A man's obsession with a silent-film star sends him on a journey into a shadow world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love Six months after losing his wife an

Contains color and black-and-white illustrations of over three hundred optical illusions, each with brief, explanatory text.

A specialist in visual perception, Ninio (Centre National des Recherches Scientifiques, Paris) presents many classic and new illusions, explains the underlying

A collection of illusions by Sandro Del-Prete, each illustration is accompanied by a description.

Melancholy and the Archive examines how trauma, history and memory are represented in key works of major contemporary writers such as David Mitchell, Paul Auste