Dan Davis, an electronics engineer, had finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot that could do almost anything. Wild success was within reach, but then Dan's life was ruined. In a plot to steal his business, his greedy partner and greedier fiancée tricked him into taking the "long sleep": suspended animation for 30 years.

Award-winning Japanese author and poet Mieko Kawakami brings Ashes of Spring, a collection of short stories set in everyday life in Japan just before the pandemic lockdown.

Akira Kido is a divorce attorney whose own marriage is in danger of being destroyed by emotional disconnect. With a midlife crisis looming, Kido's life is upended by the reemergence of a former client, Rié Takemoto. She wants Kido to investigate a dead man - her recently deceased husband, Daisuké. Upon his death she discovered that he’d been living a lie. His name, his past, his entire identity belonged to someone else, a total stranger.

Tokyo, 1979. Yoriko Shindo, a workhorse of a woman who has been an outcast her whole life, is kidnapped and dragged to the lair of the Naiki-kai, a branch of the yakuza. After she savagely fends off a throng of henchmen in an attempt to escape, Shindo is only permitted to live under one condition: that she will become the bodyguard and driver for Shoko Naiki, the obsessively sheltered daughter of the gang’s boss.

People who do amazing things in the world - developing a new cancer drug, creating award-winning ads, helping their communities - may seem to have all sorts of advantages. But they don’t have any more hours than the rest of us. Instead, they may be allocating their hours in interesting ways that the rest of us can learn from. In this workshop, time management expert Laura Vanderkam explains about how broadening our perspective on time will help us be more intentional with the hours we have, and shares the simple, practical steps your team can take to start making time work for them.

アーティストのインタビューやライヴほか、さまざまな音楽体験からのリアルな音楽シーンのアーカイブスを、評論家、DJたちが生の声で語る「musicbook」企画の第8回配信作品。「スイングジャーナル」の編集長を務め、その後ジャズ/ポピュラー音楽の評論家として活躍している岩浪洋三がその歴史を語ります。/『村上春樹とジャズ』/ジャズ喫茶「スウィング」で学生時代にアルバイトをしていた村上春樹。音楽に対する鋭い洞察力、そしてジャズとの接点などをひも解きながら、彼の作品原点に迫ります。/1.『ハーレムを知らずしてジャズを語るなかれ』:岩浪洋三/2.『デューク・エリントンの音楽にはジャズの全てがある』:岩浪洋三/3.『村上春樹とジャズ』:岩浪洋三/ (C)2010 TED/F.O.D./JI-NON

「やりたいこと」を諦めたことも、 「やりたくないこと」を我慢したことも、 僕には一度もありません。

Classical guitarist Satoshi Makino has toured the world and is at the height of his career when he first lays eyes on journalist Yoko Komine. Their bond forms instantly. Upon their first meeting, after Makino’s concert in Tokyo, they begin a conversation that will go on for years, with long spells of silence broken by powerful moments of connection. She’s drawn by Makino’s tender music and his sensitivity, and he is intrigued by Yoko’s refinement and intellect. But neither knows enough about love to see it blooming nor has the confidence to make the first move.

Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves the bizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan searching for love, his father, and the key to the riddle of his origin and fate.

「人が死ぬのって、素敵よね」彼女は僕のすぐ耳もとでしゃべっていたので、その言葉はあたたかい湿った息と一緒に僕の体内にそっともぐりこんできた。