Philosophy Bites is a selection of the best interviews from the hugely successful podcast of the same name. Leading philosophers discuss a wide range of philosophical issues, from ethics to aesthetics to metaphysics, in a lively, informal, personal way. Time, infinity, evil, friendship, animals, wine, sport, tragedy - all human life is here. Philosophy Bites was set up in 2007 ...(展开全部)

“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name.” There’s Man-man, who goes from running for...(展开全部)

“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name.” There’s Man-man, who goes from running for...(展开全部)

book's webpage http://www.fortunecookiechronicles.com/ review from nyt http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/books/review/Stern-t.htm 美國新聞 中國菜緊緊抓住美國胃 李競新書「幸運籤餅記事」：中國菜的故事反映美國的故事 【本 報訊】最新一期「新聞周刊」報導，美國人愛吃中國菜，但正如 「紐約時報」記者李競 (Jennifer 8. Lee)在新書「幸運籤餅記事」(The Fortune Cookie Chronicles)所描述的那樣，美國人所謂的中國菜，就連許多中國人都不認得。其中，雜碎根本是美國發明的，而幸運籤餅則來自日本，就連美國最大的 中餐館供應業者Kari-Out製造的豆漿，也根本不是大豆做的。 李競指出，中國菜的吸引...(展开全部)

Denis Johnson’s The Laughing Monsters is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game. Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years’ absence, he returns to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot of mon...(展开全部)

A collection of literary essays and criticism by the award-winning author of The Golden Notebook and The Sweetest Dream includes her reviews of classic books, commentaries on world politics, and insights into the role of personal experience in the creation of literature.

在线阅读本书 Two boys. Two balloons. Each boy thinks his balloon is best. What do you think?

Mark Cohen is a restless poet of a photographer. In GRIM STREET he demonstrates his enormous ability to grasp a winking moment of life in the back streets, isolated fleeting views of the ordinary made extraordinary. This very fine book of photographs is less attuned to compositionally correct images as emotionally charged ones. As such it is a monograph of the smarmy, dark, see...(展开全部)

本书收录了俄国作家科尔扎诺夫斯基写于1920年至1940年间的18篇哲学和幻想故事，他以极其讽刺的目光审视了历史、上帝、哲学、苏联的体制以及作家的命运，与他的《未来的回忆》(Memories of the Future)和《尸体的自传》(Autobiography of a Corpse)中的硬密黑暗的故事相比，《不知情的大街》无疑轻松了许多：一条主人已死的裤子飞奔去工作，很快就有了自己的办公室和秘书；一只装满自动补充葡萄酒的古老高脚杯驱动着它的主人进入酒杯；一位催眠师试图把一只苍蝇变成一头大象，结果适得其反；一位哲学家自由漂浮的思想与被印在书上和被埋在书里进行斗争；一个政治家变成了象棋大师，他的灵魂最终被囚禁在棋子里；一只鹦鹉从一战前的奥地利旅行到了苏联，冷眼旁观世间冷暖……