In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment.

A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh’s new book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. The Nutmeg’s Curse  argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At the center of Ghosh’s narrative is the now-ubiquitous spice nutmeg. The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation—of both human life and the natural environment. In Ghosh’s hands, the story of the nutmeg becomes a parable for our environmental crisis, revealing the ways human history has always been entangled with earthly materials such as spices, tea, sugarcane, opium, and fossil fuels. Our crisis, he shows, is ultimately the result of a mechanistic view of the earth, where nature exists only as a resource for humans to use for our own ends, rather than a force of its own, full of agency and meaning.

Writing against the backdrop of the global pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests, Ghosh frames these historical stories in a way that connects our shared colonial histories with the deep inequality we see around us today. By interweaving discussions on everything from the global history of the oil trade to the migrant crisis and the animist spirituality of Indigenous communities around the world, The Nutmeg’s Curse offers a sharp critique of Western society and speaks to the profoundly remarkable ways in which human history is shaped by non-human forces.

A left wing book that challenges a broad range of basic middle class left wing assumptions, about art and politics; its broad range of subjects, that make up a cohesive whole, include; Freud, Althusser, Theatre, Arts Council Funding, Violence in Theatre, Modern Art, Censorship, The Royal Court and the modern Labour Party. A comprehensive attack on the left wing establishment by one of its most independent-minded critics, and author of the radical "A Working Class Alternative to Labour". Dame Beryl Bainbridge called it "a handbook for rebellion against the theatre and academic and political establishments".

《厌女》不是一部纯理论性著作，而是运用女性主义理论针对日本当代的各种社会现象的实践性分析。《厌女》处理了广泛的日本题材，其中既有文学性的，比如谈到小说家吉行淳之介、永井荷风、林真理子等，更多的则是社会性的。上野千鹤子谈到的许多现象，尤其是家庭的、婚姻的，在中国也有很类似的情况。知性的读者会从这些论述中获得强烈共鸣并得到理论上的指引。

◎ 编辑推荐
★“她们的命运里，有你所不了解的中国。”
第一本深度书写中国乡镇女性生活、情感与命运的佳作。罗新、梁鸿、李海鹏、许知远、伊险峰 赤诚推荐！
“它蕴含的丰富性将会让盐镇在文学和文化史意义上留下一席之地。”——伊险峰
★知名媒体人易小荷历时一年沉浸式调查，采访近100位当地居民，以12位女性在阶级、城乡、偏见中挣扎求生的故事，展开一个我们身边的、你不曾了解过的真实的底层中国。
★盐镇，一个位于中国“锈带”的边地小镇，也是4万多个正在经历着从传统到现代嬗变阵痛的中国小镇之一。把它作为样本，可以管窥更广阔的真实中国的面貌。
★不被看见、不被听见的她们，是每一个小镇女性，每一个没有走出去的我们的缩影。
早早辍学在小镇叱咤风云的00后幺妹，经济独立却惧怕离婚的女强人，面临家暴威胁却选择复婚的媒婆，历经四嫁开猫儿店的九十老妪……我们说着同样的语言，被同样的历史洗涤，某种程度上她们就是我们。
她们的故事不是历史的注脚，她们就是历史本身。
◎ 内容简介
这是一本让读者时刻都会感到触目惊心的书。
在四川南部的古老盐业小镇，女人们过着看似波澜不惊实则惊心动魄的生活。早早辍学在小镇叱咤风云的的00后幺妹，经济独立却惧怕离婚的女强人，面临家暴威胁却选择复婚的媒婆，历经四嫁开猫儿店的九十老妪，她们在21世纪仍旧重复着古老时代的人生轮回，在婚姻和贫困的夹缝里，挣扎求生。
中国有四万多个乡镇，却只有一个北京、上海、深圳。易小荷回到故乡，选择了一个再普通不过的小镇，又在这里选取了12个再普通不过的女人，持续探寻她们对国家、社会、家庭、婚姻的理解，跟随她们再一次经历被“放咸”的人生。她想知道，在这样一个被遗忘的小镇，那些默默无闻的女人们，在新旧交替的时代里，会活出怎样的人生？
历时一年的田野调查，易小荷记录下不被看见、不被听见的她们的生命。在这个如盐一般凝固在时光里的小镇，我们将看到一个不一样的城乡中国。
◎ 名人推荐
这是一本有关“愤怒的女性”的书，与约翰·斯坦贝克上世纪三十年代所做的事情一样：触及生活苦难的深处，抱以巨大的怜悯，爱，还有对不公正、对不平等的愤怒。易小荷通过这些女性的故事，告诉我们一个道理是，感慨“命运”是浅薄的，女性愤怒的指向清晰。
无论是国民性的挖掘，还是性别意识的自觉，易小荷似乎承继了民国一脉，这本书让我想起萧红的《呼兰河传》，它带给我的震动也同样如此，它蕴含的丰富性将会让“盐镇”在文学和文化史意义上留下一席之地。
——知名媒体人、作家 伊险峰
《盐镇》对于女性如何在困境中度过漫长时光的关注，及其质感丰富从容不迫，都令人想起最好的女性作家们。同时它也是唤醒我们关于“严肃”一词的记忆的真正的新闻报道，是关于女性的系统性困境的一份扎实的证词。它的内容和质量，都让人不仅意识到女性多么令人同情，还意识到她们多么令人尊敬。
——知名媒体人 李海鹏
十二个女性的人生，照亮小镇所有的后街，成就一曲不向命运低头的生命颂歌。纵然太史公复生，也不见得会比易小荷做得更好。
——北大历史系教授 罗新
易小荷的《盐镇》读起来鲜明、真实、富于质感。小镇中的每一个人都携带着各自独特的生命气息、命运经历从质朴无华的小镇走出来，既呈现了作为个体的血肉气质，也汇入了时代精神的沉渊。在此意义上，小镇、小镇上每一器物和每一个个人都拥有了极为动人的存在感和历史感。每个人的记忆中都有这样一个“盐镇”。
——作家 梁鸿
多谢小荷的敏锐与深情，这些总被淹没、忽略的故事才来到我们眼前。古镇上的悲喜命运，令我感慨不已。
——单向空间创始人、作家 许知远
阅读《盐镇》，感受盐浸入创口的切肤之痛；虽写女人，却道出底层民众的惨淡人生；结构性困境隐约可见：贫穷，病痛，暴力、懦弱，无奈，冷漠，麻木的根源所在。一个心怀悲悯的媒体人，如此关注下层普通人的生存状态，难能可贵。
——清华大学社会学系教授 郭于华

A dazzling tour through 2,000 years of audacious utopian thinking and experiments, exploring better ways to arrange our daily lives, plus a globetrotting jaunt to the communities already putting these seemingly fanciful visions into practice today.
In the 6th century BCE, the Greek philosopher Pythagoras—a man remembered today more for his theorem about right-angled triangles than for his progressive politics—founded a commune in a seaside village in what’s now southern Italy. The men and women there shared their property, lived as equals, and dedicated themselves to the study of mathematics and the mysteries of the universe.
Ever since, humans have been dreaming up better ways to organize how we live together, share our property, raise our children, and determine who’s part of our families. Some of these experiments burned brightly for only a brief while—but others carry on today.
In Everyday Utopia, fascinatingly feminist thinker Kristen R. Ghodsee whisks you away on a tour through history and around the world to explore those places that have boldly dared to reimagine how we might live our daily lives: from the Danish cohousing communities that share chores and deepen neighborly bonds to matriarchal Colombian ecovillages where residents grow all their own food; and from Connecticut, where new laws make it easier for extra “alloparents” to help raise children not their own, to China, where planned microdistricts ensure everything a busy household might need is nearby.
One of those startlingly rare books that upends what you think is possible, Everyday Utopia offers a radically hopeful vision for how to build more contented and connected societies, alongside a practical guide to what we all can do in the meantime to live the good life each and every day.

The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything
Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root of this mythology is a rich history of pirate societies―vibrant, imaginative experiments in self-governance and alternative social formations at the edges of European empire.
In graduate school, David Graeber conducted ethnographic field research in Madagascar, producing what would eventually become a doctoral thesis on the island’s magic, slavery, and politics. During this time, he encountered the Zana-Malata, an ethnic group made up of mixed descendants of the many pirates who settled on the island at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Pirate Enlightenment or the Real Libertalia, Graeber's final posthumous book, is the outgrowth of this early research, and the culmination of ideas that he explored in his classic, bestselling works Debt and The Dawn of Everything (written with the archeologist David Wengrow). Graeber explores how the proto-democratic practices of the Zana-Malata came to shape the Enlightenment project defined for too long as distinctly European. He illuminates the non-European origins of what we consider to be “Western” thought, and endeavors to recover forgotten forms of social and political order that gesture toward new, hopeful possibilities for the future.

The Strega Award–winning Italian author’s “scalding and incisive” novel of marriage and family bonds that come undone in the wake of an affair (Library Journal, starred review).

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

A Sunday Times and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year

Winner of the 2015 Bridge Prize for Best Novel

Italy, 1970s. Like many marriages, Vanda and Aldo’s has been subject to strain, attrition, and the burden of routine. Yet it has survived intact. Or so things appear. The rupture in their marriage lies years in the past, but if one looks closely enough, the fissures and fault lines are evident. It is a cracked vase that may shatter at the slightest touch. Or perhaps it has already shattered, and nobody is willing to acknowledge the fact.
Domenico Starnone’s thirteenth work of fiction is a powerful short novel about relationships, family, love, and the ineluctable consequences of one’s actions. Known as a consummate stylist and beloved as a talented storyteller, Domenico Starnone is the winner of Italy’s most prestigious literary award, the Strega.

“The leanest, most understated and emotionally powerful novel by Domenico Starnone.”―The New York Times

在线阅读：https://www.gongchao.org/cn/diguan-zhongguo/

本书汇集了具备批判性左翼观点的行动者和学者，对中国在世界中的角色、以及中国国内的社会冲突和动员行动进行了详细的分析。

本书基于2020到2021年之间举行的一系列名为“中国与左翼：批判分析与草根运动（China and the Left – Critical Analysis and Grassroots Activism）”的线上讲座，获得了gongchao.org 、Made in China Journal 、positions politics 和Critical China Scholars 的赞助。

编辑后本书收录的文章涵盖的关键议题包括，女权运动、科技业员工的组织行动、对新疆的打压、台湾的左翼、香港的右翼势力、中国在印尼的投资和劳工抗争、以及对1949年后中国历史和有争议的改革过程的重新审视，对“重新思考”中国在二十一世纪的角色很有必要。

2015年度诺贝尔文学奖得主阿列克谢耶维奇最具分量的作品
发表后荣获德国书业和平奖（2013）、法国美第契散文奖（2013）、俄罗斯「大书奖」读者票选最佳文学作品（2014）、波兰卡普钦斯基报告文学奖（2015）
本书是白俄罗斯著名作家阿列克谢耶维奇最新作品，通过口述采访的形式，展现身处关键历史时刻的普通人的生活。本书讲述了苏联解体后，1991年到2012年二十年间的痛苦的社会转型中，俄罗斯普通人的生活，为梦想破碎付出的代价。在书中，从学者到清洁工，每个人都在重新寻找生活的意义。他们的真实讲述同时从宏观和微观上呈现出一个重大的时代，一个社会的变动，为这一段影响深远的历史赋予了人性的面孔。苏联解体已逾二十年，俄罗斯人重新发现了世界，世界也重新认识了俄罗斯。新一代已经成长起来，他们的梦想已不再关乎梦想，不再像90年代他们的父辈，关心信仰。二十年来，人们看了崭新的俄罗斯，但她却早已不是任何人曾经梦想过的俄罗斯了。作者追溯了苏联和苏联解体之后的历史过程，让普通的小人物讲述他们自己的故事，从而展现出身处历史的转折，以及人们如何追寻信仰、梦想，如何诉说秘密和恐惧，让人们重新思考什么是“俄罗斯”和“俄罗斯人”，为什么他们无法适应急剧的现代化，为什么再近两百年之后，依然与欧洲相隔。本书分为上下两部分，采访了生长于理想之下的俄罗斯人和今天的俄罗斯人，以及阿塞拜疆等前苏联国家的普通人，呈现他们的生活细节，所感所想。德国媒体盛赞该书撷取的是最为细小的马赛克，却拼出了一幅完整的后苏联时代图景。“一部20世纪后半叶的微观俄国史，笔力直抵普京时代。”