Memoir Essays

福島県南相馬市に暮らす上野敬幸氏は、家族４人を津波で失う。福島第一原発事故後も避難を拒み、自力で行方不明者の捜索を続ける上野氏と出会った著者が、７年にわたる取材をもとに遺族の深い胸の内の変化を綴る。

自分に自信がない西川きよし師匠から、悪口をエネルギーに突き進む山里亮太、スケールのデカいバカぶりを発揮するピース綾部、恐ろしいほどの執念で紫綬褒章まで行き着いた宮川大助・花子まで……。毒舌を吐き続けても絶対に嫌われない男による「吉本バイブル」、ここに誕生

イヌとネコ計6匹との賑やかな日常を綴る傑作エッセイ

名訳と迷訳は紙一重。言語をめぐる爆笑エッセイ！

This posthumously published collection offers a unique, puzzle-like portrait of one of the postwar era's most inventive and mercurial writers. In letters and journals, occasional pieces and interviews, Italo Calvino recalls growing up in seaside Italy and fighting in the antifascist resistance during World War II, traces the course of his literary career, and reflects on his many travels, including a journey through the United States in 1959 and 1960.

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.

"Reporters love murders," Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. "In a pinch, what the lawyers call 'wrongful death' will do, particularly if it's sudden." Killings, first published in 1984 and expanded for this edition, shows Trillin to be such a reporter, drawn time after time to tales of sudden death. But Trillin is attracted less by violence or police procedure than by the way the fabric of people's lives is suddenly exposed when someone comes to an untimely end.

When “The Fourth State of Matter”, her now famous piece about a workplace massacre at the University of Iowa, was published in The New Yorker, Jo Ann Beard immediately became one of the most influential writers in America, forging a path for a new generation of young authors willing to combine the dexterity of fiction with the rigors of memory and reportage, and in the process extending the range of possibility for the essay form. Now, with Festival Days, Beard brings us the culmination of her groundbreaking work.

Indu Bhan’s Legal Eagles: Stories of Top Seven Indian Lawyers’ traces the story of the top seven lawyers in India. Lawyers, as we commonly perceive, are not just shrewd intellectuals but much more. It takes more than just intelligence to become a successful lawyer. It takes years of practice, extensive studies and professionalism which set the absolutely outstanding lawyers from the general ones. Their life and career graph is full of crusts and troughs and this book gives an insight into it.

I dag kan det måske virke en smule gammeldags at have et motto. Men sådan var det ikke for den store danske forfatterinde Karen Blixen, der havde hele fire mottoer, som vejledte og hjalp hende gennem livet. Selv forklarede hun, at mottoerne hjalp hende med at finde en retning i tilværelsen og forløse de evner og kræfter, der boede i hende. Og af samme grund så hun også mottoet som magisk for den, det tilhørte. "Mit livs mottoer og andre essays" er Blixens tale om mottoer til Det amerikanske akademi i 1959 og andre gode essays fra forfatterindes hånd.

角栄はなぜ葬られたのか？　新証言と膨大な資料を駆使した人気作家渾身の超弩級ノンフィクション！

世界的スニーカーショップ「atmos（アトモス）」創業社長、初の著書！

たとえ戦争から逃げても、夢からは逃げない。・テレビ朝日 報道ステーションで複数回単独特集、オンエア後問合せ殺到！

特撮ヒロイン役の草分け的存在である桜井浩子の勇気と元気があふれる女優誕生ストーリー。貧しい少女はどのようにしてヒロインになったのか。

ドラマ史に残る名作『北の国から』『前略おふくろ様』から、老人のリアルを描いて話題となった『やすらぎの郷』まで、倉本聰はなぜ60年以上にわたり、第一線で書き続けられるのか。

Once historias nada ejemplares, de esas que nunca veréis en el muro de una red social. Las once historias que descubriréis en estas páginas son vivencias reales, crudas y duras. Once jóvenes, casi niños, nos abren su corazón desde el centro de internamiento en el que están privados de libertad y cumplen con la justicia, para relatarnos hechos que han destrozado su vida y la de los demás. Son protagonistas de sucesos muy violentos, que ojalá formasen parte del argumento de una serie de televisión, pero, desgraciadamente, son casos que abren informativos.

上巻は、朝日新聞、神戸新聞、日経新聞などに連載されたエッセイを収録。デビュー10周年記念の初エッセイ集、遂に文庫化！

「僕のこと、書き残してね」――2014年、悪性リンパ腫が発覚した高倉健。それでも何より仕事のことを考える男に、養女・貴月は懸命に尽くした。

El mundo que habitó Ramón López Velarde, quebrado por la Revolución mexicana y por la separación sibilina entre la provincia y la metrópoli fingida oposición entre costumbre y decadencia-, es uno de los periodos más complejos de la historia de México. Contubernio de voces, reflejo plural de una época convulsa, elaboración de la provincia "diamantina".

中学時代の同級生が自殺した。お別れ会のために帰郷した私は、7年ぶりに初恋の相手ナルヤに再会する。昔と変わらぬ笑顔を向けてくれる彼だったが、私は不倫の恋を経験し、夢に破れ仕事も辞めてしまっていた