In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignment for "Fortune" magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when in 1941. "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" was first published to enormous critical acclaim. This unsparring record of place, of the people who shape...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·艾吉（James Agee），美国小说家、剧作家、电影评论家和新闻记者。1932年毕业于哈佛大学，曾因小说《家庭中的一次死亡事件》而获得普利策奖。其他作品包括诗集《应许之旅》，小说《守日人》，以及其他通信集、文学评论和电影剧本。 沃克·埃文斯（Walker Evans），美国纪实摄影大师。早年曾在巴黎游学，1945年，先后加入《时代》周刊和《财富》杂志，担任专职作者和编辑。1965年，成为耶鲁大学艺术学院的教授。埃文斯相信艺术家的任务是直面最严峻的现实，其作品以简洁、直接、清晰的影像语言描绘了美国社会。

詹姆斯·艾吉（James Agee），美国小说家、剧作家、电影评论家和新闻记者。1932年毕业于哈佛大学，曾因小说《家庭中的一次死亡事件》而获得普利策奖。其他作品包括诗集《应许之旅》，小说《守日人》，以及其他通信集、文学评论和电影剧本。 沃克·埃文斯（Walker Evans），美国纪实摄影大师。早年曾在巴黎游学，1945年，先后加入《时代》周刊和《财富》杂志，担任专职作者和编辑。1965年，成为耶鲁大学艺术学院的教授。埃文斯相信艺术家的任务是直面最严峻的现实，其作品以简洁、直接、清晰的影像语言描绘了美国社会。

Just what kind of book is Let Us Now Praise Famous Men? It contains many things: poems; confessional reveries; disquisitions on the proper way to listen to Beethoven; snippets of dialogue, both real and imagined; a lengthy response to a survey from the Partisan Review; exhaustive catalogs of furniture, clothing, objects, and smells. And then there are Walker Evans's famously st...(展开全部)

A satire on the pretensions of Erasmus's contemporaries in the Church and philosophy

凯特·伯恩斯坦（Kate Bornstein）是一位先锋跨性别作家、表演艺术家、剧作家和演说家，在女性和性别研究领域著有多部获奖作品。性别议题之外她还关注自杀预防。2006年她出版新书《你好，残酷的世界：给青少年和其他边缘人群的101条自杀替代建议》，并在全球范围内呼吁对边缘青少年的支持。伯恩斯坦和她16年的伴侣、性教育家芭芭拉·凯瑞拉斯（Barbara Carrellas）现居纽约，她们家中还有三只猫、两条狗和一只乌龟。

“I know I’m not a man … and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m probably not a woman, either…. The trouble is, we’re living in a world that insists we be one or the other.” With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers readers on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity. With a new introduction by the author On one level, Gender Ou...(展开全部)

In Praise of Theatre is Alain Badiou’s latest work on the ‘most complete of the arts,’ the theatrical stage. This book, certain to be of great interest to scholars and theatre practitioners alike, elaborates the theory of the theatre developed by Badiou in works such as Rhapsody for the Theatre and the ‘Theses on Theatre’ and enquires into the status of a theatre that would be ...(展开全部)

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure.