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From an award-winning scholar of the political right comes an immersive and harrowing journey through the other-world of gun schools and the curriculum of violence they teach. To understand why so many people die by the gun, we must first understand how people live by it. This is the realization that led sociologist Harel Shapira to embed himself in Tactical Training, a popular firearms school in rural Texas. Here, students are inducted into an ideology of self-defense, where any grocery store trip could become a shootout, and any passerby could be the home intruder that tears a family apart. To shoot and kill in the name of self-defense is not a matter of "if" but "when." Forty-two classes, ten thousand rounds of ammunition, and one concealed carry license later, Shapira has emerged with Basic Pistol, a dark and richly textured plunge into a uniquely American obsession. Basic Pistol follows Shapira's fraught journey through Tactical Training's extensive curriculum and into a community

★2026年布克獎（The Booker Prize）入圍肯定： 布克獎評審團一致盛讚：「深度剖析精英階級奢華背後的孤獨與真實生命代價，無比真實且令人震撼！」★當代文壇最頂尖的心靈描繪： 將失智者的意識混亂與微小的人際權力動態，刻畫得極具催眠感與張力。★國際權威媒體一致推崇： 《柯克斯書評》（Kirkus）、《獨立報》（Independent）盛讚：「這是 Emma Cline 迄今為止最棒的小說！」「當一生引以為傲的成就與幻想全數褪去，一個人最終還剩下什麼？」一架劃破格陵蘭夜空的私人飛機上，退休企業巨擘 David 正在手機上玩著接龍遊戲。他口袋裡的筆記本寫滿了急迫提醒，卻已漸漸無法辨認自己的字跡。因阿茲海默症而逐漸失去對現實掌控的他，決定在年輕助手 Cody 的陪伴下，踏上一趟前往瑞士蘇黎世的最後旅程—尋求「安樂死」。從倫敦飯店與女兒的尷尬晚餐，到法國與疏離數十年老友的重逢，過往的記憶碎片與童年光影在 David 混沌的心智中不斷湧現。Emma Cline 以她標誌性、精準如手術刀般的筆觸，將一位強者心智崩解的過程寫得既帶有黑色幽默，又極具震撼人心力量。.A mesmerizing portrait of an aging man’s last pilgrimage, from the New York Times best selling author of The Girls and The Guest.A private plane cuts through the winter night, somewhere over Greenland. David, a retired executive, sits back in his leather seat, playing solitaire on his phone. Click. Click. Drag. Click. The notebook in his jacket pocket is filled with familiar phrases, urgent reminders to himself, but he struggles to recognize his own handwriting. A mystery, among many mysteries. The world, on

歐普拉讀書俱樂部欽點！《命運交叉路》暢銷作家睽違十年爆笑治癒新作。當「絕對理性」的哲學家，遇上「無法抗拒」的瘋狂愛情！女主角阿朵拉（Adora）是個住在紐約、信奉斯多葛學派的離婚女哲學家。她對自己的生活滿意極了：拿著高薪當豪門雙胞胎的道德導師、應付叛逆的青春期女兒、和公寓同層樓的單身姊妹淘們組成互助「女巫團」。她以為自己早就擺脫了過去的創傷，用極致的理性築起完美的防護罩。直到那天在劇院排隊時，她遇見了神祕、帥氣、完全不按牌理出牌的迪格比。 一瞬間，理性的防線全面崩潰！阿朵拉被捲入了一場交織著國際黑市藝術品走私、博物館爆炸案與倫敦、巴黎跨國追逐的瘋狂冒險中。她驚覺，自己努力埋葬的過去即將被引爆。為了心中那股無法熄滅的渴望，這一次，她決定冒著失去一切的風險，勇敢「瘋狂」一次！"Maria Semple is a treasure." —Los Angeles TimesThe New York Times bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette returns to form in her most exuberant and life-affirming novel yet with the story of one woman’s cheerful determination to live a life of the mind only to have the heart force its way in.Adora Hazzard has it all figured out. A Stoic philosopher and divorcée, she lives a contented life on New York City’s Upper West Side. Having discovered that the secret to happiness is to desire only what you have, she’s applied this insight to blissful effect: relishing her teenage daughter, the freedom of being solo, and her job as a moral tutor for the

A traditional American woman, a beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of raw milk and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of 1805--where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in this sensational debut novel. My name was Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive. Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle. Her charming farmhouse is rustic, her husband a handsome cowboy, her six children each more delightful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers behind the scenes, her kitchen hiding industrial-grade fridges and ovens, her husband the Republican equivalent of a Kennedy? What Natalie's followers--all 8 million of them--don't know won't hurt them. And The Angry Women? The privileged, Ivy League, coastal elite haters who call her an antifeminist iconoclast? They're sick w

From Michael Pollan, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND, a dazzling and panoptic exploration of consciousness--what it is, who has it, and why--and a meditation on the limits and bounds of our very humanity When it comes to the phenomenon that is consciousness, there is one point scientists, philosophers, and researchers can all agree on with a level of certainty: that it feels like something to be ourselves. And yet, the fact that each and every one of us has a subjective experience of the world continues to be one of the greatest mysteries in nature. How is it that our mental operations are accompanied by feelings, thoughts, and a sense of self? What would studying the idea of an inner life even look like, considering we have as little distance and perspective on it as fish do of the sea? What began for Michael Pollan as a startling awareness of his own consciousness soon evolved into a greater fascination with this strange and elusive phenomenon. In