Memoir Essays

On the Water is a gorgeously written collection of essays that all take place on or near the water and pay tribute to the flora and fauna associated with those ecosystems. There are essays about the finer points of tickling rainbow trout in the streams of Normandy, and of eagles and ospreys fishing for bass while barely breaking the surface of the water. There are stories of droughts and floods, of dogs and boats, of worms and rattlesnakes, and even of catching and cooking soft-shell turtles that taste like osso-bucco.

The colorful, sentimental, funny, affectionate, cantankerous memoir by the most colorful, funniest, most cantankerous-- and probably the most revered-- sportswriter of the last fifty years. Dan Jenkins is accepted as one of the greatest (if not the greatest) golf writer of all time, wrote beloved bestselling novels and abused more corporate expense accounts than anyone who ever lived. It's a touching, laugh-out-loud tribute to the romanticism of old-time sportswriting-- and the glory days of sports.

米原万里の絶筆となった連載エッセイ

大ブレイク中のガールズグループ「NiziU」をはじめ、「2PM」「TWICE」など数々の人気アーティストを生んだ世界的プロデューサーが、自らのこれまでの歩みと哲学をつづる。

We treat the body as an afterthought, until it no longer can be. Until the pain or the pleasure is too great. Sinéad Gleeson's life has been marked by terrible illness, including leukemia and debilitating arthritis. As a child, she bathed in the springs of Lourdes, ever hopeful that her body would cooperate, ever looking forward to the day when she could take her body for granted. But just as she turns inward to explore her own pain, and then the marvel of recovery, and then the arrival of her greatest joys—falling in love, becoming a mother—she turns her gaze outward.

Raised Congregationalist in New England, Mairs is a convert to Catholicism. She is also liberal, feminist, and outspokenly activist - and all that in an increasingly conservative church that scorns her brand of progressive iconoclasm. A Dynamic God explores through beautifully written personal essays the question of why and how Mairs became and remains a Catholic ("despite all odds"); what she finds to love in that tradition; and more broadly, as she writes, how she experiences the holy in her life and in the world.

伝説のフォトジャーナリスト最後の3年間。20歳の時、51歳のフォトジャーナリスト、ユージン・スミスと出会ったアイリーン・美緒子・スプレイグ。二人はチッソの工場排水が引き起こす未曾有の公害に苦しむ水俣を

在日三世として生をうけ、泥水をすするような貧しさのもと育ったソフトバンク社長・孫正義氏はいかに身を起こしたのか。ノンフィクション作家・佐野眞一氏が朝鮮半島に繋がる血のルーツまで遡って取材した

Entre biographie et essai, le livre de Jean-Pierre Rioux, salué par la critique et succès d'édition, évoque l'orateur hors pair, le philosophe, l'intellectuel et l'historien, le défenseur des droits de l'homme, l'homme de la paix, l'adversaire du colonialisme. Les questions d'aujourd'hui auxquelles le premier mort de l'été 1914 avait donné sa réponse continuent de nous hanter. Comment ne pas trahir quand on est au pouvoir ? Comment lire une société d'inégalités ? Comment récuser le désordre établi si l'on n'assume pas l'histoire et l'héritage ? Que serait un avenir sans morale et sans religion ?

A taxonomy of sweetness, a rhapsody of artificial flavors, and a multi-faceted theory of pleasure, Sweet Nothings is made up of one hundred illustrated micro essays organized by candy color, from the red of Pop Rocks to the purple Jelly Bonbon in the Whitman’s Sampler. Each entry is a meditation on taste and texture, a memory unlocked. Everyone’s favorites—and least favorites—are carefully considered, including Snickers and Trader Joe’s Peanut Butter Cups, as well as the beloved Good n’ Plenty and Werther’s Originals.

ボールパークを創りたい、その夢を北海道で実現した男たちの物語

「古典的な西部劇の巨匠」というレッテルからジョン・フォードを解き放ち、画面そのものを見つめる快楽へとひたすら誘う――『監督 小津安二郎』と双璧をなす著者集大成。

普通の女子高生が、突然インドへ引っ越すことに。豊かな人が車を走らせる横で、1台のバイクに4人乗りする家族。スラムでの出会い。格差社会の光と影を描く女子高生視線のインド滞在記。

2020年1月から、東京は戦争状態に突入した。そしてその20年から21年にかけて、保健所と東京都庁の感染症対策部門の課長として新型コロナ対策の第一線で指揮を執り続けた医師がいた。

なぜ 語らないのか。

なぜ 俯いて歩くのか。

なぜ いつも独りなのか。

そしてなぜ 嫌われるのか――。

中日ドラゴンズで監督を務めた8年間、ペナントレースですべてAクラスに入り、日本シリーズには5度進出、2007年には日本一にも輝いた。

The stunning, intimate essays in Anxious Attachments take us through the life stages of a woman living in the American Southwest from the 1970s to the present. As she moves from adolescence into adulthood, the narrator grapples with attachments that develop through her family and her ties to the wider world around her while she works as a teacher, writer, and caregiver. Though written from a single woman’s perspective, these essays invite us to reflect on the many roles women play and the social factors that touch upon them.

A few years ago, Erica Heller realized how universal the longing is for one more moment with a lost loved one. It could be a parent, a sibling, a mentor, or a friend, but who wouldn't love the opportunity to sit down, break bread, and just talk? Who wouldn't jump at the chance to ask those unasked questions, or share those unvoiced feelings?

「悲劇的なもの」への憧憬と渇仰。それは三島由紀夫にとって存在の深部から湧出する抑えがたい欲動であった。自己を衝き動かす「前意味論的欲動」は、彼の文学を研ぎ澄ませ昇華させると同時に

福島県南相馬市に暮らす上野敬幸氏は、家族４人を津波で失う。福島第一原発事故後も避難を拒み、自力で行方不明者の捜索を続ける上野氏と出会った著者が、７年にわたる取材をもとに遺族の深い胸の内の変化を綴る。

角栄はなぜ葬られたのか？　新証言と膨大な資料を駆使した人気作家渾身の超弩級ノンフィクション！