Review: "The smallest details of staid coupledom duel it out with a lusty alternate reality that begins when a woman passes up an opportunity to cheat on her longtime boyfriend in Shriver's latest (after the Orange Prize — winning We Need to Talk About Kevin). Irina McGovern, a children's book illustrator in London, lives in comfortable familiarity with husband-in-everything-bu...(展开全部)

American children's book illustrator Irina McGovern enjoys a secure, settled life in London with her smart, loyal, disciplined partner, Lawrence--until the night she finds herself inexplicably drawn to kissing another man, a passionate, extravagant, top-ranked snooker player. Two competing alternate futures hinge on this single kiss, as Irina's decision--to surrender to temptat...(展开全部)

莱昂内尔·施赖弗 Lionel Shriver 英国作家。《华尔街日报》、《卫报》和《独立报》的撰稿人，现居伦敦。 代表作：《我们得谈谈凯文的事》（橘子文学奖作品）《双重错误》《完美好家庭》《游戏掌控》《平凡而正派的罪犯》《查克与自行车乐队》《人类的女性》《生日后的世界》等。 译者王睿已翻译作品多部，文风细腻、流畅，译作《海》曾获得爱尔兰文学基金会翻译奖。

The new novel from the Orange Prize winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin It all hinges on one kiss. Whether Irina McGovern does or does not lean in to a specific pair of lips in London will determine whether she stays with her disciplined, intellectual partner Lawrence or runs off with Ramsey, a hard-living snooker player. Using a parallel universe structure, we follo...(展开全部)

The future of politics after the pandemic COVID-19 exposed the pre-existing conditions of the current global crisis. Many Western states failed to protect their populations, while others were able to suppress the virus only with sweeping social restrictions. In contrast, many Asian countries were able to make much more precise interventions. Everywhere, lockdown transformed eve...(展开全部)

A history of the postal system that once connected the Ottoman Empire Before the advent of steamships or the telegraph, the premier technology for long-distance communication was the horse-run relay system. Every empire had one—including the Ottoman Empire. In The Sublime Post, Choon Hwee Koh examines how the vast Ottoman postal system worked across three centuries by tracking...(展开全部)

这是一个关于一座城市的故事，这是一个关于都市传说的故事。我究竟可以信赖何人？少女提出疑问。我究竟能知道什么？少年发出感想。一场伴随着戏谑的游戏，就这样开始。

这是一个关于一座城市的故事，这是一个关于都市传说的故事。我究竟可以信赖何人？少女提出疑问。我究竟能知道什么？少年发出感想。一场伴随着戏谑的游戏，就这样开始。

Refusing the digital world of late capitalism In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our ‘digital age’ is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism and its financialisation of social existence, mass impoverishment, ecocide, and military terror. Scorched Earth surveys the wrecking of a living world by the...(展开全部)