Memoir Essays

In this new collection of nonfiction from the celebrated author of Zorrie, Laird Hunt uses fiction as an inspiration, a tool, even an obsession, employing its methods to get to the heart of experience. The “sizzling” work of Jane Bowles colors his wanderings through Palermo while a London museum trip provokes a consideration of taxidermy’s storytelling potential and fairytales blend with echoes of W. G. Sebald, Willa Cather, and László Krasznahorkai.

Honduras no es Irak, pero cada año mueren asesinadas 85 personas por cada 100.000 habitantes, una cifra que supera a la de Irak. Honduras vive una de las guerras no declaradas menos contadas del mundo. Una guerra laberíntica de todos contra todos: el narco, que transporta a través del país el 90% de la cocaína colombiana y venezolana que llega a Estados Unidos; los pandilleros convertidos en soldados del narco y en extorsionadores; una policía sin medios que, en vez de detener criminales, prefiere ejecutarlos....

"Wenn ich mit Sprache zu tun habe, bin ich beschäftigt mit der Verwaltung des Nichts": Der Schriftsteller Martin Walser reflektiert in diesen siebzehn eng miteinander verbundenen Essays seine Funktion als Schriftsteller und streift dabei philosophische, künstlerische, gesellschaftliche sowie autobiographische Themen, die er hier miteinander verbindet.

In 1915, Puerto Rican activist Luisa Capetillo was arrested and acquitted for being the first woman to wear men's trousers publicly. While this act of gender-nonconforming rebellion elevated her to feminist icon status in modern pop culture, it also overshadowed the significant contributions she made to the women's movement and anarchist labor movements of the early 20th century - both in her native Puerto Rico and in the migrant labor belt in the eastern United States.

外見を評価し合う社会に、くじけなくていい
みんなが正解と思い込んでいる「可愛さ」にさよならを

自分に自信がない西川きよし師匠から、悪口をエネルギーに突き進む山里亮太、スケールのデカいバカぶりを発揮するピース綾部、恐ろしいほどの執念で紫綬褒章まで行き着いた宮川大助・花子まで……。毒舌を吐き続けても絶対に嫌われない男による「吉本バイブル」、ここに誕生

イヌとネコ計6匹との賑やかな日常を綴る傑作エッセイ

米原万里の絶筆となった連載エッセイ

Una oda a la importancia de los trabajos artesanos en el siglo XXI, una celebración del mar, un emotivo relato sobre la relación padre-hija. Cómo construir una barca es la historia de un hombre moderno y sin ninguna habilidad destacable que, inspirado por su amor al mar y todo lo que éste le ha enseñado, se propone construir una barca de madera según los métodos tradicionales como regalo para su hija recién nacida. Es una tarea ridículamente quijotesca para un hombre que, con una familia y una hipoteca, no sabe absolutamente nada sobre trabajar la madera.

Un document pour les passionnés de littérature russe et de Gide. Gide a commencé à écrire sur Dostoievsky dès les premières années du vingtième siècle. Passionné par ce grand écrivain, il en parla dans plusieurs conférences et c'est vers 1930 qu'il rassembla toutes ses connaissances dans un ouvrage.

すごい人ほどダメだった！
読めば勇気がわいてくる、新しい心の教科書

When Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman, News Corporation, blew up more than $870 million buying Star TV from Richard Li in the early 1990s, analysts were dismayed. Why on earth had Murdoch invested in a pan-Asian broadcaster that was neither fish nor fowl? More than 25 years later, with revenues of over $2 billion, Star India is one of the country's three largest media firms. Murdoch's instinct had done what a hundred investor summits could not: showcased the potential of the Indian media market to the world.

Edited by Krishna Ramanujan and Guillermo Rodríguez, Journeys offers access to Ramanujan's personal diaries and journals, providing a window into his creative process. It will include literary entries from his travels, his thoughts on writing, poetry drafts, and dreams. His diaries and journals served as fertile ground where he planted the seeds for much of his published work....

Für ihre Schulfreundinnen ist Madonna eine "lesbische Schlampe" - für die 11-jährige Reyhan Şahin ist sie das größte Vorbild. Dass wir Reyhan heute als Lady Bitch Ray kennen, als unkonventionelle Künstlerin, promovierte Sprachwissenschaftlerin, als kluge und meinungsstarke Feministin, hat viel mit der Queen of Pop zu tun. Sie erzählt uns davon - und von der Macht von Popmusik.

Nguyen Nhat Anh's journal does not just discuss Quang noodles. He said everything in the sky under the pool. From food to calligraphy, from theater to movie, from home to office, from supermarket to street, from Saigon to the West...He discusses everything: From big and small, from fake goods to Hollywood uprising, from Cophaco fans to Ba Tieu fans...He also likes everything: From reading advertisements to listening to reforms on the Tien River, from watching football to watching flowers dig in paintings, then "chat"...

When her husband asked for a divorce after 25 years of marriage, Rebecca Winn felt untethered physically, spiritually, and emotionally. The security she'd had in her marriage was suddenly replaced by an overwhelming sense of fear, hopelessness, and dread. She felt invisible and alone and was horrified to consider that her deepest longing - to know and be known by another person - might never be realized. But from this fear emerged a powerful desire to answer one of life's most profound questions: How can we ever know another person if we do not truly know ourselves?

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.

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。

劇作家・寺山修司や心理学者・河合隼雄が絶賛した『風と木の詩』の創作舞台裏や、女性版トキワ荘・大泉サロンで「いかに少女マンガの地位を上げるか」を仲間と語り合った日々を綴る。

Honduras no es Irak, pero en algún momento, Alberto Arce - único corresponsal extranjero en Tegucigalpa de 2012 a 2014 - lo vivió así. Honduras no es Irak, pero cada año mueren asesinadas 85 personas por cada 100.000 habitantes, una cifra que supera a la de Irak. Honduras vive una de las guerras no declaradas menos contadas del mundo. Una guerra laberíntica de todos contra todos.