In her pioneering book Hard Core, Linda Williams put moving-image pornography on the map of contemporary scholarship with her pathbreaking analysis of the most popular and enduring of all film and video genres. Now, fifteen years later, she showcases the next generation of critical thinking about pornography and signals new directions for study and teaching. Porn Studies resist...(展开全部)

A favorite joke inspires this charming tale, in which a little chicken’s habit of interrupting bedtime stories is gleefully turned on its head. It’s time for the little red chicken’s bedtime story —and a reminder from Papa to try not to interrupt. But the chicken can’t help herself! Whether the tale is HANSEL AND GRETEL or LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD or even CHICKEN LITTLE, she ju...(展开全部)

A favorite joke inspires this charming tale, in which a little chicken’s habit of interrupting bedtime stories is gleefully turned on its head. It’s time for the little red chicken’s bedtime story —and a reminder from Papa to try not to interrupt. But the chicken can’t help herself! Whether the tale is HANSEL AND GRETEL or LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD or even CHICKEN LITTLE, she ju...(展开全部)

In her acclaimed Persepolis books and in Embroideries , Marjane Satrapi rendered the events of her life and times in a uniquely captivating and powerful voice and vision. Now she turns that same keen eye and ear to the heartrending story of her great-uncle, a celebrated Iranian musician who gave up his life for music and love. We are in Tehran in 1958, and Nasser Ali Khan, ...(展开全部)

“Chicken with Plums is a feast you’ll devour.” — Newsweek Acclaimed graphic artist Marjane Satrapi brings what has become her signature humor and insight, her keen eye and ear, to the heartrending story of a celebrated Iranian musician who gives up his life for music and love. When Nasser Ali Khan, the author’s great-uncle, discovers that his beloved instrument is irrepa...(展开全部)

How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral History, her extraordinary second book, Polly Barton interrogates the absence of discussion around a topic that is ubiquitous and influences our daily lives. In her search for unde...(展开全部)

马克·萨波塔，是法国新小说第二代代表作家之一。早期供职于联合国教科文组织，后从事记者工作，最后专心写作，成为职业作家。代表作有：《传环游戏》、《寻觅》、《作品第一号》，论著：《美国小说史》、《论娜塔丽·萨洛特》等。《作品第一号》1962年出版后，旋即引起法国文坛的轰动。后被翻译成英文、德文、意大利文、西班牙文等多种语言，在西方广为流传。其新颖的形式深深吸引了读者，那永不完结的故事自成一体，被誉为“世界上独一无二的扑克牌式小说”，他被认为是新小说作家中最具创造精神的作家之一。