He has also authored a number of volumes of criticism, including Videology (2015) & The Organ-Grinder's Monkey: Culture after the Avantgarde (2013). In addition, he is the author of numerous collections of poetry – most recently, Monument (with John Kinsella, 2020), East Broadway Rundown (2015) The Rube Goldberg Variations (2015), & Synopticon (with John Kinsella, 2012). He has published ten novels, including Vampyr (2020), GlassHouse (2018), The Combinations (2016 shortlisted for The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize), Cairo (2014 longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Award), and Breakfast at Midnight (2012 described by 3:AM's Richard Marshall as 'a perfect modern noir').

Louis Armand, (born 1972, Sydney) is a writer, visual artist and critical theorist.wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Louis_Armand.jpg?width=300.He is the founding editor of VLAK Magazine, and directs the Centre for Critical & Cultural Theory at Charles University, Prague. He is a member of the editorial board of Rhizomes: Studies in Cultural Knowledge and founding editor (1994) of the online journal HJS (Hypermedia Joyce Studies). His screenplay Clair Obscur won honourable mention at the 2009 Trieste Film Festival.< In 2004, Armand founded the Prague International Poetry Festival, and since 2009 has co-organised the Prague Microfestival. In 1997 he received the Max Harris prize for poetry at the Penola Festival (Adelaide) and in 2000 he was awarded the Nassau Review Prize (New York).

His poetry has appeared in the anthologies Thirty Australian Poets, The Best Australian Poems, Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets & The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry.

The Combinations by Louis Armand