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Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of stories. The Wave in the Mind includes some of Le Guin's finest literary criticism, rare autobiographical writings, performance-art pieces, and most centrally, her reflections on the arts of writing and reading.

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

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.

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。

南九州市知覧には太平洋戦争末期、本土最南端の陸軍特攻基地が置かれ、この地から多くの若者が沖縄へ向けて飛び立ちました。21世紀を担う若者を中心に、命の尊さ・平和の大切さについて考えていただきたいという願いから平成2年から「平和へのメッセージfrom知覧」スピーチコンテストを開催。第25回スピーチコンテンストで当時中学生だった山口真希穂さんの最優秀賞作品「1036の命」をご本人がご朗読。

※本コンテンツは、「サンプルを聴く」ボタンの再生で作品全編を聴くことができます。

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.

堀江貴文さんつくった「755」というトークアプリで堀江貴文さんと対談した。 この対談で思ったことは、「やっぱり多くの日本人（特に若者）が、問題の本質を認識していないのではないか？」という疑いだった。この疑いはかねてから抱いていたが、それが強化された形だ。 堀江さんには若者のファンが多いが、ぼくははっきりいって彼らのほとんどが堀江さんを誤解していると思う。どう誤解しているかというと、「堀江さんが新しい道を切り拓いて実力主義の社会を作ることで、今、老害世代に虐げられている自分たちにもチャンスが巡ってくるのではないか」というふうにだ。(本文より） 岩崎夏海の「ハックルベリーに会いに行く」はこちらから→http://yakan-hiko.com/huckleberry.html

Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism; he laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards; he deplores multiculturalism, Marxism, feminism, neoconservatism, Afrocentrism, and the New Historicism. Insisting instead upon "the autonomy of aesthetic," Bloom places Shakespeare at the center of the Western Canon.....

人間・秋篠宮の実像がいま明らかになる 「令和」という新時代を皇嗣として迎えた秋篠宮だが、コロナ禍のもと皇室行事の多くは中止を余儀なくされ、長女の結婚問題にも揺れた。激動の５年間、秋篠宮邸に

「あたしがいるからだいじょうぶやで！」そう豪語する心疾患児（幼稚園生女子）をふくむ個性派3人きょうだいと、この本の著者でもある親。

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.”

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。

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.

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.

What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile identities sit alongside those from newly discovered writers of all ages. All of the contributors speak from the heart - sometimes calling for empathy, oftentimes challenging stereotypes, always demanding respect.

The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, best-selling author John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale - from the QWERTY keyboard and sunsets to Canada geese and Penguins of Madagascar.

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

The great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings them all together for the first time. It systematically presents what the various Stoic philosophers said on every important topic, accompanied by an eloquent commentary that is clear and concise. The result is a set of philosophy lessons for everyone - the most valuable wisdom of ages past made available for our times, and for all time.