The best American essays 2012

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Other Authors: Brooks, David, 1961-, Atwan, Robert
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Series:Best American series.
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Table of Contents:
  • The foul reign of "self-reliance" / Benjamin Anastas
  • The crazy state of psychiatry / Marcia Angell
  • You owe me / Miah Arnold
  • Edward Hopper and the geometry of despair / Geoffrey Bent
  • A beauty / Robert Boyers
  • The good short life / Dudley Clendinen
  • Vanishing act / Paul Collins
  • Insatiable / Mark Doty
  • Who are you and what are you doing here? / Mark Edmundson
  • Duh, bor-ing / Joseph Epstein
  • Farther away / Jonathan Franzen
  • Creation myth / Malcolm Gladwell
  • Dr. Don / Peter Hessler
  • Objects of affection / Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough
  • Getting schooled / Garret Keizer
  • My father/my husband / David J. Lawless
  • The accidental universe / Alan Lightman
  • The bitch is back / Sandra Tsing Loh
  • How doctors die / Ken Murray
  • Other women / Francine Prose
  • Humanism / Richard Sennett
  • Killing my body to save my mind / Lauren Slater
  • Outlaw / Jose Antonio Vargas
  • Paper tigers / Wesley Yang.