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前著『ひとりぼっちを笑うな』が大きな反響を呼んだ蛭子能収。新作のテーマはなんと「論語」。孔子が残した言葉の数々を見て、蛭子は何を思い、語るのか。息が詰まるような現代で自由に生きるためのヒントが満載。

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.

What does it mean to feel truly alive? Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, Reasons to Stay Alive is more than a memoir. It is a book about making the most of your time on earth.

人口５万人の九州の小さな町に、全国から１００万人が訪れるすごい図書館がある。市民も観光客も満足するさまざまなアイデアの数々と、建設を実現するまでの奮闘を仕掛け人自らが解説する。

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。

As with his previous best seller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, in An Anthropologist on Mars Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our sense of self, our experience of the world and how we relate to those around us. Writing with his trademark blend of scientific rigour and human compassion, he describes patients such as the colour-blind painter or the surgeon with compulsive tics that disappear in the operating theatre - patients for whom disorientation and alienation but also adaptation are inescapable facts of life.

From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times best-selling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a literary masterclass on how to become both a better writer and reader, on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about how to live. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the listener through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for 20 years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program.

「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。」

Considered "the world's most popular cult novelist" (The Guardian), Haruki Murakami has written books that have galvanized millions around the world. Many of his fans know about his 10,000-vinyl-record collection, and his obsession with running, but few have heard about a more intimate, and perhaps more unique, passion: his T-shirt-collecting habit.

First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era—including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall—through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.

16歳の今しか、伝えられない言葉がある。当時小学5年生だった東日本大震災から5年。あの日を学びに変えるために立ち上がった三人の16歳の高校生の語り部。ポプラ社が発売する本書の一部朗読とご本人たちのインタビューを公開。監修を務めた”小さな命の意味を考える会”代表佐藤敏郎さんのインタビューも含め宮城県東松島市で収録。

※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。

雑誌連載が10本に減り大いに危機感を抱き、プロットが浮かばずブランデーをがぶ飲み。原稿の締め切り直前、設定していたトリックが使えないことが判明。栄養ドリンクの三種混合を一気飲みし、徹夜で考え抜く――。

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。

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.

If you haven't already heard of Samantha Irby...where have you been? Samantha Irby is your sharp-tongued best friend who can't help but tell it like it is. In We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, Irby laughs her way through her ridiculous life of failed relationships, taco feasts, bouts with Crohn's disease and more. Written with scathing wit and poignant bluntness, these essays have earned Irby a dedicated fan base, have sold over 100,000 copies in the US and are the perfect introduction to this fresh, bold voice.

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。

Tacky is about the power of pop culture - like any art - to imprint itself on our lives and shape our experiences, no matter one's commitment to "good" taste. These 14 essays are a nostalgia-soaked antidote to the millennial generation's obsession with irony, putting the aesthetics we hate to love - snakeskin pants, Sex and the City, Cheesecake Factory's gargantuan menu - into kinder and sharper perspective.

現代社会でかき消されがちな小さな声に耳を澄ませる――なにかを美しいと感じると呼吸が深くなる――