How do you walk behind a woman you don’t know at night?
What do you do if you’ve said goodbye, but then both walk off in the same direction?
Or if you’re caught cheating on your hairdresser?
Or when you spot someone purposely not taking your call?

Well, if you’re Danny Wallace, you feel all awkward.
Taken from his multi-award-nominated ShortList column, this is a book that tracks a year in a life of one man’s awkwardness…

“The world that I long to inhabit is the one that Charlie Mackesy has created – a world of infinite kindness, wisdom, mutual care and tenderness, and true love between real friends. My prayer/hope is that our world will become more like this one.” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic)

At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves.
The story is told by Cyril’s son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another. It is this unshakeable bond between them that both saves their lives and thwarts their futures.
Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they’re together. Throughout their lives they return to the well-worn story of what they’ve lost with humor and rage. But when at last they’re forced to confront the people who left them behind, the relationship between an indulged brother and his ever-protective sister is finally tested.

文學已經夠得上票房毒藥了，文學評論更是毒藥中的毒藥。一個社會養不起文學評論的書籍，究竟是誰的錯呢？
幸好，藝術發展局資助了這個系列的出版，六位作者分別代表不同年齡層次、不同背景和不同風格的評論，可以算是香港文學評論初步的檢閱。
一般來說，先有文學作品，後有文學評論，但文學評論不是作品的被動詮釋，而是對文學創作本身的總結、歸納與提升。有經驗的作家，從評論者睿智的分析中，思考一些根本性的問題；初涉創作的年輕人，更可通過評論的指引，一窺經典的堂奧。
夏志清教授評論張愛玲，對現代中國文學影響深遠，同樣的道理，推動香港文學評論的進一步發展，也必將對香港文學創作起積極的作用。

一个并不比任何人勇敢的女子，乳癌下重建信心，好好活下来。
这是一部以文学手法缜密撰写的关于乳癌，以及医疗自救的奇书。叙事者以病人的身份，打破禁忌，剖析自己染患乳癌的现实，描写治疗的过程，病后的种种反省，朋友的关怀支援。身罩癌症魔魅，人生体会如真似幻，面对它，化解它，更舍不得离开这个世界。其中感叹，这许多年来人类的进展神速，我们如今的生命力，却明显相对地在萎缩呢。所谓“哀悼”，其实含有往者不谏，来者可追，而期望重生的意思。
台北中国时报开卷十大好书 1992
台北联合报读书人最佳书奖 1992
改编为任贤齐、杨千嬅主演电影《天生一对》 2006
世界华文文学奖得主　内地首次大规模引进出版西西作品集
王安忆　余华 陈村　陈子善　艾晓明　龚鹏程　许子东　梁文道　郑树森　王德威　　荐读

Seventeen-year-old Cath knows Zero is coming for her. Zero, the devastating depression born of Catherine’s bipolar disease, has almost triumphed once, propelling Catherine to her first suicide attempt. With Zero only temporarily restrained by the latest med du jour, time is running out. In an old ballet shoebox, Catherine stockpiles meds, preparing to take her own life when Zero next arrives.

But Zero’s return is delayed. Unexpected relationships along with the care of a new psychiatrist start to alter Catherine's perception of her diagnosis. But will this be enough? This is a story of loss and grief and hope and how the many shapes of love – maternal, romantic and platonic – impact a young woman’s struggle with mental illness.

The manuscript was awarded the Connecticut Book Award for Young Readers in 2017, and was awarded the 2014 SCBWI Work-in-Progress Grant in the Contemporary YA category, named a finalist in the 2015 Tassey-Walden Awards and won the Serendipity Literary Agency 2013 YA First Page/Novel Discovery Contest.

“I hate myself but I love Walt Whitman, the kook. Always positive. I need to be more positive, so I wake myself up every morning with a song of myself.”

Sixteen-year-old James Whitman has been yawping (à la Whitman) at his abusive father ever since he kicked his beloved older sister, Jorie, out of the house. James’s painful struggle with anxiety and depression—along with his ongoing quest to understand what led to his self-destructive sister’s exile—make for a heart-rending read, but his wild, exuberant Whitmanization of the world and keen sense of humor keep this emotionally charged debut novel buoyant.

你能想像未來世界會是什麼樣子嗎？
韓國最受關注的新世代小說家金草葉，以七篇短篇小說，創造了一個能以光速前進的烏托邦，在那個世界，人類可以在太空旅行，科技構築出完美的環境，與外星生物的接觸不再是想像，甚至能將死後的靈魂上傳至雲端。
但在那樣高度進步的宇宙裡，我們依舊，還是會孤獨……
▎為何朝聖者去而不返
「如果每個人都是完美的『新人類』，我們真的就能從此幸福嗎？」
▎光譜
「與外星生物溝通，情感是否能夠超越語言？」
▎共生假設
「這個世界的集體記憶，其實都來自對外星故鄉的永恆思念？」
▎如果我們無法以光速前進
「超越時間的思念，如何跨越空間傳遞給對方？」
▎情感的物質性
「你願意購買凝聚成實體的憂鬱嗎？」
▎館內遺失
「死後上傳的靈魂，還有機會被活著的人理解或原諒嗎？」
▎關於我的宇宙英雄
「為了見到宇宙另一端的風景，所有的犧牲都是值得的嗎？」
面有殘缺的少女、被外星人綁架的生物學家、在廢棄太空站等待多年的老人，找不到母親心智的女兒，以及經歷重重訓練的太空人，透過他們的故事，金草葉寫出了這世代最溫柔的科幻小說，像個暖心的擁抱般，帶我們穿越時間與空間、完美與缺陷，找到人與人之間，從溝通、理解到包容甚至於愛的可能。

Based on four decades of research, Jesus Was a Feminist presents the case that Jesus treated women equally with men, breaking custom to involve them in his work. Renowned scholar & liberal Catholic Leonard Swidler examines all gospel texts involving women, asserts that women were involved in the writing of two gospels, & outlines the importance of women in Jesus' ministry & the creation & development of the early church. He shows how Jesus was a feminist & why modern Christians should be too.
I Yeshua & women: an overview
Prologue: Women in the ancient world
Yeshua, a feminist, androgynous, an integrated human
Women in Yeshua's language
Women in Yeshua's teaching
Women in the life of Yeshua
II The Gospels critically analyzed
The attitude toward women reflected by the Gospel writers & their sources
Conclusions
III Early Christians' views of women
Summary analysis of the appendixes of the New Testament outside of the Gospels & early Church writings
Appendix I The New Testament other than the Gospels
Appendix II Ambivalent elements in Christian tradition
Appendix III Christian tradition's negative elements

Essays written during the 1980s and 1990s argue that most women have no need or desire to work outside the home, and to do so damages the security of both the economy and family life.

Feminist Ecocriticism examines the interplay of women and nature as seen through literary theory and criticism, drawing on insights from such diverse fields as chaos theory and psychoanalysis, while examining genres ranging from nineteenth-century sentimental literature to contemporary science fiction. The book explores the central claim of ecofeminism--that there is a connection between environmental degradation and the subordination of women--with the goal of identifying and fostering liberatory alternatives. Feminist Ecocriticism analyzes the work of such diverse women writers as Rachel Carson, Barbara Kingsolver, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Mary Shelley. By including chapters from a comparable number of women and men, this book dispels the notion that ecofeminism is relevant to and used by only female scholars.After uncovering the oppressive dichotomies of male/female and nature/culture that underlie contemporary environmental problems, Feminist Ecocriticism focuses specifically on emancipatory strategies employed by ecofeminist literary critics as antidotes, asking what our lives might be like as those strategies become increasingly successful in overcoming oppression. Thus, ecofeminism is not limited to the critique of literature, but also helps identify and articulate liberatory ideals that can be actualized in the real world, in the process transforming everyday life. Providing an alternative to rugged individualism, for example, ecofeminist literature promotes a more fulfilling sense of interrelationship with both community and the land. In the process of exploring literature from ecofeminist perspectives, the book reveals strategies of emancipation that have already begun to give rise to more hopeful ecological narratives.Feminist Ecocriticism provides a novel integration of two important strands of contemporary literary criticism that have often failed to make feminist criticism and ecocriticism. The openness of both feminist criticism and ecocriticism to multiple, even incompatible perspectives, without the insistence on unitary definitions of their fields, has given rise to a new hybrid feminist ecocriticism.

Set in 18th century Naples, based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife Emma, and Lord Nelson, and peopled with many of the great figures of the day, this unconventional, bestselling historical romance from the National Book Award-winning author of "In America" touches on themes of sex and revolution, the fate of nature, art and the collector's obsessions, and, above all, love. Susan Sontag became a cultural figure upon the publication of her pathbreaking collection of essays "Against Interpretation" in 1966. She went on to write four novels, including "In America," which won the National Book Award for Fiction, as well as a collection of stories, several plays, and seven subsequent works of nonfiction, among them "On Photography," "Illness as Metaphor," and "Regarding the Pain of Others." Her many international honors included the Jerusalem Prize in 2001 and the Friedenspreis (Peace Prize) of the German Book Trade in 2003. She died in New York City on December 28, 2004. Originally published in 1992 to widespread critical acclaim, "The Volcano Lover: A Romance" is set in the final decades of 18th-century Naples. Based on the real-life triangle of Sir William Hamilton, his wife Emma, and Lord Nelson, Sontag's novel explores such themes as fate, nature, art, and the obsessions of collectors and collecting. Indeed, this rich and intelligent narrative is "an historical tour de force. Sontag's] tale of eighteenth-century romance and revolution is certain to charm readers who enjoy the postmodern potboilers of Umberto Eco and A. S. Byatt" ("Kirkus Reviews"). "A passionate and often radical novel of ideas that affords all the old-fashioned pleasures of a traditional historical novel."--"The New York Times" ""The Volcano Lover" is a great novel. It repeatedly scales heights of complex thought, passion, and expression that few American writers ever approach, while reimagining a majestic love story in dazzling style."--"The Philadelphia Inquirer" "A panoramic, passionately feminist examination of the changing shape of Western civilization since the Age of Enlightenment. Sontag's book is a sweeping, exquisitely detailed picture of Europe in the final decades of the eighteenth century."--"Chicago Sun-Times" "Slippery, intelligent, provocative, and gripping."--"The Washington Post Book World" ""The Volcano Lover" seems a novel Susan Sontag was destined to write, a shift from the moral intelligence of the essayist to the intelligent heart of the novelist. To her admirers, the novel will only confirm her originality, and perhaps win over a whole new set of readers. For "The Volcano Lover" is not just a thinking woman's (or man's) historical romance but a sly, luminously insightful, provocative novel."--"The Nation" "A brilliant performance."--"The Chicago Tribune"

The photographs by Annie Leibovitz in Women, taken especially for the book, encompass a broad spectrum of subjects: a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie stars, showgirls, rodeo riders, socialites, reporters, dancers, a maid, a general, a surgeon, the First Lady of the United States, the secretary of state, a senator, rock stars, prostitutes, teachers, singers, athletes, poets, writers, painters, musicians, theater directors, political activists, performance artists, and businesswomen. "Each of these pictures must stand on its own," Susan Sontag writes in the essay that accompanies the portraits. "But the ensemble says, So this what women are now -- as different, as varied, as heroic, as forlorn, as conventional, as unconventional as this."

二十世纪荒诞文学经典名著
维托尔德•贡布罗维奇成名作
写作就是艺术家为了自己的个性和荣誉跟大众进行的一场战斗。
——维托尔德•贡布罗维奇
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三十岁的尤瑟夫从睡梦中惊醒，知道这又是什么事也不会发生的一天。然而，他看见“自己”就在对面站着。 愤怒的尤瑟夫拿出纸笔，决心创造出真正的自己。平科教授来访，在谈话间，尤瑟夫发现自己变得越来越小，平科教授则越来越大，最终尤瑟夫变成了十几岁的少年，被平科教授重新带回学校，历经一番“奇遇”：与顽劣的同学一起学拉丁文，一起追求新潮女孩祖塔，一起逃离城市、逃向田野，却又落入庄园主姨父的魔掌。尤瑟夫领悟到，想把自己变幼稚化的，不仅仅是平科教授……
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我们这个世纪最伟大的小说家之一。
——米兰•昆德拉
贡布罗维奇是博尔赫斯的对立面，是波拉尼奥的教父。谁会想到一个波兰移民会成为一位如此卓越的拉美作家呢？
——依兰•斯塔文斯（拉美文学教授）

One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead on the street, and the search for the killer begins. In this panoramic vision of the Soviet Great Terror, the investigation leads all over the world, netting a whole series of suspects whose only connection is their innocence—at least of the crime of which they stand accused. But The Case of Comrade Tulayev , unquestionably the finest work of fiction ever written about the Stalinist purges, is not just a story of a totalitarian state. Marked by the deep humanity and generous spirit of its author, the legendary anarchist and exile Victor Serge, it is also a classic twentieth-century tale of risk, adventure, and unexpected nobility to set beside Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and André Malraux's Man's Fate .

Sigrid Núñez was an aspiring writer when she first met Susan Sontag, already a legendary figure known for her polemical essays, blinding intelligence, and edgy personal style. Sontag introduced Núñez to her son, the writer David Rieff, and the two began dating. Soon Núñez moved into the apartment that Rieff and Sontag shared. As Sontag told Núñez, “Who says we have to live like everyone else?”
Sontag’s influence on Núñez, who went on to become a successful novelist, would be profound. Described by Núñez as “a natural mentor,” who saw educating others as both a moral obligation and a source of endless pleasure, Sontag inevitably infected those around her with her many cultural and intellectual passions. In this poignant, intimate memoir, Núñez speaks of her gratitude for having had, as an early model, “someone who held such an exalted, unironic view of the writer’s vocation.” For Sontag, she writes, “there could be no nobler pursuit, no greater adventure, no more rewarding quest.” Núñez gives a sharp sense of the charged, polarizing atmosphere that enveloped Sontag whenever she published a book, gave a lecture, or simply walked into a room. Published more than six years after Sontag’s death,
is a startlingly truthful portrait of this outsized personality, who made being an intellectual a glamorous occupation.

The remarkable story of Western polymaths from the fifteenth century to the present day
From Leonardo da Vinci and John Dee to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge. Nonetheless, in our current age of specialization, polymaths are often remembered for only one part of their varied achievements.
Renowned cultural historian Peter Burke examines the achievements of five hundred Western polymaths from the Renaissance to the present. Burke shows how the rise of the polymath went hand in hand with the rapid growth of knowledge in the age of the invention of printing, the discovery of the New World, and the Scientific Revolution. He also argues that the further growth of knowledge led to the rise of specialization and so to an environment that has become less and less supportive of wide-ranging scholars and scientists.