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Hannibal Rising
Thomas Harris · 2006
Hannibal Lecter and Philosophy: The Heart of the Matter (Popular Culture and Philosophy, 96)
Joseph Westfall · 2016
Hannibal Lecter, the subject of best-selling novels, movies, and the acclaimed TV series Hannibal, is one of pop culture's most compelling characters. In Hannibal Lecter and Philosophy, 16 philosophers come at Hannibal the way he comes at his victims from unexpected angles and with plenty of surprises.<br/><br/>What does the relationship between Hannibal and those who know him particularly FBI investigator Will Graham tell us about the nature of friendship? Does Hannibal confer benefits on society by eliminating people who don’t live up to his high aesthetic standards? Can upsetting experiences in early childhood turn you into a serial killer? Why are we enthralled by someone who exercises god-like control over situations and people? Does it make any difference morally that a killer eats his victims? Can a murder be a work of art?<br/><br/>Several chapters look at the mind of this proud and accomplished killer, psychiatrist, and gourmet cook. Is he a sociopath or a psychopath, or are these the same? Is he lacking in empathy? Does his moral blindness give him compensating abilities, the way literally blind people gain heightened senses? Does it harm us that we are drawn into Hannibal’s world by identifying with him?
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker · 2017
Includes material on "the Trailside Killer in San Francisco, the Atlanta child murderer, the Tylenol poisoner, the man who hunted prostitutes for sport in the woods of Alaska, and Seattle's Green River killer ..."
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Suskind · 2001
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis · 1991
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell · 2007
The Oracle of Night: The History and Science of Dreams
Sidarta Ribeiro · 2021
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
Anne Frank · 2020
Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis.
Eric Berne · 1996
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
Steven Pinker · 2021
If You Could Be Mine
Sara Farizan · 2013
Mistakes Were Made (but Not By Me) Third Edition: Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson · 2020
Survival Of The Friendliest
Brian Hare, Vanessa Woods · 2020
Explaining Humans
Pang Camilla · 2020
Introduction to Forensic and Criminal Psychology
Dennis Howitt · 2002
Carmilla
J. Sheridan LeFanu · 2020
House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition
Mark Z. Danielewski · 2000
Something Happened Here: an illustrated novel
Felicity Meadow · 2024
The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides · 1993
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai · 1973
<p> Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. </p><p>Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.</p><p>Still one of the ten bestselling books in Japan, No Longer Human is an important and unforgettable modern classic: "The struggle of the individual to fit into a normalizing society remains just as relevant today as it was at the time of writing." (The Japan Times)</p>
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1989
Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in <b>Lolita</b>, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. <b>Lolita</b> is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
Eric Larocca · 2021
Females
Andrea Long Chu · 2019
Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics)
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1993
<b>Hailed by <i>Washington Post Book World</i> as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition of <i>Crime and Punishment </i>has been updated in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. • <b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME</b></b><br><br>With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of <i>Crime and Punishment, </i>Dostoevsky's astounding pyschological thriller, newly revised for his bicentenniel. <br><br>In <i>Crime and Punishment</i>, when Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that is almost unequalled in world literature for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision. Dostoevsky’s drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman’s murder into the nineteenth century’s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel.
Feeding Hannibal: A Connoisseur's Cookbook
Janice Poon · 2016
Feeding Hannibal: A Connoisseur’s Cookbook is a collection of easy-to-follow recipes inspired by the show and created by its food stylist, Janice Poon. Each recipe is accompanied by fascinating insider’s anecdotes, delightful artwork and revealing behind-the-scenes photos of stars and crew on the set of Hannibal.
