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When Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker’s art critic and the leading art writer of his generation, published his eye-opening autobiographical essay, “The Art of Dying,” in December 2019, he reported that he had lung cancer and had been given six months of life. Fortunately, his treatment was showing some improvement, and so, he wrote, “These extra months are a luxury that I hope to have put to good use.”

A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life. No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. During the last few months of his life, he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings...

教え子が犠牲となったにも係らず、避難所となった学校で住民の世話役も引き受けられました。震災当日から個人の自治を促す工夫を取り入れられたご経験は、避難所の運営を考える貴重な「語り部」の記録です。

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A landmark collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert's most important pieces about climate change and the natural world "To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth," Rolling Stone has advised, "you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert." From her National Magazine Award-winning series...

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TBSドラマ『半沢直樹』が社会現象と言えるほどの盛り上がりを見せました。最終回の瞬間最高視聴率46.7％、全回の平均視聴率でも42.2％という平成ドラマ史上No1となる数字（共に関東地区）を叩き出したことからも、盛り上がりの凄さがうかがえます。 ただ、盛り上がった半面、色々な疑問を持った人も多いはず。筆者自身、以下のような質問をちょくちょくされています。 「なぜこれほど盛り上がったのか？」 「ああいうサラリーマンは許されるのか？」 「衝撃のエンディングにはどういう意味があるのか？」 ええ、もちろんこれらは人事の範疇なので、すべて人事的に解説可能です。確かに作品としては純エンタメですが、半沢直樹を人事的に紐説けば、そこに現れるのは生々しいまでのリアルです。ファンはもちろんのこと、ドラマ未視聴という方も、そこから学べるものは大きいでしょう。(本文より)城繁幸の『サラリーマン・キャリアナビ』★出世と喧嘩の正しい作法はこちらから→https://yakan-hiko.com/joe.html

An Ojibwe elder once counseled Nerburn to "always teach by stories, because stories lodge deep in the heart.'' Using skills learned from Native storytellers as well as a deep reverence for the world's spiritual traditions, Nerburn takes us to an Ojibwe burial, down lonely winter roads, and into landscapes where trees have presence and the earth is made alive by the mystical power of water and light.

A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of the definitive journalists of this era—acclaimed historian, Pulitzer Prize finalist, staff writer at The New Yorker, and Dean of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism—comes a kaleidoscopic, real-time portrait of the turbulent past...

In this engaging and erudite essay, critically acclaimed writer Julian Barnes explores what is involved when we change our minds: about words, about politics, about books; about memories, age and time.

The sport of surfing has a mystique and allure that has transformed many of these icons into mythical figures. Surfer Stories brings them together in one definitive collection that will appeal to those who surf and those who don’t!

Henry David Thoreau’s Walking is a profound meditation on nature, freedom, and self-discovery. Originally published in 1862, this classic essay explores the philosophy of walking as both a physical and spiritual act, emphasizing the importance of immersing oneself in the wild, untamed beauty of the natural world. Thoreau argues that walking is not merely a pastime but a way to achieve a deeper connection with the land, free from societal constraints and distractions.

About Life Choices and Potholes is a rollercoaster ride through the misadventures of reinvention, career pivots, family chaos, and the existential crises that come with it all. One moment, I was a software engineer navigating corporate rejection emails, the next, I was plotting how to sell holistic herbs on Amazon. My father—an old-school engineer who believed real engineers built bridges, not wrote lines of code—couldn’t understand what I actually "did" for a living. Society wasn’t much better, constantly throwing me the dreaded “So you lived abroad? Now what?

A compelling and growing body of research has shown music and arts therapies to be effective tools for addressing a widening array of conditions, from providing pain relief and alleviating anxiety and depression to regaining speech after stroke or traumatic brain injury, and improving mobility for people with disorders that include Parkinson’s disease and MS.

Gli scritti riuniti in questa raccolta vertono sulle funzioni della letteratura, su autori che Eco ha frequentato a lungo come Nerval, Joyce, Borges (ma anche Aristotele e Dante), sull’influenza di alcuni testi più o meno letterari sullo sviluppo degli eventi storici, su alcuni problemi tipici del narrare, come la rappresentazione verbale dello spazio, l’ironia intertestuale, la natura dei mondi possibili della finzione, e su alcuni concetti chiave della scrittura "creativa", come il simbolo, lo stile, la "zeppa" (ovvero i momenti apparentemente "morti", e meramente funzionali nello sviluppo d

In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality. "There is a signature motif discernible in...

With His gentle hand He wounded my neck And caused all my senses to be suspended. Part poetic masterpiece, part mystic treatise, The Dark Night of the Soul by 16th century Carmelite monk, St. John of the Cross, addresses the feeling of being forgotten by the Presence of the Almighty that every Christian, desirous of walking more closely with God must pass through in order to learn to walk by faith and not by sight.

This collection contains Virginia Woolf's two most important and impactful non-fiction essays: A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas which have inspired and enraptured readers for decades. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the famous Bloomsbury Group.

In Ghost Dogs, Dubus’s nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and pain. In his longest essay, “If I Owned a Gun,” Dubus reflects on the empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun, and his decision, ultimately, to give it up. Elsewhere, he writes of a violent youth and of settled domesticity and fatherhood, about the omnipresent expectations and contradictions of masculinity, about the things writers remember and those they forget.

Un lugar seguro es un conjunto de ensayos en clave autobiográfica que, partiendo de sucesos y situaciones cotidianas, trasciende la experiencia propia de la autora para hablarnos de la amistad, la literatura, el significado de ser mujer en México o las relaciones personales y familiares. Y, en todos ellos, subyace un tema común: la necesidad de encontrar un espacio, real y metafórico, en el que sentirse segura. Una obra que es toda una declaración de principios, tanto como una forma de mirar y estar en el mundo.

From modern literature to menopause, from utopian thought to rodeos - in this classic collection of essays, Ursula K. Le Guin roves with her customary audacity over the intersecting arenas of literature, feminism, and social responsibility, exploding any received notions she comes across and revealing visionary possibilities in their stead.