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本を速く読みたい！──それは忙しい現代人の切実な願いである。 しかし、速読は本当に効果があるのか？ 10冊の本を闇雲に読むよりも、1冊を丹念に読んだほうが、人生にとってはるかに有益ではないのか？

ロングセラー『本の読み方 スロー・リーディングの実践』の続編。 ポール・オースター『幽霊たち』、綿矢りさ『蹴りたい背中』、伊坂幸太郎『ゴールデンスランバー』、美嘉『恋空』、ドストエフスキー『罪と罰』、自著『本心』……現代の純文学、ミステリーさらにはケータイ小説も含めた計13作品を題材に、小説をより深く楽しく味わうコツをわかりやすく解説する。

弱冠23歳で発表された平野文学の原点！ すべてはここから始まった。 15世紀末、ペストの猖獗によって荒廃した南仏の小村を舞台に、旅の途上の若き学僧の聖性体験を、漢語を多用した華麗で清新な文体で描き出し、文壇に衝撃を与えたデビュー作。

病気じゃないけど、体力がない。労働する元気も恋愛する元気もない――。SNSで「虚弱エッセイ」が話題沸騰の著者による「虚弱体質」のリアルをつづる、新世代のサバイバル・エッセイ！ ・21歳で身体にガタがきた ・仕事がないからじゃなくて、体力がないからお金がない

脱いだ服を雪の中に隠すなどしばしば奇抜な行動で周囲を驚かせる古生物学者の夫や、独特なヘアスタイルをした関根という名前の大事な兎、自宅を半焼させた経験を持つどこか抜けたところのある祖母……。身の回りにいる愉快な人々の姿を、印象的なエピソードとともに軽妙なタッチで描く抱腹絶倒のエッセイ！

2006年12月号から2024年6月号まで「小説推理」に隔月連載された、養老孟司の読書エッセイ「ミステリー中毒」より精選。全104本の中から、「考える」「社会」「脳」「人生」「身体」「自然」「ミステリー・ファンタジー」「国際」「日本語・文化」の９つのテーマに分け、各テーマ３篇、計27篇を収録する。

歌人、そして作家である著者が「もっと自由に子育てをしていいんだよって、当時の自分に語りかけるように」綴った育児エッセイ。年子の子どもたちの育児に奮闘した、慌ただしくも愛おしい日々。時を隔てた今だからこそ気づいた大切なこととは？

Melissa Lucashenko is one of Australia's most admired and awarded novelists. She is renowned for writing about ordinary Australians and the extraordinary lives they lead. This timely collection of essays and journalism - published together for the first time - spans two turbulent decades. With her trademark wit and wisdom, Lucashenko reflects on being caught in a siege, on the marginalised lives of prisoners and the urban poor, on Blak identity, Australian literature and on meeting her writing idol.

Julian Barnes began writing about art with a chapter on Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa in his 1989 novel A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters. Since then he has written a series of remarkable essays, chiefly about French artists, for a variety of journals and magazines. Gathering them for this book, he realised that he had unwittingly been retracing the story of how art made its way from Romanticism to Realism and into Modernism.

This selection of essays by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) demonstrate the varied power of his genius. Compiled from his lecture tours, newspaper articles, essays and epigrams, these writings show that beneath his trademark wit and love of paradox, Oscar Wilde was an original and remarkably modern writer.

Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young, attractive but impoverished New Yorkers. They are in love and decide to marry, but realise their chances of happiness are slim without the wealth and society that their more privileged friends take for granted. Nick and Susy agree to separate when either encounters a more eligible proposition.

In August 2014 Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given 'two or three years' to live. She didn't know how to react. All responses felt scripted, laden with cliché. Being a writer, she decided to write about it (grappling with the unoriginality even of this) and to tell a story she had not yet told: that of being taken in, aged 15, by the author Doris Lessing and the subsequent 50 years of their complex relationship.

The Hidden Lamp is a collection of 100 koans and stories of Buddhist women from the time of the Buddha to the present day. This revolutionary book brings together many teaching stories that were hidden for centuries, unknown until this volume. These stories are extraordinary expressions of freedom and fearlessness, relevant for men and women of any time or place. In this audio, we meet nuns, laywomen practicing with their families, famous teachers honored by emperors, and old women selling tea on the side of the road.

Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle over that foundational power. Women, people of colour and non-straight people are telling other versions, and white men in particular are fighting to preserve their own centrality. In this outstanding collection of essays by one of the most prescient and insightful commentators today, Solnit appraises the voices that are emerging, why they matter and the obstacles they face in making themselves heard.

Embodiment is not an easy business. From violence to illness, sexuality to racism, the fact of a body can be impossibly hard to inhabit. Olivia Laing draws on her own background in protest and alternative medicine to investigate the reasons why. Laing’s exploration of the complexities of bodily life takes in some of the most significant and beguiling figures of the past century, among them the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, the painters Francis Bacon and Agnes Martin and the singer and civil rights activist Nina Simone.

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.

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。

In little time, Loy has become one of the most powerful advocates of the Buddhist worldview, explaining like no one else its ability to transform the sociopolitical landscape of the modern world. In this, his most accessible work to date, he offers sharp and even shockingly clear presentations of oft-misunderstood Buddhist staples - the working of karma, the nature of self, the causes of trouble on both the individual and societal levels - and the real reasons behind our collective sense of "never enough", whether it's time, money, sex, security...even war.

An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability. Francis Spufford’s welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with particular places, writers, or books to address deeper questions relating to the complicated relationship between storytelling and truth-telling.

Filled with his usual obsessions - sex, booze, gambling - More features Bukowski's offbeat insights into politics and literature, his tortured, violent relationships with women, and his lurid escapades on the poetry reading circuit. Highlighting his versatility, the book ranges from thinly-veiled autobiography to purely fictional tales of dysfunctional suburbanites, disgraced politicians, and down-and-out sports promoters - climaxing with a long, hilarious adventure among French filmmakers.