from How to be Idle, a Loafer’s Manifesto (Tom Hodgkinson)
A Victim (Bruno Bettleheim)
American Fat (Russell Baker)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Coca Cola Correspondence (Coca Cola and Grove Press)
from The Roots of Honor (John Ruskin)
On the Death of Charles II (George Savile)
Advice to her Daughter (Lady Mary Wortley Montague)
Shooting an Elephant (George Orwell)
Marriage Proposals (Jane Austen, Charles Dickens)
Second Inaugural (Abraham Lincoln)
On the Development of a Writer (George Eliot)
Salvation (Langston Hughes)
from Self-Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Magna Soles Shoe Inserts (The Onion)
Thanksgiving (Michael Arlen)
The Doctor Won’t See You Now
Where I lived and what I lived for (Thoreau)
On Self-Respect (Joan Didion)
Allegory of the Cave (Plato)
The Doctor Will See You for Exactly Seven Minutes
Words Sometimes Convey more than Literal Meaning
The Modest Proposal (Jonathan Swift)
The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
The Horrible Waste of War (Ernie Pyle)
from The Crisis (Thomas Paine)
Letter from Birmingham Jail (Martin Luther King Jr.)
The Gettysburg Address (Abraham Lincoln)
The Case for Torture (Michael Levin)
Get a Knife, Get a Dog, But Get Rid of Guns (Molly Ivins)
On Privacy (Milan Kundera)
The Ugly Tourist (Jamaica Kincaid)
Tourists (Nancy Mitford)
Last Chance to See (Douglas Adams)
The Island of Plenty (Johnson C. Montgomery)
Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell)
