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線路の向こうに、かりそめの遊行の果てに、恵みの水の大地の先に、彼らは何をみて、私たちは何を感じるのか。人と共に、人と関わりながら生きる様々な世界が幾重にも

One of Robert Louis Stevenson’s bestselling works of his time, ‘The Lantern Bearers’ is a charming essay on the joys underlying realist literature. Sometimes mistakenly taken as a fictional narrative, the essay begins with three boys – of which Stevenson is one – who reside in a seaside town during the summer. Stevenson describes the various splendours of existence in the town, such as fishing, tide pools and the open sea air.

What does it take to escape the plotlines mapped onto us? Searching for clues in the work of her literary foremothers, Lipson untangles what it means to be a girl, a woman, a lover, a partner, a daughter, and a mother in a world all too ready to reduce us to stock characters.

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。

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。

The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centred planet - from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu - on a five-star scale.

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.

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.

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.

二言目には「バカヤロー!」が口を衝く、「強烈にして無比」なキャラクターでやってきたミュージシャンも、74歳。本当は臆病で小心者だけど、孫悟空に憧れて、暴れん坊キャラで生き抜いてきた。

Die liebliche Bestie Mensch verliert jedesmal, wie es scheint, die gute Laune, wenn sie gut denkt...

学研サウンド文学館パルナスから、オーディオブックで厳選復刻。現代の文壇を代表する編集委員が、内外の作家の傑作を厳選。パルナスとは、「詩人」や「詩歌」という意味があります。

Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant—and utterly hilarious—works of comic art. In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash represents one of the peaks of his achievement, a compound of irony, affection, and perfect detail that speaks across generations. In God We Trust, Shepherd's wildly witty reunion with his Indiana hometown, disproves the adage “You can never go back.”

「戦後、日本国憲法の制定によって天皇主権から国民主権になり、一人一人の基本的人権が尊重される民主主義の国になったことの意味を、どうか自分の生き方に結びつけて学んでほしいと思います。」

何らかの病気を発症した場合、だいたい3日を限度に様子を見て、その後に病院へいくことが我が家での病院受診のルールになっています。もちろん、単なる風邪だと判断できる場合は、病院へ受診することはせず、漢方薬や鍼灸等で治してしまうんだけども。 　私には5歳になる子どもがいますが、ちょっと大きな病気をして入院したことがあります。川崎病といって原因不明の病気で、全身の血管に炎症が起きて、場合によって心臓の冠動脈に瘤(こぶ)ができたり、心臓に水が溜まって死んでしまうことがある病気でした。 　初期症状は風邪による高熱に似ていて、その後に頸(けい)部(ぶ)リンパ節の腫(は)れやその他の症状が現れてきます。こういう重(じゅう)篤(とく)な疾患(しっかん)って寝ていてもよくならずにだんだんと悪化していきます。どう考えても通常の風邪とは何かが違う、おかしい……と思える状態が現れてきます。こうなったら迷わず病院へ行きます。(本文より)若林理沙の「鍼灸師が教える一人でできる養生法」はこちらから→http://yakan-hiko.com/wakabayashi.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

東京新聞で連載中の人気子育てエッセイが、書き下ろしを加えて待望の書籍化。ひとり娘・なまこちゃん（愛称）の幼稚園卒園までを見守った6年間。

Award-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year. ” The selections in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024 reveal a trying year for our planet—from the Lahaina wildfire tragedy to the lush Amazon jungle slowly turning to savanna—while also celebrating the earth’s beautiful and mysterious ways—from the largest beaver dam on earth to the heroic innovation to prevent birds from crashing into Chicago’s expanse of glass buildings.

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.