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The former Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane Moore presents her poignant, funny, and deeply moving first book. Lane Moore is a rare performer who is as impressive onstage—whether hosting her iconic show Tinder Live or...

Brought to you by Penguin. A deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays from #1 bestselling author John Green, adapted from his critically acclaimed podcast. The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its...

Ursula K. Le Guin witnessed and contributed to many of the twentieth century’s rebellions and upheavals, including women’s liberation, the Civil Rights movement and US anti-war and environmental activism. Spanning fifty years of her life and work, Space Crone brings together Le Guin’s writings on feminism and gender for the first time, offering new insights into her imaginative, multispecies feminist consciousness: from its roots in deep ecology and philosophies of non-violence to her self-education about racism and her writing on motherhood and ageing.

面白くて読みやすい！たちまち１２万部！爽快な読後感が大人気！◎山極壽一さん（総合地球環境学研究所所長）「現代のドリトル先生による新しい動物言語学の誕生だ」

The bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience in this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of writings from The New Yorker. What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are...

Furiose Essays über die Liebe von einer der originellsten Stimmen der Gegenwart. Wen begehren wir? Und was erzählt unser Begehren über uns? Wie hängen Lust, Leidenschaft und Liebe zusammen? In ihrem neuen Band Liebe und andere Neurosen schreibt Katja Eichinger in zehn elektrisierenden Essays über das Wechselspiel zwischen Verlangen und Verunsicherung. Sie erzählt Familiengeschichten wie die ihrer Urgroßmutter, die ihre Leben lang unter dem Apfelbaum stand und von dem armen Handwerker träumte, den sie nicht heiraten durfte.

Georg-Büchner-Preisträger Wilhelm Genazino ist für seinen einzigartigen Blick fürs Detail bekannt. Die Protagonisten seiner Romane verwandeln kleinste Beobachtungen während ihres Alltags regelmäßig in Reflexionen über das Leben selbst. In dieser Essay-Sammlung bleibt Genazino seinem Stil treu und lässt den Hörer teilhaben an Anekdoten, Gedanken und Perspektivwechseln. "Der gedehnte Blick" bietet ungewöhnliche Sichtweisen auf das Handwerk des Schreibens, Humor, Philosophie, und vieles mehr.

Brought to you by Penguin. Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson's...

Die Autobiographie "Ecce Homo" stellt die letzte umfangreiche Schrift des wohl streitbarsten deutschen Philosophen, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, dar. Noch während er an dem Werk arbeitete, erlitt Nietzsche Anfang Januar des Jahres 1889 einen geistigen Zusammenbruch, von dem er sich nicht mehr erholen sollte. In jungen Jahren beschäftige sich Nietzsche intensiv mit der Philosophie Arthur Schopenhauers und wurde ein Bewunderer der Musik Richard Wagners.

Brought to you by Penguin. FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF MY SEDITIOUS HEART AND THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS, A NEW AND PRESSING DISPATCH FROM THE HEART OF THE CROWD AND THE SOLITUDE OF A WRITER'S DESK The chant of 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'Freedom!' - is the slogan of the freedom struggle in...

Horror movies hold a complicated space in the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist and open to subversive readings. It Came from the Closet features twenty-five original essays by writers speaking to this relationship, through connections both empowering and oppressive. From Carmen Maria Machado on Jennifer’s Body, Jude Ellison S. Doyle on In My Skin, Addie Tsai on Dead Ringers, and many more, these conversations convey the rich reciprocity between queerness and horror.

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...

"Baby Boomers (and I confess I am one): prepare to squirm and shake your increasingly arthritic little fists. For here comes essayist Helen Andrews."--Terry Castle With two recessions and a botched pandemic under their belt, the Boomers are their children's favorite punching bag. But is the...

Dieses ist nicht nur Nietzsches Lobpreis auf Arthur Schopenhauer und seine Philosophie, sondern eine schonungslose Abrechnung mit der Universitätsphilosophie seiner Zeit. Nur seiner Zeit? Sollte man nicht auch heutigen Universitäten diesen Text hinter den Spiegel stecken?

Brought to you by Penguin. One of our most beloved scientists, a fearless free spirit, Carlo Rovelli is also a masterful storyteller. In this collection of writings, the logbook of an intelligence always on the move, he follows his curiosity and invites us on a voyage through science, literature...

From the author of Infinite Jest and Consider the Lobster: a collection of five brilliant essays on tennis, from the author's own experience as a junior player to his celebrated profile of Roger Federer at the peak of his powers. A "long-time rabid fan of tennis," and a regionally ranked tennis...

With a foreword by Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett has earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series – but in recent years he has become equally well-known and respected as an outspoken campaigner for causes including Alzheimer’s research and animal rights.

High heels, movie deals, wagon wheels, shoes, reviews, having the blues, builders, babies, families and other calamities.... Many think that Marian Keyes leads a glitzy life of limos, television, and showbiz parties - but she would argue that she spends the majority of her life writing alone, wearing her PJs, and eating bananas with a laptop on a pillow in front of her. Under the Duvet is a wide collection of her journalism and stories - all personal, closely observed, and painfully funny.

James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his experiences of Paris, they capture the complexity of black life at the dawn of the civil rights movement with effervescent wit and prophetic wisdom.

Brought to you by Penguin. I can change the story because I am the story. With her execution looming, a woman is fighting for her life. Every night she tells a story. Every morning, she lives one more day. One Aladdin Two Lamps cracks open the legendary story of Shahrazad in One Thousand and One...