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Ten days after calling off her wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to Texas to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, she realized she'd almost signed up to live someone else's life. Hauser releases herself from traditional narratives of happiness and goes looking for ways of living that leave room for the unexpected, making plenty of mistakes along the way. She kisses Internet strangers and officiates at a wedding.

For legendary literary critic Michiko Kakutani, books have always been an escape and a sanctuary, the characters of some novels feeling so real to her childhood self that she worried they might leap out of the pages at night if she left the book cover open. In Ex Libris, she offers a personal selection of more than 100 works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, with passionate essays on why each has had a profound effect on her life.

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay, originally delivered in 1928 as two lectures at two of Cambridge University's women's colleges—Newnham College and Girton College. Through the use of several metaphors, lauded author Virginia Woolf explores the social injustices and structures that prevent women from engaging in free expression and contributing to literature.

Sir Francis Bacon, sometimes known as the father of empiricism, was one of the major political figures of his day, his career culminating as Lord Chancellor under King James I in 1617. Bacon wrote widely, but it is the Essays (published in its third edition in 1625, the year before his death) for which he is best known. Deftly written and often displaying a cutting wit, they cover a wide range of subjects including death, love, marriage, ambition and atheism.

寄り添う。見守る。救う。裏切らない。それが本なんです!いつも幸せだったら本など読まずに生きていけるけど、残念ながら、一ミリの退屈も苦痛も後悔もない人生などない!

私が初めて海外特派員になった1975年から、トランプ大統領の就任式を取材した2016年までの41年間に海外で取得し、手元に残った78枚の取材証。

Milena Busquets practica en estos diarios una escritura de pinceladas impresionistas y logra que de lo cotidiano, de lo en apariencia anodino, emerja la epifanía. Este es un diario sobre días tristes y días felices −"La euforia y la felicidad absolutas están a un milímetro del ataque de pánico"−, escrito sin trampa ni cartón, sin falsos pudores, ni engolada pompa. Escrito siguiendo esta premisa: "Uno escribe solo ante el peligro, no hay otra manera honesta de hacerlo, el menor atisbo de autocomplacencia es una señal de cobardía.

Stephen Leacock (30 December 1869 - 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world

In his long career, eminent psychotherapist and author Irvin Yalom has pressed his patients and readers to grapple with life's two greatest challenges: that we all must die, and that each of us is responsible for leading a life worth living. In Creatures of a Day, he and his patients confront the difficulty of these challenges. Although these people have come to Yalom seeking relief, recognition, or meaning, they discover that such things are rarely found in the places where we think to look.

From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts - always adroit, often acerbic - on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation. Ursula K. Le Guin has taken listeners to imaginary worlds for decades. Now she's in the last great frontier of life, old age, and exploring new literary territory: the blog, a forum where her voice - sharp, witty, as compassionate as it is critical - shines. No Time to Spare collects the best of Ursula's blog, presenting perfectly crystallized dispatches on what matters.

仕事や家族、恋愛など、日々の悩みや生き方について、小説家の石田衣良がさまざまな問いにお答えするシリーズです。 ■今回の質問 私は仕事で失敗するとひどく落ち込んでしまい、気持ちの切り替えがうまくできません。一方、職場のある同僚はミスしても切り替えが早く、くよくよしているところを見たことがありません。「失敗は成功の素」といいますが、私の場合は己嫌悪に陥り、自信も失った状態を長く引きずってしまうため「成功の素」にできません。「まあ、いいか」というようにある種、適当に考えることも必要だとは思うのですが、どうすれば、そんな考え方ができるのでしょうか （本文より） 石田衣良ブックトーク『小説家と過ごす日曜日』はこちらから→http://yakan-hiko.com/ishidaira.html

The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element, the collection tells of the author's experiences as a Jewish-Italian chemist before, during, and after Auschwitz in luminous, clear, and unfailingly beautiful prose. It has been named the best science book ever by the Royal Institution of Great Britain and is considered to be Levi's crowning achievement.

食いしん坊でおっとりした豆柴女子・センパイが5歳になった頃、やんちゃで不思議ちゃんな弟猫・コウハイがやってきた。コウハイの緊急手術、突然やってきた老猫を看取ったこと、センパイのダイエット、2匹だけでの2泊3日のお留守番、震災への備え....

高村光太郎の愛妻智恵子の伝記です。一途な相互愛をうたいあげた絶唱『智恵子抄』の背景が、抑制の効いた文章で語られています。

Self Help was published in 1859 by Samuel Smiles. It has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism". Self Help sold 20,000 copies within one year of its publication. By the time of Smiles' death in 1904, it had sold over a quarter of a million. Self-Help elevated Smiles to celebrity status; almost overnight, he became a leading pundit and much-consulted guru.

Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The Harper's Essay," Franzen's controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel. This essay is reprinted for the first time in How to be Alone, along with the personal essays and the dead-on reportage that earned Franzen a wide readership before the success of The Corrections.

Marco Balzano ispirandosi nel titolo al film di Nanni Moretti Palombella Rossa, si interroga sul perché l'etimologia sia una scienza che non riceve la considerazione che merita nonostante eserciti, in chi ci si avvicina, un forte fascino. Attraverso quelli che a tutti gli effetti potremmo definire dieci scavi etimologici, ci dice che ogni parola ha un corpo da rispettare che non può essere stravolto a nostro piacimento. Perché ogni parola ha una sua identità e una sua vita autonoma.

TBSドラマ『半沢直樹』が社会現象と言えるほどの盛り上がりを見せました。最終回の瞬間最高視聴率46.7％、全回の平均視聴率でも42.2％という平成ドラマ史上No1となる数字（共に関東地区）を叩き出したことからも、盛り上がりの凄さがうかがえます。 ただ、盛り上がった半面、色々な疑問を持った人も多いはず。筆者自身、以下のような質問をちょくちょくされています。 「なぜこれほど盛り上がったのか？」 「ああいうサラリーマンは許されるのか？」 「衝撃のエンディングにはどういう意味があるのか？」 ええ、もちろんこれらは人事の範疇なので、すべて人事的に解説可能です。確かに作品としては純エンタメですが、半沢直樹を人事的に紐説けば、そこに現れるのは生々しいまでのリアルです。ファンはもちろんのこと、ドラマ未視聴という方も、そこから学べるものは大きいでしょう。(本文より)城繁幸の『サラリーマン・キャリアナビ』★出世と喧嘩の正しい作法はこちらから→https://yakan-hiko.com/joe.html

朝ドラ「らんまん」で注目される牧野富太郎によるエッセイ「ムジナモ発見物語り」
90代になった牧野博士がまだ大学の職員になる前のこと、日本にも「ムジナモ」が生育していることを発見したときのことを振

SNSで大反響！ 多様性の時代の新エッセイ集　29歳で移り住んだニューヨーク。言葉も、これまで培ったスキルも通じない日々。