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A key figure in the Latin American literary renaissance, Octavio Paz focuses here on literature and art, drugs, the murder of God, and ethical and political problems.

In the first part of this acclaimed work, Octavio Paz sets forth his credo as an artist and a poet. Part two deals with themes more specific to the late '60s and '70s, such as the drug experience and modern atheism. In part three, Paz concerns himself with politics and ethics. In no way diminished by time, every chapter in this book is an adventure of the mind.

Acclaimed author Lauren Slater ruminates on what it means to be family. Lauren Slater's rocky childhood left her cold to the idea of ever creating a family of her own, but a husband, two dogs, two children, and three houses later, she came around to the challenges, trials, and unexpected rewards of playing house. In these autobiographical pieces, Slater presents snapshots of domestic life, populating them with the gritty details and jarring realities of sharing home, life, and body in the curious institution called "family."

The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. The writer is Joan Didion, who delivers an anatomy of that country's particular brand of terror - its mechanisms, rationales, and intimate relation to United States foreign policy. As ash travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, and considers the distinctly Salvadoran grammar of the verb "to disappear," Didion gives us a book that is germane to any country in which bloodshed has become a standard tool of politics.

2009年から「別冊少年マガジン」で連載が開始され、人気を博している、諫山創 による同名ベストセラー漫画を樋口真嗣が監督。樋口とは『日本沈没』（06） 『のぼうの城』（12）『巨神兵東京に現わる』（12）の特撮でも組んでいる尾上 克郎が特撮セカンドユニット監督を務め、近年多くの映画を特殊造型で支え、監 督作『虎影』も現在公開中の西村喜廣が特殊造型プロデューサーを担っている。 脚本は『ＧＡＮＴＺ』（11）等で知られる渡辺雄介と、映画評論家の町山智浩が 脚本を担当し、二部作で完結予定。今回はその前編であり、タイトルは『進撃の 巨人ATTACK ON TITAN』。 原作とおおまかな設定は同じなれど、シチュエーションやキャラクターの位置づ けは変えて、一時間半のサイズに構築し直している。。(本文より） 切通理作の「映画の友よ」はこちらから→http://yakan-hiko.com/risaku.html

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.

¿Puede alguien entender realmente a Rusia? Mark Galeotti, uno de los principales expertos del mundo en ese país, lo demuestra en este libro utilizando la fascinante historia de la nación para iluminar su futuro. Rusia es un país sin fronteras naturales, sin una etnia única, sin una verdadera identidad central. En la encrucijada de Europa y Asia, es el «otro» de todos. Pero, sin embargo, es también una de las naciones más poderosas de la tierra, una pieza clave en la escena mundial con una rica historia de guerra y paz, poetas y revolucionarios.

私は私を全肯定！　髪は美しく、カラダはほっそり、爪は短くキレイに、子供は早く産んで……女のカラダにかけられた呪いを解く爆走エッセイ『どうせカラダが目当てでしょ』を改題。文庫版書き下ろし収録。

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。

すごい人ほどダメだった！
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.

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。

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.

小川糸さんの人生を変えた、美しい森の暮らし　カラーフォト満載のエッセイ集。
美しい森との出会いが、私の人生を変えてくれました。奇跡的に巡り合った石ころだらけの土地。

Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869. Arnold's famous piece of writing on culture established his High Victorian cultural agenda which remained dominant in debate from the 1860s until the 1950s. According to his view advanced in the book, ‘Culture [...] is a study of perfection’.

読 め ば 勇 気 が 湧 い て く る　悩みまくる書店員・花田菜々子が初めて書いた、大人のための青春実録私小説。12か国・地域で翻訳。世界のベストセラーに。

劣化する政治への諦めが社会に蔓延し、政治を語ることすら忌避されるいま、私たちは自己責任論から抜け出し、身近な現実から政治を語り合うべきではないか――。人間の生を真摯に見つめ続ける小説家が、現代、そして未来を鋭く問いかける。

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。