X-Files: The Official Archives: Cryptids, Biological Anomalies, and Parapsychic Phenomena
Paul Terry
$50.00

When an X-Files fan opens up The X-Files: The Official Archives, they are gaining access—for the first time—to Agents Mulder and Scully’s notes, records, and visual evidence from actual X-File reports. Designed to mimic a collection of FBI case files and packed with such items as autopsy reports, mug shots, lab results, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, pages ripped from antique books on the occult, and security camera printouts, this fully authorized book is the only one of its kind. Detailing the agents’ investigations into 50 cases of cryptids, biological anomalies, and parapsychic phenomena—from the Flukeman to The Great Mutato to Pusher—The X-Files: The Official Archives showcases some of the show’s greatest villains (some dastardly, some just misunderstood), and instructs future agents on how to successfully investigate the paranormal.

The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan
Tom Shone
$40.00

A rare, intimate portrait of Christopher Nolan with the full cooperation of Nolan himself who opened up more fully than ever before in his talks with Tom Shone. In chapters structured by themes and motifs (“Time,” “Chaos”), Shone writes of Nolan’s thoughts on movies, on plots; on time, identity, perception, chaos, daydreams.

Here is Nolan on the evolution of his pictures, and the writers, artists, directors, and thinkers who have inspired and informed his films.

To write the book, Tom Shone, who has known Nolan for more than two decades and who spent months with the director, was given unprecedented access to Nolan’s notes, scripts, storyboards, and artwork.

In this riveting portrait of an artist, Shone deftly navigates Nolan’s themes, influences, and working methods (both in writing and directing). Here is his trans-Atlantic childhood (“It makes you feel very differently about the concept of ‘home'”) . . . how he dreamed up the plot of Inception lying awake one night in his dorm (“I prized the imaginative space of listening to music in the dark, thinking about things, imagining things, films, stories”) . . . his color-blindness and its effect on Memento (“People are fascinated by other people’s perception of the world and the way in which it differs”) . . . his obsession with puzzles and optical illusions . . . and much, much more.