桑迪（伍迪·艾伦 Woody Allen 饰）是一个颇有名气的导演，他所拍摄的喜剧作品深得观众的喜爱。无论走到哪里，桑迪都被他的诸多粉丝拥簇着，甚至有女粉丝买通门卫，躲在他的被窝里想要和他共度春宵，这让桑迪深感困扰。
逐渐的，桑迪发现自己不再有创作喜剧的欲望，可他最近正 在拍摄的正剧却没有得到制片人的肯定。令桑迪郁闷的还远不止这些，女友多丽娅（夏洛特·兰普林 Charlotte Rampling 饰）的躁郁症眼见着有加重的趋势；情人伊莎贝尔（玛丽-克里斯汀·巴洛特 Marie-Christine Barrault 饰）和丈夫决裂，带着孩子投奔桑迪，却不愿和他共居一室，除此之外，作风极具个性的小提琴家戴茜（杰西卡·哈勃 Jessica Harper 饰）迷得桑迪神魂颠倒。站在人生交叉点的桑迪该何去何从？

Millions of lives are damaged by the legacy of parental abuse. Parents who ignored their children's needs or overburdened them with guilt. Parents who were alcoholic or addicted to drugs. Parents who were exploitative and cruel, or simply indifferent and inadequate. When these children reach adulthood the damage done by their toxic parents manifests itself in depression, or difficulties with relationships, careers and decision-making. This book confronts this painful legacy and shows why it is so difficult to put the past behind you. She offers alternatives for achieving inner peace and for freeing yourself from the frustrating patterns of your relationships with your parents. Filled with case histories and testimony from adult children of toxic parents, this book also offers the self-help techniques Dr Forward has developed to change the lives of her patients.

结婚五周年纪念日的早上，尼克·邓恩（本·阿弗莱克 Ben Affleck 饰）来到妹妹玛戈（凯莉·库恩 Carrie Coon 饰）的酒吧，咒骂抱怨那个曾经彼此恩爱缠绵的妻子艾米（罗莎蒙德·派克 Rosamund Pike 饰）以及全然看不见希望的婚姻。当他返回家中时， 却发现客厅留下了暴行的痕迹，而妻子竟不见了踪影。女探员朗达·邦妮（金·迪肯斯 Kim Dickens 饰）接到报案后赶来调查，而现场留下的种种蛛丝马迹似乎昭示着这并非是一件寻常的失踪案，其背后或许隐藏着裂变于夫妻之情的谋杀罪行。艾米的失踪通过媒体大肆渲染和妄加揣测很快闻名全国，品行不端的尼克被推上风口浪尖，至今不见踪影的爱人对他进行无情审判，你侬我侬的甜言蜜语早已化作以血洗血的复仇与折磨……
本片根据吉莉安·弗琳（Gillian Flynn）的同名小说改编。

The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years and her determined journey through the realm of available treatments. Reprint. 125,000 first printing. NYT.

屋子中倒着一具尸体，门帘还在颤动，从窗户中看出去，一个神父模样的人匆匆走远。在街角，他脱下外袍，露出自己本来的衣服。他走进教堂，昏暗的灯光中见到一位神父，年轻的神父认出他是教堂管事凯勒，凯勒要求罗根神父为他忏悔。在告解室，凯勒说出了自己谋财害死伊列斯特先生的经过……
忏情记是电影大师希区考克最强烈、邪恶黑暗的故事，述说内心心灵混乱和外在身体的危险的故事。罗根的道德危机透过蒙哥马利强力精湛表演而扣人心弦。奥斯卡金像奖四次入围提名的蒙哥马利克里夫穿透人心的锐利双眼和沉思忧郁热情风迷了所有观众，他成为演出这个角色的最佳人选。奥斯卡得奖人安贝丝特和卡尔共同主演，担任事件关键人物和警方监识人员角色，两人努力为罗根洗脱凶杀案指控，却反而将他推入更深渊的陷阱里。海瑟饰演教堂司事--真正凶手--奥图凯勒成为希区考克式恶徒之一，表演出完全讽刺毫无悔意的恶魔形象。
影片部份在魁北克拍摄，主要地点特色是城市的旧传统，忏情记剧情渐渐发展到往最高点，真是令人难忘。真正的希区考克风格，你得承认这部电影会让你一直不断回想，无法忘怀。
忏情记是1902年的剧本，感觉到是取材自真实生活。从电影上映后这些年来，有几件关于本片主题的真实事件已经发生。希区考克早年受过严格耶稣教会的教育，导致他想要拍这样一部电影关于牧师必须发誓，对告解所听到的任何秘密都必要守口如瓶。

The Lonely Crowd is considered by many to be the most influential book of the twentieth century. Its now-classic analysis of the 'new middle class' in terms of inner-directed and other-directed social character opened exciting new dimensions in our understanding of the psychological, political, and economic problems that confront the individual in contemporary American society. The 1969 abridged and revised edition of the book is now reissued with a new foreword by Todd Gitlin that explains why the book is still relevant to our own era.

After D.T. Suzuki, Alan Watts stands as the godfather of Zen in America. Often taken to task for inspiring the flimsy spontaneity of Beat Zen, Watts had an undeniably keen understanding of his subject. Nowhere is this more evident than in his 1957 classic The Way of Zen, which has been reissued. Watts takes the reader back to the philosophical foundations of Zen in the conceptual world of Hinduism, follows Buddhism's course through the development of the early Mahayana school, the birth of Zen from Buddhism's marriage with Chinese Taoism, and on to Zen's unique expression in Japanese art and life.
As a Westerner, Watts anticipates the stumbling blocks encountered with such concepts as emptiness and no-mind, then illustrates with flawlessly apt examples. Many popular books have been written on Zen since Watts' time, but few have been able to muster the rare combination of erudition and clarity that have kept The Way of Zen in readers' hands decade after decade. --Brian Bruya
In his definitive introduction to Zen Buddhism, Alan Watts explains the principles and practices of this ancient religion to Western readers. With a rare combination of freshness and lucidity, he delves into the origins and history of Zen to explain what it means for the world today with incredible clarity. Watts saw Zen as “one of the most precious gifts of Asia to the world,” and in The Way of Zen he gives this gift to readers everywhere.

我们每天都在讨论该如何生活，如何使自己过得更开心。这部片子的导演也在探讨。一伙朋友在小酒馆里讨论该如何面对生活，他们将所有态度浓缩成两个极端，哭或者笑。
他们假设了这样一个叫美莲达（拉达•米契尔 Radha Mitchell 饰）的女人的故事：美莲达有一个幸福的家庭，一对儿女。但是她偏偏出轨了，被丈夫起诉离婚，儿女都判给了丈夫。当她满怀憧憬准备与情人开始新生活时，情人也抛弃了她。愤怒的美莲达杀了情人，被法院认定患有精神分裂，无罪释放。只是，她连探视儿女的权利也失去了。
美莲达的故事还在继续，只是由两个代表不同态度的朋友分别再开始讲述……

Paul Auster’s signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room—haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

This shocking, lively exposure of the intellectual vacuity of today’s under thirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a nation of know-nothings.
Can a nation continue to enjoy political and economic predominance if its citizens refuse to grow up?
For decades, concern has been brewing about the dumbed-down popular culture available to young people and the impact it has on their futures. At the dawn of the digital age, many believed they saw a hopeful answer: The Internet, e-mail, blogs, and interactive and hyper-realistic video games promised to yield a generation of sharper, more aware, and intellectually sophisticated children. The terms “information superhighway” and “knowledge economy” entered the lexicon, and we assumed that teens would use their knowledge and understanding of technology to set themselves apart as the vanguards of this new digital era.
That was the promise. But the enlightenment didn’t happen. The technology that was supposed to make young adults more astute, diversify their tastes, and improve their verbal skills has had the opposite effect. According to recent reports, most young people in the United States do not read literature, visit museums, or vote. They cannot explain basic scientific methods, recount basic American history, name their local political representatives, or locate Iraq or Israel on a map. The Dumbest Generation is a startling examination of the intellectual life of young adults and a timely warning of its consequences for American culture and democracy.
Drawing upon exhaustive research, personal anecdotes, and historical and social analysis, Mark Bauerline presents an uncompromisingly realistic portrait of the young American mind at this critical juncture, and lays out a compelling vision of how we might address its deficiencies.

卡莉（卡梅隆·迪亚茨 Cameron Diaz 饰）是一位精明强干的律师，无论对于生活还是男人，她所要求的无疑都是最好和最完美的。一次偶然中，卡莉结识了名叫马克（尼可拉·科斯特-瓦尔道 Nikolaj Coster-Waldau 饰）的男子，后者的英俊和潇洒立刻就吸引了卡莉的注意，没过多久，两人就坠入了爱河。
为了给马克一个惊喜，卡莉瞒着他来到了他的家乡，让卡莉没有想到的是，在这里迎接她的，竟然是一个自称是马克妻子的女人凯特（莱斯利·曼恩 Leslie Mann 饰），而凯特对于卡莉的存在亦是一无所知。直到这时，卡莉才开始渐渐看清马克的真实面目，她和凯特决定联手，将其揭穿。之后，一个名为艾伯（凯特·阿普顿 Kate Upton 饰）的女人加入了她们，三个女人联合在一起，好戏即将上演。

裘西（德鲁•巴里摩尔 饰）的职业是一名编辑，可是她最想做的是记者。相貌平平的她从未与别人亲吻过，因此她也期盼着属于自己的真爱出现。
报社为了增加销量，决定让裘西假扮高中生到校园调查，做一个年轻人言行的报导。这次机会成就了裘西的梦。但进入校园后她受到了同学们的嘲弄，取笑她是丑小鸭。既然当上记者了，裘西就力求把任务做到最好，于是她一改平日的风格，通过打扮要与高中生们拉近距离。可是事情并没有顺利发展，也因为遭到排挤，让她做出来的报道也未能满足老板的要求。
事情还是出现了转机，她的同学们终于接受了她。但令她矛盾的事又发生了，裘西与校内的老师森（迈克尔•瓦尔坦 饰）相爱了，老板却要她转为报道校内师生恋的情况……

"Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net's bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet's intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. As he describes how human thought has been shaped through the centuries by "tools of the mind"--from the alphabet to maps, to the printing press, the clock, and the computer--Carr interweaves a fascinating account of recent discoveries in neuroscience by such pioneers as Michael Merzenich and Eric Kandel. Our brains, the historical and scientific evidence reveals, change in response to our experiences. The technologies we use to find, store, and share information can literally reroute our neural pathways. Building on the insights of thinkers from Plato to McLuhan, Carr makes a convincing case that every information technology carries an intellectual ethic--a set of assumptions about the nature of knowledge and intelligence. He explains how the printed book served to focus our attention, promoting deep and creative thought. In stark contrast, the Internet encourages the rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources. Its ethic is that of the industrialist, an ethic of speed and efficiency, of optimized production and consumption--and now the Net is remaking us in its own image. We are becoming ever more adept at scanning and skimming, but what we are losing is our capacity for concentration, contemplation, and reflection. Part intellectual history, part popular science, and part cultural criticism, The Shallows sparkles with memorable vignettes--Friedrich Nietzsche wrestling with a typewriter, Sigmund Freud dissecting the brains of sea creatures, Nathaniel Hawthorne contemplating the thunderous approach of a steam locomotive--even as it plumbs profound questions about the state of our modern psyche. This is a book that will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds.

《红字》是霍桑的第一部长篇小说，一八五○年该书问世后，霍桑一举成名，成为当时公认的最重要的作家。《红字》故事的背景，是一六五○年前后的波士顿，当时的居民是一六二○至一六三○年间来此定居的第一代移民。他们都是在英格兰故土受詹姆斯一世迫害而抱着创建人间乐土的理想来新大陆的清教徒（加尔文主义者），史称“清教徒国父”（又译作“天路客国父”）。清教徒在英国最初是反抗罗马教皇专制、反对政教合一、反对社会腐败风气的，他们注重理智，限制感情，推崇理想，禁绝私欲；后来其中某些教派在北美殖民地却发展到极端，不但迫害异端，甚至连妇女在街上微笑都要处以监禁，儿童嬉戏也要加以鞭笞。

"Human beings were never born to read," writes Tufts University cognitive neuroscientist and child development expert Maryanne Wolf. Reading is a human invention that reflects how the brain rearranges itself to learn something new. In this ambitious, provocative book, Wolf chronicles the remarkable journey of the reading brain not only over the past five thousand years, since writing began, but also over the course of a single child's life, showing in the process why children with dyslexia have reading difficulties and singular gifts. Lively, erudite, and rich with examples, Proust and the Squid asserts that the brain that examined the tiny clay tablets of the Sumerians was a very different brain from the one that is immersed in today's technology-driven literacy. The potential transformations in this changed reading brain, Wolf argues, have profound implications for every child and for the intellectual development of our species.

在四面环海、风景如画的阿伦黛尔王国，生活着两位可爱美丽的小公主，艾莎和安娜。艾莎天生具有制造冰雪的能力，随着年龄的增长，她的能力越来越强，甚至险些夺走妹妹的生命。为此国王紧闭宫门，也中断了两姐妹的联系。悲哀的海难过后，艾莎（伊迪娜·门泽尔 Idina Menzel 配音 ）终于到了加冕的年龄，各国王公齐来祝贺。艾莎战战兢兢，唯恐被人识破隐藏了多年的秘密。然而当听说安娜（克里斯汀·贝尔 Kristen Bell 配音）将要和初次见面的南埃尔斯王子汉斯（圣蒂诺·方塔纳 Santino Fontana 配音）结婚时，依然情绪失控露出了马脚。在此之后她逃到山中，构建了属于自己的冰雪王国，而阿伦黛尔也陷入可怕的寒冷之中。
安娜独自来到山中，在山民克斯托夫（乔纳森·格罗夫 Jonathan Groff 配音）的帮助下总算来到姐姐的宫殿，她能否让国家重新找回失落的绿意？

老外法師隨聖嚴法師出家，
煩惱竟愈來愈多，
他如何跨越自己個性和語言文化障礙？
本書是他最誠實的修行筆記，
用自己實驗聖嚴法師禪法的結果報告。
一位熱愛中國功夫的典型美國男孩，隨聖嚴法師出家後，發現禪宗工夫更不可思議，本書即是他鍛鍊自我的出家心路歷程。
作者常聞法師出家前一直對生命感到焦慮，特別是對人際溝通的不安，用盡方法都無效，直至遇到明師聖嚴法師，發現平淡樸實的禪法，最能幫助他接納真實的自己，因此決心出家。
全書共分四大篇章：一、我是誰？；二、出家去；三、「僧」活大考驗；四、領執與回饋，並收錄近六十張珍貴照片。精彩內容包括早期在美國隨聖嚴法師禪修、前往臺灣法鼓山成為學僧、接受做為出家人的身心考驗、擔任聖嚴法師出國弘法時的侍者與翻譯工作……。
本書不只是一本引人好奇的西洋僧修行筆記，從尋找自我、面對自我，到放下我執領眾學禪的深刻分享，更是誠摯感人。作者跨越了語文界限，用「心法」翻譯出了禪的人生智慧。

◆当今文学世界最伟大的心灵，当代人文主义批评大师 乔治•斯坦纳经典代表作
◆最彻骨的现代启示录，最宏阔的人文主义襟怀
本书的主题——对政治暴行的深入反思——极具当代性
对文学的梳理兼具历史感与现实关怀
可谓能指引我们重识自身与时代的经典作品
◆著名学者李欧梵倾情作序推荐
本书是乔治•斯坦纳的代表作，也是20世纪西方人文批评的经典著作。其核心议题是语言、文学批评与人道主义（及反人道主义）。其辑录的文章写于不同时期，但都共有一个根本的主题——语言的生命。在斯坦纳看来，语言是文化的代表。而现代西方的几股非人道主义逆流（尤其是纳粹）导致了语言文化的滥用与污染，使西方文学的创作陷入“沉默”。因此，在经历了种种浩劫之后，语言及其相关的现实世界究竟该何去何从？批评家与知识分子在这一过程中又该担当何种责任？

本书以大量的第一手资料，忠实地追述世界文豪陀思妥耶夫斯基的三次爱情经历，观察他对待女性的态度，剔除了对于事实真相的羞涩的沉默与常见的涂脂抹粉，以丰满的细节展示了陀氏圣洁情感与炙热情欲交杂的内心世界和情爱里程。