Memoir Essays

Life on the Mississippi expresses the full range of Twain's literary personality. It remains the most vivid, boisterous, and provocative account of the cultural and societal history of the Mississippi Valley, from 'the golden age' of steamboating to the violence wrought by the Civil War.

上巻は、朝日新聞、神戸新聞、日経新聞などに連載されたエッセイを収録。デビュー10周年記念の初エッセイ集、遂に文庫化！

This honest and laugh-out-loud funny collection of essays tells the story of one woman's work-life, which spans four countries and dozens of jobs ranging from chasing bears out of campsites in Yosemite National Park, to serving popcorn in a pot-smoke filled cinema in Canada, to researching digital literacies in a British university. These essays cover workplace topics we're all familiar with: bat-shit crazy bosses; boring, mundane, "bullshit jobs;” annoying office drama.

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.

Across these twenty fresh and boldly intimate stories, Erin Riley writes about the things that matter most: family, heartbreak, humanity, justice and swimming, and the messy, hard graft of becoming one's authentic self. In weaving together their everyday while questioning society and its structures, Erin gifts us stories that double as a manifesto on how to disrupt and reinvent narrative, identity, love and community.

In Bookends, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon offers a compilation of pieces about literature - age-old classics as well as his own - that presents a unique look into his literary origins and influences, the books that shaped his taste and formed his ideas about writing and reading.

From her own girlhood in rural Oregon, Jen Percy has long contemplated the intergenerational trauma passed down through three generations of women, drawing from the survival lessons of her naturalist mother and her grandmother, who fled to a woman-led cult. But as a young woman, she is confounded by her own passive responses to male attention, setting off a broader inquiry into how fear shapes behavior.

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

Before Adam Farrer’s family relocated to Withernsea in 1992, he’d never heard of the Holderness coast. The move represented one thing to Adam: a chance to leave the insecurities of early adolescence behind. And he could do that anywhere. What he didn’t know was how much he’d grow to love the quirks and people of this faded Yorkshire resort, in spite of its dilapidated attractions and retreating clifftops. While Adam documents the minutiae of small-town life, he lays bare experiences that are universal.

When Italian journalist Father Antonio Spadaro and Martin Scorsese first sat down together in Scorsese’s home, neither could have predicted the depth of the conversation, intellectual exchange, or friendship that would result. While discussing the acclaimed director’s film Silence, about the persecution of Jesuits in Japan, they began a dialogue about faith that continues to this day.

大宅賞、講談社ノンフィクション賞、ダブル受賞に輝いた感動ノンフィクション!敗戦から12年目に遺族が手にした6通の遺書。ソ連軍に捕われ、極寒と飢餓と重労働のシベリア抑留中に死んだ男のその遺書は

Martin Luther King Jr. may be America's most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. But despite his stature, the significance of King's writings and political thought remains underappreciated. In To Shape a New World, Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry state that the marginalization of King's ideas reflects a romantic consensus history that renders the civil rights movement inherently conservative - an effort not at radical reform but at "living up to" enduring ideals laid down by the nation's founders.

Basado en textos escritos por el mismo Papa Francisco, este audiolibro habla de cuál es el pensamiento del Papa en torno a temas y problemas centrales de nuestro mundo actual, como la familia, el amor, la educación, el miedo, la fe o las guerras. Es clara y contundente su denuncia del amor al dinero, del uso del nombre de Dios para justificar injusticias, de la explotación del hombre por el hombre, que nos hace percibir un cambio en el mensaje y papel de la iglesia católica ante los problemas de la humanidad.

Originally published in 1969, The Inland Island is Josephine W. Johnson’s startling and brilliant chronicle of nature and the seasons at her rambling 37-acre farm in Ohio, which she and her husband reverted to wilderness with the help of a state forester. Over the course of 12 months, she observes the changing landscape with a naturalist’s precision and a poet’s evocative language. Listeners will marvel at the way she brings to life flashes of beauty, the inexorable cycle of growth and decay, and the creatures who live alongside her, great and small.

女子四人組で旅したインドでは、ヨガとカレー三昧。仕事で訪れたパリでは、お目当てのアップルパイを求めて一人お散歩。旅先で出会った忘れられない味と人々。でも、やっぱり我が家が一番! 新しく家族の

Mit ihren Romanen ist Herta Müller berühmt geworden – in ihren Essays gibt sie Auskunft über sich und ihre Zeit. Wohl nirgends ist ihr bizarrer Weg aus einem Dorf in Rumänien in die Welt der Literatur so gut nachvollziehbar. In den ausgewählten Texten erzählt sie von Kindheit und Jugend, berichtet von den Verfolgungen durch die Geheimpolizei, aber sie widmet sich auch Fragen ihres eigenen Schreibens, seinen literarischen und politischen Seiten. Mit der Stockholmer Rede zur Nobelpreisverleihung und der Tischrede im Originalton.

大人が、遠い記憶と向き合うための25篇

沖縄を離れる時、僕らは数日間の沖縄に別れを告げるのではなく、妄想の中で暮らした美しく豊かだった日々に別れを告げなければならず、その喪失感は青い空を見てつい涙が流れてしまうほどになる。(本文より)

『悪人』『横道世之介』『さよなら渓谷』『怒り』などの ベストセラーで知られる芥川賞作家・吉田修一が、 日々を懸命に生きている大人たちに贈る、 どこまでも前向きで心に沁みる50篇のエッセイです。

大人たちを縛る「記憶」との上手な付き合い方がしみじみ伝わってくる 『泣きたくなるような青空』の25篇、自分自身がいかに唯一無二でユニークなのかをあらためて自覚できる『最後に手にしたいもの』の25篇の、2冊同時発売。

また、出版業界としては異例の
・紙書籍
・電子書籍
・audible(本を耳で楽しむオーディオブック)

の3媒体同時発売!
audibleは『泣きたくなるような青空』を高良健吾さん、『最後に手にしたいもの』を眞島秀和さんに朗読いただきます。

動物とヒトの違いはなにか？　私たちヒトの意識と感覚に関する思索――それは人間関係やデジタル社会での息苦しさから解放される道にもなる。「考え方ひとつで人生はしのぎやすくなりますよ」、

パリの蚤の市で宝物探しに奔走し、モロッコでは夕日を見ながら屋台で舌鼓。旅先でお気に入りのカフェを見つけては、本を読んだり、手紙を書いたり、あの人のことを思ったり。年末に帰ってきた自宅では

Soldier Keith Nightingale has conducted terrain walks in Normandy for over forty years with veterans, active-duty military, and local French civilians. Over the decades Nightingale conducted dozens of formal interviews and informal conversations with many of the principals of the day, including Generals Bradley, Collins, Gavin, Ridgway, and Hill. Added to this rare new primary material from the top brass are numerous conversations with lower-ranking vets who did the heavy lifting.