Títulos em Ensaios

An intimate and evocative celebration of the life and legacy of music and political icon Sinéad O’Connor, featuring writers including Neko Case, Sinéad Gleeson, Rayne Fisher-Quann, Porochista Khakpour, and more. More than thirty years ago, Sinéad O’Connor shocked the world by tearing up a...

كيف تُعاش الحياة؟! سؤالٌ واحد، وعشرون محاولة للإجابة. يتناول هذا الكتاب سيرة حياة النبيل والفيلسوف، وكاتب المقالات الفرنسي في القرن السادس عشر، «ميشيل إيكيم دي...

元朝日新聞の記者が定年後，バルセロナで豆腐店を開業した．修業の日々，異国での苦労，新しい出会いと交流，ヨーロッパから見た日本の姿──ジャーナリストならではの洞察力で，「蛮勇」のカミさんと二人三脚の日々を綴った小気味よいエッセイ．

仕事、成功、世の中、自分、死の圧倒的現実を、静かに説き明かす対談！「やりたいことっていうのは仕事じゃねえよ」「死んでんのかな、ほんとに」―養老孟司

Con leggerezza e una certa dose di autoironia Larsson trasporta i suoi temi classici, come il viaggio, lo sradicamento e il bisogno di libertà, dal mondo avventuroso dei mari a quello più quotidiano e urbano del trasporto pubblico, offrendoci un racconto che susciterà immediata simpatia in tutti quelli che hanno vissuto, anche solo brevemente, la frustrante esperienza del pendolarismo.

With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-awaited collection of literary and cultural essays, the first since Harvard University Press published The World, the Text, and the Critic in 1983...

The sport of surfing has a mystique and allure that has transformed many of these icons into mythical figures. Surfer Stories brings them together in one definitive collection that will appeal to those who surf and those who don’t!

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.

Ian Fleming’s world travels and interests, as well as his journalism and wartime experiences, lent authority to everything he wrote. In 1959, the Sunday Times commissioned Fleming to write a series of dispatches from the world’s most beguiling locales. The result was Thrilling Cities, a masterpiece of well-observed travelogue that stands ably alongside the author’s Bond canon.

From the singular mind of Zosia Mamet, a collection of charmingly witty and achingly vulnerable essays about the challenge and magic of growing up in show business You may know Zosia Mamet from her role as Shoshanna on Girls, or for being one of Hollywood’s original nepo babies (or as she says...

Named a Best Book of 2025 by Bloomberg From legendary filmmaker and author Werner Herzog, a compact, effervescent, and deeply personal exploration of art, philosophy, and history that unravels one of our most elusive and contested questions: What is truth—and how to find it in our...

La guida per imparare a stare bene nel nostro corpo e nel nostro presente L'ansia, la rabbia, la paura, la frustrazione, ma anche la felicità, l'amore, la serenità, sono emozioni che sentiamo anche (forse soprattutto) nel corpo, oltre che nell'animo. E chi ha portato nella propria vita lo yoga, una disciplina che unisce il corpo e la spiritualità, lo sa bene. Alice Degl'Innocenti, l'insegnante di yoga e mental coach nota sui social come @alix_loto, ci conduce allora in un percorso di scoperta della nostra natura più profonda.

A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time. A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING... brings together Wallace's musings on a wide range of topics, from his early days as a nationally...

Творчество Рюноскэ Акутагавы пользуется заслуженной популярностью как в нашей стране, так и во всем мире, а его самые известные повести и рассказы, такие как "В стране водяных", "В чаще" и "Ворота Расёмон", регулярно переиздаются. Но собранные в этом издании письма школьным друзьям, учителям и коллегам-писателям позволяют взглянуть на известного японского литератора с другой, не столь известной стороны и показывают нам Акутагаву-человека, со всеми его надеждами, мечтами и разочарованиями.

“The best science and nature writing—which these stories represent—reminds us of the wide world and our connection to it, and the multitude of ways we make our place in it,” writes Susan Orlean in her introduction. This year’s collection masterfully guides us through exotic locations...

“These stories remind us that food is not just fuel, nor is travel just movement,” writes Bryant Terry in his introduction. “They are acts of remembrance, resistance, and connection.” The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025 embodies this wisdom, offering an incredible range of...

“The essay has taught me how to live,” writes Jia Tolentino, this year’s Best American Essays guest editor. In a time of escalating authoritarianism and disinformation, we turn to artists and writers to make sense of the world around us. The twenty-one authors featured in this collection...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had “a rough few years.” She described the sessions in a...

ひと針、ひと針、他愛のない日々が紡ぎ出す〈希望の物語〉人生が愛おしくなる珠玉のエッセイ

Brought to you by Penguin. Since her canonical 2017 essay 'On Liking Women', the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as a public intellectual straight out of the 1960s. With devastating wit and polemical clarity, she defies the imperative to leave politics out...