A review by killstorm
The Best American Essays 2012 by Robert Atwan, David Brooks

4.0

A good varied collection of essays.

The topics include:
Self-Reliance
Overuse of drugs in psychiatric care (a fav)
Teaching children with cancer to write
Edward Hopper
Beauty
ALS
Disappearance of a child prodigy
Bram Stoker/Walt Whitman sexuality and vampires
The real purpose of a college education (a fav)
boredom
Robinson Crusoe and rise of the novel
creation
education in a small town (fav)
alzheimer's (fav)
theoretical physics
menopause
a death of quality (fav)
feminism
humanism
drug side effects
illegal immigrant (fav)
Asian American culture and the workplace