In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in—or spent time—in the greatest of American cities. A masterful evocation of the city that never sleeps, The Colossus of New York captur...(展开全部)

Elizabeth Hardwick was one of America’s great postwar women of letters, celebrated as a novelist and as an essayist. Until now, however, her slim but remarkable achievement as a writer of short stories has remained largely hidden, with her work tucked away in the pages of the periodicals—such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker , and The New York Review of Books —in which it o...(展开全部)

摩根•福尔克纳（Morgan Falconer），艺术评论家，常驻纽约记者，为Art Review，The New Statementsman，Modern Painters等众多报刊撰写文章。

[作者介绍] 约翰•弗里曼（编者） 文学杂志《格兰塔》（Granta）前总编，也曾是美国国家书评协会（National Book Critics Circle）主席。他的作品常见于《纽约时报书评》《洛杉矶时报》《卫报》以及《华尔街日报》等报刊。 莫莉•卡巴普 插画家。她在2012年创作的Occupy Wall Street（占领华尔街运动）肖像作品获得了许多赞赏。 [译者介绍] 姜向明 翻译。1971年9月生。毕业于日本国立静冈大学欧美文学专业。上海翻译家协会会员。擅长英语和日语的文学翻译。主要译作有菲茨杰拉德的《那些忧伤的年轻人》、菲利普•罗斯的《退场的鬼魂》、理查德•耶茨的《好学校》等。

Based on the blog with more than two million loyal fans, a beautiful, heartfelt, funny, and inspiring collection of photographs and stories capturing the spirit of a city Now an instant #1 New York Times bestseller, Humans of New York began in the summer of 2010, when photographer Brandon Stanton set out to create a photographic census of New York City. Armed with his camera, ...(展开全部)

One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost half a century, the single most powerful man of our time in New York, the shape...(展开全部)

One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens—the way thi...(展开全部)