On the big screen, Athena Minerva was billed as "the Smartest Woman in the Movie." Behind the scenes and without her cosmetics, Maleva Ouspenskaya - alias Athena Minerva - tries to cope with reality. Is her suffering real? Or is it an exaggeration? Is Athena Minerva being stalked by her former benefactors? Is Maleva Ouspenskay ignoring a trapped memory? "The Querulous Nights of Athena Minerva" is part paranormal mystery, part psychological drama about the life of an independent film actress. Set in Salem, Massachusetts and South Florida, "The Querulous Nights of Athena Minerva" is a gothic terror tale, inspired by current events. This book also includes an essay from the Cave of Cinema Dave, titled "Querulous Nightmares." Cinema Dave writes about his literary and cinematic influences upon his novella. The essay includes two pictures of Cinema Dave strangling two Icons of the Nightmare.

"The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations" are 13 short stories featuring a Condo Commando, a Stranger on a Pay Phone, a Ballbuster, a Distasteful Revenge, a Massage Nazi, a Certified Psychic Tour Guide, a Tattoo Boy and Sweaty Beer! Seen from the eyes of young Sam Giamatti, "The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations" presents this individual's rite of passage from proposed happiness to the nectar found in sweaty beer. These 13 tales range from gross to funny; with a few jabs poked at religion, sex and politics. "The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations" is deliberately controversial and funny like "Saturday Night Live" used to be.

These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he calls "Cynthia." Their connection was sometimes blissful, more often agonizing, but as the poet came to recognize, it went beyond pride or shame to become the defining event of his life. Whether or not it was Propertius' explicit intention, these elegies extend our ideas of desire, and of the human condition itself.

John Banville’s stunning powers of mimicry are brilliantly on display in this engrossing novel, the darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer. Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral, he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That pursuit leads to murder. And here is his attempt to present evidence, not of his innocence, but of his life, of the events that lead to the murder he committed because he could. Like a hero out of Nabokov or Camus, Montgomery is a chillingly articulate, self-aware, and amoral being, whose humanity is painfully on display.

In the ancient world, terracotta sculpture was ubiquitous. Readily available and economical—unlike stone suitable for carving—clay allowed artisans to craft figures of remarkable variety and expressiveness. Terracottas from South Italy and Sicily attest to the prolific coroplastic workshops that supplied sacred and decorative images for sanctuaries, settlements, and cemeteries. Sixty terracottas are investigated here by noted scholar Maria Lucia Ferruzza, comprising a selection of significant types from the Getty’s larger collection—life-size sculptures, statuettes, heads and busts, altars, and decorative appliqués. In addition to the comprehensive catalogue entries, the publication includes a guide to the full collection of over one thousand other figurines and molds from the region by Getty curator of antiquities Claire L. Lyons. The free online edition of this open-access catalogue, available at www.getty.edu/publications/terracottas/ includes zoomable high-resolution photography and a select number of 360° rotations; the ability to filter the catalogue by location, typology, and date; and an interactive map drawn from the Ancient World Mapping Center and linked to the Getty's Thesaurus of Geographic Names and Pleiades. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book; CSV and JSON downloads of the object data from the catalogue and the accompanying Guide to the Collection; and JPG and PPT downloads of the main catalogue images.