In So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor at Large of The Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word. Perfectly positioned to bridge the gap between people of color and wh...(展开全部)

A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today’s racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide In So You Want to Talk about Race, editor-at-large of the Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on suc...(展开全部)

In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy -- from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans -- has put a media spotlight on racism in our society. Still, it is a difficult subject to talk about. How do you tell your roommate her joke...(展开全部)

In So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor at Large of The Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word. Perfectly positioned to bridge the gap between people of color and wh...(展开全部)

In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast’s memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When i...(展开全部)

最近在《纽约时报》网站的书评版读到了一篇文章，介绍最近在美国出版的一本新书，名叫《如何谈论一本你没有读过的书》(How　To　Talk　About　Books　You　Haven’t　Read，作者Pierre　Bay ard)引起了我的兴趣。我决定谈论这本书，虽然这本书我至今还没有读过。 《西雅图邮讯报》对这本书的简介如下：“鉴于大家都偶尔需要让自己听起来显得更有文化层次一些(或者至少假装我们读过那些大家都在使劲儿谈论的书)，本书作者决定写一本这方面的启蒙读物。这本书是写给那些爱书但缺乏足够时间去阅读的聪明人的。” “这是一本严肃的书，作者是一位法国的文学教授兼精神分析学家。”《纽约时报》的书评介绍说，“这本叫做《如何谈论一本你没有读过的书》的书能够在法国登上畅销书榜有些令人难以置信，因为在法国书籍仍然被认为是神圣的事物，而作家在法国占据的社会地位...(展开全部)

皮耶‧巴亞德（PIERRE BAYARD） 巴黎第五大學的法國文學教授兼心理分析學者。曾出版過許多書籍，《福爾摩斯錯了！》（Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of the Hound of the Baskervilles）、《誰殺了艾克洛德？》（Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?: The Mystery Behind the Agatha Christie Mystery）。他也擔任過電視評論節目主持人。

This powerful collection of stories, set in the Northwest among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration and razor-sharp sense of how people really communicate, the collection went on to become one of the most influential pieces of literary...(展开全部)

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he’d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a dozen critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and—even more important—on his writing. Equal p...(展开全部)