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Un albero disegnato da Marcello Mastroianni, la rabbia e l'orgoglio di Oriana Fallaci dietro le quinte, le lunghe camminate per Roma con Ennio Flaiano. Nella sua carriera Anna Maria Mori ha incrociato nomi altisonanti che hanno sconvolto culturalmente l'ultima metà del Novecento e di cui racconta con sensibilità e acume. Nessuno di loro però è riuscito a farle dimenticare le sue umili origini, la lontananza dalla città natale, gli anni di studio in collegio, la gavetta, il sogno femminista, la maternità.

On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the Earth, the ranch most of all.

自分のことが嫌いだったオンナ・青木さやかが、こじれた人生を一つ一つほどいていく。生きることの意味を追い求めるヒューマンストーリー。

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読めば勇気がわいてくる、新しい心の教科書

¿Qué implicaciones tiene ser madre, parir y dar de mamar? Las mujeres nos enfrentamos a una doble presión, ser mamás, como dicta el mantra patriarcal, y triunfar o sobrevivir como podamos en el mercado de trabajo: un ejercicio casi imposible de malabarismos cotidianos. A lo largo de la historia, la maternidad ha sido utilizada como instrumento de control y supeditación de las mujeres. Pero, una vez conquistado el derecho a no ser madres, tenemos pendiente reapropiarnos de la experiencia materna.

David Shields’s The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power is an immersion into the perils, limits, and possibilities of human intimacy. All at once a love letter to his wife, a nervy reckoning with his own fallibility, a meditation on the impact of porn on American culture, and an attempt to understand marriage (one marriage, the idea of marriage, all marriages), The Trouble with Men is exquisitely balanced between the personal and the anthropological, nakedness and restraint.

Kurt Vonnegut presents in Fates Worse than Death a veritable cornucopia of his thoughts on what could perhaps best be summed up as "anti-theology", a manifesto for atheism that details Vonnegut's drift from conventional religion, even a tract evidencing belief in the divine held within each individual self--the deity within each individual person present in a universe that otherwise lacks any real order.

An excruciatingly honest, unapologetic account of reckless alcoholism, Drinking and Driving is one young man's account of reaching rock bottom behind the wheel. Oliver Miller believes all he needs to be happy is a full tank of gas and a bottle of brand-name booze. It will take him years of false starts, shattered glass, doctors offices, dingy halfway houses, fights and slurred phone calls to anyone who'll pick up to realize that drinking and driving brings him everything but happiness.

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.

有吉弘行の頭にうつりゆくよしなしごとをそこはかとなく書き綴ったメモの数々。「有吉メモ」は、そんな有吉氏のメモとともに、あなた自身のメモも書き綴れるオリジナルメモ帳です

日本人だからこその会話の妙や楽しみ方はあるはず――。初対面の相手との会話から、認知症の親の介護や家庭円満の秘訣、会議や会食まで。

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。

Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and powerful new voices in American social and cultural commentary. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is a collection of Laymon's essays, touching on subjects ranging from family, race, violence, and celebrity to music, writing, and coming of age in the rural Mississippi Gulf Coast. Laymon's writing is unflinchingly honest, while also being smart, lacerating, and unexpectedly funny.

Ohnmacht ist zum politischen Grundgefühl unserer Zeit geworden. Eine Rhetorik des Hasses und der Menschenverachtung hat den politischen Diskurs gekapert. Unser Zusammenleben ist wieder von mehr Gewalt geprägt. Dabei wissen wir genau, dass es gerade jetzt auf aktiven Widerstand ankommt, auf gemeinschaftliches Handeln. In seinem neuen Buch zeigt Daniel Schreiber einen radikalen Weg auf: Die Rückbesinnung auf eine Idee der Liebe als politische Kraft.

文芸の世界で最も注目を集める作家が挑んだ、言葉の定義をめぐるエッセイ集。「好きになる」「さびしさ」「つきあう」――。日常で何気なく使っている言葉で私たちは、他人と「本当に」分かり合えているのだろうか。

ベストセラーとなった初のエッセイ集『行きつ戻りつ死ぬまで思案中』の続編。小説やエッセイで書かれる、日々の生活における不安や苛立ちや疑問が、多くの読者の共感を得ている著者。

『死に方がわからない』　『老い方がわからない』に続く、〈わからないシリーズ〉ファイナルは、「繫がり方がわからない」。孤独は不幸じゃないけれど、孤立は不幸の呼び水となる。

どんな些細な出来事も見逃さず、森羅万象にツッコミを入れる男・銀シャリ橋本。ツッコミひとつが、怒りも照れも笑いに変えるから──。書き下ろし「結婚」を含む全20編を収録した、初エッセイ集。相方・鰻の4コマ漫画も！

たおやかでまっすぐな言葉と、ありのままの本音で紡いだ、 等身大の上白石萌音があふれる初のエッセイ集『いろいろ』。上白石萌音さんご本人の朗読によってついにオーディオブック化。

人生で最も大切な「仕事」と「お金」の話　人気漫画家ヤマザキマリが本音で語る「仕事」と「お金」の話。現在は漫画家の著者ですが、経験した仕事は、チリ紙交換のアルバイトに始まって、絵描き、露天商、大学教師、料理講師…