*New to this editionIntroduction: Ways of ReadingMaking a MarkWays of ReadingStrong Readers, Strong TextsReading with and against the GrainWorking with DifficultyReading and Writing: The Questions and Assignments
The ReadingsGloria Anzaldúa, How to Tame a Wild Tongue*Kwame Anthony Appiah, Race, Culture, Identity: Synthesis*James Baldwin,
Notes of a Native Son [e-Pages] *Alison Bechdel,
Ordinary Devoted Mother [graphic memoir]
John Berger, Ways of Seeing [e-Pages]*John Berger, Ways of Seeing [BBC]: Episode One [video] [e-Pages]
Susan Bordo, Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body [e-Pages]
Judith Butler,
Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy*Judith Butler, Your Behavior Creates Your Gender [video interview]
[e-Pages]Anne Carson, Short TalksBrian Doyle,
Joyas Valoradas *Ralph Waldo Emerson,
The American Scholar [e-Pages]*Stanley Fish,
What is a Good SentenceThe Subordinating Style The Additive Style*Joshua Foer,
The End of RememberingMichel Foucault, PanopticismPaulo Freire, The "Banking" Concept of EducationSusan Griffin, Our SecretNEW Judith Halberstam,
Animating Revolt and Revolting AnimationRichard Hoggart,
A Scholarship Boy*Kathleen Jamie, The Woman in the Field OR
Shia Girls [e-Pages]*Jonathan Lethem, The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism [e-Pages]
Richard E. Miller, The Dark Night of the Soul [e-Pages]
*Errol Morris, Will the Real Hooded Man Please Stand Up? [e-Pages]
*Errol Morris, We've Forgotten that Photographs are Connected to the Physical World [video interview] [e-Pages]
Walker Percy, The Loss of the CreatureMary Louise Pratt, Arts of the Contact ZoneRichard Rodriguez, The Achievement of Desire*Richard Rodriguez, Books and Learning [video of speech]
[e-Pages]Edward Said, States [e-Pages]
Edward Said, In Search of Palestine: Edward Said's Return Home [documentary film]
[e-Pages]*Kathryn Schultz,
EvidenceDavid Foster Wallace,
Authority and American Usage John Edgar Wideman, Our TimeAssignment Sequences Working with Assignment Sequences Working with a SequenceSequence One,
The Aims Of EducationSequence Two,
The Arts Of The Contact ZoneSequence Three,
Autobiographical ExplorationsSequence Four,
Experts And ExpertiseSequence Five,
On DifficultySequence Six,
Reading Culture Sequence Seven,
The Uses Of ReadingSequence Eight,
The Uses Of Reading (II)Sequence Nine,
The Art Of ArgumentSequence Ten,
Working With Metaphor