To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One idyllic, midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked Woolf's river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.

Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bauhaus collects the unparalleled writings of legendary British wordsmith Janet Abrams for the first time. From pivotal figures in international modernism to the pioneers of digital media, Abrams explores the ideas, theories, and emotions that fueled their work.
The book's twenty-six profiles—written in Abrams's signature, personal, often hilarious style—include Reyner Banham, Berthold Lubetkin, Philip Johnson, Paul Rand, Phyllis Lambert, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Muriel Cooper, April Greiman, and Michael Bloomberg. It brings together essays that originally appeared in publications on both sides of the Atlantic, in Blueprint, I.D. magazine, The Independent, and in books and catalogs from the 1980s through the early 2000s. A foreword by Blueprint's founding editor, Deyan Sudjic, and new reflections by Abrams, set the stage.

Widely considered the preeminent Chinese woman poet, Li Qingzhao (1084-1150s) occupies a crucial place in China’s literary and cultural history. She stands out as the great exception to the rule that the first-rank poets in premodern China were male. But at what price to our understanding of her as a writer does this distinction come? The Burden of Female Talent challenges conventional modes of thinking about Li Qingzhao as a devoted but often lonely wife and, later, a forlorn widow. By examining manipulations of her image by the critical tradition in later imperial times and into the twentieth century, Ronald C. Egan brings to light the ways in which critics sought to accommodate her to cultural norms, molding her “talent” to make it compatible with ideals of womanly conduct and identity. Contested images of Li, including a heated controversy concerning her remarriage and its implications for her “devotion” to her first husband, reveal the difficulty literary culture has had in coping with this woman of extraordinary conduct and ability. The study ends with a reappraisal of Li’s poetry, freed from the autobiographical and reductive readings that were traditionally imposed on it and which remain standard even today.

In the age of Trump and Brexit, every crisis is instantly overridden by the next. The turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century generates anxiety and makes it difficult to know how to react. Olivia Laing makes a brilliant, inspiring case for why art matters more than ever, as a force of both resistance and repair. Art, she argues, changes how we see the world. It gives us X-ray vision. It reveals inequalities and offers fertile new ways of living.
Funny Weather brings together a career’s worth of Laing’s writing about art and culture, and their role in our political and emotional lives. She profiles Jean-Michel Basquiat and Georgia O’Keeffe, interviews Hilary Mantel and Ali Smith, writes love letters to David Bowie and Wolfgang Tillmans, and explores loneliness and technology, women and alcohol, sex and the body. With characteristic originality and compassion, Funny Weather celebrates art as an antidote to a terrifying political moment.

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness and marriage combine to leave Oedipa in isolation on the threshold of revelation, awaiting the Crying of Lot 49.

"Surreal Friends" brings together for the first time the work of three women Surrealist artists, friends in exile in Mexico in the 1940s: British painter Leonora Carrington, Spanish painter Remedios Varo and Hungarian photographer Kati Horna. Leonora Carrington fled to Mexico in the 1940s when her love affair with Max Ernst was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War. In Mexico City she found herself liberated from her English upper-class background and from the expectations of the older male Surrealists of whose circle she had been a part in Paris and New York. She made new friendships - with Varo and Horna especially, but also with other refugees from war-torn Europe and with Mexican artists and writers including Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Octavio Paz. Remedios Varo arrived in Mexico City in 1941, having fled Nazi-occupied Paris with her lover, the French Surrealist poet Benjamin Peret. Until her early death in 1963, she produced a wealth of paintings inspired by the spirit and freedom of Mexico, in which magic, humour and illusion feature strongly. Kati Horna was born in Hungary and moved to Paris to pursue a career as a photographer. With her husband Jose Horna she documented the Spanish Civil War, before moving with him to Mexico City in 1939. In Mexico she became a photojournalist for various newspapers and also took on more personal photography projects, much of this work suffused with a Surrealist thread. For all three women, Mexico offered freedom to explore their art in ways that had not been possible in Europe. "Surreal Friends" tells the fascinating story of their artistic friendship.

The adventures that fill the strange and wonderful paintings by Remedios Varo (1908-1963) reflect the physical and psychological journeys of her own tumultuous life. Raised in a strict Spanish family and rigorously trained in academic art, Varo first found escape in Barcelona's bohemian avant-garde. After fleeing the Spanish Civil War with the poet Benjamin Peret, later her husband, she entered the inner circle of the Surrealists in Paris. Forced to flee again by the Nazis, she and Peret faced a year of mounting danger in Marseilles before securing passage to Mexico. Finding welcome refuge in Mexico City, where she remained until her death, Varo produced the extraordinary paintings for which she gained renown. Painted with a jewel-like palette and old-master precision, Varo's intimate tableaux, rich with details of women's experience, tell fantasy tales of alchemy, science, mysticism, and magic. Fifty color reproductions capture the wit and beauty of her major paintings; numerous black-and-white illustrations document other works and portray the compelling artist with her circle of lifelong friends and admirers. The book is further enlivened by her own voice, conveyed in hilarious letters and surreal stories, published here for the first time. An instant celebrity in Mexico -- where her retrospectives have drawn record crowds -- Varo has recently found enthusiastic audiences in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. A retrospective of her work opens at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., in February 2000.

This much-anticipated publication will have an introductory text by well-known writer Masayo Nonaka, curator of the exhibition "Women Surrealists in Mexico" and author of numerous books on Mexican surrealism. Masayo's text will offer a unique insight into the life and work of Remedios Varo. Richly illustrated, the volume will present the painter's most important works. Through the forthcoming exhibition "In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States," to be held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 2012 and then at a venue in Canada, Remedios Varo's work will also gain exposure to a wider audience.

While the reputation of Remedios Varo (1908–63) the surrealist painter is now well established, Remedios Varo the writer has yet to be fully discovered. Her writings, which were never published during her life let alone translated into English, present something of a missing chapter and offer the same qualities to be found in her visual work: an engagement with mysticism and magic, a breakdown of the border between the everyday and the marvelous, a love of mischief and an ongoing meditation on the need for (and the trauma of) escape in all its forms.
This volume brings together the painter's collected writings and includes an unpublished interview, letters to friends and acquaintances (as well as to people unknown), dream accounts, notes for unrealized projects, a project for a theater piece, whimsical recipes for controlled dreaming, exercises in surrealist automatic writing and prose poem commentaries on her paintings. It also includes her longest manuscript, the pseudoscientific, De Homo Rodans, an absurdist study of the wheeled predecessor to Homo sapiens (the skeleton of which Varo had built out of chicken bones). Ostensibly written by the invented anthropologist Hälikcio von Fuhrängschmidt, Varo's text utilizes eccentric Latin and a tongue-in-cheek pompous discourse to explain the origins of the first umbrella and in what ways Myths are merely corrupted Myrtles.

Now in a fully corrected edition, one of the true spiritual classics of the twentieth century.
Published for the first time with an index and Cardinal Hans Urs von Balthasar's afterword, this new English publication of Meditations on the Tarot is the landmark edition of one of the most important works of esoteric Christ-ianity. Written anonymously and published posthumously, as was the author's wish, the intention of this work is for the reader to find a relationship with the author in the spiritual dimensions of existence. The author wanted not to be thought of as a personality who lived from 1900 to 1973, but as a friend who is communicating with us from beyond the boundaries of ordinary life.

The first comprehensive collection of Nest, the magazine that revolutionized the way we look at interior space and decoration
The brainchild of artist and designer Joe Holtzman, Nest magazine, published from 1997 to 2004, eschewed the conventionally beautiful luxury interiors of other magazines and instead featured non-traditional, exceptional, and unusual environments. The Best of Nest, created by master bookmaker Todd Oldham, includes selections from all 26 issues in a series of portfolios featuring the work of writers and photographers such as Michael Cunningham, Patti Smith, Nan Goldin, and Derry Moore. Holtzman also contributes an essay offering a look behind the scenes of each issue.

Building for Oil is a historical account of the development of the oil town of Daqing in northeastern China during the formative years of the People’s Republic, describing Daqing’s rise and fall as a national model city. Daqing oil field was the most profitable state-owned enterprise and the single largest source of state revenue for almost three decades, from the 1950s through the early 1980s. The book traces the roots and maturation of the Chinese socialist state and its early industrialization and modernization policies during a time of unprecedented economic growth.
The metamorphosis of Daqing’s physical landscape in many ways exemplified the major challenges and changes taking place in Chinese state and society. Through detailed, often personal descriptions of the process of planning and building Daqing, the book illuminates the politics between party leaders and elite ministerial cadres and examines the diverse interests, conflicts, tensions, functions, and dysfunctions of state institutions and individuals. Building for Oil records the rise of the “Petroleum Group” in the central government while simultaneously revealing the everyday stories and struggles of the working men and women who inhabited China’s industrializing landscape—their beliefs, frustrations, and pursuit of a decent life.

Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world
We live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies. There is little consideration for women as mothers, workers or carers. The urban streets often are a place of threats rather than community. Gentrification has made the everyday lives of women even more difficult. What would a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers with strollers on the school run. A public space with enough toilets. A place where women can walk without harassment.
In Feminist City, through history, personal experience and popular culture Leslie Kern exposes what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities built into our cities, homes, and neighborhoods. Kern offers an alternative vision of the feminist city. Taking on fear, motherhood, friendship, activism, and the joys and perils of being alone, Kern maps the city from new vantage points, laying out an intersectional feminist approach to urban histories and proposes that the city is perhaps also our best hope for shaping a new urban future. It is time to dismantle what we take for granted about cities and to ask how we can build more just, sustainable, and women-friendly cities together.

1. 2017年最值得期待的国内原创小说——这里有村上春树的奇巧构思、王小波的幽默腔调、双雪涛的北方故事。用锋刃般的语言勾勒丰富的画面，给每个故事设计奇异精巧的结构，拿戏谑幽默的腔调直面沉重与苦痛，双雪涛的作品之中有村上春树、王小波，以及许多西方现代小说的影子。除此之外，《飞行家》将写实与传奇、童话、寓言交织起来，生存的困顿、人性的困境、命运的困厄，尽现其中；历史与人性的复杂张力，被编织进故事的纹理里。
2. 为被侮辱被损害的人，为人性中珍贵的瞬间，留下虚构的记录——酷寒里有温情，黑暗里有光明，绝望里有希冀，卑微里有崇高。《飞行家》里依旧有双雪涛擅长的主题：血腥的暴力、衰落的北方、渺小的边缘人，这里有失败的小说家，枉死的工厂主，沉溺幻想的小职工，落魄潦倒的写手，被遗弃的孩子、女人或丈夫……但它更承载着爱、梦想、道德、尊严，以及人性中的光明，它们在北方铁幕般的大雪中，迸发出微小而珍贵的火光。“为那些被侮辱被损害的故乡人留下虚构的记录”，这是一切的起点，作者充满浪漫与魔幻色彩的笔调中，蕴藏着丰饶的隐喻、象征，和对现实的关照。
3. 当代中国最具大师潜质的青年小说家，创造“新的美学原则”——为故事而生的人，最纯粹的小说家。作为“在西方小说和先锋小说的光辉底下长大”的青年作家，双雪涛开辟了他独特的创作风格和美学原则。在故事的王国里，他不做文学舶来品的传声筒，走出对宏大历史主题的沉溺，打破对空洞生活场景的呈现。他赋予平凡生命以意义，让爱、梦想、尊严和自由在卑微和绝境里重生。作者极具现代感的表达格调、所关注主题的深度和硬度，决定了他在现今中国小说界的独特地位，彰显出他绝对的大师潜质。
《飞行家》共收录了双雪涛的九篇短篇小说。
缘起——为那些被侮辱被损害的故乡人留下虚构的记录；
沉淀——将历史与人性的复杂张力编织进故事的纹理里；
扎根——让爱、梦想、尊严和自由在卑微和绝境里重生。
故事发生的地点大多是没落的北方城市。艳粉街、影子湖、光明堂、红旗广场、春风歌舞厅、红星台球社……这里布满破败的街道、废弃的工厂，流窜着形形色色的人。
故事里的角色大多是被遗忘的边缘群体。久藏、小橘子、疯子廖澄湖、“少年犯”柳丁、姑鸟儿、驯养师阮灵、“疯马”马峰、“飞行家”李明奇……他们是被历史的大潮拍在岸边的鱼。
在《飞行家》里，就是由这样一群人，在这样一些地方，让凡人的热血、尊严和自由绽放出火光。

书中七个故事发生在城市中心或边缘，每个人身上都有秘密。有从云南乡村来到大城市住进陌生人家中的文学青年；有在算命婆婆身上寻找希望的沉默父亲；有曾“隐退”养猪的著名诗人……每个秘密背后都有着一个群体的命运，一个时代的底色。甚至连故事的叙述者“我”，也怀揣着不为 人知的心事。
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认识王咸多年后，才知道他写小说。读后或许不该用惊艳这般的词汇来描述，那太肤浅武断。我印象中的少年人，原来对世道人心、对人情百态有着极为冷静缜密的体察。其中隐藏的克制与温情，既有日常生活的隐晦暗涩，也在罅隙处透出散淡的光。他简约又丰饶的写法，让暗处不那么暗，让光亮也不那么强烈，或许，这才是日常生活的本原与诗性——张楚
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王咸的小说对中国当代叙事有两个重要的贡献，其一是谦卑而冷静地面对自己真实的日常生活，其二是在尽可能去除掉多余的戏剧性的同时，在暗中增加它的密度和强度——格非
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王咸叙事沉稳克制，所思含而不露，严肃中隐藏幽默，看起来从容周致，却劲力内敛，蕴蓄着极大的能量，仿佛被大雨洗过的世界——黄德海

《因难见巧：名家翻译经验谈》一书收录了多位内地和港台翻译家关于翻译的经验谈。其内容侧重于翻译家翻译经典的过程，如译前的准备、译时的甘苦、译后的心得，以及因此推展出来的译论等。本书以翔实的例子、深刻的分析将翻译过程的点滴呈现出来，而这些内容，以往只是散见于一些文章之中，缺乏有心人将之编汇成集，传诸后世。

汇集傅雷、余光中、王佐良、董乐山、许渊冲、庄绎传、金圣华、童元方等翻译大家的思悟所得。实例多，实用和趣味性强，对有志于翻译研究、语言学习的读者广有裨益，对普通读者而言也是轻松有趣的小品集。