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📚《紐約時報》2020年度十大好書
The Top 10 Books of 2020
🤕 Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
Don and Mimi Galvin had the first of their 12 children in 1945. Intelligence and good looks ran in the family, but so, it turns out, did mental illness: By the mid-1970s, six of the 10 Galvin sons had developed schizophrenia. “For a family, schizophrenia is, primarily, a felt experience, as if the foundation of the family is permanently tilted,” Kolker writes. He unspools the stories of the Galvin siblings with enormous compassion while tracing the scientific advances in treating the illness.
1945年，唐和咪咪·加爾文生下了他們12個孩子中的第一個。這個家族遺傳了聰明和美貌，但事實證明，也遺傳了精神疾病：到1970年代中期，加爾文的10個兒子中有6個患了精神分裂症。「對於一個家庭來說，精神分裂症主要是這樣一種感覺，就好像這個家庭的基礎永久地傾斜了，」科爾克寫道。 他帶著極大的同情心講述了加爾文兄弟姐妹的故事，同時追溯了治療這種疾病的科學進步。
📖 A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Presidential memoirs are meant to inform, to burnish reputations and, to a certain extent, to shape the course of history, and Obama’s is no exception. What sets it apart from his predecessors’ books is the remarkable degree of introspection. He invites the reader inside his head as he ponders life-or-death issues of national security, examining every detail of his decision-making. “A Promised Land” is the first of two volumes — it ends in 2011 — and it is as contemplative and measured as the former president himself.
總統回憶錄主要是提供信息，烘托聲譽，在某種程度上還可以塑造歷史的進程，歐巴馬的回憶錄也不例外。這本書與其前輩們的書不同之處在於深刻的自省。他邀請讀者進入自己的腦海，思考關於國家安全的生死攸關問題，審視自己決策的每一個細節 。 《應許之地》是兩卷書中的上卷，結束時的時間是2011年，這本書和前總統本人一樣深沉審慎。
🌳 Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro
In his latest book, James Shapiro has outdone himself. He takes two huge cultural hyper-objects — Shakespeare and America — and dissects the effects of their collision. Each chapter centers on a year with a different thematic focus. The last chapter, “2017: Left | Right,” where Shapiro truly soars, analyzes the notorious Central Park production of “Julius Caesar.” By this point it is clear that the real subject of the book is not Shakespeare plays, but us, the U.S.
在他的最新著作中，夏皮羅超越了自己。他選取了兩個巨大的超級文化對象——莎士比亞和美國——並剖析了它們碰撞所產生的影響。每一章都圍繞一年展開，有不同的主題重點。 最後一章《2017年：左與右》是夏皮羅真正的升華，它分析了著名的中央公園版《凱撒大帝》。至此，很明顯，這本書的真正主題不是莎士比亞戲劇，而是我們，美國。
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