The last, as Mailer wrote in a preface, contained remarks on "marriage, sex, pornography, God, the Devil, rock, science, magic, violence, art, literary status, women's liberation, male identity, and even... occasional comment on the craft of writing".
Montaigne wrote about whatever crossed his mind: animals, sex, magic, diplomacy, violence, hermaphroditism, self-doubt.
2-4 players, 15 minutes, RRP £11.99 Designer: Bruno Cathala Game of Thrones fans are already spoiled for choice when it comes to gaming, with a wide selection of games aiming to recreate the magic, intrigue and violence of the realm of Westeros.
Light on magic, heavy on violence, a huge, sprawling saga tracing the battle for the iron throne of Westeros with its roots in the Wars of the Roses, Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series is one of the publishing phenomena of this century.
The painting's violence and magic are made moving by an atmosphere of autumnal woods and rainy, gloomy colours.
He waits to be killed or kidnapped himself, and wonders, as did more sophisticated people in the same period, whether only magic can explain the violence around him.
a breathtakingly beautiful 240 page novel of love, class, horror, brutality, Rastafarianism, violence and magic realism of a present and remembered Jamaica.
Other stories feature young adults, and subjects Gilb has explored since his 1993 debut collection, "The Magic of Blood": drugs, violence, girls (the white girlfriend, the ex-girlfriend), unemployment.
And he began to scream.' Today, Naipaul venerates his father's memory and recognises that his reporting, the plantation violence, the tribal magic, the incessant storytelling must have seeded Naipaul's own ambitions.
A video installation addressing sectarian violence and a magic lantern-style shadow play complete the exhibition, which finds a political artist of impressive visual range at the height of her power.
As Miller points out (using a rather unfortunate choice of metaphor), cameras will not be "a magic bullet to curb police violence".
