Below please read some
of my nonfiction essays.

Literature

Novels

Alice McDermott and metaphor

George Eliot's Middlemarch

Ivan Turgenev's Russian countryside

Honore Balzac's Old Goriot

Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring

Nonfiction

Rosseau and autobiography

Poetry

Renaissance and Middle Ages

Parzival and the holy grail

Education

Confucian wisdom in schools

Writing and art

Calvino's Hurry Slowly

Art

High Renaissance