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カナダのジャーナリスト兼小説家、コーリー・ドクトロウが最近出版した『Enshittification』は、『On Bullshit』というタイトルの本以上の内容を提供しているが、この338ページのノンフィクション作品には、同様のアプローチをとっている章もある。『Bullshit』は、ハリー・G・フランクファートが1986年に書いたエッセイを基にした、皮肉たっぷりの短い本である。『Enshittification』は、…

When the children's novel Harriet the Spy was published it received positive and negative criticism, and there was some alarm, even by librarians, about the main character, a cantakorous child, who is a spy. Harriet is an eleven-year-old who keeps a notebook, really a diary, with her observations about classmates...

For as long as anyone can remember, a caravan of gypsy traders provides the Jews of Kreskol with their only connection to the outside world. Situated in a remote part of a forest in Poland, the town was inexplicably overlooked by the Nazis, and has retained the traditions of eastern...

It happens in an instant. While Bree Cabbat watches her eldest daughter rehearse a school production of Grease, her infant son, Robert, sleeps in the seat next to her in the balcony of the school’s theatre. One moment he is there, the next he is gone. In his place is...