【作者】 詹姆斯·坎贝尔，英国作家、评论家和编辑，以撰写深入细腻的人物传记和文学评论闻名。1951年出生于苏格兰格拉斯哥，1978年至1982年担任《新爱丁堡评论》编辑，之后成为《泰晤士报文学增刊》长期专栏作者。他特别关注那些在种族、政治、社会边缘挣扎的作家群体，这种兴趣也直接引领了他撰写詹姆斯·鲍德温传记的决心。另著有《巴黎流放者》《这就是垮掉的一代》等。 【译者】 吴琦，《单读》主编，播客《螺丝在拧紧》主播。与项飙合著谈话录《把自己作为方法》，译有《下一次将是烈火》《去山巅呼喊》。

James Baldwin was one of America's finest and most influential writers. By the time he died in 1987, his books, such as The Fire Next Time, Go Tell It on the Mountain, and Giovanni's Room, had become modern classics. James Campbell knew Baldwin for ten years before Baldwin's death. For this book, he interviewed many of Baldwin's friends and examined several hundred pages of cor...(展开全部)

The only comprehensive volume on James Turrell is back in print―from early prints and light projections to his monumental Roden Crater project This definitive book illuminates the origins and motivations of James Turrell’s incredibly diverse and exciting body of work―from his Mendota studio days to his monumental work-in-progress Roden Crater. Whether projecting shapes on a fla...(展开全部)

Whether he's projecting holographs into a gallery space or inviting viewers to gaze at the sky through a hole in the roof, James Turrell is perpetually asking us to "go inside and greet the light" - evoking his Quaker upbringing. In fact, all of Turrell's work has been influenced by his life experiences with aviation, science, and psychology, and as a key player in Los Angeles'...(展开全部)

艾尔芙丽德·耶利内克是奥地利当代著名女作家，1946年出生。2004年荣获诺贝尔文学奖。耶利内克特立独行，思想前卫，因为她写的内容不一般，表现手法不一般，而引起了诸多争议。 1946年，耶利内克生于奥地利斯施蒂利亚州的米尔茨施拉格市，在维也纳长大。1946年，耶利内克生于奥地利斯施蒂利亚州的米尔茨施拉格市，在维也纳长大。其时离第二次世界大战不远。要说，这场大战时耶利内克还没有出生，可是却同我们的作家也真有剪不断、理还乱的牵扯，这一团氤氲时常出现在她的文学创作里，好像梦魇一般。 耶利内克带犹太血统，并且，祖上是从捷克，也即波西米亚，迁居来奥地利的。在所谓“奥(地利)匈(牙利)帝国”时期，奥地利是欧洲最大的国家，地跨今天中欧的大部分土地，还包括了南欧的巴尔干半岛。所以，不同国家中帝国的子民流向首都维也纳，不足为奇。这些外来户大致出身在当地比较有根底的家庭...(展开全部)

James Baldwin was one of the most incisive and influential American writers of the twentieth century. Active in the civil rights movement of the sixties, open at all times about his homosexuality, Baldwin was celebrated for eloquent analyses of social unrest in his collections of essays and for daring portrayals of sexuality and interracial relationships in his fiction. James C...(展开全部)

Life is never ordinary. R to L (Japanese Style). What begins with a college dropout bored of her mediocre routine soon becomes a fantastic series of vignettes about the unexpected ways that lives intersect. Filled with magical realism in the face of the cold reality of modern life, at their core these stories are about discovering something precious in the chaos of existence. A...(展开全部)

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. • From the “literary icon” (Oprah Daily), Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his...(展开全部)

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. • From the “literary icon” (Oprah Daily), Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his...(展开全部)

'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' – Roddy Doyle James is a profound and ferociously funny novel from one of our greatest living writers, Percival Everett. The Sunday Times Bestseller Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Shortlisted for the ...(展开全部)