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Five books to read this autumn, from Marlon James to Joe Biden

Five books to read this autumn, from Marlon James to Joe Biden

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August 21st, 2026

Five books to read this autumn, from Marlon James to Joe Biden

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This autumn, bibliophiles are eagerly anticipating a diverse array of works, ranging from fiction and biographies to memoirs, poetry collections, and current-affairs nonfiction.

この秋読書愛好家はフィクション、伝記、回想録、詩集、時事ノンフィクションといった多岐にわたる作品を心待ちにしている

Here, we present a carefully curated selection of five works that are poised to capture widespread attention in the coming months.

ここでは今後話題をさらうであろう5作品を厳選して紹介しよう

Marlon James's fantasy series "Dark Star" was a testament to his extraordinary imagination.

マーロン・ジェームズのファンタジーシリーズ「ダーク・スター」彼の非凡な想像力を示すものだった

In "The Disappearances," he returns to his native Jamaica, confronting once more the grim reality depicted in his Booker Prize-winning novel "A Brief History of Seven Killings."

「ザ・ディスアピアーズ」では故郷ジャマイカに戻りブッカー賞受賞作『七つの殺人簡史』の殺伐とした現実に再び向き合う

This latest work has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and centers on the brutal assault suffered by eight gay men during a theater rehearsal in 1988.

この新作はブッカー賞の最終候補に挙がっており1988年に演劇のリハーサル中だった8人のゲイ男性が受けた凄惨な暴行を中心に据えている

James skillfully weaves together humor, popular culture, compassion, and profoundly painful experiences.

ジェームズはユーモア、大衆文化、思いやり、そして非常に辛い経験を巧みに織り交ぜる

"I don't believe there are lessons to be learned from a massacre," James writes.

虐殺から学ぶ教訓などあるとは思わないとジェームズは書く

"Only that you should remain ever vigilant of the ways people direct their hostility toward you" (September 1).

ただ、人があなたに敵意を向ける方法に常に警戒していなさいということだけだ(9月1日)

Kai Bird is best known for 'American Prometheus,' co-authored with Martin J. Sherwin.

カイ・バードはマーティン・J・シャーウィンとの共著『アメリカン・プロメテウス』で最もよく知られている

This biography of nuclear scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer served as the source material for Christopher Nolan's Academy Award-winning film 'Oppenheimer.'

これは核科学者J・ロバート・オッペンハイマーの伝記で、クリストファー・ノーラン監督のアカデミー賞受賞作『オッペンハイマー』の原作となった

In 'American Scoundrel,' he and his wife Susan Goldmark trace the influence of the late political operative Roy Cohn, from his early days as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy to his mentorship of a young Donald Trump.

『アメリカン・スカウンドレル』では彼と妻のスーザン・ゴールドマークが故政治工作員ロイ・コーンの影響をジョセフ・マッカーシー上院議員の首席補佐官としての初期から若きドナルド・トランプへの指導まで追跡する

The book draws on government documents, archival materials, and dozens of interviews, and the authors' surprises include Trump himself, with Bird writing in the acknowledgments, 'He answered my cold calls on his personal cell phone several times.'

この本は政府文書アーカイブ資料、数十件のインタビューに基づいており、著者たちの驚きにはトランプ自身も含まれバードは謝辞で「彼は私の冷たい電話に個人的な携帯で何度か応じてくれた」と書いている

Trump, while 'not forthcoming about his reflections, was courteous,' but declined to meet in person, saying, 'I'm president. I'm very busy. I get calls from China. I get calls from Russia. I can't do that.' (September 1)

トランプは「物思いについては率直とは言えなかったが、礼儀正しかった」が、直接会うことは断り「私は大統領だ。とても忙しい。中国から電話がかかってくる。ロシアから電話がかかってくる。それはできない」と語った。(9月1日)

Emma Cline excels at embodying alienated minds and dramatizing the fleeting nature, ambition, and deceit of youth, and she is best known for her monumental debut novel, The Girls.

エマ・クラインは疎外された心を体現し若者の儚さ、野心、欺瞞を劇的に描くことに長けており最も名高いのは記念碑的なデビュー作『ガールズ』である。

In The Switz, which has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, she tells the story of a retired businessman whose mental faculties are deteriorating, as he makes his way to an assisted-suicide facility in Zurich.

『スウィッツィー』ではブッカー賞の候補に挙がっており精神能力が衰えつつある退職したビジネスマンが、チューリッヒの安楽死施設へ向かう途中の物語を描く

Cline breaks the narrative into terse, deadpan passages, and as a once "valuable man" confronts his memories, she concludes: "He had always stayed on the surface. His whole life had." (September 8)

クラインは物語を簡潔で無表情なパッセージに分割しかつて「価値ある人物」記憶と向き合いこう結論づける「彼はいつも表面に留まっていた。彼の人生全体が」(9月8日)

Night Music Against the Dark is Li Yiyun's sixth novel and her first new work since the memoir Things Only Grow in Nature, which won the Pulitzer Prize last year.

『夜に抗う音楽』李翊雲の6作目の小説昨年ピューリッツァー賞を受賞した回想録『自然の中のものはただ育つ』以来の新作である。

This time, she appears to have written a markedly different tale: that of a piano prodigy from the late eighteenth century, whose fame barely outlived him, and an orphaned itinerant musician who makes the ill-fated decision to marry him.

今回は18世紀後半のピアノの神童名声が存命期間をかろうじて超えた人物孤児の放浪ミュージシャンが、彼と結婚するという不運な決断を下すという、非常に異なる物語を書いているようだ

The novel is as much a story about music as it is a meditation on 'night,' death, parents, friends, children, and all manner of people.

この小説は音楽の物語であると同時に、「夜」、両親友人子供すべての人々についての瞑想でもある

'Do not yield to despair,' Li writes in the latter half of the book, adding a dark, Shakespearean warning.

「絶望に屈してはならない」李は本の後半で書きシェイクスピア的な暗い警告を加える

'The death of a child can never be neutral for a parent.

「子供の死は親にとって決して中立ではありえない。

The death of a child is a negation of time; there is no longer any distinction between before and now, sometimes and now, later and nowonly now and now and now and now and now and now' (October 13).

子供の死は時間の否定でありもはや以前と今時々と今後でと今という区別はなくただ今と今と今と今と今と今があるだけだ(10月13日)

Memoirs can often serve as a prime opportunity for a president to define their legacy, yet readers and critics frequently harbour priorities that diverge from that aim.

回想録は往々にして大統領が自らの遺産を定義づける絶好の機会となり得るが、読者や批評家はそれとは異なる優先事項を抱くことも少なくない。

The cases of Richard Nixon and Watergate, or Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky affair, are quintessential examples.

例えばリチャード・ニクソンとウォーターゲート事件ビル・クリントンとモニカ・ルインスキー事件がその典型である

Joe Biden will naturally wish to focus on his own achievements, such as his 2020 victory over Donald Trump, the passage of landmark green energy legislation, and the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

ジョー・バイデンは当然のことながら2020年のドナルド・トランプに対する勝利グリーンエネルギーに関する画期的な立法の成立、そして初の黒人女性最高裁判事であるケタンジ・ブラウン・ジャクソンの指名といった自らの功績に焦点を当てたいと望むであろう。

However, the general public is likely seeking answers to far less desirable questions.

しかし一般市民はおそらくより望ましくない問いへの回答を求めている。

In particular, they want to know about Biden's health during his tenure in the White House, the circumstances leading up to the disastrous debate with Trump, and his decision to abandon his re-election campaign shortly thereafter. (November 17)

特にホワイトハウス在任中のバイデンの健康状態トランプとの悲惨な討論に至った背景そしてその直後に再選キャンペーンを断念する決定についてである(11月17日)

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