Welcome to the brave new world of criminal technology, where robbers have been replaced by hackers¹ and victims include all of us on the Web.

 

Goodman, a former beat cop who founded the Future Crimes Institute, wrote his book to shed light on the latest in criminal and terrorist tradecraft and to kick off a discussion. He presents myriad² cybercrime examples.

 

 

Hanya Yanagihara's novel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction, illuminates³ human suffering pushed to its limits, drawn⁴ in extraordinary, eloquent⁵ detail.

 

The narrative⁶ quickly concentrates on Jude, an orphan⁷ with a mysterious past. Jude's desire to maintain a veneer⁸ of control, despite being haunted by sexual and psychological abuse, creates the book's major drama.

 

Through her decade-by-decade examination of these people's lives, Yanagihara draws a deeply realized character study that inspires as much as devastates⁹.

 

 

Margo Jefferson was an African American girl from a good family that had money, connections and expectations of excellence¹¹.

 

She was (mostly) protected from the sting of racism¹² and its pernicious hacking¹³ away at self-esteem, opportunity and hope. But her armor was thin, and over the years she has nursed her discomfort¹⁴ with being a child of privilege.

 

"Negroland" is not about raw racism or caricatured villains¹⁵. It is about subtleties¹⁶ and nuances, presumptions¹⁷ and slights that chip away at one's humanity and take a mental toll¹⁸.

 

 

The book traces the unlikely rise of a poor, fatherless child named Pip. At least partially¹⁹ to escape her mother's neediness²⁰, Pip accepts an internship²¹ with a rogue²² Web site in the jungles of Bolivia that exposes the nasty secrets of corporations and nations.

 

Its leader is an Internet activist²³ whose back story in East Germany reads like a cerebral²⁴ thriller²⁵.

 

Franzen writes with perfectly²⁶ balanced fluency²⁷. From its tossed-off observations to its thoughtful reflections on nuclear weapons and the moral compromises of journalism²⁸, this novel offers a constantly provocative²⁹ series of insights.

 

 

D'aron Little May Davenport, a polite white teen from Braggsville, Ga., arrives at University of California at Berkeley as if he's a Southern-fried Candide.

 

The whole novel turns on a moment in one of his history classes . A too clever, incredibly offensive, potentially disastrous³⁰ plan is born: D'aron and three friends travel back to Braggsville and stage a mock lynching, "a performative intervention³¹."

 

Johnson is a master at stripping away our persistent³² myths and exposing the subterfuge³³ and displacement³⁴ necessary to keep pretending that a culture built on kidnapping, rape³⁵ and torture was the apotheosis³⁶ of gentility and honor.

点击收听单词发音