"[A] 21st-century response to Herman Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener.'"―NPR "A revelation."―Time A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing, and ideally, very little thinking. Her first gig--watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing co...(展开全部)

Bringing Up Bébé meets Last Child in the Woods in this lively, insightful memoir about a mother who sets out to discover if the nature-centric parenting philosophy of her native Scandinavia holds the key to healthier, happier lives for her American children. When Swedish-born Linda McGurk moved to small-town Indiana with her American husband to start a family, she quickly reali...(展开全部)

At the heart of Happiness As Such is an absence―an abyss that draws everyone nearer to its edge―created by the departure of a family’s wayward only son, Michele, who has fled from Italy to England to escape the dangers and threats of his radical political ties. This novel is part epistolary: his mother writes letters to him, nagging him; his sister Angelica writes to him too; s...(展开全部)

《西西里岛的守望》编辑推荐：英国二战后最伟大的作家之一，亲身经历过人类最惨烈的两场战役，用深沉冷静的理性和澎湃的感情，讲述一段痛彻心扉的“倾城之恋”。爱情，不单在青春明媚的岁月中肆意绽放。胆怯、微小的爱的火光，也会照亮暗夜里的绝望。全民“致青春”缅怀爱情的夏日里，《西西里岛的守望》给你讲述一个不一样的爱情故事。 一个亲身经历过惨烈战役的战士，一个曾被低估的大师级作家，一段真实的“倾城之恋”，一组战场后各类女人的群塑像。 爱情的向往，等待的绝望。一个不一样的爱情故事！ 穿越时空，穿越人类最惨烈的战争，给你讲述一段痛彻心扉、刻骨铭心的亲身经历！ 女人的柔韧、坚强、软弱，犹豫、虚荣……一组真实的战后女人群塑像！

Jacques Lacan claimed that his theory of feminine sexuality, including the infamous proposition, "the Woman does not exist," constituted a revision of his earlier work on "the ethics of psychoanalysis." In Imagine There's No Woman, Joan Copjec shows how Freud's ragtag, nearly incoherent notion of sublimation was refashioned by Lacan to become the key term in his ethics. To trac...(展开全部)

The poems of John Hejduk are almost nonpoetic: still lives of memory, sites of possessed places. They give a physical existence to the words themselves and an autobiographical dimension to the architect. Architect Peter Eisenman likens them to "secret agents in an enemy camp."Writing about Hejduk's poems in 1980, Eisenman observed, "Walter Benjamin has said that Baudelaire's wr...(展开全部)

The poems of John Hejduk are almost nonpoetic: still lives of memory, sites of possessed places. They give a physical existence to the words themselves and an autobiographical dimension to the architect. Architect Peter Eisenman likens them to "secret agents in an enemy camp."Writing about Hejduk's poems in 1980, Eisenman observed, "Walter Benjamin has said that Baudelaire's wr...(展开全部)

安德烈斯·巴尔瓦（Andrés Barba，1975— ） 西语界当红小说家，已出版十三部作品，除小说外包括了散文、诗歌及摄影集，作品被翻译成十种语言。同时，他也是托马斯·德·昆西、赫尔曼·梅尔维尔、约瑟夫·康拉德、亨利·詹姆斯和司各特·菲茨杰拉德等著名作家的西语译者。 2010年，巴尔瓦被《格兰塔》杂志评选为二十二个最杰出的西语青年作家之一。曾于1997年和2006年两获托伦特·巴列斯特尔叙事文学奖，2007年获阿纳格拉玛散文奖，2011年获胡安·马奇叙事文学奖，2017年获赫拉尔德小说奖。

Darren Shan has been made a half-vampire by Mr Crepsley, but the Cirque Du Freak holds more unpleasant surprises for the vampire's assistant. Darren joins the vampire, Mr Crepsley, as his assistant and they return to the Cirque Du Freak. There, Darren makes friends with the snake-boy, Evra Von (who knows what Darren is) and a local boy, Sam, and RV, an eco-warrior and animal lo...(展开全部)

This is a vintage murder mystery. Private detective and poet Nigel Strangeways is invited to address the Maiden Astbury literary society. The picturesque Dorset town is home to Bunnett's Brewery, run by the much disliked, and feared, Eustace Bunnett and shortly before Nigel's visit, Bunnett's dog Truffles, was found dead in one of the brewery's vats. The culprit was never caugh...(展开全部)