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In the past two decades, few writers have mastered the craft and art of the essay in the way that Zadie Smith has. Her writing, at once an occasion for personal reckoning and communal reflection, studies the fault lines that divide us and consistently finds grounds for solidarity and compassion. This eagerly awaited new collection brings Smith’s dexterity as an essayist to bear on a range of subjects that have captured her attention in recent years.

Harper Lee (1926-2016), Verfasserin des berühmten Romans Wer die Nachtigall stört, ist eine der größten und wichtigsten amerikanischen Autorinnen, dennoch ist über ihre schriftstellerischen Anfänge bisher nur wenig bekannt. In The Land of Sweet Forever (Originaltitel) werden nun acht bisher unveröffentlichte Erzählungen der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht, die aus den frühen Jahren ihrer Schriftstellerkarriere stammen und nach Lees Tod in ihrer New Yorker Wohnung gefunden wurden.

40歳を過ぎた体重125キロの作家が、ひょんなことから「美容」と「健康」生活に目覚めたら……。肌はもちもちプルンプルン、30キロもやせ（リバウンドも）、そして、最後にはなんと結婚!?

Harper Lee remains a landmark figure in the American canon – thanks to Scout, Jem, Atticus, and the other indelible characters in her Pulitzer-winning debut, To Kill a Mockingbird; as well as for the darker, late-’50s version of small-town Alabama that emerged in Go Set a Watchman, her only other novel, published in 2015 after its rediscovery. The Land of Sweet Forever combines Lee’s early short fiction and later nonfiction in a volume offering an unprecedented look at the development of her inimitable voice.

The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025 has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction, and it is the most respected—and most popular—of its kind. New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean selects twenty pieces that represent the best science and nature writing published the previous year and explores our ever-changing world.

The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction, and it is the most respected—and most popular—of its kind. Jia Tolentino, critically acclaimed essayist, editor, and New Yorker staff writer, selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

本書は、「約束」というテーマを通じて、信頼や絆の大切さを描いた物語です。トットちゃんと、心優しく頼れるカマタ先生との間で交わされる約束は、どんなに小さなものであっても人の心を支え、人生に彩りを与える力を持つことを教えてくれます。

In this short sequel to his acclaimed memoir, the legendary filmmaker and global cultural icon explores one of his favourite topics: the nature of truth. At the heart of the book lies Werner Herzog’s concept of ‘ecstatic truth’ – a truth that is often hidden behind the facts and our conceptions of reality but can be gleaned through the poetic imagination, in art, literature and cinema, when we open ourselves up to an aesthetic experience.

When Tochi Onyebuchi realized that his acclaimed science fiction and fantasy storytelling career had been centrally preoccupied with race, it prompted him to consider his responsibilities as a Black writer in the internet age. Excavating the internet of the late 1990s and early 2000s, Racebook explores how the writer and public intellectual Onyebuchi is today, was formed in that crucible.

From the moment Trayvon Martin's senseless murder initiated the Black Lives Matter movement in 2014, America has been convulsed by the new social movements--around guns, gender violence, sexual harrassment, race, policing, and on and on--and an equally powerful backlash. Jelani Cobb has been reporting and commenting on these changes--sometimes from the frontlines of places like Ferguson and Charleston, other times from a more studied remove, where he applies his gifts as a critic and background as a historian to penetrate the meaning of it all.

In this poignant, funny, and illuminating essay collection from the hosts of the Podcrushed podcast, Penn Badgley, Sophie Ansari, and Nava Kavelin tackle stories from adolescence and beyond, exploring what it means to come of age at every stage of our lives. In their debut essay collection, Penn Badgley, Sophie Ansari, and Nava Kavelin flip the script on their hit Podcrushed podcast--which features guests' stories about their formative teenage experiences--to share their own stories of heartbreak, anxiety, and self-discovery for the first time.

This powerful anthology brings together thirty-four writers—educators, journalists, poets, and scientists—to share their emotions in the face of environmental crisis. They share their solastalgia, their beloved places, their vulnerability, their stories, their vision of what we can create.

Spanning more than thirty five years of Lawrence Wright’s reporting for The New Yorker, Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone and other magazines, these pieces remind us what a brilliant observer Wright has been of institutions, of political maneuverings, and of people—dangerous, eccentric, or beloved.

A sharply personal and expansive essay collection dedicated to the strange and absurd beauty of horror films, exploring the complications of gender, the insidiousness of class ascension, and the latent violence hidden in our own uncanny reflections.

とるにたらないけれど、かけがえのないものもの。輪ゴム、レモンしぼり器、ヨーグルト、石けん、りぼん…etc．　日常のなかの、ささやかだけど愛すべきものたちにまつわる記憶や思い。やわらかな言葉で綴る絶妙なショートエッセイ60編。

"私はここからどう老いていこう？自分自身が最も心地よく過ごせる「エイジングの流派」を、見つけたい。"

無理なく、自然体に「老い」を愉しみ方とは――。家計簿、重いフライパン、無理して入る風呂、法事、終活、世間体などなど。

横尾忠則が綴った日々が、本になる。2019年12月から2024年12月までの5年間、彼が見たこと、感じたこと、考えたことが、瑞々しい感覚と独特の脱力感をもって記録された。

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