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9.11.01: The Skyscraper and the Airplane
Adam Goodheart Advice to Youth
Mark Twain After the Genocide
Philip Gourevitch Against Wicked Characters
Samuel Johnson The Allegory of the Cave
Plato America's Real Dream Team
Thomas Friedman from An American Childhood
Annie Dillard An Animal's Place
Michael Pollan Aria
Richard Rodriguez The Battle of the Binge
Jack Hitt The Battle of the Ants
Henry David Thoreau Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self
Alice Walker Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain
Jessica Mitford Being a Man
Paul Theroux Belly, Dancing, Belly, Aching, Belly, Beasts
Jane Smiley Between the Sexes, a Great Divide
Anna Quindlen Binge Drinking as a Substitute for a Community of Learning
Kenneth Bruffee The Bioterrorism Scare: A Historical Perspective
Philip Alcabes Black Men and Public Space
Brent Staples Blue-Collar Brilliance
Mike Rose The Boston Photographs
Nora Ephron The Case for Single-Child Families
Bill McKibben The Case for Animal Rights
Tom Regan The Case for Torture
Michael Levin A Century of Cinema
Susan Sontag The Charms of Wikipedia
Nicholson Baker Clamorous to Learn
Eudora Welty The Clan of One-Breasted Women
Terry Tempest Williams The Climate Emergency
Al Gore College Is a Waste of Time and Money
Caroline Bird College Pressures
William Zinsser Coming Home Again
Chang-Rae Lee Confluences
Jennifer Sinor Consider the Lobster
David Foster Wallace The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English
John McWhorter Darwin's Middle Road
Stephen Jay Gould The Death of the Profane: The Rhetoric of Race and Rights
Patricia Williams The Death of the Moth
Virginia Woolf The Death of Lincoln
Walt Whitman The Declaration of Independence, Original Draft of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson and Others Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Decolonizing the Mind
Ngũigĩ Thiong'o Deportations from Western Europe
Hannah Arendt from The Devil's Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce A Dissertation upon Roast Pig
Charles Lamb Diversity and Stability
Randall Balmer Enclosed. Encyclopedic. Endured: The Mall of America
David Guterson The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians
Rita Dove The Eureka Phenomenon
Isaac Asimov Existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre Falling Down Is Part of Growing Up
Henry Petroski from A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway Fremont High School
Jonathan Kozol The Gender Gap at School
David Brooks Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns
Molly Ivins The Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln Going to the Movies
Susan Allen Toth The Good News Is: These Are Not the Best Years of Your Life
Gloria Steinem Good Readers and Good Writers
Vladimir Nabokov Graduation
Maya Angelou Green Cards
Alberto Alvaro Ríos Guys Just Want to Have Fun
Barbara Ehrenreich Health and Behavioral Consequences of Binge Drinking
Henry Wechsler et al How It Feels to Be Colored Me
Zora Neale Hurston How Lincoln Won the War with Metaphors
James McPherson How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading
John Holt How to Tame a Wild Tongue
Gloria Anzaldúa How to Write a Letter and Postcards
Garrison Keillor How We Listen
Aaron Copland I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King Jr.Immigration Problem Is About Us, Not Them
Jo-Ann Pilardi In Defense of Prejudice
Jonathan Rauch In Search of a Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf In the Kitchen
Henry Louis Gates Jr.In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World
Michael Dirda Inaugural Address
John F. Kennedy Intelligent Evolution
Edward O. Wilson Is America Falling Apart?
Anthony Burgess Is Everything Determined?
Stephen Hawking Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Nicholas Carr Java Man
Malcolm Gladwell from Journals
Ralph Waldo Emerson from Journal
Henry David Thoreau from The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath Joyas Voladoras
Brian Doyle Kids' Stuff
Michael Chabon Killing Time in Iraq
Colby Buzzell Language Rules: Witnessing about Trauma in South Africa
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Learning to Read
Frederick Douglass Learning to Write
Benjamin Franklin Letter from Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr.Letter to President Pierce, 1855
Chief Seattle The Library as Survival
Alberto Manguel Locked Horns
Rebecca Solnit Looking at Women
Scott Russell Sanders A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift Mommy, What Does 'Nigger' Mean?
Gloria Naylor The Morals of the Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli The Moral Instinct
Steven Pinker More Room
Judith Ortiz Cofer Motherhood: Who Needs It?
Betty Rollin The Motive for Metaphor
Northrop Frye Muddy Road, a Parable, Learning to Be Silent
Zen Parables My Fall into Knowledge
Reg Saner The Nature of Scientific Reasoning
Jacob Bronowski A New Beginning
Barack Obama Night Owl
Anne Fadiman No Man Is an Island
John Donne Nobel Prize Award Speech
William Faulkner Notes on Punctuation
Lewis Thomas Of Youth and Age
Francis Bacon On Being a Cripple
Nancy Mairs On Dumpster Diving
Lars Eighner On Going Home
Joan Didion On Keeping a Notebook
Joan Didion On the Fear of Death
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross On the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Eleanor Roosevelt On Writing
Stephen King Once More to the Lake
E.B. White One Writer's Beginnings
Eudora Welty Parables of the Kingdom
Jesus Pearls before Breakfast
Gene Weingarten Pemberley Previsited
Allegra Goodman Politics and the English Language
George Orwell from Poor Richard's Almanack
Benjamin Franklin Proverbs of Hell
William Blake From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America's Wars
H. Bruce Franklin Rewriting American History
Frances Fitzgerald Rhode Island
Jhumpa Lahiri The Route to Normal Science
Thomas S. Kuhn Salvation
Langston Hughes Saudis in Bikinis
Nicholas D. Kristof Second Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln The Separation of Church and State
Stephen Carter The Serpents of Paradise
Edward Abbey Shooting an Elephant
George Orwell Sight into Insight
Annie Dillard Single-Handed Cooking
J.J. Goode The Slogan: Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Souls on Ice
Mark Doty Sowers and Reapers
Jamaica Kincaid Stranger in the Village
James Baldwin Strangers
Toni Morrison Stuff Is Not Salvation
Anna Quindlen Superman and Me
Sherman Alexie Surprised by Death
James van Tholen Take the F
Ian Frazier Taking Women Students Seriously
Adrienne Rich Thank God for the Atom Bomb
Paul Fussell This Is the End of the World: The Black Death
Barbara Tuchman Tides
Rachel Carson Tigers in the Snow
Peter Matthiessen To Write Well
Ben Jonson Tongue-Tied
Maxine Hong Kingston Too Many Colleges Are Still in Denial about Alcohol Abuse
Henry Wechsler et al Toys
Roland Barthes The Trouble with Wilderness
William Cronon Tune of the Tuna Fish
Sandra Steingraber from Under the Snow
John McPhee Under the Influence
Scott Russell Sanders Understanding Comics
Scott McCloud from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft Waste Land: An Elegy
Mary Oliver The Way to Rainy Mountain
N. Scott Momaday We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse's Story
Sallie Tisdale What Is a Homosexual?
Andrew Sullivan What Should a Billionaire Give--And What Should You?
Peter Singer The Wheels of Freedom: Bicycles in China
Fred Strebeigh When Doctors Make Mistakes
Atul Gawande Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Henry David Thoreau Who Owns Global English?
Dennis Baron Who Shot Johnny?
Debra Dickerson Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A's
Brent Staples Why the Reckless Survive
Melvin Konner Why Women Smile
Amy Cunningham A Wind-Storm in the Forests
John Muir Without God
Steven Weinberg Working at Wendy's
Joey Franklin Yeager
Tom Wolfe Young Hunger
M.F.K. Fisher

Abbey, Edward
The Serpents of Paradise Alcabes, Philip
The Bioterrorism Scare: A Historical Perspective Alexie, Sherman
Superman and Me Angelou, Maya
Graduation Anzaldúa, Gloria
How to Tame a Wild Tongue Arendt, Hannah
Deportations from Western Europe Asimov, Isaac
The Eureka Phenomenon Bacon, Francis
Of Youth and Age Baker, Nicholson
The Charms of Wikipedia Baldwin, James
Stranger in the Village Balmer, Randall
Diversity and Stability Baron, Dennis
Who Owns Global English?Barthes, Roland
Toys Bierce, Ambrose
from The Devil's Dictionary Bird, Caroline
College Is a Waste of Time and Money Blake, William
Proverbs of Hell Bronowski, Jacob
The Nature of Scientific Reasoning Brooks, David
The Gender Gap at School Bruffee, Kenneth
Binge Drinking as a Substitute for a Community of Learning Burgess, Anthony
Is America Falling Apart?Buzzell, Colby
Killing Time in Iraq Carr, Nicholas
Is Google Making Us Stupid?Carson, Rachel
Tides Carter, Stephen
The Separation of Church and State Chabon, Michael
Kids' Stuff Cofer, Judith Ortiz
More Room Copland, Aaron
How We Listen Cronon, William
The Trouble with Wilderness Cunningham, Amy
Why Women Smile Dickerson, Debra
Who Shot Johnny?Didion, Joan
On Going Home Didion, Joan
On Keeping a Notebook Dillard, Annie
from An American Childhood Dillard, Annie
Sight into Insight Dirda, Michael
In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World Donne, John
No Man Is an Island Doty, Mark
Souls on Ice Douglass, Frederick
Learning to Read Dove, Rita
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians Doyle, Brian
Joyas Voladoras Ehrenreich, Barbara
Guys Just Want to Have Fun Eighner, Lars
On Dumpster Diving Emerson, Ralph Waldo
from Journals Ephron, Nora
The Boston Photographs Fadiman, Anne
Night Owl Faulkner, William
Nobel Prize Award Speech Fisher, M.F.K.
Young Hunger Fitzgerald, Frances
Rewriting American History Franklin, Benjamin
Learning to Write Franklin, Benjamin
from Poor Richard's Almanack Franklin, H. Bruce
From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America's Wars Franklin, Joey
Working at Wendy's Frazier, Ian
Take the F Friedman, Thomas
America's Real Dream Team Frye, Northrop
The Motive for Metaphor Fussell, Paul
Thank God for the Atom Bomb Gates Jr., Henry Louis
In the Kitchen Gawande, Atul
When Doctors Make Mistakes Gladwell, Malcolm
Java Man Gobodo-Madikizela, Pumla
Language Rules: Witnessing about Trauma in South Africa Goode, J.J.
Single-Handed Cooking Goodheart, Adam
9.11.01: The Skyscraper and the Airplane Goodman, Allegra
Pemberley Previsited Gore, Al
The Climate Emergency Gould, Stephen Jay
Darwin's Middle Road Gourevitch, Philip
After the Genocide Guterson, David
Enclosed. Encyclopedic. Endured: The Mall of America Hawking, Stephen
Is Everything Determined?Hemingway, Ernest
from A Farewell to Arms Henry Wechsler et al
Too Many Colleges Are Still in Denial about Alcohol Abuse Henry Wechsler et al
Health and Behavioral Consequences of Binge Drinking Hitt, Jack
The Battle of the Binge Holt, John
How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading Hughes, Langston
Salvation Hurston, Zora Neale
How It Feels to Be Colored Me Ivins, Molly
Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns Jesus
Parables of the Kingdom Johnson, Samuel
Against Wicked Characters Jonson, Ben
To Write Well Keillor, Garrison
How to Write a Letter and Postcards Kennedy, John F.
Inaugural Address Kincaid, Jamaica
Sowers and Reapers King Jr., Martin Luther
Letter from Birmingham Jail King Jr., Martin Luther
I Have a Dream King, Stephen
On Writing Kingston, Maxine Hong
Tongue-Tied Konner, Melvin
Why the Reckless Survive Kozol, Jonathan
Fremont High School Kristof, Nicholas D.
Saudis in Bikinis Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth
On the Fear of Death Kuhn, Thomas S.
The Route to Normal Science Lahiri, Jhumpa
Rhode Island Lamb, Charles
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig Lee, Chang-Rae
Coming Home Again Levin, Michael
The Case for Torture Lincoln, Abraham
The Gettysburg Address Lincoln, Abraham
Second Inaugural Address Machiavelli, Niccolò
The Morals of the Prince Mairs, Nancy
On Being a Cripple Manguel, Alberto
The Library as Survival Matthiessen, Peter
Tigers in the Snow McCloud, Scott
Understanding Comics McKibben, Bill
The Case for Single-Child Families McPhee, John
from Under the Snow McPherson, James
How Lincoln Won the War with Metaphors McWhorter, John
The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English Mitford, Jessica
Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain Momaday, N. Scott
The Way to Rainy Mountain Morrison, Toni
Strangers Muir, John
A Wind-Storm in the Forests Nabokov, Vladimir
Good Readers and Good Writers Naylor, Gloria
Mommy, What Does 'Nigger' Mean?Obama, Barack
A New Beginning Oliver, Mary
Waste Land: An Elegy Orwell, George
Politics and the English Language Orwell, George
Shooting an Elephant Petroski, Henry
Falling Down Is Part of Growing Up Pilardi, Jo-Ann
Immigration Problem Is About Us, Not Them Pinker, Steven
The Moral Instinct Plath, Sylvia
from The Journals of Sylvia Plath Plato
The Allegory of the Cave Pollan, Michael
An Animal's Place Quindlen, Anna
Between the Sexes, a Great Divide Quindlen, Anna
Stuff Is Not Salvation Rauch, Jonathan
In Defense of Prejudice Regan, Tom
The Case for Animal Rights Rich, Adrienne
Taking Women Students Seriously Ríos, Alberto Alvaro
Green Cards Rodriguez, Richard
Aria Rollin, Betty
Motherhood: Who Needs It?Roosevelt, Eleanor
On the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Rose, Mike
Blue-Collar Brilliance Sanders, Scott Russell
Under the Influence Sanders, Scott Russell
Looking at Women Saner, Reg
My Fall into Knowledge Sartre, Jean-Paul
Existentialism Seattle, Chief
Letter to President Pierce, 1855 Singer, Peter
What Should a Billionaire Give--And What Should You?Sinor, Jennifer
Confluences Smiley, Jane
Belly, Dancing, Belly, Aching, Belly, Beasts Solnit, Rebecca
Locked Horns Sontag, Susan
A Century of Cinema Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions Staples, Brent
Black Men and Public Space Staples, Brent
Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A's Steinem, Gloria
The Good News Is: These Are Not the Best Years of Your Life Steingraber, Sandra
Tune of the Tuna Fish Strebeigh, Fred
The Wheels of Freedom: Bicycles in China Sullivan, Andrew
What Is a Homosexual?Swift, Jonathan
A Modest Proposal Theroux, Paul
Being a Man Thiong'o, Ngũigĩ
Decolonizing the Mind Tholen, James van
Surprised by Death Thomas Jefferson and Others
The Declaration of Independence, Original Draft of the Declaration of Independence Thomas, Lewis
Notes on Punctuation Thoreau, Henry David
from Journal Thoreau, Henry David
The Battle of the Ants Thoreau, Henry David
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For Tisdale, Sallie
We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse's Story Toth, Susan Allen
Going to the Movies Tuchman, Barbara
This Is the End of the World: The Black Death Twain, Mark
Advice to Youth Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
The Slogan: Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History Walker, Alice
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self Wallace, David Foster
Consider the Lobster Weinberg, Steven
Without God Weingarten, Gene
Pearls before Breakfast Welty, Eudora
Clamorous to Learn Welty, Eudora
One Writer's Beginnings White, E.B.
Once More to the Lake Whitman, Walt
The Death of Lincoln Williams, Patricia
The Death of the Profane: The Rhetoric of Race and Rights Williams, Terry Tempest
The Clan of One-Breasted Women Wilson, Edward O.
Intelligent Evolution Wolfe, Tom
Yeager Wollstonecraft, Mary
from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Woolf, Virginia
In Search of a Room of One's Own Woolf, Virginia
The Death of the Moth Zen Parables
Muddy Road, a Parable, Learning to Be Silent Zinsser, William
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