Illuminating the dark side of the American century, "The Monster Show" uncovers the surprising links between horror entertainment and the great social crises of our time, as well as horror's function as a pop analogue to surrealism and other artistic movements. With penetrating analyses and revealing anecdotes, David J. Skal chronicles one of our most popular and pervasive mode...(展开全部)

A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. He leaves no clues and the police are helpless. When his name is found carved into the charred remains of the third victim, disgraced detective Washington Poe is brought back from suspension and into an investigation he wants no part of. Reluctantly partnered with the brilliant but sociall...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews Book Description In this beautifully produced third issue of the international art/fashion collectible Fashion Magazine, the acclaimed American photographer Alec Soth plays Editor-in-Chief, Advertising Director and sole photographic contributor--to quietly mesmerizing results. Featuring exquisite printing, unexpected gatefolds, special inks, varnishes and pape...(展开全部)

【作者】 詹姆斯·坎贝尔，英国作家、评论家和编辑，以撰写深入细腻的人物传记和文学评论闻名。1951年出生于苏格兰格拉斯哥，1978年至1982年担任《新爱丁堡评论》编辑，之后成为《泰晤士报文学增刊》长期专栏作者。他特别关注那些在种族、政治、社会边缘挣扎的作家群体，这种兴趣也直接引领了他撰写詹姆斯·鲍德温传记的决心。另著有《巴黎流放者》《这就是垮掉的一代》等。 【译者】 吴琦，《单读》主编，播客《螺丝在拧紧》主播。与项飙合著谈话录《把自己作为方法》，译有《下一次将是烈火》《去山巅呼喊》。

James Baldwin was one of America's finest and most influential writers. By the time he died in 1987, his books, such as The Fire Next Time, Go Tell It on the Mountain, and Giovanni's Room, had become modern classics. James Campbell knew Baldwin for ten years before Baldwin's death. For this book, he interviewed many of Baldwin's friends and examined several hundred pages of cor...(展开全部)

Absorbing Roman poet Ovid's tales of transformation in "Metamorphoses "and adding his own dash of art-historical figuration and contemporary pop culture, Mark Ryden broaches new terrain with "The Tree Show," Arcadian Gothic" might hint at the nature of this new work, and fans of Ryden will find familiar preoccupations in these new paintings, drawings and sculptures--made since ...(展开全部)

show/off #2 magazine Show/Off #2 is a unique magazine about the Fashion Department, Royal Academy of Fine Arts - Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen. It features highlights from the Fashion Department: the end of year collections of the Master students, works by the Bachelor Year students, information about various projects and workshops... Show/Off #2 is a collector’s item made with ...(展开全部)

Some 40 nationalities participate in the courses of the Fashion Department at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, under the watchful leadership of Walter van Beirendonck. This magazine reflects the wide and exciting array of fashion that is created by such a diverse collection of participants. Full-page, colour photographs document recent fashion collections produced by th...(展开全部)

James Baldwin was one of the most incisive and influential American writers of the twentieth century. Active in the civil rights movement of the sixties, open at all times about his homosexuality, Baldwin was celebrated for eloquent analyses of social unrest in his collections of essays and for daring portrayals of sexuality and interracial relationships in his fiction. James C...(展开全部)