纪实
血疫 豆瓣
THE HOT ZONE
8.6 (248 个评分) 作者: [美] 理查德·普雷斯顿 译者: 姚向辉 上海译文出版社 2016 - 3
文明与病毒之间,只隔了一个航班的距离。
来自热带雨林的危险病毒,可在24小时内乘飞机抵达地球上的任何城市。航空线路连接了全世界的所有城市,构成网络。
埃博拉已经进入网络,开始环球旅行。
卡尔•约翰逊,埃博拉病毒的发现者之一,他在病毒探索史上是个大人物,发现并命名了地球上好几种最危险的病原体。
“大自然并不平静,我很高兴,”他这么说,“但在今天这样的日子里,咱们就当大自然很平静好了。所有怪物和猛兽都有平静的时刻。”
“扎伊尔当时发生了什么?”我问。
“我们抵达金沙萨的时候,那儿根本就是个疯人院,”他说,“我们知道那里的情况很糟糕,我们知道我们在和某种新病毒打交道。我们不知道它能不能像流感那样,通过空气中的悬浮液滴传播。假如埃博拉能轻易通过空气传播,今天的世界恐怕就大不一样了。”
“会怎么样?”
“人类会少很多。假如一种病毒与呼吸系统密切相关,那么你想控制住它就非常困难了。我心里想,假如埃博拉具备高致死率,又能通过液滴传播,那么全世界就不存在安全的地方了。与其在伦敦歌剧院被传染,还不如去爆发中心工作呢。”
“你担心那会是一次威胁整个人类的危机吗?”
他盯着我。“这话什么意思?”
“意思是一种能抹平人类的病毒。”
“唔,我想有这个可能性——当然到现在还没有出现。我并不担心那个。更有可能的是这种病毒有能力按比例减少人口。比方说百分之三十。百分之九十。”
“人类被杀死十分之九?你不担心?”
他脸上闪过一丝神秘的沉思表情。“假如一种病毒能减少一个物种的密度,那么这种病毒也许还是有用的。”
这就是大自然。仔细想一想,从河流到海洋,大自然充满了杀手。
2021年5月2日 已读
在当下读别有一番滋味。第一章和最后一章很震撼。脱开人类的主线视角,地球不过是在平衡和免疫人类罢了。
病毒 纪实 非虚构
She Said 豆瓣 Goodreads
9.8 (10 个评分) 作者: Jodi Kantor / Megan Twohey Penguin Press 2019 - 9
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and abuse for the New York Times, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movement
For many years, reporters had tried to get to the truth about Harvey Weinstein's treatment of women. Rumors of wrongdoing had long circulated. But in 2017, when Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey began their investigation into the prominent Hollywood producer for the New York Times, his name was still synonymous with power. During months of confidential interviews with top actresses, former Weinstein employees, and other sources, many disturbing and long-buried allegations were unearthed, and a web of onerous secret payouts and nondisclosure agreements was revealed. These shadowy settlements had long been used to hide sexual harassment and abuse, but with a breakthrough reporting technique Kantor and Twohey helped to expose it. But Weinstein had evaded scrutiny in the past, and he was not going down without a fight; he employed a team of high-profile lawyers, private investigators, and other allies to thwart the investigation. When Kantor and Twohey were finally able to convince some sources to go on the record, a dramatic final showdown between Weinstein and the New York Times was set in motion.
Nothing could have prepared Kantor and Twohey for what followed the publication of their initial Weinstein story on October 5, 2017. Within days, a veritable Pandora's box of sexual harassment and abuse was opened. Women all over the world came forward with their own traumatic stories. Over the next twelve months, hundreds of men from every walk of life and industry were outed following allegations of wrongdoing. But did too much change--or not enough? Those questions hung in the air months later as Brett Kavanaugh was nominated to the Supreme Court, and Christine Blasey Ford came forward to testify that he had assaulted her decades earlier. Kantor and Twohey, who had unique access to Ford and her team, bring to light the odyssey that led her to come forward, the overwhelming forces that came to bear on her, and what happened after she shared her allegation with the world.
In the tradition of great investigative journalism, She Said tells a thrilling story about the power of truth, with shocking new information from hidden sources. Kantor and Twohey describe not only the consequences of their reporting for the #MeToo movement, but the inspiring and affecting journeys of the women who spoke up--for the sake of other women, for future generations, and for themselves.
2021年3月17日 已读
今天去看这一切,好像什么都没改变。但是不迈这一步,什么都不会开始改变。
女性 纪实
看见 豆瓣 Goodreads 博客來
8.8 (888 个评分) 作者: 柴静 广西师范大学出版社 2013 - 1 其它标题: 看見
《看见》是知名记者和主持人柴静讲述央视十年历程的自传性作品,既是柴静个人的成长告白书,某种程度上亦可视作中国社会十年变迁的备忘录。十年前她被选择成为国家电视台新闻主播,却因毫无经验而遭遇挫败,非典时期成为现场记者后,现实生活犬牙交错的切肤之感,让她一点一滴脱离外在与自我的束缚,对生活与人性有了更为宽广与深厚的理解。十年之间,非典、汶川地震、两会报道、北京奥运……在每个重大事件现场,几乎都能发现柴静的身影,而如华南虎照、征地等刚性的调查报道她也多有制作。在书中,她记录下淹没在宏大叙事中的动人细节,为时代留下私人的注脚。一如既往,柴静看见并记录下新闻中给她留下强烈生命印象的个人,每个人都深嵌在世界之中,没有人可以只是一个旁观者,他人经受的,我必经受。书中记录下的人与事,是他们的生活,也是你和我的生活。
《看见》中,我没有刻意选择标志性事件,也没有描绘历史的雄心,在大量的新闻报道里,我只选择了留给我强烈生命印象的人,因为工作原因,我恰好与这些人相遇。他们是流淌的,从我心腹深处的石坝上漫溢出来,坚硬的成见和模式被一遍遍冲刷,摇摇欲坠,土崩瓦解。这种摇晃是危险的,但思想的本质就是不安。
我试着尽可能诚实地写下这不断犯错、不断推翻、不断疑问、不断重建的事实和因果,一个国家由人构成,一个人也由无数他人构成,你想如何报道一个国家,就要如何报道自已。——柴静
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