Funny and poignant, Situation Normal fuses Serenity to Guardians of the Galaxy, the Coen brothers doing Star Trek: sentient parasites, weaponized marketing, horny alien teens, and cosplaying monks.
Northup's account provides extensive details on the slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, and describes at length cotton and sugar cultivation and slave treatment on major plantations in Louisiana.The work was published eight ...
' Thomas Karshan draws on untranslated early writings and restricted archival material to argue that play is Nabokov's signature theme, and that his novels form one of the most sophisticated treatments of play ever achieved.
Analyzes the pornographic poetry, letters, plays, and verse dialogues written in poet Domenico Venier's social circle, showing how male writers created female characters who were defiled and available to all.
This book breaks new ground in the area of Renaissance material culture, focussing on the marketplace in its various aspects, ranging from middle-class to courtly consumption and from the provision of foodstuffs to the acquisition of ...
This may seem reductive until you read a book like the one you have in your hands. Put simply, Mia Lecomte is a quietly dazzling poet on her own terms.
Without deifying its subject, this biography looks at the life of Nelson Mandela, placing his awe-inspiring political accomplishments into historical context for young readers.