Títulos en Ensayos

About Life Choices and Potholes is a rollercoaster ride through the misadventures of reinvention, career pivots, family chaos, and the existential crises that come with it all. One moment, I was a software engineer navigating corporate rejection emails, the next, I was plotting how to sell holistic herbs on Amazon. My father—an old-school engineer who believed real engineers built bridges, not wrote lines of code—couldn’t understand what I actually "did" for a living. Society wasn’t much better, constantly throwing me the dreaded “So you lived abroad? Now what?

In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality. "There is a signature motif discernible in...

'Decline of the English Murder' analyses the kinds of murders depicted in popular media during Orwell's life and why society of the time was obsessed with these grizzly crimes. Tribune published it on 15th February 1946, and Secker and Warburg republished it after his death in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays in 1952.

This is the remarkable and tragic story of Oscar Wilde, legendary wit and conversationalist, author of perhaps the most perfect comedy in the English language, yet seemingly doomed by his own flawed temperament to suffer at the hands of a censorious and hypocritical society...

Cunning Plans collects several of NYT best-selling author Warren Ellis' lectures on the nature of the haunted future and the secrets of deep history, given in recent years at events in London, New York, Los Angeles, and Berlin.

Kurt Vonnegut presents in Fates Worse than Death a veritable cornucopia of his thoughts on what could perhaps best be summed up as "anti-theology", a manifesto for atheism that details Vonnegut's drift from conventional religion, even a tract evidencing belief in the divine held within each individual self--the deity within each individual person present in a universe that otherwise lacks any real order.

বেশ কয়েক বছর ধরে নানা কিছু পত্র পত্রিকায় শ্রীজাত তাঁর সরস কলমে লিখেছেন নানা বিষয়ক রচনা ও নিবন্ধ, এককথায় বলা যায়...

জয় গোস্বামী একসময় রানাঘাট লোকালে সওয়ার হয়ে রানাঘাট আর কলকাতার মধ্যে যাতায়াত করতেন। সেই সময় তার জীবনে ঘটে যাওয়া...

「カナダで働いてみたい」とカレッジの門を叩いたヤスコのカナダ奮闘記。なぜなら、私は生きるのがすごく楽になったし、なにしろ、今の私のほうがふてぶてしくて面白い。

Ein visionäres Epos zwischen Mythen, Liebe & Erlösung – Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil als ungekürztes Hörbuch, gesprochen von Jürgen Fritsche. Über das Hörbuch: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe vollendet mit dem zweiten Teil seines Faust das größte Drama der deutschen Literatur: Ein philosophisch-poetisches, mythendurchwirktes Meisterwerk über menschliche Sehnsucht, Macht, Erkenntnis und Erlösung. Gesprochen von Jürgen Fritsche, wortgewaltig und nuanciert.

人生で最も大切な「仕事」と「お金」の話　人気漫画家ヤマザキマリが本音で語る「仕事」と「お金」の話。現在は漫画家の著者ですが、経験した仕事は、チリ紙交換のアルバイトに始まって、絵描き、露天商、大学教師、料理講師…

20代女性を中心に圧倒的な支持を集めるコラムニスト・妹尾ユウカ。これまでに寄せられた数百通の相談に、真摯に、時にユーモアを交えて答えてきた人気コンテンツ『質問回答』が、待望の書籍化！

「年を取るとは、自分のセックスに忠実になることなのだ」――。カリスマ経営者として共同体の中心に身をおきながら、「異端者」である己との狭間で、精神の暗闘を繰り広げてきた見城徹。

Geboren in der ehemaligen britischen Kolonie Indien verlief das Leben von George Orwell alles andere als geradlinig. Er besuchte Schulen in Indien und England, beherrschte mindestens zwei gebräuchliche Sprachen Indiens, arbeitete in diversen Gelegenheitsjobs, trieb sich als Landstreicher in England herum, studierte unter Aldous Huxley, verdiente sich als Polizist in Indien, nahm am spanischen Bürgerkrieg als Freiwilliger auf Seite der Republikaner teil und arbeitete Seite an Seite mit Ernest Hemingway als Kriegsberichterstatter.

コロナ禍もようやく落ち着き始めた２０２１年７月、光浦靖子は日本を出発しカナダへーー。P CR検査を受けるのにも一苦労。

Home Movies is an essay about the day-to-day realities and unrealities of its author’s hypermediated consumer life as a teacher and parent in Orlando, Florida. In each of the essay’s seven sections, Wheaton explores his relationships to new media and old tech, and the people around him, with thoughtful ambivalence and humor. Altogether, the various threads of Home Movies—image, tangibility, fame, nostalgia, simulation, marijuana, and cinema history—pull together into a moving attempt to accept the tensions between watching/being watched and life/art.

Fundamentally, this audiobook isn't "about" anything but submission of a poetry and prose collection that had to be a world level thank you letter to American artist Charles Bukowski whom I had found later in life as a reminder that there was no doing this right. "This" refers to the notion of what it means to be a writer, as the pieces encompassing this collection stem from realization of a rooted "no effort" and invasive take over in the course of my life.

Operating at the crossroads of memoir, academia, and literature, You Had to Be There offers a fresh, hopeful perspective on the seemingly hopeless subject of climate grief. Over the course of eleven essays, interrogations, and reflections, the author invites listeners to examine the ways in which the media influences our reaction to the events befalling us, not only in how we feel, but in how we behave in the face of such overwhelming circumstances.

It was always Marco Martin's dream, to be an author. Creative writing gave him expression. Writing stories gave him a Voice. Poetry gave him an art Form. To be a writer was always his passion and ambition. As a young person, he would often visit his local library and bookstore. He had such high hopes, of having his own books, placed in there, someday. That time is now.

読 め ば 勇 気 が 湧 い て く る　悩みまくる書店員・花田菜々子が初めて書いた、大人のための青春実録私小説。12か国・地域で翻訳。世界のベストセラーに。