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| Fiction |
| 虚构 |
| The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan |
| 《糖果屋》(The Candy House)，詹妮弗·伊根著 |
| You don’t need to have read Egan’s Pulitzer-winning “A Visit From the Goon Squad” to jump feet first into this much-anticipated sequel. But for lovers of the 2010 book’s prematurely nostalgic New Yorkers, cerebral beauty and laser-sharp take on modernity, “The Candy House” is like coming home — albeit to dystopia. This time around, Egan’s characters are variously the creators and prisoners of a universe in which, through the wonders of technology, people can access their entire memory banks and use the contents as social media currency. The result is a glorious, hideous fun house that feels more familiar than sci-fi, all rendered with Egan’s signature inventive confidence and — perhaps most impressive of all — heart. “The Candy House” is of its moment, with all that implies. |
| 无需先读伊根的普利策获奖作品《恶棍来访》(A Visit From the Goon Squad)，就能直接阅读这部备受期待的续集。但对于喜欢2010年那本书中过早怀旧的纽约人、理性之美和对现代性的敏锐解读的人来说，《糖果屋》就像回家——尽管是回到一个异托邦。这一次，伊根的角色既是宇宙的创造者，也是宇宙的囚徒。在这个宇宙中，通过科技的奇迹，人们可以访问自己的整个记忆库，并将其中的内容用作社交媒体货币。其结果是一个辉煌而丑陋的游乐园，感觉比科幻小说更熟悉，这一切都带上了伊根标志性的创意自信，还有或许是最令人印象深刻的东西——她的心。《糖果屋》属于它的时代，以及这个时代所意味的一切。 |
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| Checkout 19, by Claire-Louise Bennett |
| 《收银台19号》(Checkout 19)，克莱尔-路易斯·贝内特著 |
| Bennett, a British writer who makes her home in Ireland, first leaped onto the scene with her 2015 debut novel, “Pond.” Her second book contains all of the first’s linguistic artistry and dark wit, but it is even more exhilarating. “Checkout 19,” ostensibly the story of a young woman falling in love with language in a working-class town outside London, has an unusual setting: the human mind — a brilliant, surprising, weird and very funny one. All the words one might use to describe this book — experimental, autofictional, surrealist — fail to convey the sheer pleasure of “Checkout 19.” You’ll come away dazed, delighted, reminded of just how much fun reading can be, eager to share it with people in your lives. It’s a love letter to books, and an argument for them, too. |
| 贝内特是一位生活在爱尔兰的英国作家，于2015年凭借处女小说《池塘》(Pond)首次进入人们视野。她的第二本书包含了第一本书中所有的语言艺术和黑色智慧，但更令人振奋。《收银台19号》表面上讲的是在一个伦敦郊外工人阶级小镇，一个年轻女子爱上语言的故事，但它有一个不同寻常的背景：人类的思维——一种绝妙、令人惊讶、奇怪而又非常有趣的东西。人们可以用各种词来描述这本书——实验性的、自传性的、超现实主义的——但这些都无法传达阅读《收银台19号》的纯粹乐趣。读完后，你会感到茫然、喜悦，会想起阅读是多么有趣，渴望与生活中的人分享它。这是写给书的一封情书，也是对书的捍卫。 |
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| Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver |
| 《大魔·科波海德》(Demon Copperhead)，芭芭拉·金索沃著 |
| Kingsolver’s powerful new novel, a close retelling of Charles Dickens’s “David Copperfield” set in contemporary Appalachia, gallops through issues including childhood poverty, opioid addiction and rural dispossession even as its larger focus remains squarely on the question of how an artist’s consciousness is formed. Like Dickens, Kingsolver is unblushingly political and works on a sprawling scale, animating her pages with an abundance of charm and the presence of seemingly every creeping thing that has ever crept upon the earth. |
| 金索沃这部非常有力的新小说以当代阿巴拉契亚为背景，重新讲述了查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫·科波菲尔德》，描绘了童年贫困、阿片类药物成瘾和农村剥夺等问题，不过它更大的焦点依然是艺术家的意识如何形成的问题。像狄更斯一样，金索沃毫不掩饰政治色彩，而且视野宏大，丰富的魅力和渊博的知识令她的书生动无比。 |
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| The Furrows, by Namwali Serpell |
| 《沟》(The Furrows)，纳姆瓦里·塞贝尔著 |
| After losing her brother when she was 12, one of the narrators of Serpell’s second novel keeps coming across men who resemble him as she works through her trauma long into adulthood. She enters an intimate relationship with one of them, who’s also haunted by his past. This richly layered book explores the nature of grief, how it can stretch or compress time, reshape memories and make us dream up alternate realities. “I don’t want to tell you what happened,” the narrator says. “I want to tell you how it felt.” |
| 这是塞贝尔的第二部小说，书中的叙述者之一在12岁时失去了她的兄弟，在成年后的很长一段时间里，她依然为此感到痛苦，并且不断遇到与他相似的男人。她与其中一人建立了亲密关系，那人也被自己的过去所困扰。这本层次丰富的书探讨了悲伤的本质，它如何拉长或压缩时间，重塑记忆，让我们幻想出另一种现实。“我不想告诉你发生了什么，”叙事者说。“我想告诉你那是什么感觉。” |
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| Trust, by Hernan Diaz |
| 《信任》(Trust)，埃尔南·迪亚兹著 |
| Diaz uncovers the secrets of an American fortune in the early 20th century, detailing the dizzying rise of a New York financier and the enigmatic talents of his wife. Each of the novel’s four parts, which are told from different perspectives, redirects the narrative (and upends readers’ expectations) while paying tribute to literary titans from Henry James to Jorge Luis Borges. Whose version of events can we trust? Diaz’s spotlight on stories behind stories seeks out the dark workings behind capitalism, as well as the uncredited figures behind the so-called Great Men of history. It’s an exhilarating pursuit. |
| 迪亚兹揭示了20世纪初美国财富的秘密，详细描述了一位纽约金融家令人眼花缭乱的崛起和他妻子的神秘才能。小说分为四个部分，每个部分都从不同的角度讲述，改变了叙事方向，也颠覆了读者的期望，同时向亨利·詹姆斯和豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯等文学巨匠致敬。我们能相信谁的说法？迪亚兹聚焦于故事背后的故事，寻找资本主义背后的黑暗运作，以及所谓的历史伟人背后的无名人物。这是一种令人兴奋的探索。 |
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| Nonfiction |
| 非虚构 |
| An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, by Ed Yong |
| 《一个巨大的世界——动物感官如何揭示我们周围隐藏的领域》(An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us)，埃德·杨著 |
| Yong certainly gave himself a formidable task with this book — getting humans to step outside their “sensory bubble” and consider how nonhuman animals experience the world. But the enormous difficulty of making sense of senses we do not have is a reminder that each one of us has a purchase on only a sliver of reality. Yong is a terrific storyteller, and there are plenty of surprising animal facts to keep this book moving toward its profound conclusion: The breadth of this immense world should make us recognize how small we really are. |
| 埃德·杨（音）在这本书中给自己提出了一项艰巨的任务——让人类走出他们的“感官泡泡”，思考人类以外的动物是如何体验世界的。但是，理解我们所没有的感觉，这种巨大的困难提醒我们，我们每个人都只能抓住现实的一小部分。杨是个很棒的故事讲述者，书中有很多令人惊讶的动物事实，使这本书不断地走向其深刻的结论：世界是那么广阔，这应该让我们认识到我们是多么渺小。 |
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| Stay True: A Memoir, by Hua Hsu |
| 《保持真实——回忆录》(Stay True: A Memoir)，许华著 |
| In this quietly wrenching memoir, Hsu recalls starting out at Berkeley in the mid-1990s as a watchful music snob, fastidiously curating his tastes and mercilessly judging the tastes of others. Then he met Ken, a Japanese American frat boy. Their friendship was intense, but brief. Less than three years later, Ken would be killed in a carjacking. Hsu traces the course of their relationship — one that seemed improbable at first but eventually became a fixture in his life, a trellis along which both young men could stretch and grow. |
| 在这本安静而痛苦的回忆录中，许华回忆，20世纪90年代中期他刚进入伯克利时，他就是个警惕的音乐挑剔鬼，他过分讲究地策划自己的品味，毫不留情地评判别人的品味。然后他遇到了肯，一个日裔兄弟会男孩。他们的友情炽烈而短暂。不到三年后，肯在一次劫车案中丧生。许华追溯了他们的关系——这种关系一开始似乎是不可能的，但最终成为他生命中的一个固定部分，令两个年轻人在其中得以舒展、成长。 |
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| Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us, by Rachel Aviv |
| 《自己的陌生人——不安的心灵和造就我们的故事》(Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us)，雷切尔·阿维夫著 |
| In this rich and nuanced book, Aviv writes about people in extreme mental distress, beginning with her own experience of being told she had anorexia when she was 6 years old. That personal history made her especially attuned to how stories can clarify as well as distort what a person is going through. This isn’t an anti-psychiatry book — Aviv is too aware of the specifics of any situation to succumb to anything so sweeping. What she does is hold space for empathy and uncertainty, exploring a multiplicity of stories instead of jumping at the impulse to explain them away. |
| 在这本内容丰富、细致入微的书中，从阿维夫自己六岁时被告知患有厌食症的经历开始，她描写了那些处于极端精神困境中的人。这段个人经历使她对“故事”可以如何澄清和扭曲一个人的经历特别有感触。这不是一本反精神病学的书——阿维夫太了解种种细节，不会屈服于任何如此笼统的东西。她所做的是为同理心和不确定性留出空间，探索故事的多样性，而不是急于解释它们。 |
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| Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation, by Linda Villarosa |
| 《皮肤之下——种族主义对美国人生活和我们国家健康的隐藏代价》(Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation)，琳达·维拉罗萨著 |
| Through case histories as well as independent reporting, Villarosa’s remarkable third book elegantly traces the effects of the legacy of slavery — and the doctrine of anti-Blackness that sprang up to philosophically justify it — on Black health: reproductive, environmental, mental and more. Beginning with a long personal history of her awakening to these structural inequalities, the journalist repositions various narratives about race and medicine — the soaring Black maternal mortality rates; the rise of heart disease and hypertension; the oft-repeated dictum that Black people reject psychological therapy — as evidence not of Black inferiority, but of racism in the health care system. |
| 维拉罗萨的第三本书通过个案和独立报道简洁地追溯了奴隶制的遗留——以及从哲学上为其辩护的反黑人主义——对黑人健康的影响：生殖、环境、精神等。从她觉察到这些结构性不平等的漫长个人历史开始，这位记者重新定位了关于种族和医学的各种叙述——黑人孕产妇死亡率飙升；心脏病和高血压发病率上升；黑人拒绝心理治疗这一经常被重复的看法——并不是黑人低人一等的证据，而是医疗保健系统中存在种族主义的证据。 |
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| We Don’t Know Ourselves, by Fintan O’Toole |
| 《我们不了解自己》(We Don’t Know Ourselves)，芬坦·奥图著 |
| O’Toole, a prolific essayist and critic, calls this inventive narrative “a personal history of modern Ireland” — an ambitious project, but one he pulls off with élan. Charting six decades of Irish history against his own life, O’Toole manages to both deftly illustrate a country in drastic flux, and include a sly, self-deprecating biography that infuses his sociology with humor and pathos. You’ll be educated, yes — about increasing secularism, the Celtic tiger, human rights — but you’ll also be wildly, uproariously entertained by a gifted raconteur at the height of his powers. |
| 奥图是一位多产的散文家和评论家，他称这本书中创造性的叙事是“现代爱尔兰的个人历史”——这是一个雄心勃勃的项目，但他以优雅的方式完成了它。奥图尔将爱尔兰60年的历史与自己的生活相对照，巧妙地描绘了一个处于剧变中的国家，还完成了一本狡猾、自嘲的传记，为他的社会学注入了幽默和悲怆。是的，你会受到教育——关于日益增长的世俗主义、凯尔特之虎、人权——但你也会得到一位正值巅峰的天才叙事者带来的疯狂吵闹的娱乐。 |
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