And the Ass Saw the Angel

And the Ass Saw the AngelThe full, original text of Nick Cave's classic Gothic novel Outcast, mute, a lone twin cut from a drunk mother in a shack full of junk, Euchrid Eucrow of Ukulore inhabits a nightmarish Southern valley of preachers and prophets, incest and ignorance. When the God fearing folk of the town declare a foundling child to be chosen by the Almighty, Euchrid is disturbed. He sees her very differently, and his conviction, and increasing isolation and insanity,

The notorious corner of West Fayette and Monroe Streets in Baltimore is a 24-hour open-air drug market that provides the economic fuel for a dying neighbourhood

An iconic piece of challenging 1960s cinema and a gripping narrative on its own terms

the more disillusioned he becomes—and the harder it is to make out the line between right and wrong

the cities explored here represent almost three millennia of human history

without words but rather through some combination of magic

Rastafarian-inspired Roots music was an ever-important aspect of Studio One’s output from the start of the 1970s onwards and this album features many of the ground-breaking groups and artists that established the sound of Jamaica during this decade and beyond

tricksters and underdogs who have faced outsized challenges and won

Walter Kerr

the ingratitude of her materialistic firstborn (a diabolical Ann Blyth) becomes a venomous serpent’s tooth

In the haunting world of Shirley Jackson

have been so rich and masterful as Exile on Main St

From the queen of domestic horror