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Title
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| Edward Albee |
The Sandbox |
| Aristophanes |
Lysistrata |
| Anton Chekhov |
The Cherry Orchard |
| Susan Glaspell |
Trifles |
| Lorraine Hansberry |
A Raisin in the Sun |
| Henrik Ibsen |
A Doll's House |
| Eugene O'Neill |
The Emperor Jones |
| William Shakespeare |
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| William Shakespeare |
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark |
| William Shakespeare |
Othello, the Moor of Venice |
| George Bernard Shaw |
Major Barbara |
| Sophocles |
Antigone |
| Sophocles |
Oedipus Rex |
| Oscar Wilde |
The Importance of Being Earnest |
| Tennessee Williams |
The Glass Menagerie |
| August Wilson |
The Piano Lesson |
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Author
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Title
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| Diane Ackerman |
We Are All a Part of Nature |
| Diane Ackerman |
Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall |
| Kiku Adatto |
Trigger-Happy Birthday |
| Sherman Alexie |
What Sacagawea Means to Me |
| Paula Gunn Allen |
Where I Come From Is Like This |
| Patrick N. Allitt |
Should Undergraduates Specialize? |
| Gordon Allport |
The Formation of In-Groups |
| Julia Alvarez |
I Want to Be Miss America |
| Maya Angelou |
Champion of the World |
| Maya Angelou |
Graduation |
| Natalie Angier |
Men, Women, Sex, and Darwin |
| Natalie Angier |
One Thing They Aren't: Maternal |
| Gloria Anzaldúa |
How to Tame a Wild Tongue |
| Michael J. Arlen |
Ode to Thanksgiving |
| Deb Aronson |
The Nurture of Nature |
| Solomon E. Asch |
Opinions and Social Pressure |
| Barbara Lazear Ascher |
On Compassion |
| Margaret Atwood |
The Female Body |
| Francis Bacon |
Of Studies |
| Francis Bacon |
The Four Idols |
| Russell Baker |
The Plot against People |
| James Baldwin |
If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? |
| James Baldwin |
Notes of a Native Son |
| James Baldwin |
Stranger in the Village |
| Michael J. Bamshad and Steve E. Olson |
Does Race Exist? |
| Paul T. Barber |
The Real Vampire |
| Lee Ann Fisher Baron |
The Influence of "Junk Science" and the Role of Science Education |
| Paul M. Barrett |
Muslims in America |
| Dave Barry |
In Depth, but Shallowly |
| Howard S. Becker |
If You Want to Be a Scholar |
| William J. Bennett |
Should Drugs Be Legalized? |
| William J. Bennett |
What Really Ails America |
| Thomas H. Benton |
The Seven Deadly Sins of Students |
| John Berger |
Ways of Seeing |
| Wendell Berry |
Home of the Free |
| Bruno Bettelheim |
Joey: A "Mechanical Boy" |
| Isra Javed Bhatty |
Reppin' Islam |
| Wayne C. Booth |
Boring from Within: The Art of the Freshman Essay |
| Susan Bordo |
Never Just Pictures |
| Judy Brady |
I Want a Wife |
| Shelly Branch |
One Term Says It All: "Shut Up!" |
| William Branigin |
Sweatshops Are Back |
| Suzanne Britt |
Neat People vs. Sloppy People |
| Suzanne Britt |
That Lean and Hungry Look |
| Jacob Bronowski |
The Reach of Imagination |
| David Brooks |
People Like Us |
| Susan Brownmiller |
Let's Put Pornography Back in the Closet |
| Holly Brubach |
Mail-Order America |
| David Bruck |
The Death Penalty |
| Bill Bryson |
How You Became You |
| William F. Buckley Jr. |
Why Don't We Complain? |
| Albert Camus |
The Myth of Sisyphus |
| Tricia Capistrano |
Emil's Big Chance Leaves Me Uneasy |
| Peggy Carlson |
Why We Don't Need Animal Experimentation |
| Rachel Carson |
Fable for Tomorrow |
| Rachel Carson |
The Obligation to Endure |
| Stephen Carter |
The Insufficiency of Honesty |
| Bruce Catton |
Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts |
| Curtis Chang |
Streets of Gold: The Myth of the Model Minority |
| Stephen Chapman |
The Prisoner's Dilemma |
| Linda Chavez |
Demystifying Multiculturalism |
| John Ciardi |
Is Everybody Happy? |
| Sandra Cisneros |
Only Daughter |
| Taylor Clark |
Meatless Like Me |
| Christopher Clausen |
Against Work |
| Judith Ortiz Cofer |
Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood |
| Judith Ortiz Cofer |
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria |
| K. C. Cole |
Women in Science |
| Cindy C. Combs |
Profile of a Terrorist |
| Commonweal |
Too Many Abortions |
| Dalton Conley |
Tip Jars and the New Economy |
| Stephanie Coontz |
A Nation of Welfare Families |
| Bernard Cooper |
A Clack of Tiny Sparks: Remembrances of a Gay Boyhood |
| Aaron Copland |
How We Listen to Music |
| Paul Crenshaw |
Storm Country |
| Edwidge Danticat |
We Are Ugly, but We Are Here |
| Charles Darwin |
Understanding Natural Selection |
| Lennard J. Davis |
Visualizing the Disabled Body |
| Richard Delgado |
Hate Cannot Be Tolerated |
| William Deresiewicz |
The Dispossessed |
| Aaron H. Devor |
Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meanings of Gender |
| Jared Diamond |
Soft Sciences Are Often Harder Than Hard Sciences |
| Joan Didion |
Marrying Absurd |
| Joan Didion |
On Going Home |
| Joan Didion |
On Keeping a Notebook |
| Annie Dillard |
Seeing |
| John Donne |
No Man Is an Island |
| Michael Dorris |
For Indians, No Thanksgiving |
| Frederick Douglass |
Learning to Read and Write |
| Frederick Douglass |
Resurrection |
| Brian Doyle |
Joyas Voladoras |
| Peter F. Drucker |
Beyond the Information Revolution |
| Dinesh D'Souza |
America the Beautiful: What We're Fighting For |
| Ronnie Dugger |
Corporate Takeover of the Media |
| Michael S. Dukakis and Daniel J. B. Mitchell |
Raise Wages, Not Walls |
| Firoozeh Dumas |
Hot Dogs and Wild Geese |
| Ronald Dworkin |
Assisted Suicide: The Philosopher’s Brief |
| Esther Dyson |
Cyberspace for All |
| Michael Eric Dyson |
The Public Obligations of Intellectuals |
| Tony Earley |
The Quare Gene |
| Dave Eggers |
Serve or Fail |
| Barbara Ehrenreich |
Cultural Baggage |
| Barbara Ehrenreich |
Serving in Florida |
| Gretel Ehrlich |
About Men |
| Lars Eighner |
On Dumpster Diving |
| Peter Elbow |
Desperation Writing |
| Peter Elbow |
Freewriting |
| C. P. Ellis |
Why I Quit the Klan |
| Ralph Ellison |
On Being the Target of Discrimination |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The American Scholar |
| Joseph Epstein |
The Green-Eyed Monster |
| Stephanie Ericsson |
The Ways We Lie |
| Amitai Etzioni |
Working at McDonald's |
| Anne Fadiman |
Never Do That to a Book |
| Peter Farb and George Armelagos |
The Patterns of Eating |
| William Faulkner |
Nobel Prize Award Speech |
| Charles Fishman |
The Squeeze |
| E. M. Forster |
What I Believe |
| Jib Fowles |
Advertising’s Fifteen Basic Appeals |
| Benjamin Franklin |
Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One. To My Friend A. B. |
| Laura Fraser |
The French Paradox |
| Laura Fraser |
Why I Stopped Being a Vegetarian |
| Paulo Freire |
The “Banking” Concept of Education |
| Sigmund Freud |
Libidinal Types |
| Sigmund Freud |
The Interpretation of Dreams |
| Milton Friedman |
Prohibition and Drugs |
| Milton Friedman |
Social Responsibility of Business and Labor |
| Richard A. Friedman |
Born to Be Happy |
| Thomas L. Friedman |
Globalization: The Super-Story |
| Roland G. Fryer |
Acting White |
| Paul Fussell |
Notes on Class |
| Paul Fussell |
The Boy Scout Handbook |
| Martin Gansberg |
Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police |
| Howard Gardner |
A Rounded Version: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences |
| Rosemarie Garland-Thomson |
The FDR Memorial: Who Speaks from the Wheelchair? |
| Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
A Richer American Identity |
| Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
Talking Black |
| John Taylor Gatto |
From Why Schools Don't Educate |
| Clifford Geertz |
Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight |
| Philip Gefter |
Photographic Icons: Fact, Fiction, or Metaphor? |
| David Gelernter |
Unplugged: The Myth of Computers in the Classroom |
| Anthony Giddens |
Globalisation |
| Todd Gitlin |
Supersaturation, or, The Media Torrent and Disposable Feeling |
| Malcolm Gladwell |
Something Borrowed |
| Malcolm Gladwell |
The Tipping Point |
| Nathan Glazer |
Some Very Modest Proposals for the Improvement of American Education |
| Al Gore |
Environmentalism of the Spirit |
| Stephen Jay Gould |
Evolution as Fact and Theory |
| Bob Greene |
It Took This Night to Make Us Know |
| Germaine Greer |
One Man's Mutilation Is Another Man's Beautification |
| Beverly Gross |
Bitch |
| Donald Hall |
Four Ways of Reading |
| Edward T. Hall |
The Arab World |
| Garrett Hardin |
Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor |
| Sydney J. Harris |
A Jerk |
| S. I. Hayakawa |
How Dictionaries Are Made |
| William Hazlitt |
On the Pleasure of Hating |
| Vicki Hearne |
What's Wrong with Animal Rights? |
| William Least Heat-Moon |
A List of Nothing in Particular |
| Emily Hegarty |
Really Cool: Authenticity, Identity, and Popular Music |
| Philip B. Heymann |
Torture Should Not Be Authorized |
| Gilbert Highet |
The Gettysburg Address |
| Edward Hoagland |
The Courage of Turtles |
| Roald Hoffman |
The Chemist |
| Linda Hogan |
Hearing Voices |
| Bob Holmes |
In the Blink of an Eye |
| John Holt |
How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading |
| Garrett Kaoru Hongo |
Kubota |
| David Hricik |
The American Legal System |
| Sue Hubbell |
The Beekeeper |
| Darrell Huff |
How to Lie with Statistics |
| Langston Hughes |
Salvation |
| Zora Neale Hurston |
How It Feels to Be Colored Me |
| Vincent Iacopino |
It Should Not Be Permitted to Torture Suspected Terrorists to Gather Information |
| Molly Ivins |
Living Wage Fight Goes On |
| Pico Iyer |
In Praise of the Humble Comma |
| Jane Jacobs |
Credentialing vs. Educating |
| Janet Jacobs |
From the Profane to the Sacred: Ritual and Mourning at Sites of Terror and Violence |
| Susan Jacoby |
Notes from a Free-Speech Junkie |
| William James |
Habit |
| Peter Jamison |
Out of the Wild |
| James H. Jeans |
Why the Sky Looks Blue |
| Thomas Jefferson |
The Declaration of Independence |
| Samuel Johnson |
On Self-Love and Indolence |
| Michiko Kakutani |
The Word Police |
| Wendy Kaminer |
Virtual Rape |
| Helen Keller |
Three Days to See |
| John Kessler |
Sushi USA: The Japanese Paradigm |
| Jamaica Kincaid |
The Ugly Tourist |
| Martin Luther King Jr. |
I Have a Dream |
| Martin Luther King Jr. |
Letter from Birmingham Jail |
| Stephen King |
My Creature from the Black Lagoon |
| Stephen King |
Why We Crave Horror Movies |
| Maxine Hong Kingston |
No Name Woman |
| Laura Kipnis |
Against Love |
| Perri Klass |
Learning the Language |
| Naomi Klein |
No Logo |
| Brooke A. Knight |
Watch Me! Webcams and the Public Exposure of Private Lives |
| C. H. Knoblauch |
Literacy and the Politics of Education |
| Edward I. Koch |
Death and Justice: How Capital Punishment Affirms Life |
| Alfie Kohn |
From Degrading to De-grading |
| Gina Kolata |
Spinning |
| Karen Kornbluh |
Win-Win Flexibility |
| Geeta Kothari |
If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I? |
| William Severini Kowinski |
Kids in the Mall: Growing up Controlled |
| Jonathan Kozol |
The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society |
| Gunther Kress |
From Literacy in the New Media Age |
| Thomas S. Kuhn |
The Route to Normal Science |
| Linda Kulman |
Materialism: Our Consuming Interest |
| Jhumpa Lahiri |
My Two Lives |
| Anne Lamott |
Shitty First Drafts |
| Kalle Lasn |
Hype |
| Barbara Lawrence |
Four-Letter Words Can Hurt You |
| Charles R. Lawrence III |
On Racist Speech |
| Daniel Lazare |
Your Constitution Is Killing You |
| Jennifer 8. Lee |
I Think, Therefore IM |
| Aldo Leopold |
The Land Ethic |
| Michael Levin |
The Case for Torture |
| Ariel Levy |
Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture |
| Bernard Lewis |
I'm Right, You're Wrong, Go to Hell |
| Bernard Lewis |
The Roots of Muslim Rage |
| C. S. Lewis |
We Have No "Right to Happiness" |
| Abraham Lincoln |
The Gettysburg Address |
| Jamey Lionette |
Mass Production of Food Is Ruining Our Health |
| Sophronia Liu |
So Tsi-Fai |
| Barry Lopez |
My Horse |
| Audre Lorde |
The Fourth of July |
| Min-Zhan Lu |
From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle |
| Lynne Luciano |
Male Body Image in America |
| William Lutz |
The World of Doublespeak |
| Michael Patrick MacDonald |
Returning to Southie |
| Niccolò Machiavelli |
The Qualities of the Prince |
| Nancy Mairs |
On Being a Cripple |
| Malcolm X |
Coming to an Awareness of Language |
| Malcolm X |
Learning to Read |
| Mike Males |
Stop Blaming Kids and TV |
| Emily Martin |
The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male–Female Roles |
| Karl Marx and Frederick Engels |
The Communist Manifesto |
| Richard B. Mazess and Warren Mather |
Bone Mineral Content of North Alaskan Eskimos |
| Scott McCloud |
Character Design |
| Scott McCloud |
Understanding Comics |
| Bill McKibben |
Pie in the Sky |
| John McMurtry |
Kill 'Em! Crush 'Em! Eat 'Em Raw! |
| John McPhee |
The Pine Barrens |
| John McPhee |
The Search for Marvin Gardens |
| James E. McWilliams |
The Green Monster |
| Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux |
On Friendship |
| Donella Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, and Jorgen Randers |
The Limits to Growth |
| Barbara Mellix |
From Outside, In |
| H. L. Mencken |
The Penalty of Death |
| Stanley Milgram |
The Perils of Obedience |
| Casey Miller and Kate Swift |
Who's in Charge of the English Language? |
| Horace Miner |
Body Ritual among the Nacirema |
| Jessica Mitford |
Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain |
| N. Scott Momaday |
The Way to Rainy Mountain |
| Joan Morgan |
Sex, Lies, and Videos |
| Bharati Mukherjee |
Two Ways to Belong in America |
| Donald M. Murray |
The Maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts |
| Gloria Naylor |
The Meanings of a Word |
| Jacob Neusner |
The Speech the Graduates Didn't Hear |
| Alleen Pace Nilsen |
Sexism in English: Embodiment and Language |
| Michael Novak |
The Moral Heart of Capitalism |
| Geoffrey Nunberg |
Blogging in Global Lunchroom |
| Naomi Shihab Nye |
To Any Would-Be Terrorists |
| Joyce Carol Oates |
Against Nature |
| Robert Ornstein and Richard F. Thompson |
Learning and Brain Growth |
| George Orwell |
A Hanging |
| George Orwell |
Marrakech |
| George Orwell |
Politics and the English Language |
| George Orwell |
Shooting an Elephant |
| George Orwell |
Why I Write |
| Camille Paglia |
The Pitfalls of Plastic Surgery |
| Rod Paige |
Testing Has Raised Students' Expectations, and Progress in Learning Is Evident Nationwide |
| Jo Goodwin Parker |
What Is Poverty? |
| Lucia Perillo |
A Definition of Terms |
| Noel Perrin |
Forever Virgin: The American View of America |
| Noel Perrin |
The Androgynous Man |
| Alexander Petrunkevitch |
The Spider and the Wasp |
| Plato |
Crito |
| Plato |
The Allegory of the Cave |
| Michael Pollan |
From Food to Nutrients |
| Michael Pollan |
In Defense of Food |
| Katha Pollitt |
Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls |
| Alejandro Portes and Ruben G. Rumbaut |
Immigrant America: A Portrait |
| Neil Postman and Steve Powers |
Television News: The Language of Pictures |
| Emily Prager |
Our Barbies, Ourselves |
| Mary Louise Pratt |
Arts of the Contact Zone |
| Francine Prose |
The Wages of Sin |
| Timothy E. Quill |
Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making |
| Anna Quindlen |
Homeless |
| James Rachels |
Active and Passive Euthanasia |
| Diane Ravitch |
Back to Basics |
| Ishmael Reed |
America: The Multinational Society |
| Adrienne Rich |
When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision |
| Matt Ridley |
Why Should Males Exist? |
| Jeremy Rifkin |
The Age of Simulation |
| Mary Roach |
How to Know If You're Dead |
| Paul Roberts |
A Brief History of English |
| Paul Roberts |
How to Say Nothing in Five Hundred Words |
| Richard Rodriguez |
The Achievement of Desire |
| Richard Rodriguez |
Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood |
| Betty Rollin |
Motherhood: Who Needs It? |
| Phyllis Rose |
Tools of Torture: An Essay on Beauty and Pain |
| Bertrand Russell |
A Free Man's Worship |
| Bertrand Russell |
The Study of Mathematics |
| Nawal El Saadawi |
Circumcision of Girls |
| Nawal El Saadawi |
Love and Sex in the Life of the Arab |
| Heloisa Sabin |
Animal Research Saves Human Lives |
| Edward Said |
Clashing Civilizations? |
| William Saletan |
Please Don't Feed the People |
| George J. Sanchez |
Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945 |
| Scott Russell Sanders |
The Inheritance of Tools |
| Scott Russell Sanders |
Under the Influence: Paying the Price of My Father's Booze |
| Margaret Sanger |
The Cause of War |
| Luc Sante |
What Secrets Tell |
| Lisa Schiffren |
Gay Marriage: An Oxymoron |
| Eric Schlosser |
What We Eat |
| Sam Schulman |
Gay Marriage—and Marriage |
| Felice N. Schwartz |
Management Women and the New Facts of Life |
| Loretta Schwartz-Nobel |
America's Wandering Families |
| Jeremy Seabrook |
What Are "Class" and "Inequality"? |
| Chief Seattle |
Address |
| David Sedaris |
Me Talk Pretty One Day |
| Joel Seligman |
Learning to Think Like a Lawyer |
| Jack Shaheen |
The Media's Image of Arabs |
| Gail Sheehy |
Predictable Crises of Adulthood |
| Fan Shen |
The Classroom and the Wider Culture: Identity as a Key to Learning English Composition |
| Leslie Marmon Silko |
Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective |
| Linda Simon |
The Naked Source |
| Peter Singer |
Animal Liberation |
| Peter Singer |
The Singer Solution to World Poverty |
| Theodore R. Sizer |
What High School Is |
| Michael Snider |
The Intimacy of Blogs |
| Society of Professional Journalists |
Code of Ethics |
| Susan Sontag |
AIDS and Its Metaphors |
| Susan Sontag |
Beauty |
| Gary Soto |
The Grandfather |
| Morgan Spurlock |
Do You Want Lies with That? |
| William Stafford |
A Way of Writing |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions |
| Shelby Steele |
I'm Black, You're White, Who's Innocent? |
| Shelby Steele |
On Being Black and Middle Class |
| Wallace Stegner |
Wilderness Letter |
| Gloria Steinem |
Sex, Lies, and Advertising |
| Gloria Steinem |
Why Young Women Are More Conservative |
| Sandra Steingraber |
Tune of the Tuna Fish |
| Grace Suh |
The Eye of the Beholder |
| Andrew Sullivan |
Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage |
| Jonathan Swift |
A Modest Proposal |
| Sabaa Saleem Tahir |
A Proposal I Never Thought I'd Consider |
| Eve M. Tai |
Roadtrip to Chinatown |
| Ronald Takaki |
A Different Mirror |
| Amy Tan |
In the Canon for All the Wrong Reasons |
| Amy Tan |
Mother Tongue |
| Deborah Tannen |
There Is No Unmarked Woman |
| Beverly Daniel Tatum |
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? |
| Paul Theroux |
Being a Man |
| Lewis Thomas |
Notes on Punctuation |
| Lewis Thomas |
On Natural Death |
| Lewis Thomas |
The Iks |
| Henry David Thoreau |
Civil Disobedience |
| Henry David Thoreau |
The Battle of the Ants |
| Henry David Thoreau |
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For |
| James Thurber |
University Days |
| Alexis de Tocqueville |
Some Reflections on American Manners |
| Jane Tompkins |
"Indians": Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History |
| Susan Allen Toth |
Boyfriends |
| Calvin Trillin |
It's Just Too Late |
| Sojourner Truth |
A'n't I a Woman? |
| Sherry Turkle |
How Computers Change the Way We Think |
| Mark Twain |
Two Ways of Seeing a River |
| Mark Twain |
Uncle John's Farm |
| James B. Twitchell |
But First, a Word from Our Sponsor |
| Ellen Ullman |
Dining with Robots |
| John Updike |
The Disposable Rocket |
| Patrick Vala-Haynes |
What Does Online Shopping Cost Us? |
| Lindsy Van Gelder |
Marriage as a Restricted Club |
| Clinton R. Van Zandt |
It Should Be Permissible to Torture Suspected Terrorists to Gather Information |
| Helen Vendler |
The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar |
| Gore Vidal |
Drugs |
| Judith Viorst |
The Truth about Lying |
| Margaret Visser |
Fingers |
| Alice Walker |
Am I Blue? |
| Alice Walker |
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self |
| Alice Walker |
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens |
| Reg Weaver |
NCLB's Excessive Reliance on Testing Is Unrealistic, Arbitrary, and Frequently Unfair |
| Steven Weinberg |
A Designer Universe? |
| Cornel West |
On Black Fathering |
| E. B. White |
Once More to the Lake |
| Rita Williams |
The Centerpiece |
| Ellen Willis |
Putting Women Back into the Abortion Debate |
| Edward O. Wilson |
Is Humanity Suicidal? |
| Edward O. Wilson |
The Writing Life |
| James Q. Wilson |
Cars and Their Enemies |
| Marie Winn |
Television: The Plug-In Drug |
| Naomi Wolf |
The Beauty Myth |
| Tom Wolfe |
The Right Stuff |
| Mary Wollstonecraft |
From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
| Elizabeth Wong |
The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl |
| Virginia Woolf |
Professions for Women |
| Virginia Woolf |
Shakespeare's Sister |
| Virginia Woolf |
The Death of the Moth |
| Philip Zimbardo |
The Stanford Prison Experiment |
| Howard Zinn |
Dying for the Government |
| William Zinsser |
Clutter |
| William Zinsser |
College Pressures |
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Fiction
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Author
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Title
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| Chinua Achebe |
Civil Peace |
| Sherman Alexie |
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven |
| Margaret Atwood |
Happy Endings |
| James Baldwin |
Sonny's Blues |
| Toni Cade Bambara |
The Lesson |
| Stephen Vincent Benét |
By the Waters of Babylon |
| Ambrose Bierce |
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
| Raymond Carver |
Cathedral |
| Raymond Carver |
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love |
| Willa Cather |
Paul's Case |
| Anton Chekhov |
The Darling |
| Anton Chekhov |
The Lady with the Dog |
| Kate Chopin |
Désirée's Baby |
| Kate Chopin |
The Story of an Hour |
| Sandra Cisneros |
The House on Mango Street |
| Richard Connell |
The Most Dangerous Game |
| Joseph Conrad |
Heart of Darkness |
| Stephen Crane |
The Open Boat |
| Roald Dahl |
Lamb to the Slaughter |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
The Adventure of the Speckled Band |
| Andre Dubus |
Killings |
| Ralph Ellison |
Battle Royal |
| Louise Erdrich |
The Red Convertible |
| William Faulkner |
A Rose for Emily |
| William Faulkner |
Barn Burning |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Winter Dreams |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
The Yellow Wallpaper |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Rappaccini's Daughter |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne |
The Birthmark |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Young Goodman Brown |
| Bessie Head |
Woman from America |
| Ernest Hemingway |
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place |
| Ernest Hemingway |
Hills Like White Elephants |
| O. Henry |
The Gift of the Magi |
| Zora Neale Hurston |
Sweat |
| Yusuf Idris |
The Chair Carrier |
| Shirley Jackson |
The Lottery |
| W. W. Jacobs |
The Monkey's Paw |
| Sarah Orne Jewett |
A White Heron |
| James Joyce |
Araby |
| James Joyce |
Eveline |
| Jamaica Kincaid |
Girl |
| Jhumpa Lahiri |
Interpreter of Maladies |
| Mary Lavin |
The Widow's Son |
| D. H. Lawrence |
The Horse Dealer's Daughter |
| D. H. Lawrence |
The Rocking-Horse Winner |
| Jack London |
To Build a Fire |
| Naguib Mahfouz |
Zaabalawi |
| Guy de Maupassant |
The Necklace |
| Herman Melville |
Bartleby, the Scrivener |
| Lorrie Moore |
How to Become a Writer |
| Bharati Mukherjee |
The Management of Grief |
| Joyce Carol Oates |
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? |
| Tim O'Brien |
The Things They Carried |
| Flannery O'Connor |
A Good Man Is Hard to Find |
| Flannery O'Connor |
Everything That Rises Must Converge |
| Flannery O'Connor |
Good Country People |
| Frank O'Connor |
Guests of the Nation |
| Grace Paley |
A Conversation with My Father |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
The Cask of Amontillado |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
The Fall of the House of Usher |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
The Tell-Tale Heart |
| Katherine Anne Porter |
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall |
| Saki |
The Open Window |
| Marjane Satrapi |
The Veil |
| John Steinbeck |
The Chrysanthemums |
| Amy Tan |
Two Kinds |
| James Thurber |
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
| John Updike |
A & P |
| Alice Walker |
Everyday Use |
| Eudora Welty |
A Worn Path |
| William Carlos Williams |
The Use of Force |
| Richard Wright |
The Man Who Was Almost a Man |
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Poetry
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Author
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Title
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| Sherman Alexie |
Capital Punishment |
| Sherman Alexie |
Postcards to Columbus |
| Agha Shahid Ali |
I Dream It Is Afternoon When I Return to Delhi |
| Julia Alvarez |
How I Learned to Sweep |
| Tom Andrews |
The Hemophiliac's Motorcycle |
| Anonymous |
Lord Randal |
| Anonymous |
Sir Patrick Spens |
| Matthew Arnold |
Dover Beach |
| John Ashbery |
One Coat of Paint |
| Margaret Atwood |
The Woman Who Could Not Live with Her Faulty Heart |
| W. H. Auden |
As I Walked Out One Evening |
| W. H. Auden |
Musée des Beaux Arts |
| Jimmy Santiago Baca |
Family Ties |
| Jim Barnes |
Return to La Plata, Missouri |
| Aphra Behn |
On Her Loving Two Equally |
| John Berryman |
Henry's Confession |
| Elizabeth Bishop |
One Art |
| Elizabeth Bishop |
The Fish |
| William Blake |
A Poison Tree |
| William Blake |
London |
| William Blake |
The Chimney Sweeper |
| William Blake |
The Garden of Love |
| William Blake |
The Lamb |
| William Blake |
The Little Black Boy |
| William Blake |
The Sick Rose |
| William Blake |
The Tyger |
| Robert Bly |
Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter |
| Louise Bogan |
Women |
| Anne Bradstreet |
To My Dear and Loving Husband |
| Emily Brontë |
Riches I hold in light esteem |
| Gwendolyn Brooks |
The Bean Eaters |
| Gwendolyn Brooks |
The Mother |
| Gwendolyn Brooks |
We Real Cool |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways |
| Robert Browning |
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad |
| Robert Browning |
My Last Duchess |
| Robert Browning |
Porphyria’s Lover |
| Robert Burns |
A Red, Red Rose |
| George Gordon, Lord Byron |
She Walks in Beauty |
| Thomas Campion |
When thou must home |
| Hayden Carruth |
Regarding Chainsaws |
| Anne Carson |
Sumptuous Destitution |
| Marilyn Chin |
Turtle Soup |
| Lucille Clifton |
at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989 |
| Judith Ortiz Cofer |
Cold as Heaven |
| Judith Ortiz Cofer |
Latin Women Pray |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Frost at Midnight |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Kubla Khan |
| Billy Collins |
Aristotle |
| Jayne Cortez |
Into This Time |
| Stephen Crane |
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind |
| Robert Creeley |
Time |
| Victor Hernández Cruz |
Problems with Hurricanes |
| Countee Cullen |
Incident |
| Toi Derricotte |
A Note on My Son's Face |
| Emily Dickinson |
After great pain, a formal feeling comes— |
| Emily Dickinson |
Because I could not stop for Death— |
| Emily Dickinson |
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain |
| Emily Dickinson |
I heard a Fly buzz—when I died— |
| Emily Dickinson |
Much Madness is divinest Sense— |
| Emily Dickinson |
Success Is counted sweetest |
| Emily Dickinson |
The Soul selects her own Society— |
| John Donne |
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning |
| John Donne |
Batter my heart, three-personed God |
| John Donne |
Death Be Not Proud |
| John Donne |
The Flea |
| H. D. [Hilda Doolittle] |
Garden |
| Mark Doty |
Tiara |
| Michael Drayton |
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar |
We Wear the Mask |
| Robert Duncan |
The Torso, Passages 18 |
| Bart Edelman |
English 101 |
| T. S. Eliot |
Preludes |
| T. S. Eliot |
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
| Queen Elizabeth I |
When I was fair and young |
| Anita Endrezze |
The Girl Who Loved the Sky |
| Louise Erdrich |
A Love Medicine |
| Martín Espada |
The Saint Vincent de Paul Food Pantry Stomp |
| Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea |
From The Introduction |
| Carolyn Forché |
The Colonel |
| Philip Freneau |
The Indian Burying Ground |
| Robert Frost |
After Apple-Picking |
| Robert Frost |
Birches |
| Robert Frost |
Design |
| Robert Frost |
Fire and Ice |
| Robert Frost |
Home Burial |
| Robert Frost |
Mending Wall |
| Robert Frost |
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep |
| Robert Frost |
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening |
| Robert Frost |
The Road Not Taken |
| Alice Fulton |
You Can't Rhumboogie in a Ball and Chain |
| Richard Garcia |
Why I Left the Church |
| Jack Gilbert |
Michiko Dead |
| Allen Ginsberg |
A Supermarket in California |
| Louise Glück |
Parable of Flight |
| Ray González |
Praise the Tortilla, Praise the Menudo, Praise the Chorizo |
| Thomas Gray |
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
| Kimiko Hahn |
When You Leave |
| Mark Halliday |
Functional Poem |
| Thomas Hardy |
The Convergence of the Twain |
| Thomas Hardy |
The Man He Killed |
| Thomas Hardy |
The Ruined Maid |
| Joy Harjo |
She Had Some Horses |
| Michael S. Harper |
Nightmare Begins Responsibility |
| Samuel Hazo |
For Fawzi in Jerusalem |
| Seamus Heaney |
Digging |
| Seamus Heaney |
Punishment |
| Lyn Hejinian |
A Mask of Anger |
| George Herbert |
Easter-wings |
| George Herbert |
Love (III) |
| George Herbert |
The Collar |
| George Herbert |
The Pulley |
| Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke |
Psalm 100 Jubilate Deo |
| Robert Herrick |
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time |
| Robert Herrick |
Upon Julia's Clothes |
| Conrad Hilberry |
Player Piano |
| Geoffrey Hill |
In Memory of Jane Fraser |
| Linda Hogan |
The History of Red |
| Garrett Kaoru Hongo |
Yellow Light |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins |
God's Grandeur |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins |
Pied Beauty |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins |
Spring and Fall |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins |
The Windhover |
| A. E. Housman |
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now |
| A. E. Housman |
"Terence, this is stupid stuff" |
| A. E. Housman |
To an Athlete Dying Young |
| Susan Howe |
From Speeches at the Barriers |
| Langston Hughes |
Harlem |
| Langston Hughes |
The Negro Speaks of Rivers |
| Randall Jarrell |
The Woman at the Washington Zoo |
| Richard Jones |
Cathedral |
| Ben Jonson |
On My First Son |
| Ben Jonson |
Still to be Neat |
| Allison Joseph |
On Being Told I Don't Speak Like a Black Person |
| John Keats |
La Belle Dame Sans Merci |
| John Keats |
Ode on a Grecian Urn |
| John Keats |
Ode to a Nightingale |
| John Keats |
The Eve of St. Agnes |
| John Keats |
To Autumn |
| John Keats |
When I have fears that I may cease to be |
| Jane Kenyon |
From Room to Room |
| Galway Kinnell |
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps |
| Galway Kinnell |
The Bear |
| Etheridge Knight |
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane |
| Kenneth Koch |
The History of Jazz |
| Yusef Komunyakaa |
Facing It |
| Philip Larkin |
High Windows |
| Li-Young Lee |
Eating Alone |
| Denise Levertov |
February Evening in New York |
| Philip Levine |
What Work Is |
| Larry Levis |
The Poem You Asked For |
| Timothy Liu |
Thoreau |
| Richard Lovelace |
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars |
| Robert Lowell |
Skunk Hour |
| Christopher Marlowe |
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love |
| Andrew Marvell |
To His Coy Mistress |
| Heather McHugh |
What He Thought |
| Claude McKay |
America |
| W. S. Merwin |
Yesterday |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay |
Wild Swans |
| John Milton |
How Soon Hath Time |
| John Milton |
Lycidas |
| John Milton |
When I consider how my light is spent |
| Marianne Moore |
Poetry |
| Robert Morgan |
Mountain Bride |
| Thylias Moss |
Tornados |
| David Mura |
Grandfather-in-Law |
| John Frederick Nims |
Love Poem |
| Naomi Shihab Nye |
The Small Vases from Hebron |
| Frank O'Hara |
The Day Lady Died |
| George Oppen |
The Forms of Love |
| Simon J. Ortiz |
Speaking |
| Wilfred Owen |
Dulce et Decorum Est |
| Marge Piercy |
Barbie Doll |
| Wang Ping |
Syntax |
| Robert Pinsky |
Shirt |
| Sylvia Plath |
Daddy |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
Annabel Lee |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
The Raven |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
To Helen |
| Alexander Pope |
The Rape of the Lock |
| Ezra Pound |
In a Station of the Metro |
| Ezra Pound |
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter |
| Sir Walter Raleigh |
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd |
| Dudley Randall |
Ballad of Birmingham |
| Henry Reed |
Naming of Parts |
| Alberto Ríos |
Nani |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson |
Richard Cory |
| Theodore Roethke |
My Papa's Waltz |
| Christina Rossetti |
Song |
| Christina Rossetti |
Up-Hill |
| Anne Sexton |
Cinderella |
| William Shakespeare |
Sonnet 18 |
| William Shakespeare |
Sonnet 73 |
| William Shakespeare |
Sonnet 116 |
| William Shakespeare |
Sonnet 130 |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Ode to the West Wind |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Ozymandias |
| Sir Philip Sidney |
Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show |
| Charles Simic |
Begotten of the Spleen |
| Christopher Smart |
From Jubilate Agno |
| Stevie Smith |
Not Waving but Drowning |
| Gary Snyder |
Hitch Haiku |
| Cathy Song |
Girl Powdering Her Neck |
| Edmund Spenser |
One day I wrote her name upon the strand |
| William Stafford |
Traveling through the Dark |
| Gertrude Stein |
Susie Asado |
| Wallace Stevens |
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock |
| Virgil Suárez |
The Ways of Guilt |
| Jonathan Swift |
A Description of the Morning |
| Wislawa Szymborska |
On Death, without Exaggeration |
| James Tate |
The Wheelchair Butterfly |
| Edward Taylor |
Housewifery |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Crossing the Bar |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Tears, Idle Tears |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
The Lady of Shalott |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Ulysses |
| Dylan Thomas |
Do not go gentle into that good night |
| Dylan Thomas |
Fern Hill |
| Quincy Troupe |
Snake-Back Solo 2 |
| Jean Valentine |
December 21st |
| Derek Walcott |
Sea Grapes |
| Anne Waldman |
Makeup on Empty Space |
| Edmund Waller |
Song |
| James Welch |
Christmas Comes to Moccasin Flat |
| Phillis Wheatley |
On Being Brought from Africa to America |
| Walt Whitman |
A Noiseless Patient Spider |
| Walt Whitman |
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry |
| Walt Whitman |
From Song of Myself |
| Walt Whitman |
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer |
| Walt Whitman |
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd |
| Richard Wilbur |
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World |
| Nancy Willard |
Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him |
| William Carlos Williams |
Spring and All |
| William Carlos Williams |
The Red Wheelbarrow |
| William Carlos Williams |
This Is Just to Say |
| Nellie Wong |
Grandmother's Song |
| William Wordsworth |
I wandered lonely as a cloud |
| William Wordsworth |
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey |
| William Wordsworth |
Ode: Intimations of Immortality |
| William Wordsworth |
The world is too much with us |
| Charles Wright |
March Journal |
| James Wright |
A Blessing |
| James Wright |
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota |
| Lady Mary Wroth |
Am I thus conquered? |
| Sir Thomas Wyatt |
They flee from me |
| William Butler Yeats |
Among School Children |
| William Butler Yeats |
Leda and the Swan |
| William Butler Yeats |
Sailing to Byzantium |
| William Butler Yeats |
The Second Coming |
| David Young |
The Portable Earth-Lamp |
| Ray A. Young Bear |
From the Spotted Night |
| Paul Zimmer |
Zimmer Imagines Heaven |
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Images
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Author
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Title
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| Timothy H. O'Sullivan |
A Harvest of Death |
| Gordon Parks |
American Gothic |
| Grant Wood |
American Gothic |
| Margaret Bourke-White |
At the Time of the Louisville Flood |
| Mannie Garcia and Shepard Fairey |
Barack Obama, Hope |
| William Hogarth |
Beer Street and Gin Lane |
| Anonymous |
Béla Lugosi as Dracula |
| Anonymous |
Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster |
| Anonymous |
Buzz Aldrin Salutes the American Flag |
| Lewis W. Hine |
Child Labor in Loudon, Tennessee, Textile Factory |
| Bruce Chambers |
Edgar Hollingsworth Is Rescued from His Home after Hurricane Katrina |
| Anonymous |
Ernesto “Che” Guevara T-Shirt |
| Jacob A. Riis |
Five Cents a Spot |
| Thomas E. Franklin |
Flag-Raising at Ground Zero |
| Joe Rosenthal |
Flag-Raising on Iwo Jima |
| Pablo Picasso |
Guernica |
| Anonymous |
Historic Gay Marriage Ceremony |
| James Montgomery Flagg |
I Want You for U.S. Army |
| John Paul Filo |
Kent State Massacre |
| Eugène Delacroix |
Liberty Leading the People |
| Anonymous |
Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch |
| Anonymous |
Martin Luther King Jr. Speaks at the National Mall |
| Anonymous |
Max Schreck as Count Orlok |
| Anonymous |
Olympic Black Power Salute |
| Lewis W. Hine |
Powerhouse Mechanic |
| Anonymous |
Rosa Parks Sits at the Front of a Bus |
| Eddie Adams |
Saigon Execution |
| William McFarlane Notman |
Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill |
| Anonymous |
Statue of Saddam Hussein Falls |
| Jeff Widener |
Tank Man |
| Francisco de Goya |
The Third of May 1808 |
| Alfred Eisenstaedt |
V-J Day in Times Square |
| J. Howard Miller |
We Can Do It! |
| Patrick Hardin |
What's It All About? |
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