In the Victorian era, the argument about whether or not details about sexual or gender variance should be published ostensibly concerned public morality.
Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom: An Exposition of the Laws of Disguise Through Color and Pattern; Being a Summary of Abbott H. Thayer's Discoveries is a book published ostensibly by Gerald H. Thayer in 1909, and revised in 1918, but in fact a collaboration with and completion of his father Abbott Handerson Thayer's major work.
In 1965, two years after his contemptuous First World War, AJP Taylor published the ostensibly serious, and bestselling, England 1914-1945.
Not a tagline for a well-placed index fund portfolio (thank G-d), but the crux of a piece by Sam Leith for the Guardian on the "crisis in non-fiction publishing"—ostensibly the result of copycat, smart-thinking, point-taking trade fodder that made Malcolm Gladwell not just a columnist, but a brand.
In the US they won't publish them, ostensibly because the stories are "too British" but, Simon understands, in reality because Henry's wickedness is just too dangerous for the current goody-goody trend in American parenting.
Kennedy recently published another book, ostensibly on bullfighting, that also evokes the darknesses and exhilarations of the artistic vocation.
Finally, in 2007, Gawker published a post, ostensibly about discrimination in the venture-capital industry, with the headline "Peter Thiel is totally gay, people".
Date on map is 1850, however Wheat writes "... ostensibly published in 1850, though it could not have gone to the engravers, Sherman and Smith of New York, until early in 1851" (Mapping the transmississippi West, 696).
His breakthrough series "The Sandman," published from 1988 to 1996, ostensibly chronicled the adventures of Morpheus, a gothic embodiment of the god of sleep and dreams who, after having been captured and released on Earth, must rebuild his neglected netherworld while occasionally righting wrongs on our plane of existence.
Meanwhile, off screen, HarperCollins last month published a new book ostensibly written by a character on "Passions".
Today it published a long tract, ostensibly by a guerrilla commander and Islamic militant, Shamil Basayev, which asserted sole responsibility for last week's hostage-taking.
