Essays -- 21st century

This essay collection explores the meaning of death and burial in Western culture in order to ask the ultimate question: What does it mean to live? From Paris to Egypt to Cambridge, Massachusetts, the collection offers a whirlwind cemetery tour and invest

Teaching is a whirlwind each day, and the purpose of these essays is to share the challenges and joys of working in a classroom, functioning as a team, communicating with children and parents, and sometimes coming up short. Some of the pieces in this essa

For a Muse of Fire is a series of six personal essays concerning the shape of small things in the 21st century. -- abstract.

This is a collection of personal essays dealing with such topics as the search for transcendence, the nature of friendship, misperception, teaching, solitude/loneliness and humility. -- abstract.

"The Museum of Memory is a series of essays exploring the author's experiences as the child of an ethnographic researcher. The first essays discuss trips to Liberia, Dahomey, and Brazil. The second half of the essays concern the author's attempt to make sense of the travel memories and give them context in terms of family history, art history, and recovery from trauma." --Abstract.

A collection of personal essays that touches on the subjects of relationships, self-injury, disease, and overcoming one's fears. In each instance the author must realize or learn to accept something about herself in order to move past the obstacle standin

"Paper Dolls is a collection of nine personal essays exploring author Catie Joy's emotional and political growth, from early childhood to emerging adulthood. Several linked essays in the collection trace the author's coming of age as a domestic adoptee." --Abstract.

This collection of linked nonfiction essays explores relationships between parent and child, and between family and non-family, as the author moves from a relatively uneventful childhood to an adolescence fraught with domestic strife and financial disaste

Swimming in Time is a series of personal essays that might be called a meta-memoir. Each essay takes one or more event, peels back the layers of memory until it uncovers a core truth, and then reconstructs the event with that truth in mind--but not always

The following selected essays are an account of the semester I spent studying abroad in India. Part memoir, part travel narrative, these essays range in content from the story of a trek up the side of a mountain and what was at the top, the recollection o

This collection of eight memoir pieces centers on the theme of a single woman navigating her thirties. 'Of Love and Language' describes how my love affair with a deaf man made me miss my own language. 'Conjugating Oaxaca' illustrates how a trip to study S

'The Manifestation of Absence' is a memoir, which documents the process of an adoptee finding her birth parents and simultaneously finding her artistic identity and self. Because it deals with issues of artistic identity the whole is comprised of differen

The Rings of Saturn chronicles in a series of essays the author's journey of reunion with his schizophrenic father, dealing at times with the personal mythologies and mysteries that have arisen in the author's life because of his father's illness and abse

...a collection of eleven personal essays chronicling the coming of age of a young member of Generation Dot Com. -- abstract.