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なんと24歳で初めてネクタイをしめたという村上龍が、イタリアでシャツに目覚めた。ミラノ、ローマ、ハバナ、ソウル、上海。神出鬼没に買い物道を驀進する！ 思わず噴き出す痛快エッセイ。

声優・内田雄馬さん推薦!!「戦友の人生を辿る一冊です。作曲家の今を知りたい方にも読んでほしい！」

中谷宇吉郎が昭和27-29年に米軍の雪氷研究などのために滞在していたシカゴ郊外、ウイネツカで書かれました。遠く北海道を思い出し、科学者らしい視点で綴った随筆です。当時の街の風景が浮かんでくるような爽やかな描写です。

EKPHRASIS MADE PERSONAL By Ginnie L. McKnight takes 5 Original Paintings and creates a combined literary ekphrasis, with personal narrative essay form. Drafted as an experimental session style compilation.

Real-life stories of mothers and daughters – of what we inherit, what we bury and what we, finally, find the courage to say – by the award-winning New Yorker staff writer. You Won’t Get Free of It tells the stories of mothers and daughters searching for each other and for themselves. Aviv...

This was never meant to be a book that offered tidy solutions. Instead, it’s a declaration. A refusal to stay quiet. A chorus of voices from women who have spent years, and in many cases, decades, pushing against an industry that often erases them…You’re On Mute: 13 Lessons for Women Frustrated with the Tech Sector is an anthology by and for women in tech, or any sector where gender parity has stalled. Each chapter is crafted by a woman or gender-minority who has faced challenges in the tech sector but has nonetheless paved a path forward.

Artur da Távola considerava-se um “homem poli” – alguém que tinha numerosos interesses. Amava o rádio e a televisão, a política, os esportes e a música. Foi comunicador, escritor e deputado constituinte, observador arguto de tudo, homem atento aos sentimentos e afetos. Na crônica, encontrou terreno fértil para tratar dos tantos temas que o fascinavam.

Bloomsbury presents… Driver’s Licence by Meredith Castile read by Barbara Barnes Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A classic teenage fetish object, the American driver’s license has long symbolized freedom and...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A collection of reported stories that explore the relationship between mothers and daughters, from the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing for her work in The New Yorker. You Won’t Get Free of It tells...

Persoonlijke verhalen van Özcan Akyol, beter bekend als Eus. 'Mijn moeder, de kleine reus' is het liefdevolle verhaal van Eus en zijn familie. Alles laat hij langskomen: van alledaags ongemak met een overijverige moeder tot kleine en rake beschrijvingen van het menselijk tekort. De realiteit beschrijft hij met scherpte en humor. Zijn veelzijdige geest is nooit klaar met vragen stellen en prikkelt de lezer telkens om na te denken. Özcan Akyol is een van de belangrijkste stemmen van Nederland, en zijn unieke kijk op de wereld laat de lezer achter met een glimlach en hernieuwde levenslust.

Geboren in der ehemaligen britischen Kolonie Indien verlief das Leben von George Orwell alles andere als geradlinig. Als junger Mann stand er zwar kommunistischen Ideen offen gegenüber und in seinen frühen Texten finden sich auch antisemitische Vorurteile, doch mit der Zeit und in reiferen Jahren distanzierte sich Orwell öffentlich und in seinen schriftstellerischen Werken ohne Wenn und Aber von seinen jugendlichen Dummheiten.

In this new collection, recorded live, on-location from Massachusetts to California, David Sedaris reflects on what it means to be a foreigner, a brother, a lifelong friend, in essays that are "among the best of his career" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). 'Very little makes me laugh. I...

The Nature Writing Essentials Collection gathers fourteen works of wilderness reflection, natural history, travel, memoir, and literary observation.

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as one of the central figures of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States and of early American literature. Poe was one of the country's first successful practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre.

Bloomsbury presents On Witness and Respair written and read by Jesmyn Ward The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay. Respair (noun, obsolete), fresh hope after...

明治期から昭和期に、X線や震災などの研究活動をした物理学者の随筆。久しぶりに根津の藍染町にある荒物屋の前を通った。先年まで親友の黒田が下宿していたので、ほとんど毎日出入りしていた。

食べ物屋や寺社、暮らしぶりを通じて「大阪らしさ」を描く随筆文。前半は夫婦喧嘩の絶えない御寮人さんが高津の黒焼屋でいもりを買う話から始まり、喧嘩のたびに「月ヶ瀬」で栗ぜんざいを食べて憂さを晴らすという大阪的な気質が紹介される。

戦争中に体験したある街での出来事を淡々と書いています。 戦争中でも、東北のある淋しい街でも、こんな人が居る、こんなものを目にすることができたと、戦時研究に就かされていた宇吉郎は救われた気持ちがしたことでしょう。

『貧しき人々の群』『伸子』『播州平野』などの代表作で知られる昭和期の作家の回想録。学友会の雑誌に何か書きたいという気になったのは、何か捨てがたい絆、縁のある証拠ではないか。

愛犬「みの」の最期を看取る一日を綴った随筆文。昭和十六年九月二十六日の午後、「みのが轢かれた」という知らせを受けて飛び出すと、みのは黄バスのガレージの傍に倒れて遠吠えをしていた。駆け寄る私の声を聞くと吠えるのをやめ、目を細めて満足そうな表情を見せたが、もう尻尾は振れなかった。