An Unkindness of Ravens An Unkindness of Ravens An Unkindness of Ravens is a novel by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell. It was first published in 1985, and features her popular protagonist Inspector Wexford, and is the 13th entry in the series. On American publication, it was shortlisted for the MWA Edgar Award, alongside another Rendell novel, "The Tree of Hands", meaning she has the remarkable distinction of being one of only two authors in the award's history to have had "two" novels on the shortlist in any one year (the other being Charlotte Armstrong). "Ravens" was adapted as a play by theatre professor Joel
Flaming Creatures "Flaming Creatures" as a Miltonian "ancient ritual chant…not for the Paradise Lost, but for the Hell Satan gained." Arthur Knight called the film a "faggoty stag-reel ... defiling at once both sex and cinema." Pete Hamill described it as "a sophomoric exercise in the kind of sex that Henry Miller dealt with 30 years ago." Following the seizure of the film, the director of the Homosexual League of New York called "Flaming Creatures" "long, disturbing and psychologically unpleasant". Amos Vogel likened it to a film noir that "despite flashes of brilliance and moments of perverse, tortured beauty" was full of