Titoli in Saggi

Based on the NPR series of the same name, This I Believe features 80 Americans—from the famous to the unknown—completing the thought that begins with the book's title. The pieces that make up the program compel listeners to re-think not only what and how they have arrived at their own personal beliefs, but also the extent to which they share them with others.

In this essay originally aired in the 1950s, Former Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas encourages a return to the faith of his father's generation in "My Father’s Evening Star"*, his contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that...

Animal expert Temple Grandin describes the benefits of the concrete thinking that accompanies her autism, in "Seeing in Beautiful, Precise Pictures," her contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to...

Professor of psychiatry Kay Redfield Jamison describes the power of intense emotions and temperaments in "The Benefits of Restlessness and Jagged Edges", her contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous...

In this essay originally aired in the 1950s, baseball legend Jackie Robinson reflects on fighting imperfection to create a better world in "Free Minds and Hearts at Work", his contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans...

In her contribution to NPR's This I Believe series, novelist Isabelle Allende reflects on how her daughter's life--and death--taught her that "In Giving I Connect With Others". This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to the unknown, completing...

Reporting from the potholes midway through life's journey, Allen addresses these and other more serious matters, like the rude awakenings of being single after 25 years, of mothering a teenager, and of living with a serious illness. She also discusses life's everyday trials, like the horrors of attempting a crafts project, the anxieties of being a houseguest, and the ever-changing rules of recycling.

En 1928 a Virginia Woolf le propusieron dar una serie de charlas sobre el tema de la mujer y la novela. Lejos de cualquier dogmatismo o presunción, planteó la cuestión desde un punto de vista realista, valiente y muy particular. Una pregunta: ¿qué necesitan las mujeres para escribir buenas novelas? Una sola respuesta: independencia económica y personal, es decir, Una habitación propia.

At the center of The Dark Night of the Soul (La noche oscura del alma) is a poem written by the 16th century Spanish poet and mystic St John of the Cross. Consisting of eight stanzas, each of five lines, the poem outlines the journey in pursuit of divine union, within which the only source of light comes from the soul. This recording in English includes the poem itself and St John's two accompanying treatises (1584-1585), essentially commentaries, which offer line-by-line explanations of the poem. Many modern listeners have found guidance and consolation in this work.

Il giovane Kihlgren parte da un progetto di tutela dei borghi storici in abbandono e del loro paesaggio duro, intenso e desolato ma che ha cancellato per dar vita a un’immagine più spendibile, una propria caratteristica fondante, la sua intima spiritualità. Vuole affrontare questa esperienza in prima persona, cercando di vivere l’ascesi di questi territori, ma è a questo punto che arrivano le giovani pastorelle abruzzesi portando al fallimento incondizionato la ricerca di santità e purezza del giovane.

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. “The most interesting ideas are heresies,”...

In un'Italia blindata dalla quarantena, cosa succede all'amore? Come si può affrontare la lontananza forzata o, al contrario, una convivenza molto intensa? Una cosa è certa: in questi giorni difficili c'è assolutamente bisogno di amore. Per questo la giovane attrice Federica Corti ha deciso di raccogliere le storie e le testimonianze di quanti hanno vissuto la propria storia d'amore durante la quarantena: dalle giovani coppie, nate poco prima che scoppiasse la pandemia, alle coppie più mature, che si riscoprono sotto una luce nuova.

إذا كان مَبلَغ البلاغة أن تُعبِّر عن أجَلِّ المعاني بأفصح العبارات وأجملها، وكانت الرسائل أبلغَ رُسلِ الكلمة؛ تُوصلها إلى مُتلقِّيها بسرعةٍ وحميمية، فتَبلغ منه العقلَ والقلب، فما بالُك إن أرسَل الرسائلَ البلغاءُ أنفسهم! بعينِ أديبٍ ذوَّاقة مُتوقِّد الذهن، يَجمع «محمد كرد علي» مجموعةً شديدةَ التفرُّد من «رسائل البلغاء» التي يَدور معظمها في فَلك المُكاتَبات بين الصاحب وصاحبه، والأخ وأخيه، صدَّرها بدُرر «ابن المُقفع»؛ «الأدب الصغير» و«اليتيمة» وغيرهما، وضمَّنها «رسائل الحكمة» التي صاغها «عبد الحميد الكاتب»، و«الرسالة العذراء في موازين البلاغة وأدوات الكتابة» ﻟ «أبي اليسر المدبر»، و«ملقى السبي...

Journalistic stories - some with a happy ending, others ending with a crashing tragedy; simple or unbelievably complex, full of love or burning bitterness. Marcin Wójcik, a journalist from Duży Format, in his comprehensively documented and well-balanced book gives a voice to the clergymen, showing them as flesh and blood people who feel hunger, thirst, tiredness, and...have sex drive.

Drawing on more than 30 years of therapeutic encounters with people facing hurdles in their love lives, former chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council Susanna Abse takes us deep inside one of the most fascinating realms there is: other people's relationships. From dealing with infidelity to navigating our changing role within a single relationship over the course of a lifetime, Tell Me the Truth About Love sheds vivid light on the human heart and its struggle to both embrace life's greatest gift and protect itself from pain.

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.

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.

A collection of charming anecdotes, written with sophistication and taken from Michał Rusinek's life. They all start with an unfortunate use of some word or with a language puzzle. This book is a great feast for the lovers of anecdote, classy sense of humor, and beautiful, erudite use of the Polish language. ALERT: You won't find better Polish than written by Rusinek.

"O cotidiano nem sempre é tomado apenas por questões profundas. E nem só delas vive o homem, mas também de banalidades. Muitas vezes, ele é tomado por questões ‘menores’, e é a elas que nos dedicaremos aqui. O cotidiano tenderá a ser mais pobre no futuro. Mais entediante e previsível. Refletiremos sobre pequenas questões neste livro.”

The final and most personal work from Pulitzer Prize - winning author and historian Will Durant - discovered 32 years after his death - is a message of insight for everyone who has sought meaning in life or the council of a wise friend in navigating life's journey. From 1968 to 1978, Will Durant made four public allusions to the existence of Fallen Leaves. One, in 1975, hinted at its contents: "a not very serious book that answers the questions of what I think about government, life, death, and God."