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'Escape your thoughts and borrow mine . . .' 'I loved every page of Emily's punchy, provocative, energised, joyful musings.' - MATT HAIG In this book, Emily Crane invites us to share her observations on the extraordinary and the everyday: stacks of washing up sit alongside musings on God; hot...

How do we keep going in a burning world? Songs from the Firefront is a vital and moving memoir in essays from Tim Winton, twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Cloudstreet and The Riders. A memoir in essays, Songs from the Firefront portrays the sacred fragility of existence. Deeply personal...

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The pressure inside the house changes. The shutters give off long stuttering bursts like submachine-gun fire. You tell yourself that this is it. Every few minutes now, you think the place will explode. And you wonder where you'll go if it does. You have no idea that your neighbours' window has...

It's a Wonderful Life impacted the lives of many, but no one got more from it than star Jimmy Stewart, who credited the film with giving his life new purpose post-World War II service. Learn the lessons on faith, community, kindness, and more from Stewart and the iconic film with this inspiring...

This landmark collection, brimming with his signature wit and incomparable sensibility, is Larry McMurtry’s classic tribute to his home and his people. Before embarking on what would become one of the most prominent writing careers in American literature, spanning decades and indelibly shaping...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: Celebrate Annie Ernaux with this stunning collection of interviews, critical analyses, and twenty-four previously unpublished writings offering insight into her life, writing style, thoughts, and influence. Magisterial in scope and size, Writing, the...

今日もなんとか生きていくのだ！体のことに親のこと、仕事のことに友人のこと、中年の毎日にはいろいろあるけれど。大人を励ますごほうびエッセイ。思っていた「五十歳女性」とはなんか違う。馬車馬のように働き、ストレス発散はドラッグストアでの無駄遣い、休日はプロレス観戦に血道を上げ、夫も子どももいないのに常にバタバタの日々――。

In W B Yeats wird die Literatur des ersten irischen Literatur-Nobelpreisträgers unter die Lupe genommen und dabei festgestellt, dass dessen persönlicher Hang zum Mystischen und Okkulten durchaus in seine schriftlichen Ergüsse einflossen, wobei Orwell als Quintessenz resultiert, dass auffallende Parallelen zwischen eingefleischten Religionsanhängern und Faschisten in Bezug auf den Hang zur Erklärung der Welt durch einfache Antworten besteht.

'Precise, vulnerable and deeply thought-through . . . One is left with the sense that belonging is not some binary state, but rather an ongoing, ever-expansive act' Omar El Akkad, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This 'With humour and affection, Zaina Arafat weaves the...

What makes life meaningful? How do we confront our inevitable end? An eminent psychiatrist draws on decades of clinical experience to show how he and his patients have grappled with the most profound existential questions. “A remedy more powerful than any fad or pill could promise.”...

A collection of the year’s best food and travel writing, selected by renowned chef and humanitarian José Andrés. “Good food and travel writing takes us somewhere far, far away without leaving our living rooms,” writes José Andrés. “Open a magazine or a newspaper, and boom: you are...

Featuring multiple narrators, each essay is brought uniquely and vivdly to life. “The essayist needs the objective world,” writes M. Gessen, the guest editor of The Best American Essays 2026, asking, “But does the objective world need the essayist?” There is no straightforward answer to...

A collection of twenty pieces that represent the best science and nature writing published the previous year and explores our ever-changing world. On his selections for this year’s The Best American Science and Nature Writing, Randall Munroe writes, “Rather than simply telling people facts...

From the Emmy, Critics Choice and Golden Globe winning co-creator and star of Netflix’s acclaimed Adolescence comes an era-defining book on fathers, sons, and the meaning of manhood. What do you wish you could tell your son before he faced his first real failure? Before his heart got broken?...

A poignant, moving essay collection on the longing and hope of living in diaspora and what it means to be Palestinian today, from the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of You Exist Too Much. Fewer and fewer Palestinians living in the diaspora today have direct experiences of their homeland...

29 personal essays exploring mixed identity, belonging, family, racism, community and the paradoxical ways of being in the world “An unprecedented ode to the wide range of mixed-root experiences and what is shared across difference. Required reading for anyone who has ever been asked what are...

From the bestselling, iconic author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil comes an irreverent and essential style guide—from boxers to button downs, turtlenecks to tuxedos For more than a decade, beloved author John Berendt wrote a series of smart, sophisticated columns for Esquire on...

学校には存在しない教科を、町の本屋さんが教えてくれた。『夕暮れに夜明けの歌を』『文化の脱走兵』の著者が贈る、待望の最新エッセイ集！ 「私たちは家で、列車で、道端で、詩を読んだり聴いたり思い返したりしながら、ひそかに世界の声に共鳴し続ける。

Geboren in der ehemaligen britischen Kolonie Indien verlief das Leben von George Orwell alles andere als geradlinig. Womöglich durch die brutale Fremdherrschaft des Empires über Indien und durch Stalins organisierten Staatsterror und Massenmord angewidert, entwickelte er sich zu einem überzeugten sozialistischen Demokraten, der alle Machtorgane von möglichst vielen Menschen organisiert und Machtumsetzung immer auf möglichst vielen Schultern verteilt sehen wollte. Einen großen Teil seiner prosaischen Werke bilden seine Essays ab, hier Teil 21.