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『美ST』連載が待望の書籍化！　“効かせ甲斐のあるお年頃”を迎えて改めて考える、美の楽しみ方と向き合い方とは。「どうせ生きるなら、好きな自分で生きていきたい」「誰に遠慮する人生じゃなし、自分のための

If you love David Sedaris, you'll have to listen to Marion Winik's anything-but-traditional tales of traveling with her cranky family in tow. From lost teenagers and missed connections to overpriced drinks and gambling mishaps, Winik - author of seven memoirs and a Morning Edition commentator on NPR - illuminates the unexpected pleasures of journeying out of your comfort zone.

Angela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time: a novelist of extraordinary power and a searching critic and essayist. This selection of her writing, which she made herself, covers more than a decade of her thought and ranges over a diversity of subjects giving a true measure of the wide focus of her interests: the brothers Grimm; William Burroughs; food writing, Elizabeth David; British writing; American writing....

In this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too-human journey through life. This is a work that resonates with Vonnegut's singular voice: the magic sound of a born storyteller mesmerizing us with truth.

Including pieces from The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The Philadelphia Inquirer, this collection is Bowden at his best. The titular article, "The Three Battles of Wanat", tells the story of one of the bloodiest days in the war in Afghanistan and the extraordinary years-long fallout it generated within the United States military. In "The Killing Machines", Bowden examines the strategic, legal, and moral issues surrounding armed drones.

In this stunning new collection of personal essays, distinguished author Phillip Lopate weaves together the colorful threads of a life well lived and brings us on an invigorating and thoughtful journey through memory, culture, parenthood, the trials of marriage both young and old, and an extraordinary look at New York’s storied past and present.

It is where Fidel Castro raised money to overthrow Batista and where two generations of Castro's enemies have raised armies to overthrow him, so far without success. It is where the bitter opera of Cuban exile intersects with the cynicism of U.S. foreign policy. It is a city whose skyrocketing murder rate is fueled by the cocaine trade, racial discontent, and an undeclared war on the island 90 miles to the south.

Revolutionary, philosopher, litterateur, and seer, Sri Aurobindo remains one of the brightest minds India has ever had. This book captures the evolution of his thought through excerpts from his political articles and speeches, essays, talks with and letters to disciples and public messages - presented chronologically. It includes his views on Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose; his doubts about Gandhi’s method to attain freedom and insistence on Ahimsa; and his very distinctive contribution to the nascent Nationalist Movement.

In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles, from a TV producer's gargantuan "manor" to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts. At each stop she uncovers the mythic narratives that elude other observers: Didion tells us about the fantasies the media construct around crime victims and presidential candidates; she gives us new interpretations of the stories of Nancy Reagan and Patty Hearst; she charts America's rollercoaster ride through evanescent booms and hard times that won't go away.

東方神起のメンバーの愛読書としても話題となった、心がラクになる、ベストセラー人生エッセイがついに邦訳!

Dans son Journal d'une apprentie chamane, Corine Sombrun racontait l'incroyable aventure qui l'avait conduite, sur les traces d'un chamane péruvien, au fin fond de la forêt amazonienne. Elle a poursuivi sa quête spirituelle en Mongolie auprès des chamanes Tsaatanes, qui vont lui révéler qu'elle est elle-même chamane et doit suivre leur enseignement. Commence alors pour elle une initiation qui comporte outre l'apprentissage des différents rituels, la vie commune sous le tipi, la garde des rennes, le dressage des chevaux, la transhumance et la maîtrise du froid.

Este libro descubre cómo nuestro orden político, cultural y religioso se basa en traducciones erróneas; cómo un oficio considerado casi doméstico está manchado por la sangre de quienes lo ejercen; cómo el prestigio de los escritores que se aventuran en este campo puede ser cuestionado; cómo, a pesar de su importante trabajo, las mujeres son también aquí invisibles. La traducción es un espejo donde el síndrome de la impostora cobra un hondo sentido existencial.

いずれ後悔しないために、私は父について書こうと決めた――誰もが家族を思い出す、父と娘のリアルストーリー。

Cunning Plans collects several of NYT best-selling author Warren Ellis' lectures on the nature of the haunted future and the secrets of deep history, given in recent years at events in London, New York, Los Angeles, and Berlin.

A lifetime of reading and writing, observation and contemplation is distilled in this comprehensive volume of the best essays, profiles and sketches by Ruskin Bond, the masterly and compassionate chronicler of the small details and lambent moments that capture the essence of a meaningful life. By turns thoughtful, humorous, keenly observed and wise, these essays span more than 60 years of his writing - from reflections on companionship and solitude to lyrical yet finely honed appreciations of nature to nostalgic evocations of bygone people and ways of life.

ますます猛威を振るうコロナウイルスを跳ね返すべく、いち早くワクチンを打ったマリコ。春には娘が大学を卒業し、子育てもひと段落し、介護問題を描いた『小説８０５０』も大ヒット

After Andrea Dworkin, the famous feminist philosopher and activist, passed away, her chief critic, Susie Bright, who many perceived as Dworkin's opposite, published a stirring obituary and series of essays in which she described the ways that Dworkin was a catalyst for the sex-positive movement in contemporary feminism.

東大病院救急医療の現場で、人間の生と死を見つめてきた医師が伝えたいこと。
「人生100年時代」と言われても、自分の寿命がいつ尽きるかはわからない。

Funny, poignant and reflective, The Weight of a Cherry Blossom is a fable of rootlessness and belonging in the modern world. It is equal parts a story of urban loneliness and self-discovery and of the healing powers of kinship and love. Revisiting the awkwardness of adolescence and the chaos of growing up, it looks the foibles of adulthood irreverently in the eye.

Hailing from a middle-class family, Pankaj believes that his life is all sorted - get an engineering degree; marry the love of his life, Riya; and settle down for a happily ever after in Delhi. But when Riya decides to go abroad for further studies, his plan goes for a toss. Still determined to keep to the plan, he promises to wait for her. After settling in Jamshedpur, though, he becomes close to his boss' daughter, Kajal, and starts assisting in her social work.