Memoir Essays

「自分探し」なんてムダなこと。「本当の自分」を探すよりも、「本物の自信」を育てたほうがいい。脳、人生、医療、死、情報、仕事など、あらゆるテーマについて、頭の中にある「壁」を超えたときに、

朝日新聞を退職し、50歳を過ぎて始めたのは、ピアノ。人生後半戦、ずっとやりたくても、できなかったことをやってみる。他人の評価はどうでもいい。

永遠の別れを経て知る、夫婦とは、愛とは、生きるとは――。「Mr.フジテレビ」と呼ばれた夫を狂おしいほど愛し抜いた女優の絶望と再生の物語。

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?

Stepping into the ring against light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore, George Plimpton pauses to wonder what ever induced him to become a participatory journalist. Bloodied but unbowed, he holds his own in the bout—and lives to tell in this timeless book on boxing and its devotees, among them Ali, Joe Frazier, Ernest Hemingway, and Norman Mailer.

子育てから老後まで、与える存在へのささやかな試み―あなたはお返しの人生を生きていますか？コロナ後の世界を生き抜く感性とバランス。子供たちに伝えたい、気づきと和の心。故郷の潤い。

放送開始５０年を迎える「ウルトラセブン」のアンヌ隊員こと、ひし美ゆり子が、１１年続く自身のブログの中から、監督や出演者の思い出、懐かしい撮影現場の秘話など、お気に入りのエピソードを厳選した

「40代女の生き方のバリエーションが増えている」「女の敵は女じゃない」「人間は役に立つことのために生きているわけじゃない」……。もう一度会いたかった8人と語り合い見えてきた生きる姿勢は、

'Indian-Australian' is not a one-size-fits-all descriptor. Given the depth and richness of diversity of the Indian subcontinent, it is fitting that its diaspora is similarly varied. Growing Up Indian in Australia reflects and celebrates this vibrant diversity. It features contributions from Australian-Indian writers, both established and emerging, who hail from a wide range of backgrounds, religions and experiences. This colorful, energetic anthology offers reflections on identity, culture, family, food and expectations, ultimately revealing deep truths about both Australian and Indian life.

Un'ereditiera californiana viene rapita dall'Esercito di liberazione simbionese, diventa l'amante di uno dei terroristi e terrorista lei stessa, poi sposa la sua guardia del corpo e va a vivere con figli e cani in una casa finto-spagnola iper-blindata. Una banchiera d'affari di Manhattan mentre fa jogging a Central Park viene aggredita da sei adolescenti neri e ispanici, stuprata, torturata con dei rami e ridotta in fin di vita.

“I don’t want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the Nobel Prize, but rather for my journalism,” Gabriel García Márquez said in the final years of his life. And while some of his journalistic writings have been made available over the years, this is the first volume to gather a representative selection from across the first four decades of his career - years during which he worked as a full-time, often muckraking, and controversial journalist, even as he penned the fiction that would bring him the Nobel Prize in 1982.

A collection of magazine writer Jon Bradshaw’s essential writings, The Ocean Is Closed rediscovers a memorable talent, and offers us a shadow reality to the established literary canon of the mid-century. With droll wit and keen intelligence, Bradshaw’s cinematic prose brings the ’70s to vibrant life.

2020年2月から3月のイタリア、ローマ。200万部のベストセラーと物理学博士号をもつ小説家、パオロ・ジョルダーノにもたらされた空白は、１冊の傑作を生みだした。

猫沢エミとパリに渡った一匹の猫の物語。8年ぶり、待望の復刊。わらかな再生と新たな運命の出逢い・別れを加筆した心震える増補改訂版。

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

В тайниках памяти — захватывающий рассказ о поисках таинственного автора романа "Лабиринт бесчеловечности", вызвавшего в Париже 1938 года бурю эмоций: одни называли его новым Артюром Рембо, другие обвиняли в плагиате. В наши дни книга производит неизгладимое впечатление на начинающего сенегальского писателя ДиеганаЛатираФайе, и он задается целью выяснить, что случилось с этим бесследно исчезнувшим человеком. Мысленное путешествие в прошлое и реальное — по следам автора — погружает Диегана в подробности давних драматических событий колониальной эпохи, Первой мировой войны, Холокоста.

名訳と迷訳は紙一重。言語をめぐる爆笑エッセイ！

Indu Bhan’s Legal Eagles: Stories of Top Seven Indian Lawyers’ traces the story of the top seven lawyers in India. Lawyers, as we commonly perceive, are not just shrewd intellectuals but much more. It takes more than just intelligence to become a successful lawyer. It takes years of practice, extensive studies and professionalism which set the absolutely outstanding lawyers from the general ones. Their life and career graph is full of crusts and troughs and this book gives an insight into it.

野村監督が阪神時代にまとめた『ノムラの考へ』をベースに、指揮官はどうあるべきかを記したのが本書です。人間教育、組織論から、配球術、弱者の戦法まで、輝かしい実績に裏付けされた名将の理論と哲学を全公開。