Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room - haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

Mr. Bones, the canine hero of this astonishing book, is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant and troubled homeless man from Brooklyn. As Willy's body slowly expires, he sets off with Mr. Bones for Baltimore in search of his high-school English teacher and a new home for his companion. Mr. Bones is our witness during their journey, and out of his thoughts, Paul Auster has spun one of the richest, most compelling tales in American fiction.

One of Mark Twain’s classic tales, a small band of boys in a medieval village make friends with a very real angel whose name is Satan. He assures the boys that he’s not The Satan, but his nephew. He looks like a boy of their own age, but his magical powers and unusual perspectives on morals and mankind leave the boys amazed and bewildered. Mark Twain never finished this story to his own satisfaction. In 1916, his biographer and friend Albert Bigelow Paine, with fellow author Frederick Duneka, added an evil astrologer and devised an ending, and published the version presented here.

The correspondence between Carrie Allsop and David Mayer reveals, piece by piece, the painful details of a devastating affair between their spouses. With each commiserating scratch of the pen, they confess their fears and bare their souls. They share the bewilderment over how things went so wrong and come to wonder where to go from here. Told entirely through the letters of two comforting strangers and those of two illicit lovers, Evidence of the Affair explores the complex nature of the heart. And ultimately, for one woman, how liberating it can be when it’s broken.

When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity. Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media: has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.

毎年8月15日の終戦記念日を迎える度に、閣僚による靖国神社参拝が取り沙汰される。問題は靖国にA級戦犯が合祀されていることだ。

Richard Brautigan's world is one of gentle magic and marvelous laughter, of the incredibly beautiful and the beautifully incredible. Trout Fishing in America is a pseudonym for the miraculous. A journey that begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, that wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways, and that ends, inevitably, with mayonnaise. Funny, wild, and sweet, Trout Fishing in America is an incomparable guidebook to the delights of exploration.

空前のＡＩ（人工知能）ブームが巻き起こっている。ＡＩ関連のニュースリリースが相次いでいるほか、都内では連日のようにセミナーが開かれている。決算発表でも、将来見通しの中でＡＩに言及する企業はもはや珍しくなくなった。米グーグルやフェイスブックに続き、国内でもドワンゴやリクルートがＡＩ研究所を設立。トヨタは今後５年間で１２００億円を投じる。何が企業を引き付けるのか。

本誌は『週刊東洋経済』2015年12月5日号掲載の10ページ分を電子化したものです。

Noted Japan expert Professor Mark J. Ravina of the University of Texas at Austin covers the politics, economics, and culture of the island nation since World War II - a conflict that saw the end of Japan’s dream of regional conquest, which Professor Ravina calls Empire 1.0. The country’s postwar leaders radically changed course, renouncing a strong military to pursue Empire 2.0 - Japan as an economic colossus.

Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).

Caldecott Honor artist David Shannon captures the chaos that follows an unexpected downpour in this engaging story.

源平の混乱の時代、無常観漂う時代に生きた著者の見た、人間の愚かさ、そして慰め。現代に通じる深い洞察を、和漢混淆文の格調高い原文で。 「 行く川のながれは絶えずして、しかも本の水にあらず。よどみに浮ぶうたかたは、かつ消えかつ結びて久しくとゞまることなし。世の中にある人とすみかと、またかくの如し。……そのあるじとすみかと、無常をあらそひ去るさま、いはゞ朝顏の露にことならず。……」 (C)アイ文庫 「ことのは出版オーディオブック作品一覧はhttp://www.kotonoha.co.jpにて」

Leo is a ghost and he wants to be a good friend. When a new family moves into his home and Leo's efforts to welcome them are misunderstood, Leo decides it is time to leave and see the world. This charming tale of friendship is destined to become a modern classic that will delight children for years to come.

ギリギリの状態でも負けるわけにはいかない
「ワル」たちに学ぶ、交渉術の決定版!!!

ついつい尻込みをしてしまう嫌な人たちが相手でも大丈夫！

There is now no doubt that not only is Waiting for Godot the outstanding play of the 20th century, but it is also Samuel Beckett's masterpiece. Yet it is both a popular text to be studied at school and an enigma. The scene is a country road. There is a solitary tree. It is evening. Two tramp-like figures, Vladimir and Estragon, exchange words. Pull off boots. Munch a root vegetable. Two other curious characters enter. And a boy. Time passes. It is all strange yet familiar.

Dr. Brown defines spirituality as something not reliant on religion, theology, or dogma - rather, it is a belief in our interconnectedness and in a loving force greater than ourselves. Whether you access the sacred through traditional worship, solitary meditation, communion with nature, or creative pursuits, one thing is clear: Rising strong after falling is a spiritual practice that brings a sense of perspective, meaning, and purpose to our lives.

Tokyo resident Keiko Furukara has never fit in - neither in her family, nor in school - but when at the age of 18 she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of national convenience store chain Smile Mart, she realizes instantly that she has found her purpose in life. Delighted to be able to exist in a place where the rules of social interaction are crystal clear (many are laid out line-by-line in the store's manual), Keiko does her best to copy the dress, mannerisms, and mode of speech of her colleagues, playing the part of a "normal" person excellently, more or less.

これは現代の「ヘレン・ケラー物語」だ!4代続けて東大卒という超名門の家柄に生まれたのに、ADHDにASD傾向、学習障がいという3重苦で、幼稚園すら二時間で中退させられた著者。

「新しい歴史教科書をつくる会」の歴史教科書の登場が，アジア各地で大きな反発を招いた．その問題点は日本の植民地支配に関する記述である．

今明かされる、知られざる徒然草の真のメッセージとは？

鎌倉時代に描かれた「徒然草」から数多くの処世術が刻まれた154の文章を抜粋・解説。
中世から受け継がれるベストセラーとなる所以を今、学び直してみませんか？

「徒然草」と聞いて、あなたは何を思い浮かべますか？

学校の古文の授業で習ったような覚えがあるけれど、内容はうろ覚え。
日本三大随筆というけれど、過去の遺物で今の世の中にはあまり役に立たない。

上のような考えを持たれている方も、多いかと思います。
しかし、これは非常にもったいないこと。

なぜなら、徒然草は700年の時を経てもなお、今を生きる私たちにとって
とても有益で深淵な処世術、哲学を教えてくれるからです。

徒然草を記した兼好法師は、朝廷の下級官吏として勤めていた人物ですが、
葛藤やストレスを受け、深く悩んだ末に社会から距離を置くことに決めます。
徒然草は、そうして社会から距離を置いた兼好の視点からとりとめもなく綴られた
処世術や社会に対する投げかけが一冊の本となり、中世の日本でベストセラーとなったものです。