Black Beauty tells the story of a working horse in Victorian England who has to adapt to life with a series of different masters and grooms, some of them kindly but many of them cruel or thoughtless. He survives flood, fire and fever until he feels ready to die, but then he is taken to yet another [...]

FROM THE DEPTHS OF A VALLEY RISES THE CITY OF MAHALA It's a city built upwards - where streets are built upon streets, buildings upon buildings. A city that the Ministry rules from the sunlit summit, and where the forsaken lurk in the darkness of Under. Rojan Dizon doesn't mind staying in the shadow[...]

Faces masked, dressed in black, and forcefully attacking the symbols of capitalism, Black Blocs have been transformed into an antiglobalization media spectacle. But the popular image of the window-smashing thug hides a complex reality. Francis Dupuis-Deri outlines the origin of this international ph[...]

From Pixies frontman Black Francis, in collaboration with writer Josh Frank and artist Steven Appleby, comes The Good Inn, a bold and visually arresting novel about art, conflict, and the origins of a certain type of cinema.In 1907, the French battleship Iena was destroyed when a nitrocellulose-base[...]

The object of this commentary is to write a poetic, mystical and erotic history of the Song of Songs. In Jewish tradition, the Song of Songs is "the holy of holies," the sexual heart of the relationship between God and Israel; in Christianity it is a major source for the mystical and musical devotio[...]