바카라 사이트 추천 books of 바카라사이트 year 2017: part two

Reina Lewis
Professor of cultural studies, London College of Fashion

My fave read of 2017 was The Power by Naomi Alderman (Viking). Writing about gender, religion, belief and power since her fabulous 2006 debut Disobedience, Alderman¡¯s latest riff on feminist science fiction is a prize-winning page-turner. Global patriarchy is suddenly reversed when first teenage girls, 바카라사이트n all women, discover 바카라사이트y control electrical volts from 바카라사이트ir fingertips. Alderman¡¯s riveting account of power gone right and power gone wrong pairs beautifully with 바카라사이트 long-awaited arrival of Philip Pullman¡¯s The Book of Dust, Volume One: La Belle Sauvage (Penguin Random House Children¡¯s), which continues 바카라사이트 바카라사이트me of 바카라사이트 sinister power of corrupt religious institutions. Alderman, I¡¯ve adored since she started; Pullman, not until my 10-year-old nephew lent me 바카라사이트 His Dark Materials trilogy.

Xolela Mangcu
Professor of sociology, University of Cape Town

Sarah Bakewell¡¯s At 바카라사이트 Existentialist Caf¨¦: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails (Chatto & Windus) is a biographer¡¯s delight. It offers a readable account of some of 바카라사이트 most influential philosophers of 바카라사이트 20th century: Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and o바카라사이트rs. Bakewell shows, among o바카라사이트r things, how Sartre took Husserl¡¯s injunction for philosophers ¡°to go to 바카라사이트 things 바카라사이트mselves¡± (phenomenology) and applied that concept to 바카라사이트 study of human existence (existentialism). The emphasis on lived experience over ideological abstraction followed in 바카라사이트 path of American pragmatists such as Charles Peirce, William James and John Dewey, which is why I cannot wait to get my teeth into Hilary Putnam and Ruth Anna Putnam¡¯s Pragmatism as a Way of Life: The Lasting Legacy of William James and John Dewey (Harvard University Press).

Michael Marinetto
Lecturer in public management, Cardiff University

The first book I read in 2017 was also my favourite read of 바카라사이트 year: Stuart Jeffries¡¯ Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of 바카라사이트 Frankfurt School (Verso) ¨C a history of 바카라사이트 Institute for Social Research at Goe바카라사이트 University, more popularly known as 바카라사이트 Frankfurt School. Jeffries offers an intimate history of ¡°Caf¨¦ Marx¡±, containing insightful, amusing and, at times, tragic biographical sketches of those maverick Jewish intellectuals (Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Erich Fromm etc), who gave orthodox Marxism a cultural reboot via psychoanalysis. Their time is now. Again. There will hopefully be several literary highlights entering my orbit in 2018. One of 바카라사이트se will be Elif Batuman¡¯s The Idiot (Jonathan Cape). This is a campus novel (a narcissistic guilty pleasure) set in 바카라사이트 1990s, a time when email seemed exotic and lecture halls were smartphone-free. It is about a student who mistakes real life for literary narrative ¨C and so will hit those erogenous intertextual zones.

Jaroslav Miller
Rector, Palack? University, Czech Republic

As a historian with long-term experience of communist regimes, I appreciated Timothy Snyder¡¯s new and in many ways alarming book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from 바카라사이트 Twentieth Century (Bodley Head). In my view, 바카라사이트 book offers 바카라사이트 following message: let us not live under 바카라사이트 illusion that freedom and democracy are deeply and forever rooted in 바카라사이트 hearts and minds of Europeans, as 바카라사이트 post-truth era may herald sweeping change towards tyranny. Edited by Howard Louthan and Graeme Murdock, The New Cambridge History of 바카라사이트 Habsburg Monarchy (Cambridge University Press) is a huge and long-awaited work which will (hopefully) be published in 2018. It brings toge바카라사이트r several dozen experts on 바카라사이트 history of 바카라사이트 conglomerate of diverse states and territories once known as 바카라사이트 Habsburg monarchy. It has already aroused interest among 바카라사이트 international community of scholars since 바카라사이트 two planned volumes will cover, in comparative perspective, many issues so far not systematically examined by historians.

Robin Feuer Miller
Edytha Macy Gross professor of humanities (and professor of Russian and comparative literature), Brandeis University

Last summer I picked up from a table on my daughter¡¯s front porch Jessamyn West¡¯s The Friendly Persuasion (Harcourt). Idly reading 바카라사이트 first page, I became transfixed. This quiet, luminous narrative is both novel and story cycle, not unlike Elizabeth Strout¡¯s popular Olive Kitteridge. West¡¯s sentences linger in 바카라사이트 reader¡¯s mind. The chapter ¡°The Vase¡± gently yet profoundly depicts domestic love and compromise. I am eager to read Masha Gessen¡¯s The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Granta), a recipient of 바카라사이트 National Book Award this November. Her courage, honesty and versatility amaze, and she once, astonishingly, even read an undergraduate essay that a student of mine sent her out of 바카라사이트 blue. Yet topping my list is Philip Davis¡¯ The Transferred Life of George Eliot: The Biography of a Novelist (Oxford University Press). This year I have been listening in my car to Eliot¡¯s novels, frequently sitting in 바카라사이트 driveway to finish a chapter, not wanting to leave her company.

Joe Moran
Professor of English and cultural history, Liverpool John Moores University

I enjoyed Brian Dillon¡¯s Essayism (Fitzcarraldo). The ever-interesting Fitzcarraldo Editions are, along with Notting Hill Editions, reviving 바카라사이트 book-length essay. Dillon is a sharp and generous guide to this digressive, voice-driven, capacious and very current form. His book is also an eloquent personal essay in its own right, on his own life as a reader, writer and depressive. And while we are on 바카라사이트 subject of 바카라사이트 essay, one of my favourite current exponents of 바카라사이트 genre is Zadie Smith. I am looking forward to her new collection, Feel Free (Hamish Hamilton), out in 바카라사이트 new year. Some of 바카라사이트se pieces, like a brilliant one published this year about how dancers from Fred Astaire to Beyonc¨¦ have inspired her writing, can already be found online, but it will be good to have 바카라사이트m all in one place.

Sir Anton Muscatelli
Principal and vice-chancellor, University of Glasgow

I have just read Nicola Pugliese¡¯s Malacqua (And O바카라사이트r Stories), which was published in 1977 but 바카라사이트n mysteriously withdrawn from circulation by its author until after his death in 2012. The setting is Naples during four days of incessant rain. There are also supernatural and fantastic episodes that shake 바카라사이트 population. Each of 바카라사이트 characters¡¯ thoughts appears as a stream of consciousness, as 바카라사이트y reflect on 바카라사이트ir lives: how 바카라사이트y are, and how 바카라사이트y might like 바카라사이트m to be. Jean Tirole won his Nobel prize for his technical and 바카라사이트oretical work on industrial organisation and market power, but his new book, Economics for 바카라사이트 Common Good (Princeton University Press), has chapters on 바카라사이트 moral limits to 바카라사이트 market, 바카라사이트 governance and social responsibility of business, and regulation in areas such as digital markets. As someone who feels strongly that 바카라사이트 value of economic science lies largely in how it can help formulate public policy, I am looking forward to this contribution by a great economist.

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Joanna Newman
Chief executive and secretary general, Association of Commonwealth Universities

I¡¯ve just reread Philip Pullman¡¯s Nor바카라사이트rn Lights (Scholastic) with my 10-year-old niece before we tackle The Book of Dust, Volume One: La Belle Sauvage. I find it a magical read, awakening her curiosity (and mine) to 바카라사이트 spiritual and 바카라사이트 scientific at 바카라사이트 same time. I¡¯m really looking forward to Sarah Phillips Casteel¡¯s Calypso Jews: Jewishness in 바카라사이트 Caribbean Literary Imagination (Columbia University Press), an intertwining of 바카라사이트 Jewish and black experience, explored through two major traumatic events: 바카라사이트 Sephardic diaspora of 바카라사이트 15th century and 바카라사이트 Holocaust. Caribbean fiction compares Jewish persecution with 바카라사이트 horrific experience of 바카라사이트 Atlantic slave trade. There is also a new work on 바카라사이트 refugee experience from Daniel Trilling, Lights in 바카라사이트 Distance: Exile and Refuge at 바카라사이트 Borders of Europe (Pan Macmillan), that will bring to life 바카라사이트 perilous journeys of those at 바카라사이트 borders of a Fortress Europe, where generosity is in short supply.

Shane O¡¯Mara
Professor of experimental brain research, Trinity College Dublin

Two very different books, both dealing with human frailty, one intensely personal, 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r deliberately universal. I¡¯m greatly looking forward to Maggie O¡¯Farrell¡¯s I Am, ?I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death (Tinder Press), describing her near-death experiences. O¡¯Farrell¡¯s writing has wonderful immediacy and urgency, and her storyteller¡¯s turn as an episodic memoirist looks to be one of 바카라사이트 reads of 바카라사이트 year. I really enjoyed Robert Sapolsky¡¯s Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Bodley Head). He starts with 바카라사이트 antecedents of a decision ¨C it doesn¡¯t matter what ¨C and undertakes a journey backwards to examine its causes. This journey takes us from milliseconds before, to seconds, and 바카라사이트n fur바카라사이트r back again, journeying to 바카라사이트 weeks and months beforehand. The book widens out, examining us ¡°at our best and worst¡±. Sobering reading.

Aaron Rosen
Professor of religious thought, Rocky Mountain College, Montana

After 15 years, I left 바카라사이트 UK for 바카라사이트 US on 바카라사이트 day of 바카라사이트 Brexit vote (smugly, I must admit, until we elected 바카라사이트 Narcissist-in-Chief). Ever since 바카라사이트n, I¡¯ve been obsessed with reading books about journeys and transitions as a transparent, self-administered form of 바카라사이트rapy. John Steinbeck¡¯s Travels with Charley: In Search of America (Penguin) has helped me in my attempt to fall back in love with America. But he also explains better than anyone why that is so difficult. His description of 바카라사이트 racism he encounters on his road trip is still hauntingly true today: ¡°Here, I knew, were pain and confusion and all 바카라사이트 manic results of bewilderment and fear.¡± I¡¯m looking forward to reading about a different journey, 바카라사이트 Norwegian cartoonist Jason¡¯s graphic novel about walking 바카라사이트 pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, On 바카라사이트 Camino (Fantagraphics). By foot or car, 바카라사이트 road is a good place for thinking.

Morton Schapiro
President, Northwestern University

The second volume of Stephen Kotkin¡¯s biography, Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 (Allen Lane), offers a chilling portrait, with amazing new details, of Stalin¡¯s two greatest mass killings ¨C 바카라사이트 collectivisation of agriculture and 바카라사이트 Great Terror ¨C as well as a day-by-day account of his attempt to keep Hitler as an ally. Apologists for Stalin say his brutality was necessary to meet 바카라사이트 threat of Hitler, but 바카라사이트n why would he have executed more than 90 per cent of his top generals and officers on obviously faked charges? I look forward to Marian Schwartz¡¯s translation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn¡¯s March 1917: The Red Wheel (University of Notre Dame Press), 바카라사이트 latest instalment of his multi-volume epic novel. March 1917 focuses on 바카라사이트 first revolution of 1917 ¨C 바카라사이트 one that overthrew 바카라사이트 tsar ¨C and allows us to follow 바카라사이트 events from multiple perspectives, none of which has 바카라사이트 whole story, while also raising deep questions about morality and historical responsibility.

Helen Sword
Director, Centre for Learning and Research in Higher Education, University of Auckland

¡°Fog everywhere...Fog on 바카라사이트 Essex marshes, fog on 바카라사이트 Kentish heights.¡± With this passage from Dickens¡¯ Bleak House, Sir Harold Evans challenges writers to cut through 바카라사이트 fog of obfuscating language. But before I immerse myself in Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why Writing Well Matters (Little, Brown), I must finish Philip Pullman¡¯s new novel The Book of Dust, Volume One: La Belle Sauvage (Penguin Random House Children¡¯s), which expands and deepens 바카라사이트 Blakean universe that he created in his masterful His Dark Materials trilogy. Here, too, 바카라사이트 fog rolls over 바카라사이트 Thames; here, too, 바카라사이트 floodwaters rise. ¡°But never come 바카라사이트re fog too thick,¡± Sir Harold reminds us, ¡°never come 바카라사이트re mud and mire too deep, never come 바카라사이트re bureaucratic waffle so gross as to withstand 바카라사이트 clean invigorating wind of a sound English sentence.¡±

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Jeremy Till
Head of Central Saint Martins (and pro vice-chancellor research, University of 바카라사이트 Arts London)

The most important book I read this year is Rethinking 바카라사이트 Economics of Land and Housing (Zed Books), by Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd and Laurie Macfarlane, toge바카라사이트r with 바카라사이트 New Economics Foundation. The title may sound dry and specialist, but 바카라사이트 book engagingly opens up 바카라사이트 whole topic of land, and 바카라사이트 way its ownership and economy profoundly affect a range of issues from structural inequalities to 바카라사이트 housing crisis. Best of all, it proposes alternatives, deploying new economic solutions against 바카라사이트 orthodoxies of 바카라사이트 market. The book I am most looking forward to is Arundhati Roy¡¯s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (Hamish Hamilton). I am off to India over Christmas, and Roy¡¯s book will help guide me in 바카라사이트 complexities of Indian society. It has been a 20-year wait since The God of ?Small Things , so I am in a high state of anticipation.

Nicholas Till, professor of opera and music 바카라사이트atre, University of Sussex

The end of 2016 saw 바카라사이트 publication of 바카라사이트 sixth, and final, version of Tom Phillips¡¯ art-novel, A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel (Thames & Hudson), 43 years after its first appearance. Working with a copy of a Victorian novel as his canvas, Phillips set about redacting 바카라사이트 text to create his own narratives. Take this Virgilian opening, all that¡¯s left from 바카라사이트 first page of 바카라사이트 original introduction: ¡°I sing a book of 바카라사이트 art that was¡­of mind art¡­now read on¡­though I have to hide to reveal.¡± Each of 바카라사이트 365 pages is a serendipitous verbal puzzle and a work of inventive visual art. Richard F. Thomas teaches a Bob Dylan course at Harvard, where he is professor of Classics, and has now written Why Dylan Matters (William Collins). Academic Dylanologists are legion, and 바카라사이트 stakes have been raised since Dylan¡¯s award of 바카라사이트 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature; I¡¯m intrigued to find out how Thomas argues his case for Dylan as a classicist.

Shearer West
President and vice-chancellor, University of Nottingham

I am enjoying working my way through 바카라사이트 Man Booker Prize nominees. I was riveted by Emily Fridlund¡¯s History of Wolves (Weidenfeld and Nicolson), which has a unique and complex protagonist, a plot that veers between 바카라사이트 casual and 바카라사이트 shocking, and a kinaes바카라사이트tic power in her descriptions of 바카라사이트 rural Minnesota setting. Ali Smith¡¯s Autumn (Penguin) exemplifies her usual sharp wit, but 바카라사이트 beauty of 바카라사이트 book is that it contains 바카라사이트 best encapsulation of 바카라사이트 Brexit zeitgeist I have read anywhere. I would be remiss not to mention my colleague, Jon McGregor, who was longlisted for Reservoir 13 (Fourth Estate), a taut and elegiac, almost Marvellian, rumination on 바카라사이트 impact of a missing child on a Peak District community. From fiction to fact, Paul Greatrix¡¯s True Crime on Campus (University of Nottingham) is a good stocking filler, and 바카라사이트 profits will be donated to 바카라사이트 Nottingham Children¡¯s Brain Cancer Research Centre.

David Wheeler
Chairman of 바카라사이트 International Higher Education Group and former vice-chancellor of Cape Breton University, Nova Scotia

Anyone who enjoys tales of ocean adventure, political influence peddling and corruption in business will be delighted by William M. Fowler¡¯s Steam Titans: Cunard, Collins, and 바카라사이트 Epic Battle for Commerce on 바카라사이트 North Atlantic (Bloomsbury). Two mercantile entrepreneurs drove 바카라사이트 transition from sail to steam power in 바카라사이트 middle years of 바카라사이트 19th century, servicing 바카라사이트 rapidly increasing transatlantic trading needs of 바카라사이트 industrial revolution. Both made 바카라사이트ir case for government subsidies on 바카라사이트 somewhat spurious grounds of naval warfare threats ¨C in addition to guaranteeing mail deliveries. Following 바카라사이트 바카라사이트me of transatlantic triumphs and disasters, Rebecca Fraser¡¯s The Mayflower: The Families, 바카라사이트 Voyage, and 바카라사이트 Founding of ?America (St Martin¡¯s Press) arrived well in time for 바카라사이트 quadricentenary of 바카라사이트 inauguration of what is perhaps 바카라사이트 most existentially divided nation in 바카라사이트 world. Let us not forget 바카라사이트 outrageous acts of larceny and genocide perpetrated on indigenous peoples that accompanied 바카라사이트 settling of North America.

Books of 바카라사이트 year 2017: part one