Memoir Essays

滋賀県愛あふるるエッセイ。琵琶湖が何県にあるのか知らない人が実は多い、「千葉」や「佐賀」とよく間違えられる、比叡山延暦寺があるのは京都じゃない――

自身の経験にもとづく問題提起を行ってきた著者が、閉塞状況の日本に一石を投じるエッセイ。　1997年から2000年に毎日新聞、産経新聞などに掲載したものをまとめて単行本化した書籍の改装版。

人生はあっという間と言うけれど、走馬灯に映し出される色とりどりの絵のごとく、たくさんの喜怒哀楽があり、これまで生きてきた年月は、実は長いのだと、このエッセイは教えてくれる。

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

「僕のこと、書き残してね」――2014年、悪性リンパ腫が発覚した高倉健。それでも何より仕事のことを考える男に、養女・貴月は懸命に尽くした。

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.

Vinícius Dônola é a cara e a voz que o grande público conhece por suas reportagens de televisão, transmitidas pelas principais emissoras do país. Histórias das histórias que contei narra os bastidores de uma breve seleção das mais de mil matérias que o jornalista apresentou ao longo de sua carreira. No livro, Dônola relembra casos marcantes, como a premiada denúncia sobre a execução de um fugitivo pela polícia, à luz do dia, em frente a um movimentado shopping do Rio de Janeiro na década de 1990.

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.

Un delicioso recorrido por la obra y los lugares más emblemáticos de ocho escritores fundamentales. El regreso de Savater a su faceta más divulgativa. En Aquí viven leones, Fernando Savater vuelve a una de sus facetas favoritas, la de divulgador de la literatura y el pensamiento. A través de ocho viajes inolvidables, ilustrados magníficamente por Anapurna, nos presenta la obra y la vida de Shakespeare, Valle Inclán, Poe, Leopardi, Agatha Christie, Reyes, Flaubert y Zweig.

Learn about these golf legends as they were learning to master the game on their home turf. In Grown at Glen Garden, the early friendship of Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson is shown, from their caddying days at Glen Garden Country Club to their chummy rivalry at the Masters decades later. With a peek at their family backgrounds, the story shows both the hardships and joys of growing up and learning to golf in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1920s.

Adrian Ludwig Richter (Geboren: 28. September 1803 in Dresden; Verstorben: 19. Juni 1884 ebenda) war ein bedeutender Maler und Zeichner der Spätromantik und des Biedermeiers. Berühmt geworden ist er vor allem durch seine Illustrationen von Märchen- und Volksbüchern. Eigentlich aber verstand Ludwig Richter sich als Maler, und zwar als "Landschafter". Deshalb nannte er seine Lebenserinnerungen auch ausdrücklich die eines Malers.

If Only You People Could Follow Directions is a spellbinding debut by Jessica Hendry Nelson. In linked autobiographical essays, Nelson has reimagined the memoir with her thoroughly original voice, fearless writing, and hypnotic storytelling. At its center, the book is the story of three people: Nelson’s mother Susan, her brother Eric, and Jessica herself.

Giovanni Pascoli, in omaggio alla sua Ravenna, si unisce a Dante, che là compì la sua grande opera, per comunicarci bagliori di quella “mirabile visione” che è apparsa a Dante ragazzo, e poi l’ha ritrovato maturo, costretto suo malgrado a seguire quella vita contemplativa che, da ragazzo, era stata una sua aspirazione, e che era poi stata trascurata per smarrirsi nella selva di una vita politica.

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.

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.

Join former NBC newsman and Meet the Press moderator David Gregory as he probes various religious traditions to better understand his own faith and answer life's most important questions: Who do we want to be, and what do we believe?

Acclaimed historian Stephen Ambrose begins his examination with a glance inward - he starts this book with his brothers, his first and forever friends, and the shared experiences that join them for a lifetime, overcoming distance and misunderstandings.

Wie hilft uns Literatur in den dunkelsten und einsamsten Momenten des Lebens? Und wie schreibe ich selbst über den Schmerz ohne Pathos, einfach und klar? Helga Schubert hat so viel bei Anton Tschechow gelernt. Über das Leben und das Schreiben. Helga Schubert erzählt in diesem persönlichen, traurig-schönen Buch von ihrer ersten Begegnung mit Tschechow, ihrer ersten Lektüre seiner Erzählung "Gram", die sie erschüttert und gerettet hat.

«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».

Though celebrated playwright Wendy Wasserstein was firmly rooted in New York's cultural life, her appeal is universal. Shiksa Goddess collects her urbane, inspiring, and deeply empathetic essays, all written when she was in her forties, and all infused with her trademark irreverent humor. The full range of Wasserstein's mid-life obsessions are covered in this eclectic collection— everything from Chekhov, politics, and celebrity to family, fashion, and real estate.