1. Between the World and Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates 塔-内荷西·科特《世界与我之间》 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. 这部作品值得一看。《世界与我之间》引人入胜,是部有关美国种族的沉思录,美国种族纠纷已经到了历史动荡的一刻。 2. Black Flags By Joby Warrick 乔比·沃瑞克《黑色旗帜》 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. 从中东到巴黎,伊斯兰国家的激进战士在全球蛮横施暴,一名为阿布·穆萨布·扎卡维的约旦暴徒于2004年在伊拉克建立了基地组织。《黑色旗帜》一书中,乔比·沃瑞克分析了扎卡维2006年死后对伊斯兰国家的持续影响。最为重要的是,沃瑞克用苦楚的笔调呈现了一系列不幸事件和美国犯下的错误,细节详实、可读性强,令人欲罢不能。 |