A review by wicked_sassy
The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison

3.0

An interesting read. Some essays were intriguing (the one on Morgellons comes to mind) and others stretched the idea of empathy into meandering self-absorption. Unfortunately, every time the author compared herself to essayists whose work I have enjoyed (Susan Sontag and Caroline Knapp come to mind), her own writing suffered by comparison.