The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of literary criticism.

The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of literary criticism.

Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either... Dazzlingly energ...(展开全部)

It is some time after Ed Chianese's trip into the Kefahuchi Tract. A major industry of the Halo is now tourism. The Tract has begun to expand and change, but, more problematically, parts of it have also begun to fall to earth, piecemeal, on the Beach planets. We are in a city, perhaps on New Venusport or Motel Splendido: next to the city is the event site, the zone, from ou...(展开全部)

Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either... Dazzlingly energ...(展开全部)

这是对 Spotify 的起源及其对音乐的影响的一次毫不留情的调查，将报道与尖锐的文化批评交织在一起，阐明了流媒体如何为听众和艺术家重塑音乐。 通过对业内人士、前 Spotify 员工和音乐家的一百多次采访，Mood Machine 带我们了解了当今高度整合的唱片业务的内部运作，展示了随着音乐越来越多地被列入播放列表、个性化和自动播放，发生了哪些变化。 音乐记者 Liz Pelly 在多年广泛报道流媒体的基础上，通过研究该公司所谓的双边市场的双方，详细描述了 Spotify 模式的后果：用他们的金钱和数据付费的听众，以及提供所有支持材料的音乐家。音乐行业以不透明而闻名，但 Pelly 在这里揭开了重要新闻的面纱，例如流媒体服务用低成本的库存音乐填充热门播放列表以及新的类似贿赂的做法的兴起。 尽管流媒体加剧了不平等现象，但佩利也从记录艺术家为争取更好模...(展开全部)

The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of literary criticism.