考虑一下历史上有名的音乐团体。 如果披头士乐队不存在，世界会是什么样子？ 这是 2019 年有趣、发人深省的电影《昨天》提出的问题，在这部电影中，一位完全不知名的年轻歌手开始向从未听过披头士乐队的世界演唱披头士乐队的热门歌曲。 披头士四人组的歌曲会像在我们这个充斥着披头士乐队的世界中一样非常受欢迎吗？ 电影声称他们会，但这是真的吗？ 披头士乐队的成功是否一定是因为他们惊人的、出色的才华？ 或许。 很难想象我们的世界没有明星、偶像和名人。 它们是我们文化和历史的一部分，似乎是永恒的、注定的。 但正如哈佛大学法学教授（也是披头士乐队的狂热粉丝）卡斯·桑斯坦（Cass Sunstein）在这本令人震惊的书中所表明的那样，事实并非如此。 他关注音乐、文学、商业、科学、政治和其他领域的有名和被遗忘（或简单忽视）的艺术家和杰出人物，探讨了为什么有些人成名而另一些...(展开全部)

Katie Carr is a good person. She recycles. She's against racism. She's a good doctor, a good mom, a good wife....well, maybe not that last one, considering she's having an affair and has just requested a divorce via cell phone. But who could blame her? For years her husband's been selfish, sarcastic, and underemployed, writing the "Angriest Man in Holloway" column for their loc...(展开全部)

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Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith’s novels are like nothing else. A true original, she is a one-of-a-kind literary sensation. Her novels consistently attract serious acclaim and discussion—and have won her a dedicated readership who are drawn again and again to the warmth, humanity and humor of her voice. How to be both is a novel ...(展开全部)

No one raises an eyebrow if you suggest that a guy who arranges his furniture just so, rolls his eyes in exaggerated disbelief, likes techno music or show tunes, and knows all of Bette Davis’s best lines by heart might, just possibly, be gay. But if you assert that male homosexuality is a cultural practice, expressive of a unique subjectivity and a distinctive relation to mains...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 阿莉·史密斯|Ali Smith 1962年生于苏格兰因弗内斯，现居住在剑桥。 她曾四次入围布克奖，两次入围百利女性小说奖，并在2015年凭借《双面人生》获得该奖，同时，《双面人生》还斩获了首届金匠奖和科斯塔文学奖。 2017年，《秋》入围布克奖短名单，登上当年《纽约时报》“十大好书”榜首，并在《卫报》于2019年评选出的“二十一世纪百佳图书”榜单中位列第八名。 她的笔触极具辨识度，外柔内刚，细腻中带着潮湿感，如同弥漫在伦敦上空的淡淡水雾，却又饱含着对民族和政治的深刻反思，仿佛一颗埋在柔软泥土中的胡桃，坚硬而温存。

【作者简介】 阿莉·史密斯|Ali Smith 1962年生于苏格兰因弗内斯，现居住在剑桥。 她曾四次入围布克奖，两次入围百利女性小说奖，并在2015年凭借《双面人生》获得该奖，同时，《双面人生》还斩获了首届金匠奖和科斯塔文学奖。 2017年，《秋》入围布克奖短名单，登上当年《纽约时报》“十大好书”榜首，并在《卫报》于2019年评选出的“二十一世纪百佳图书”榜单中位列第八名。 她的笔触极具辨识度，外柔内刚，细腻中带着潮湿感，如同弥漫在伦敦上空的淡淡水雾，却又饱含着对民族和政治的深刻反思，仿佛一颗埋在柔软泥土中的胡桃，坚硬而温存。

Katie Carr is a good person. She recycles. She's against racism. She's a good doctor, a good mom, a good wife....well, maybe not that last one, considering she's having an affair and has just requested a divorce via cell phone. But who could blame her? For years her husband's been selfish, sarcastic, and underemployed, writing the "Angriest Man in Holloway" column for their loc...(展开全部)

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