Helen Epstein: 22 books

Memoir: How I Read, Write and Use It by Helen Epstein (3,400 words) This is an essay for students of memoir. Making meaning in writing memoir is similar to creating narrative in psychotherapy. What differentiates memoir from that work is the public nature of the literary product, its aim to...

The Shakespeare & Company Actor Training Experience by Tina Packer and Helen Epstein (9,700 words) Insights and wisdom from one of America's leading Shakespearean actors and theatrical trainers on how to explore and utilize Shakespeare's work to bring your innate acting talent to surface....

A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 The Invisible Cure is an account of Africa's AIDS epidemic from the inside--a revelatory dispatch from the intersection of village life, government intervention, and international aid. Helen Epstein left her job in the US in 1993 to move to Uganda, where...

A Living Will by Helen Epstein (8,800 words) A personal account of a mother’s sudden and unexpected hospitalization, and how her adult children negotiated end-of-life decisions. This essay appeared as a New York Magazine cover story on November 27, 1989 as "A Death in the Family 1989."

Archivist on a Bicycle is a tribute to Jiří Fiedler, a Czech Protestant, who for most of his life documented extinct Bohemian and Moravian Jewish communities at great danger to himself. His day job was as a children’s book editor; his passion was mapping and archiving the sites of Jewish life...

Aus einer Vielzahl von Erinnerungen, Reportagen und mündlichen Überlieferungen entstand das Buch Die Kinder des Holocaust. Es war das erste Buch, das die Auswirkungen von Traumata, welche die Holocaust-überlebende Generation unwillentlich an die nächste Generation weitergab, untersuchte. In einer...

Einen Blick hinter die Kulissen zu tun – das wünschen sich nicht nur Theater- und Opernfreunde, sondern ebenso sehr auch die Musikliebhaber und Konzertgänger; denn wer von ihnen hätte sich nicht schon gefragt, was wohl in einem Künstler vorgeht, wenn er Noten zum Erklingen bringt, Musik interpretiert....

Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life. Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation,...