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Margaret Atwood
A dystopian novel set in Gilead, where women’s fertility is controlled and Offred is forced to serve as a handmaid. It explores oppression, memory, resistance, and identity under religious authoritarianism.
Edith Wharton
Set in 1870s New York high society, the novel follows Newland Archer as a reunion with the unconventional returned Countess Ellen Olenska pulls him between desire and duty. Within a world ruled by etiquette and silence, Wharton traces the cost of love and self-restraint.
Les Murray
Australian poet Les Murray writes about farmers, fathers, marginalized people, and the history of place in poems charged with sharp humor and anger.
Alison Bechdel
A retrospective look at the world of Dykes to Watch Out For, tracing Alison Bechdel's long-running comic and the creative background behind it. The book introduces the strip's context, characters, and comic sensibility with a mix of humor and critical reflection.
Willetta L. Heising
A reader's guide and checklist for mystery series written by men.
Josephine Gattuso Hendin
A New York novel centered on the father-daughter bond in an Italian immigrant family.
James D. Houston
A novel or linked narrative set against landscape and memory, attentive to place and human longing.
Dorothy Allison
A substantial novel about a woman returning home with old wounds and trying to reclaim the family she lost. It is a Southern story where violence and renewal intersect.
Nora Okja Keller
朝鮮の慰安婦問題と個人の傷を描く小説。歴史的トラウマと女性の語りを扱う重厚なフィクション。
Gore Vidal
Set in the era of the American founding, the novel uses figures such as Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton to explore power and history. Blending fact and invention, it offers a political perspective that challenges inherited historical narratives.
Andrew Miller
Through the life of a young man born unable to feel pain, this historical novel explores eighteenth-century medicine, ethics, and scientific curiosity. Human sensation and loneliness are examined within a tightly controlled structure.
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Thomas Cranmer, the architect of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, was the archbishop of Canterbury who guided England through the early Reformationand Henry VIII through the minefields of divorce. This is the first major biography of him for more than three decades, and the first for a century to exploit rich new manuscript sources in Britain and elsewhere. Diarmaid MacCulloch, one of the foremost scholars of the English Reformation, traces Cranmer from his east-Midland roots through his twenty-year career as a conventionally conservative Cambridge don. He shows how Cranmer was recruited to the coterie around Henry VIII that was trying to annul the royal marriage to Catherine, and how new connections led him to embrace the evangelical faith of the European Reformation and, ultimately, to become archbishop of Canterbury. By then a major English statesman, living the life of a medieval prince-bishop, Cranmer guided the church through the king's vacillations and finalized two successive versions of the English prayer book. MacCulloch skillfully reconstructs the crises Cranmer negotiated, from his compromising association with three of Henry's divorces, the plot by religious conservatives to oust him, and his role in the attempt to establish Lady Jane Grey as queen to the vengeance of the Catholic Mary Tudor. In jail after Mary's accession, Cranmer nearly repudiated his achievements, but he found the courage to turn the day of his death into a dramatic demonstration of his Protestant faith. From this vivid account Cranmer emerges a more sharply focused figure than before, more conservative early in his career than admirers have allowed, more evangelical than Anglicanism would later find comfortable. A hesitant hero with a tangled life story, his imperishable legacy is his contribution in the prayer book to the shape and structure of English speech and through this to the molding of an international language and the theology it expressed.