon and Breach, 1991
• Reading Proust Now, (co-ed. with Eugène Nicole), Peter Lang, 1990
• Ecrire le livre autour d'Edmond Jabès (co-ed. with Richard Stamelman), Editions de la Montagne, 1989
• Perspectives on Perception: Philosophy, Art, and Literature, Peter Lang, 1988
• Textual Analysis: Some Readers Reading, Modern Language Association, 1986
• Writing in a Modern Temper: Essays on French Literature and Thought in Honor of Henri Peyre, Anma Libri, 1984
• Le texte et son double (Le Siècle éclaté), Minard, 1985
• About French Poetry from Dada to Tel Quel: Theory and Text, Wayne State University Press, 1984
• The Prose Poem in France (co-ed. with Hermine Riffaterre), Columbia University Press, 1983
• Théorie/Tableau/Texte (Le Siècle éclaté), Minard, 1983
• Le manifeste et le caché (Le Siècle éclaté), Minard, 1981

See also the Translations page