Memoir Essays

中学時代の同級生が自殺した。お別れ会のために帰郷した私は、7年ぶりに初恋の相手ナルヤに再会する。昔と変わらぬ笑顔を向けてくれる彼だったが、私は不倫の恋を経験し、夢に破れ仕事も辞めてしまっていた

We talk about achieving 'LGBTQ+ equality', but around the world, LGBTQ+ people are still suffering discrimination and extreme violence. How do we solve this urgent problem, allowing queer people everywhere the opportunity to thrive? In We Can Do Better Than This, 35 voices explore this question. Through deeply moving stories and provocative new arguments on safety and visibility, dating and gender, care and community, they map new global frontiers in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

Trost finden. In einer Welt, die so überwältigend, ängstigend, fordernd sein kann. Trost finden im Empfinden von Schönheit, weil das, so Gabriele von Arnim, nicht weniger ist als Selbsterhalt. "Ich brauche Schönheit. Den Trost der Schönheit. Denn wenn ich Schönheit sehe, höre, lese, spüre, dann glaube ich an Möglichkeiten. An Wege, Räume, Purzelbäume." "Der Trost der Schönheit" ist eine schillernde Verbindung aus autobiografischem und essayistischem Erzählen: keine Kulturgeschichte, die ihren Gegenstand mit Theorie einhegen will, sondern eine literarische Spurensuche.

«Estas conferencias se titulan Confesiones de un joven novelista, y cabría preguntarse por qué, teniendo en cuenta que ya he cumplido más de setenta años. Pero resulta que publiqué mi primera novela, El nombre de la rosa, en 1980, de modo que empecé mi carrera como novelista hace cosa de treinta años. Me considero, por lo tanto, un novelista muy joven y ciertamente prometedor».

Begun in 1797, when William was at the height of his poetic powers, The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals provide invaluable insight into the daily lives of Dorothy and William Wordsworth, William’s friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the incidents that inspired some of his greatest poems. Richly immersive and intimately domestic, the Journals transport the listener to life in the Lake District 200 years ago as Dorothy describes the Lake District countryside, her garden and neighbours, keeping house, going on walks, and the people she meets along the way

Una colección de 35 ensayos y poemas audaces, importantes e innovadores de inmigrantes, refugiados y soñadores, incluidos escritores, artistas y activistas galardonados, que iluminan la experiencia de vivir sin documentos.

世界35万部突破のベストセラー！ビル・ゲイツ（世界最大の慈善基金団体 ビル&メリンダ・ゲイツ財団 創設者、デズモンド・ツツ（ノーベル平和賞受賞者、反アパルトヘイト・人

老後は勇気をなくして乗り切れない。今までの人生の経験を凝縮して明日に立ち向かう。老後は良いことばかりではない、思わぬ病気もする。老人性鬱病を告白し克服した作家の壮絶な闘い。

我慢して生きるほど人生は長くない!● 我慢して仕事、家事● やりたいことができない● 心が休まらない● 我慢しすぎて後悔● 気遣いばかりで疲れる● 体調を崩しがち● わかってもらえない

Finding The Christmas Spirit And Other Essays is a collection of five critical and satirical essays by the English writer Michael Lieber. Collection Includes: Finding the Christmas Spirit, The great British Sunday roast, Lieber on Shakespeare, The Heart of Britannia and The London Riots of 2011.

今の子どもたちは、家の周囲に空き地や原っぱもないし、そんな時間もなくなって、「缶蹴り」や「陣取り」をして遊ぶような、幼馴染の世界を失っているけれども、ウルトラセブンをつくっていた人間関係は、

When Nina Sharma meets Quincy while hitching a ride to a friend’s Fourth of July barbecue, she spots a favorite book, Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, in the back seat of his cramped car, and senses a sadness from him that’s all too familiar to her. She is immediately intrigued—who is this man? In The Way You Make Me Feel, Sharma chronicles her and Quincy’s love story, and in doing so, examines how their Black and Asian relationship becomes the lens through which she moves through and understands the world.

日本の企業数は約三六七万社、そのうち九九%が中小企業で、規模が小さい「家業」ほど世襲率は高くなる。

We will teach you how to write creative nonfiction in seven easy steps. This guide is designed to provide you with all the tools you need in a concise, easy-to-understand format that will answer all your burning questions and get you on your way to successful nonfiction writing.

ベルリンで暮らし始めて一年。冬には友人と温泉で新年会をしたり、家で味噌を仕込んだり。春になったら青空市で見つけた白いアスパラガスに、薄切りハムとオリーブオイルを添えて。短い夏には美味しい味と

The first volume in the best-selling Letters of Note series was a collection of hundreds of the world's most entertaining, inspiring, and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name - an online museum of correspondence visited by more than 70 million people. In this volume, Shaun Usher turns to the subject of outer space and space travel.

Craig Shirley's Last Act is the important final chapter in the life of Reagan that no one has thus far covered. It's the kind of audiobook that widens our understanding of American history and of the presidency and the men who occupied it. To tell Reagan's story, Craig has secured the complete, exclusive, and enthusiastic support of the Reagan Foundation and Library and spent considerable time there reviewing sealed files and confidential information.

Three months after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, prizefighters Charles "Sonny" Liston and Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. stepped into a boxing ring in Miami to dispute the heavyweight championship of the world. Liston was a mob fighter with a criminal past, and rumors were spreading that Clay was not just a noisy, bright-eyed boy blessed with more than his share of the craziness of youth, but a believer in a shadowy cult: the Nation of Islam. Instead of a hero and a villain, boxing had served up two bad guys.

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。