Memoir Essays

In his essay about the life of Irish writer John McGahern, Tóibín reveals the tones of melancholy and amusement within both art and the artist. In his extraordinary essay on his cancer diagnosis, Tóibín unpicks the word 'battle', and illuminates the distress, horror and blankness of his experiences. From the shades of light and dark in a Venice without tourists, to the streets of Buenos Aires riddled with disappearances and tied up with dictators and politics, we find ourselves considering law and religion in Ireland as well as in Marilynne Robinson's fiction.

「40代女の生き方のバリエーションが増えている」「女の敵は女じゃない」「人間は役に立つことのために生きているわけじゃない」……。もう一度会いたかった8人と語り合い見えてきた生きる姿勢は、

Khabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture. Focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners, the book questions: What does it mean to belong, and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country?

Sandra Brown revisits two pivotal Christmases from her own past in this heartfelt and intimate essay. One needn't be familiar with Brown's previous works to be deeply moved by this personal reflection on the meaning of family, faith, celebration, and generosity: but fans will find it a unique and special insight into the New York Times best-selling author's life and values.

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.

大王製紙社長の長男として、幼少時代は1200坪の屋敷で過ごし、東大法学部に現役合格。27歳で赤字子会社を立て直し、42歳で本社社長就任。順調な経営、華麗なる交遊……すべてを手にしていたはずの

This short story chronicles one particular night in Samantha's life where she attended an ugly Christmas sweater party and crossed paths with a boy she went to high school with. Throughout her senior year, he seemed to linger on the peripherary of her life, though he never seemed interested enough to take action. Now that they find themselves alone in a mutual friend's kitchen at the party, adrift in a sea of strangers, defenses crumble and a true human connection sparks. This short story is told from the perspective of an older Smantha reflecting on her past and wondering what could have ...

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」、

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?

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.

Get ready to have all your illusions of the glamorous Italian expat life shattered in this hilarious, irreverent memoir of a young American woman's romantic (or rather, unromantic) misadventures in the eternal city. Handsome, charming Roman men; perfectly made cappuccino and risotto; breathtakingly beautiful antiquities and that incomparable Italian light - none of these are perhaps quite as idyllic as they might seem to the casual traveler.

The Amputee’s Guide to Jules Verne is a listener's guide to every novel Jules Verne wrote; in that respect alone, there is no other book like it on the market. But it’s more than that. Nick DiMartino has included several essays evaluating Verne’s overall approach as a writer and the values embodied in his work. He has included as well a number of deeply personal essays about his struggles with the loneliness, pain, and lack of mobility that came with being an amputee.

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.

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。

Raised in Manhattan by her overly protective sex-therapist mother who wore "seven layers of shoulder pads" and her two doting grandparents, life in Wendy Spero's world has never been dull. As a child, she passed the time organizing impromptu "garage sales" on city sidewalks, sniffing fruit-scented magic markers to intoxication, parenting dozens of high-maintenance stuffed animals, and seeking out other "microthrills", which she writes about in this hilarious audiobook of odd but true stories.

How do you become a television writer? What does it take to create your own show? Did the writers of Lost really have a plan, or were they making it all up as they went? In a career spanning far longer than he cares to admit, Javier Grillo-Marxuach has not only written for some of your favorite (and not-so-favorite) shows.

墜落現場の特定と救助はなぜ遅れたのか。目撃された戦闘機の追尾と赤い物体。仲間を失った元客室乗務員が執念で解き明かす渾身のノンフィクション。事故ではなく事件なのか？

アイダホの山奥で育ったタラ。狂信的なモルモン教原理主義者の父の方針で、学校へも通わせてもらえず、病院に行くのも禁じられていた。兄からは虐待も受けていた。

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.

大人が、自分自身に満足するための25篇

巨万の富や名誉を手に入れたあと、次に人が欲しくなるのは、この夕焼け空なのかもしれない。(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。