Memoir Essays

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.

From bestselling and Booker-nominated author Colm Tóibín comes a beautiful collection of essays ranging from personal memoir to brilliantly acute writing on religion, literature and politics.

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'Decline of the English Murder' analyses the kinds of murders depicted in popular media during Orwell's life and why society of the time was obsessed with these grizzly crimes. Tribune published it on 15th February 1946, and Secker and Warburg republished it after his death in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays in 1952.

The Right Side of History tells the 100-year history of queer activism in a series of revealing close-ups, first-person accounts, and intimate snapshots of LGBT pioneers and radicals. This diverse cast stretches from the Edwardian period to today, including first-person accounts of the key protest that is at the heart of the 2015 movie Stonewall. The book shows how LGBT folk have always been in the forefront of progressive social evolution in the United States.

Youth and frailty, ambition and anxiety, the limitations of the body and the challenges of personal transformation: these are the undercurrents that animate acclaimed poet Ashleigh Young's first collection of essays. In Can You Tolerate This? - the title comes from the question chiropractors ask to test a patient's pain threshold - Young ushers us into her early years in the faraway yet familiar landscape of New Zealand: fantasizing about Paul McCartney, cheering on her older brother's fledging music career, and yearning for a larger and more creative life.

Chapters from My Autobiography is a collection of twenty-five pieces of autobiographical work published by American author Mark Twain in the North American Review between September 1906 and December 1907. Rather than following the standard form of an autobiography, they comprise a typically Twain-esque collection of rambling anecdotes and ruminations.

A Christian for All Christians looks at the influence and friendships that helped shape the real Clive Staples Lewis - Christian apologist, moral philosopher, literary critic, poet, and fantasy writer - and examines the reasons for his enduring popularity with virtually all types of Christians by analyzing the true meaning of his teaching and faith.

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.

Through his experience of boxing - learning to get hit and to hit back; wrestling with the camaraderie of the gym; confronting the betrayals and strength of his own body - McBee examines the weight of male violence, the pervasiveness of gender stereotypes and the limitations of conventional masculinity. A wide-ranging exploration of gender in our society, Amateur is ultimately a story of hope, as McBee traces a way forward: a new masculinity, inside the ring and out of it.

In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, Colm Tóibín turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland's greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats and James Joyce, and their earliest influences: their fathers.

「今の日本社会には、明らかに問題がある。どんな問題があるか。私はものの考え方、見方だと思っている。そこがなんだか、変なのである」――フリーター、ニート、「自分探し」、

The greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing ‘Respect’ or Bob Dylan performing ‘Blind Willie McTell’, have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling when you hear that song again. In Holding the Note, David Remnick writes about the lives and work of some of the greatest musicians, songwriters, and performers of the past fifty years.

Marc Hamer has designed and nurtured 12 acres of garden for over two decades. It is rarely visited, so he is the only person who fully knows its secrets; but it is not his own. His relationship with the garden’s owner is both distant and curiously intimate, steeped in the mysterious connection which exists between two people who inhabit the same space in very different ways. Marc takes us month-by-month through his experiences both working in the garden and outside it, as the seasons’ changes bring new plants and wildlife and lead him to reflect on his past and future.

"Panikherz" war eine Reise ins Innere. Nun geht es in die umgekehrte Richtung: nach draußen, zu den anderen. Mit Boris Becker schaut er in Wimbledon das berühmte Finale von Wimbledon. Mit Helmut Dietl scheitert er in Berlin wegen Berlin an Berlin. Dem Freund Christian Ulmen schaut er zu bei der Verwandlung in "Christian Ulmen". Mit Ferdinand von Schirach schweigt er in der Schreibklausur über das Schreiben. Bei Madonna live in L. A. entdeckt er wahrhaftige Künstlichkeit.

Die Kolumnen von Bestsellerautorin Elena Ferrante ("Die Neapolitanische Saga") aus "The Guardian". Seit 2018 schreibt Elena Ferrante eine wöchentliche Kolumne für das Wochenendmagazin der britischen Zeitung "The Guardian". Dabei setzt sich die Autorin der "Neapolitanischen Saga" in persönlichen Miniaturen mit einem breiten Spektrum verschiedener Themen auseinander - unter anderem mit der Kindheit, dem Altern, mit Geschlechterdiskursen und mit ganz Alltäglichem. Sie erzählt von ihrer ersten großen Liebe und warum sie eine Abneigung gegen Ausrufezeichen hat.

スポーツコラムニストとして活躍するミッチ・アルボムは、偶然テレビで大学時代の恩師の姿を見かける。

Time Lived, Without Its Flow is an astonishing, unflinching essay on the nature of grief from critically acclaimed poet Denise Riley. From the horrific experience of maternal grief Riley wrote her lauded collection Say Something Back, a modern classic of British poetry. This essay is a companion piece to that work, looking at the way time stops when we lose someone suddenly from our lives.

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！

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.