Celebrated essayist Meghan Daum’s collection, My Misspent Youth, implicates herself as readily as she does the targets that fascinate and horrify her. Gamelife: A Memoir is Michael W. Clune’s reflection on a childhood transformed by technology. Howard Axelrod’s The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude is a gorgeous memoir of solitude in an age of superficial connection, which probes the profoundly human questions of perception, time, identity and meaning.