Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, The Black Swan is a concept that will change the way you look at the world. Black Swans underlie almost everything, from the rise of religions, to events in our own personal lives. A Black Swan is a highly improbable event with three principle
Beneath the respectable surface of Victorian England lay a criminal world as diverse, turbulent and vicious as any. This begins by looking at that age and its penal methods and it then recreates the showmen, religious fakes, garrotters, pickpockets, prostitutes and magsmen who thronged the murky
What was the tragedy that turned O'Neill's hotel from a plush establishment into a dingy house of disrepute? Ivy Eckdorf is determined to find out. A professional photographer, she has come to Dublin convinced that a tragic and beautiful tale lies behind the facade of this crumbling hotel.
W 1964 roku Susan Sontag opublikowała głośny esej Notes on Camp[2], w którym zawarła wypunktowane refleksje na temat zjawiska kampu oraz kampowego pojmowania "złej sztuki" – kiczu. Istotą kampu jest umiłowanie tego, co nienaturalne: a więc wszelkiej sztuczności i przesady. To rodzaj estetyzmu; czy
A superb work of adventure and imagination, "The Call of the Wild" tells the compelling story of Buck, part St Bernard and part Scotch shepherd dog. "White Fang" (...) tells of the offspring of an Indian wolf-dog and a wolf.
Lyrics and never-before-seen poetry and sketches from Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine Songs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later. Or a prediction comes true and I couldn't do anything
Coffin Ed Johnson was angry: 'Yeah, they suspended us for punching a mother-raping pusher in the guts and ain't three hours passed before some drugged-up killer has got Digger.' This was going to have to be a solo effort. Badge or no badge, with his partner on the danger list, Coffin Ed had no
Since the first volume appeared in 1954 Tolkien's trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, has become one of the most widely loved works of literature ever published. In Master of Middle-Earth, Paul Kocher considers Tolkien's fiction as a whole, showing the relationship of the short prose and verse
A teenage girl is found wandering the outskirts of Oxford, dazed and distressed. The story she tells is terrifying. Grabbed off the street, a plastic bag pulled over her face, then driven to an isolated location where she was subjected to what sounds like an assault. Yet she refuses to press
