華盛頓郵報力薦十佳讀物 你看了嗎

1. Between the World and Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates
塔-內荷西·科特《世界與我之間》

This work is something to behold. “Between the World and Me” is a riveting meditation on the state of race in America that has arrived at a tumultuous moment in America’s history of racial strife.
這部作品值得一看。《世界與我之間》引人入勝，是部有關美國種族的沉思錄，美國種族糾紛已經到了歷史動盪的一刻。

2. Black Flags By Joby Warrick
喬比·沃瑞克《黑色旗幟》
The Islamic State, whose radical Islamic warriors have inflicted their brutality across the globe from the Middle East to Paris, was founded as al-Qaeda in Iraq in 2004 by a Jordanian thug,Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. In “Black Flags,” Joby Warrick analyzes his continuing influence on the Islamic State long after his death in 2006. Most important, he shows in painful but compulsively readable detail how a series of mishaps and mistakes by the U.S.
從中東到巴黎，伊斯蘭國家的激進戰士在全球蠻橫施暴，一名爲阿布·穆薩布·扎卡維的約旦暴徒於2004年在伊拉克建立了基地組織。《黑色旗幟》一書中，喬比·沃瑞克分析了扎卡維2006年死後對伊斯蘭國家的持續影響。最爲重要的是，沃瑞克用苦楚的筆調呈現了一系列不幸事件和美國犯下的錯誤，細節詳實、可讀性強，令人慾罷不能。

3. The Book of Aron By Jim Shepard
吉姆·謝巴德《阿隆之書》
In the summer of 1942, German soldiers expelled almost 200 starving children from an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto and packed them into rail cars bound for Treblinka. Drawing on his imagination and dozens of historical sources, Shepard brings the Warsaw orphanage to life in this novel about a poor Polish boy and his friendship with the caretaker of the orphans, the pediatrician Janusz Korczak.“The Book of Aron” is a story of such candor about the complexity of heroism.
1942年的夏天，華沙貧民窟一所孤兒院將近200名飢餓孩童被德國軍人趕出，集體被塞入開往特雷布林卡集中營的火車。謝巴德藉助想象力，援引了大量歷史素材，把華沙孤兒院描繪得活靈活現。這部小說講述了一個可憐的波蘭男孩與孤兒照看人——兒科醫生賈努茨·科扎克之間的友誼。《阿隆之書》真切描繪了英雄主義的複雜性。

4. Destiny and Power By Jon Meacham
喬恩·米查姆《宿命與權力》
In Meacham’s telling, Bush indeed lacked an ideological vision, was as overmatched in domestic policy as he was masterful on the global stage, benefited from his family’s influence, and remains overshadowed “by the myth of his predecessor and the drama of his sons’ political lives.” What Meacham so skillfully adds to this understanding — through extraordinary detail, deft writing and, thanks to his access to Bush’s diaries, an inner monologue of key moments in Bush’s presidency — is the insight that none of these supposed flaws hindered the man from meeting the needs of the nation.
米查姆的敘述中，布什思維意識確實有失遠見。在國際舞臺上有多遊刃有餘，在國內政策上就有多相形見絀。布什得益於其家庭影響力，“前任總統頗具神話色彩，其子的政治生涯又充滿戲劇，相形之下布什始終黯然失色”。布什在日記裏記敘了其執政期間關鍵時刻的內心獨白，米查姆有幸可以一讀，並用嫺熟的筆法、入木三分的細節描寫加上了自己的理解——所有這些大家認定的瑕疵都無法阻擋布什滿足美國的需求。

5. Fates and Furies By Lauren Groff
勞倫·格羅夫《命運女神和復仇女神》

Spanning decades, oceans and the whole economic scale, “Fates and Furies,” holds the story of one extraordinary marriage. Groff’s flexible style can be impressionistic enough to turn from “Fates” to “Furies.”
時間跨度達數十年之久，跨越海洋與經濟的鴻溝，《命運女神和復仇女神》講述了一段不凡的婚姻。勞倫·格羅夫頗具印象派風格，從命運到復仇，風格自由轉換。

6. Future Crimes By Marc Goodman
馬克·古德曼《未來罪行》
Welcome to the new world of criminal technology, where robbers have been replaced by hackers and victims include all of us on the Web. Goodman wrote his book to shed light on the latest in criminal and terrorist tradecraft and to kick off a discussion.
歡迎來到犯罪技術的新世界，黑客替代了強盜，我們每個網民都是受害者。古德曼此書揭示了罪犯和恐怖分子的諜報技術，引發了討論。

7. A Little Life By Hanya Yanagihara
哈亞·亞娜吉哈若拉《小生命》
Yanagihara’s novel illuminates human suffering pushed to its limits, drawn in extraordinary, eloquent detail. Through her decade-by-decade examination of people’s lives, Yanagihara draws a deeply realized character study that inspires as much as devastates.
亞娜吉哈若拉筆下的人間苦楚被推向了極限，細節詳實、入木三分。檢閱細審了人們生活數十載，亞娜吉哈若拉對性格的研究令人震撼、發人深省。

8. Negroland By Margo Jefferson
瑪戈·傑佛遜《黑人居》
Margo Jefferson was an African American girl from a good family that had money, connections and expectations of excellence.“Negroland” is not about raw racism but about subtleties and nuances, presumptions and slights that chip away at one’s humanity and take a mental toll.
瑪戈是個非洲裔美國女孩，來自一個有錢有勢、前程似錦的體面家庭。《黑人居》不是單純講種族主義,而是講對待有別、妄自尊大和侮慢冷落對人性的蠶食、及其造成的精神傷害。

9. Purity By Jonathan Franzen
喬納森·弗蘭岑《純淨》
“Purity”traces the unlikely rise of a poor, fatherless child named Pip. Written with fluency, this novel offers a constantly provocative series of insights.
一個名爲皮普的孩子，年幼喪父、家境貧苦，《純淨》講述了其艱難的奮鬥歷程。小說筆法流暢、洞悉人心，常能引人深思。

10. Welcome to Braggsville By T. Geronimo Johnson
T·傑羅尼莫·約翰遜《歡迎來到布瑞革維拉》
Johnson is a master at stripping away our persistent myths. “Welcome to Braggsville” is not just a broadside against the South; it’s equally irritated with liberalism’s self-righteousness.
約翰遜實屬大家，剝去我們長久以來的神話信仰。《歡迎來到布瑞革維拉》不是單單抨擊南方，對自由主義的僞善也同樣耿耿於懷。