The Oxford Reader

CHRONOLOGICAL CONTENTS Preface Introduction

The Allegory of the Cave Plato For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

A Modest Proposal (1729) Jonathan Swift For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

The Cask of Amontillado (1846) Edgar Allan Poe For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT'S NEW IS OLD

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) Frederick Douglass For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

Address to the Legislature of New York (1854) Elizabeth Cady Stanton For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

Life Without Principle (1863) Henry David Thoreau For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

Advice to Youth (1882) Mark Twain For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

The Necklace (1884) Guy de Maupassant For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

Shooting an Elephant (1936) George Orwell For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT'S NEW IS OLD

The Lottery (1948) Shirley Jackson For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

Notes of a Native Son (1955) James Baldwin For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT'S NEW IS OLD

Excerpts from 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' (1963) Martin Luther King, Jr. For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

The Ballot or the Bullet (1964) Malcolm X For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT'S NEW IS OLD

Trip to Hanoi (1968) Susan Sontag For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT'S NEW IS OLD

Speech on Impeachment (We the People) (1974) Barbara Jordan For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

Why I Write (1976) Joan Didion For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

Split at the Root (1982) Adrienne Rich For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Ability to Alter Public Space (1986) Brent Staples For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

Am I Blue? (1986) Alice Walker For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

How to Tame a Wild Tongue, an Excerpt (1987) Gloria Anzaldúa For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

The Management of Grief (1988) Bharati Mukherjee For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

Sh**** First Drafts (1994) Anne Lamott For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

The Secret Life of the Love Song (1999) Nick Cave For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

The Waiter's Wife (1999) Zadie Smith For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

The Perils of Indifference (1999) Elie Wiesel For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

Fast Food Nation, an Excerpt (2000) Eric Schlosser For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

Why We Travel (2000) Pico Iyer For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

The Youth in Asia (2000) David Sedaris For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT'S NEW IS OLD

Shooting Dad (2000) Sarah Vowell For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

Consider the Lobster (2004) David Foster Wallace For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

1918 Influenza: The Mother of All Pandemics (2006) Jeffrey K. Taubenberger and David M. Morens For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT'S NEW IS OLD

Is Google Making Us Stupid? (2008) Nicholas Carr For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

The Matthew Effect (2008) Malcolm Gladwell For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

Go Gentle Into That Good Night (2009) Roger Ebert For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

Assassins of the Mind (2009) Christopher Hitchens For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

Reprieve (2009) Tim Kreider For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

A Tale of Three Coming Out Stories (2012) Roxane Gay For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

My President Was Black (2017) Ta-Nehisi Coates For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

Going It Alone (2017) Rahawa Haile For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

To Be, or Not to Be (2018) Masha Gessen For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT'S NEW IS OLD

You Owe Me an Apology (2018) Brittany Packnett Cunningham For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

Origin Story: Carrying Histories of Protest (2019) Jaquira Díaz For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

The American Nightmare (2020) Ibram X. Kendi For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing

Pandemics Leave Us Forever Altered (2020) Charles C. Mann For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT'S NEW IS OLD

Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine (2020) Adrienne LaFrance For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT'S NEW IS OLD