Review by Ann Copeland: "Patti Smith's foreword, "A Final Flower," is a poetic tribute to the late photographer whose recent retrospective exhibition sparked a national legal debate over censorship in the arts. Smith's observation that Mapplethorpe embraced "the flower as the embodiment of all the contradictions reveling within," and in these photographs "found it was as easy t...(展开全部)

「男が好きなら、俺としてみない?」アパートの 隣人でモデルの誠に、誘われてしまった亮。 もしかして俺ってゲイなの…? カラダ先行の 関係に戸惑う亮だけど、誠の想いは真剣らしい。 しかもある日、美貌の隣人・南野からも手を 出されてしまった！！ 年上の男二人は無垢な亮を 可愛がるように迫ってきて！? セクシャルラブ?

Ever since anonymous spray-can art began appearing on city walls in New York and Philadelphia in the late 1960s, graffiti has been a ubiquitous presence in the urban landscape, its artists largely unsung heroes. As hip-hop culture spread from America, graffiti became a worldwide phenomenon, emerging in the 1980s as the symbolic artistic language of young people everywhere and o...(展开全部)

‘The beauty, skill and imagination that spills from each page makes you wonder how such work could ever be classified alongside the kind of mindless vandalism you see in your average toilet block’ 　　　– TNT Magazine 　　'… brilliantly charts the developments and trends of what has now become a truly global phenomenon' 　　　– Computer Arts 　　‘Likely to become staple reference m...(展开全部)

Ever since anonymous spray-can art began appearing on city walls in New York and Philadelphia in the late 1960s, graffiti has been a ubiquitous presence in the urban landscape, its artists largely unsung heroes. As hip-hop culture spread from America, graffiti became a worldwide phenomenon, emerging in the 1980s as the symbolic artistic language of young people everywhere and o...(展开全部)

In 1973 Moll Gladney goes missing from the Tipperary hillside where she was born. Slowly her parents, Paddy and Kit, begin to accept that she’s gone forever. But she returns, changed, and with a few surprises for her family and neighbours. Nothing is ever the same again for the Gladneys, who learn that fate cares little for duty, that life rarely conforms to expectation, that G...(展开全部)

多纳尔·瑞安 （1976— ） 爱尔兰作家，被誉为“爱尔兰文学新浪潮的王者”，两度入围布克奖。 最早两部长篇小说《旋转的心》《十二月纪事》曾因大胆的写作手法47次被出版商拒绝，最终得到了公正评价：前者斩获都柏林书展十年最佳图书桂冠、爱尔兰图书奖（最佳综合奖和最佳新人奖双料冠军）、欧盟文学奖、《卫报》处女作奖；后者入围爱尔兰图书奖最佳小说奖、让·莫内欧洲文学奖短名单。 创作生涯常踞巅峰：短篇小说集《太阳斜照》荣膺爱尔兰图书奖最佳短篇小说奖；长篇小说《我们所应知道的一切》入围爱尔兰图书奖最佳小说奖短名单；《来自静谧的浅海》获让·莫内欧洲文学奖，入围爱尔兰图书奖最佳小说奖、科斯塔图书奖短名单；《奇花异果》荣获爱尔兰图书奖最佳小说奖，入围达尔基文学奖短名单；《污岛皇后》再次入围爱尔兰图书奖最佳小说奖短名单。

“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name.” There’s Man-man, who goes from running for...(展开全部)

“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name.” There’s Man-man, who goes from running for...(展开全部)

We’ve all seen red roses, blue irises, and yellow daffodils. But when we really look closely at a flower, whole new worlds of beauty and intricacy emerge. Using a unique process that far surpasses conventional macro photography, Robert Llewellyn shows us details that few of us have ever seen: the amazing architecture of stamens and pistils; the subtle shadings on a petal; the s...(展开全部)