Acts of Literature is a 1991 philosophical and literary book based on essays by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida.

The book is the first collection of Derrida's essays on Western-culture literary texts.

Derek Attridge edited the book in close association with Derrida himself.

Derrida discusses authors such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Stéphane Mallarmé, James Joyce, William Shakespeare, and Franz Kafka.

A part highly cited by scholars is the chapter dedicated to James Joyce: ‘Ulysses’ Gramophone: Hear Say Yes In Joyce.