Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
Margaret Atwood
全体主義国家ギレアドを舞台に、女性の生殖能力が管理され「侍女」として子を産むことを強いられる主人公オフレッドの視点で、抑圧と記憶、抵抗を描くディストピア小説。宗教的過激主義と社会支配を通して個人の自由とアイデンティティを問う。
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Scribner
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
1870年代のニューヨーク上流社会を舞台に、婚約中のニューランド・アーチャーが、規範を乱す帰国者エレン・オレンスカとの再会によって、欲望と義務のはざまで揺れる。礼法と沈黙に貫かれた社交界のなかで、愛と自己抑制の代償を描く長編。
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Subhuman Redneck Poems
Les Murray
オーストラリアの詩人レス・マレーが、農民や父親、周縁化された人々、そして土地の歴史を、鋭いユーモアと怒りを含む詩で描く。
Firebrand Books
The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out for
Alison Bechdel
『Dykes to Watch Out For』の世界を外側から見渡し、Alison Bechdel が長年描いてきたコミックの蓄積と創作の背景を振り返る回顧的な一冊。ユーモアと批評性を保ちながら、作品の文脈とキャラクターの広がりを紹介する。
Purple Moon Pr
Detecting Men: A Readers Guide and Checklist for Mystery Series Written by Men
Willetta L. Heising
男性作家のシリーズミステリを追うための読書案内兼チェックリスト。
David R. Godine, Publisher
The Right Thing to Do
Josephine Gattuso Hendin
イタリア系移民家庭の父娘関係を軸にしたニューヨークの小説。
Univ of Oklahoma Pr
The Last Paradise (Literature of the American West Series)
James D. Houston
地域の自然や文化を描いた作品。風土と人間の関係を重層的に扱うフィクションまたは随筆。
Penguin Publishing Group
Comfort Woman
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。
Modern Library
Burr: A Novel (Modern Library)
Gore Vidal
アメリカ建国期を背景に、アーロン・バーやアレクサンダー・ハミルトンらの人物を通して権力と歴史を描く長編。史実と創作を組み合わせ、既成の歴史叙述に挑む政治的視座を提供する作品。
Sceptre
Ingenious Pain: Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Andrew Miller
痛みを感じない特異な身体をもって生まれた青年の生涯を通して、18世紀の医療、倫理、科学への好奇心を描く歴史小説。人間の感覚と孤独が、精緻な構成の中で静かに問われる。
Yale University Press
Thomas Cranmer: A Life
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.