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"The charm of certain vacant grassy spaces, in Italy, overfrowned by masses of brickwork that are honeycombed by the suns of centuries, is something that I hereby renounce once for all the attempt t……続きを見る

For anyone who has ever wanted to step into the world of a favorite book, here is a pioneer pilgrimage, a tribute to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a hilarious account of butter-churning obsession. Wendy……続きを見る

A family's epic origins in the hinterlands of Mexico that became Texas-and earlier, in Iberia In his acclaimed 1999 memoir Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation, John Phillip Santos told th……続きを見る

Born in Australia, novelist Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United Nations. It was the beginning of a long love affair with the city, in……続きを見る

**The 30th Anniversary Edition of this classic memoir includes a new introduction by the author. A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by the longtime All Things Considered commentator charts the tra……続きを見る

With the release of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives in 1998, journalist Monica Maristain discovered a writer “capable of befriending his readers.” After exchanging several letters with Bolaño……続きを見る

**A New York Times Notable Book Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy, from the author of Orwell's Roses** Apricots. Her mo……続きを見る

Almost two months Artem Chapai spends driving a motorcycle, traveling through Ukraine - from Koloma to Lugansk and back, posing two questions to the people on his way: "What are you dreaming about?"……続きを見る

Alfred Kazin, one of the central figures of America’s intellectual life in the 20th century, takes us into his own life and times. His autobiography encompasses, within a single large, fluent narrat……続きを見る

De Bruxelles à Sofia, de la Bulgarie à Varsovie, de la Pologne à Berlin Ouest via Berlin Est, de l'Allemagne à Paris et de la France à Lübeck, au bord de la mer Baltique, ce sont des milliers de km ……続きを見る

Lorna Crozier’s radical imagination, and the finely tuned emotional intelligence that is revealed in the clarity of her poetry, have made her one of Canada’s most popular poets. Before the First Wor……続きを見る

“Required, inspiring reading for Auster-holics and aspiring writers.” ーKirkus Reviews Man Booker Prize finalist Paul Auster's Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure is a fascinating and often ……続きを見る

More Than Things is a collection of essays on a variety of political, cultural, and literary issues, all linked by Margaret Randall’s attention to power: its use, misuse, and impact on how we live o……続きを見る

A passionate believer in the power of artーand especially poetryーto influence and critique contemporary culture, Louis Dudek devoted much of his life to shaping the Canadian literary scene through ……続きを見る

According to Wikipedia: "George Parsons Lathrop was born August 25, 1851 in Honolulu, Hawaii... Going to England on a visit he was married in London, September 11, 1871, to Rose Hawthorne, daughter ……続きを見る

Open the Heart of Self-Discovery through the Profound Life and Works of Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau was a lover of Nature and a believer in living the simple life. Using his literary gif……続きを見る

From the Preface It may be well that I should put a short preface to this book. In the summer of 1878 my father told me that he had written a memoir of his own life. He did not speak about it at len……続きを見る

In Home, eighteen of our finest writers evoke different rooms--from their pasts, their present, or simply their imaginations--in order to investigate the ways in which homes contain our lives. The r……続きを見る

“I’ve been watching him, and I notice that when he wants cake, he wants cake; and he wants it now. And I notice that after a while he gets his cake.” –Senator George Hearst, on his son, William Rand……続きを見る

A memoir of the Nazi occupationーand the Allied liberationーof France, from the iconic author of Tender Buttons and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Intimate friends of Gertrude Stein, aware of ……続きを見る

Godfather to Mussolini, national hero of Italy and the WWI irredentist movement, literary icon of Joyce and Pound, lover of actress Eleonora Duse: here is Lucy Hughes-Hallett’s extraordinary biograp……続きを見る

Interviews with Isabel Allende, Martin Amis, John Berger, Harold Bloom, E.L. Doctorow, Amitav Ghosh, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jamaica Kincaid, Oliver Sacks, Carol Shields, Jeanette Winterson and more. 続きを見る

The fourth volume of autobiography from legendary foreign correspondent, John Simpson. For decades, John Simpson has travelled the world to report on the most significant events of our time. In Not ……続きを見る

Very short, humorous autobiography. According to Wikipedia: "Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 ? April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was a humorist, satirist, lecture……続きを見る

Here is the real inside storyーnot the one about the Stieg Larsson phenomenon, but rather the love story of a man and a woman whose lives came to be guided by politics and love, coffee and activism,……続きを見る

"I had no idea how to find my way around this medieval city. It was getting dark. I was tired. I didn’t speak Arabic. I was a little frightened. But hadn’t I battled scorpions in the wilds of Costa ……続きを見る

Room for Doubt is Wendy Lesser’s account of three separate but interlocking occasions for doubt: her stay in Berlin, a city she had never expected to visit; her unwritten book on the philosopher Dav……続きを見る

In September 1969, Michael Maclear, the first Western television journalist allowed inside North Vietnam, was in Hanoi for major Canadian and U.S. networks. He recounted in gripping detail how an en……続きを見る

The Shadow of God is part memoir, part spiritual autobiography, and part tour of great works of art, literature, and music. In the form of a journal written over the course of a year, Charles Scribn……続きを見る

**NYRB CLASSICS: An adult son and acclaimed author offers a heartfelt gay memoir about uncovering his late father’s secrets. “A cross between Dickens’s David Copperfield, Rousseau’s Confessions, and……続きを見る