Fear made him hide. Hope brought him back. A lot has changed in the world in the many decades since Peter escaped from the Nazis and settled into his new life in America. But meeting Peter, you'd never know it. The same furniture, the same black and white TV, the same rotary phone. Hidden away in the same tiny apartment in the same broken-down NY neighborhood, Peter is just fine with the nothingness of his life. And then the dreams begin. His boyhood...

The Red Thread is the definitive work on Larry Gottheim, a key figure in the history of American experimental film. Gottheim's account of the evolution of his work over the decades provide an extraordinary window onto the development of the art form in America in the late 20th century. His own account of his lifelong exploration of the boundaries of cinematic perception is here combined with the reflections of other major film artists and critics...

A seductive literary love story set in contemporary Shanghai, The Red Thread intertwines the lives of two pairs of lovers across the centuries. Shen, a young, American-educated appraiser in a Shanghai auction house, is captivated by Ruth, a self-possessed Australian artist who happens into one of his auctions. As they fall in love, Shen finds that their lives are strangely mirrored by those of the characters in a rare Chinese manuscript that is nearly...

Bernard Faure is Associate Professor of Religion at Stanford University. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Immediacy, Chan Insights and Oversights, and Visions of Power (all from Princeton University Press). Is there a Buddhist discourse on sex? In this innovative study, Bernard Faure reveals Buddhism's paradoxical attitudes toward sexuality. His remarkably broad range covers the entire geography of this religion, and its long evolution from the...

The Red Threads of Fortune is one of a pair of unique, standalone introductions to Neon Yang's Tensorate Series, which Kate Elliott calls "effortlessly fascinating." For more of the story you can read its twin novella The Black Tides of Heaven, available simultaneously. Fallen prophet, master of the elements, and daughter of the supreme Protector, Sanao Mokoya has abandoned the life that once bound her. Once her visions shaped the lives of citizens...

"When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birth-rates would help lift China’s poorest and increase the country’s global stature. But at what cost? Now, as China closes the book on the policy after more than three decades, it faces a population grown too old and too male, with a vastly diminished supply of young workers. Mei Fong has spent years documenting the policy’s repercussions on every sector...

Shampoo obtains the "Red Thread of Fate," which can make anyone fall head-over-heels in love with the user.

Friends Neil and Mayu find themselves drawn into a series of anime worlds when they purchase drawings from a mysterious supplier at a convention. As their memories, forms and reality change, the red thread of fate still binds them together as they cling to the hope of returning home.

Soccer is the "red thread" to enter the deeper reality of the famous barrio La Boca, in Buenos Aires, founded in the mid-19th century by Genoese emigrants in search of fortune. Over time, Boca has become the symbol of Genoa in South America, while the fans of its football team, Boca Juniors, are considered the hottest in the world. Two worlds so distant but so close, united by an extraordinary passion for football. The documentary collected the testimonies...

"Our Red Thread" is a story of love, depression, and finding happiness with the one you love. The red thread theory, or the red string of fate, is the belief that there is a red thread connecting two people who are destined to be together. That no matter what obstacles there are between them, nothing will keep them apart. Cora and Lewis, two youths with seemingly nothing in common, come together in spite of their peers. Unlikely friends fall in love,...