On Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly burned outside of the Cathedral of Dijon in France. That same decade, ethnologists began to study the indigenous cultures of central New Guinea, and found men and women affectionately consuming the flesh of the ones they loved. "Everyone calls what is not their own custom barbarism," said Montaigne. In these essays...(展开全部)

New York Times Bestseller: Brilliant but nave country doctor David Newcome courts tragedy when he invites a stranger into his home.In the English factory town of Calderbury, few figures are as respect

New York Times Bestseller: Brilliant but nave country doctor David Newcome courts tragedy when he invites a stranger into his home.In the English factory town of Calderbury, few figures are as respect

马修•托马斯（Matthew Thomas），作家，出生于美国纽约，毕业于芝加哥大学。获美国霍普金斯大学文学硕士及美国加州大学欧文分校艺术硕士双学位。 《不属于我们的世纪》是马修倾注10年心血完成的小说处女作，故事围绕着爱尔兰裔美国女人艾琳的一生展开。在丈夫身患早发性阿 尔茨海默病之后，家庭三人的生活与个人追求都遭受了强烈的冲击，作者淋漓尽致地刻画了普通中产阶级家庭的现实矛盾与痛楚。这本史诗色彩的家庭小说，流动着深沉而动人的情感，更浓缩着美国社会半个多世纪以来的民生百态和世事变迁。 2013年4月，《不属于我们的世纪》成为轰动伦敦书展的话题大书，西蒙·舒斯特以超过百万美元的天价买下版权，其电影版权由好莱坞第一文学制片人斯科特·鲁丁购得。作品于夏天一经问世，便获得极高评价，同时入围包括弗莱厄蒂-邓南首作奖、英国弗里奥文学奖、英国布莱克纪念奖、都柏林国际...(展开全部)

Two summers ago, scientists removed a tiny piece of flesh from Philip Ball’s arm and turned it into a rudimentary “mini-brain.” The skin cells, removed from his body, did not die but were instead transformed into nerve cells that independently arranged themselves into a dense network and communicated with each other, exchanging the raw signals of thought. This was life—but whos...(展开全部)