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ポール ギルロイ, Paul Gilroy, 上野 俊哉, 鈴木 慎一郎, 毛利 嘉孝
A landmark critical study that rereads modern Black culture as an Atlantic history, reworking the meaning of modernity through music, literature, and diaspora.
アンジェラ ジョンソン, Angela Johnson, 池上 小湖
A novel told by a teenage father confronting an unexpected pregnancy and the responsibilities of parenthood.
Alain Mabanckou
A fable-like novel that uses the myth of a human double, a porcupine, to explore violence, guilt, and dark humor.
Brian Dillon
A critical essay collection on culture, vision, and memory. It probes how images and photographs shape perception and personal recollection, and it asks hard questions about contemporary culture.
Zadie Smith
A family novel set between the university and the home, exploring art, politics, race, and class with wit and sharp observation.
Robert Graves, Barry Unsworth
A historical novel told as the autobiography of the frail, stammering Claudius, who survives the intrigues and assassinations of the Roman imperial court and is eventually thrust onto the throne. It renders the politics of ancient Rome with vivid immediacy from an insider’s point of view.
Ernestine Hayes
An Alaska Native memoir that weaves Tlingit memory, family history, and the effects of colonization.
Andrew O'Hagan
Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps, and nerves prick And tingle; and the heart is sick, And all the wheels of Being slow. from In Memoriam A.H.H Alfred, Lord Tennyson When an English priest takes over a small Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. He makes friends with two local youths, Mark and Lisa, and clashes with a world he can barely understand. The town seems to grow darker each night. Fate comes calling and before the summer is out his quiet life is the focus of public hysteria. Father David looks back to find a Lancashire childhood. He remembers a lost father and a grand school for Catholic boys. He finds 1960s Oxford in the heat of student revolt and recalls a choice he once made in the orange groves of Rome. Be Near Me is a story of art and politics, love and change, and a book about the way we live now. Trapped in class hatreds, threatened by personal flaws, Father David begins to discover what happened to the ideals of his generation. Meanwhile a religious war is unfolding on his doorstep...
John Banville
A quietly observant novel of loss and memory. As the truth about the past is slowly revealed, the protagonist’s inner life and nostalgia are rendered in a lyrical, emotionally restrained style.
Jill Lepore
A historical reconstruction of the 1741 fires and slave conspiracy panic in Manhattan, showing how ideals of liberty sat atop violence and fear.
Lawrence Wright
The 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest went to Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower.
Nancy Pickard
Small Plains, Kansas, January 23, 1987: In the midst of a deadly blizzard, eighteen-year-old Rex Shellenberger scours his father's pasture, looking for helpless newborn calves. Then he makes a shocking discovery: the naked, frozen body of a teenage girl, her skin as white as the snow around her. Even dead, she is the most beautiful girl he's ever seen. It is a moment that will forever change his life and the lives of everyone around him. The mysterious dead girl--the "Virgin of Small Plains"--inspires local reve...