| A |
| Joseph Addison |
| | "Reflections in Westminster Abbey" |
| Maya Angelou |
| | "Liked for Myself" |
| Arthur Ashe |
| | "The Burden of Race" |
| Margaret Atwood |
| | "At First I Was Given Centuries" |
| Margaret Atwood |
| | "Pornography" |
| W. H. Auden |
| | "The Unknown Citizen" |
| |
| B |
| Hanson W. Baldwin |
| | "R. M. S. Titanic" |
| Ann Louise Bardach |
| | "The Stealth Virus: AIDS and Latinos" |
| Donald Barthelme |
| | "The School" |
| Ambrose Bierce |
| | "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" |
| Anne Bradstreet |
| | "The Author to Her Book" |
| Bertolt Brecht |
| | "A Worker Reads History" |
| Grace Caroline Bridges |
| | "Lisa’s Ritual, Age 10" |
| Jan Harold Brunvand |
| | "Urban Legends: "The Boyfriend’s Death"" |
| The Buddha |
| | "'Buddha-nature' and 'The Way of Purification'" |
| |
| C |
| Albert Camus |
| | "The Guest" |
| Howard Carter |
| | "Finding the Tomb" |
| Raymond Carver |
| | "My Father’s Life" |
| Raymond Carver |
| | "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" |
| Stephen Chapman |
| | "The Prisoner’s Dilemma" |
| John Cheever |
| | "The Enormous Radio" |
| John Cheever |
| | "Reunion" |
| Kim Chernin |
| | "The Flesh and the Devil" |
| Kate Chopin |
| | "Desiree’s Baby" |
| Judith Ortiz Cofer |
| | "The Myth of The Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria " |
| |
| D |
| Clarrence Darrow |
| | "The Myth of Immortality" |
| Emily Dickinson |
| | "Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant" |
| Annie Dillard |
| | "So, This Was Adolescence" |
| Mary Crow Dog |
| | "Civilize Them with a Stick" |
| Frederick Douglass |
| | "Learning to Read and Write" |
| Slavenka Drakulic |
| | "On Bad Teeth" |
| |
| E |
| Umberto Eco |
| | "How Not to Use the Fax Machine and the Cellular Phone" |
| T.S. Eliot |
| | "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| |
| F |
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| | "In Goya's Greatest Scenes We Seem to See (1958)" |
| Anne Taylor Fleming |
| | "Sperm in a Jar" |
| Eleni Fourtouni |
| | "Child’s Memory" |
| Robert Frost |
| | "The Road Not Taken" |
| |
| G |
| Bill Gates |
| | "The Road Ahead" |
| Douchan Gersi |
| | "Initiated into an Iban Tribe of Headhunters" |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| | "The Yellow Wallpaper" |
| Mikhal Gilmore |
| | "My Brother, Gary Gilmore" |
| Temple Grandin |
| | "Thinking in Pictures" |
| Carol Grunewald |
| | "Monsters of the Brave New World" |
| |
| H |
| LynNell Hancock |
| | "The Haves and the Have-Nots" |
| Garrett Hardin |
| | "Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor" |
| Francis W. W. Harper |
| | "Learning to Read" |
| Vaclav Havel |
| | "Protest" |
| Robert Hayden |
| | "Those Winter Sundays" |
| Lesley Hazleton |
| | "Confessions of a Fast Woman" |
| Bessie Head |
| | "Looking for a Rain God" |
| William A. Henry |
| | "In Defense of Elitism" |
| Nat Hentoff |
| | ""Speech Codes" on the Campus and Problems of Free Speech" |
| John Hersey |
| | "A Noiseless Flash from Hiroshima" |
| Thor Heyerdahl |
| | "How to Kill an Ocean" |
| Stuart Hirschberg |
| | "The Rhetoric of Advertising" |
| Nasreddin Hodja |
| | "Islamic Folk Stories" |
| Linda Hogan |
| | "Waking Up the Rake" |
| Linda Hogan |
| | "Workday" |
| Constance Holden |
| | "Identical Twins Reared Apart" |
| Langston Hughes |
| | "Salvation" |
| Ted Hughes |
| | "Crow Goes Hunting" |
| Aldous Huxley |
| | "Propaganda Under a Dictatorship" |
| |
| I |
| David Ives |
| | "Words, Words, Words" |
| |
| J |
| Harriet Jacobs |
| | "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" |
| |
| K |
| Anna Kamienska |
| | "Tea Party" |
| Betty Keller |
| | "Tea Party" |
| Helen Keller |
| | "The Day Language Came Into My Life" |
| Wilson Bryan Key |
| | "The Exorcist Massage Parlor" |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| | "I Have a Dream" |
| Gina Kolata |
| | "A Cone Is Born" |
| Jerzy Kosinski |
| | "The Miller’s Tale" |
| Jonathan Kozol |
| | "The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society" |
| |
| L |
| Susanne K. Langer |
| | "Language and Thought" |
| Ursula K. Le Guin |
| | "A Very Warm Mountain" |
| Jack London |
| | "The San Francisco Earthquake" |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| | "The Sound of the Sea" |
| Alison Lurie |
| | "The Language of Clothes" |
| |
| M |
| Beryl Markham |
| | "West with the Night" |
| Matthew |
| | "Parables in the New Testament" |
| Guy de Maupassant |
| | "An Old Man" |
| Mary McCarthy |
| | "The Paradox of St. Mark’s" |
| Golda Meir |
| | "We Have Our State" |
| Fatima Mernissi |
| | "Moonlit Nights of Laughter" |
| John Milton |
| | "Areopagitica: Defense of Books" |
| Lance Morrow |
| | "Imprisoning Time in a Rectangle" |
| Lisel Mueller |
| | "Hope" |
| Alice Munro |
| | "What Is Real" |
| |
| N |
| Jill Nelson |
| | "Number One!" |
| |
| O |
| Joyce Carol Oates |
| | "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" |
| Mary Oliver |
| | "Sleeping in the Forest" |
| Tim O’Brien |
| | "If I Die in a Combat Zone" |
| P. J. O’Rourke |
| | "The Greenhouse Affect" |
| P. D. Ouspensky |
| | "The Taj Mahal: The Soul of the Empress Mumtaz-I-Mahal" |
| |
| P |
| Thomas Paine |
| | "Rights of Man" |
| Gayle Pemberton |
| | "Antidisestablishmentarianism" |
| Fritz Peters |
| | "Boyhood with Gurdjieff" |
| Marge Piercy |
| | "Barbie Doll" |
| Plato |
| | "The Allegory of the Cave" |
| Neil Postman and Steve Powers |
| | "TV News as Entertainment" |
| |
| Q |
| |
| R |
| Hans Ruesch |
| | "Slaughter of the Innocent" |
| Richard Rodriguez |
| | "On Becoming a Chicano" |
| David Rothenberg |
| | "How the Web Destroys the Quality of Students’ Research Papers" |
| |
| S |
| Juliet B. Schor |
| | "The Culture of Consumerism" |
| Peggy Seeger |
| | "I’m Gonna Be an Engineer" |
| Luis Sepulveda |
| | "Daisy" |
| William Shakespeare |
| | "Sonnet 30" |
| Linda Simon |
| | "The Naked Source" |
| Joseph K. Skinner |
| | "Big Mac and the Tropical Forests" |
| Philip Slater |
| | "Want-Creation Fuels Americans’ Addictiveness" |
| David R. Slavitt |
| | "Titanic" |
| Dinitia Smith |
| | "Did a Barnyard Schism Lead to a Religious One" |
| Cathy Song |
| | "The Youngest Daughter" |
| Natsume Soseki |
| | "I Am a Cat" |
| Bruce Springsteen |
| | "Streets of Philadelphia" |
| Kenneth M. Stampp |
| | "To Make Them Stand in Fear" |
| Lin Sutherland |
| | "A River Ran Over Me" |
| |
| T |
| Junichiro Tanizaki |
| | "The Tattooer" |
| Deborah Tannen |
| | "Sex, Lies, and Conversation" |
| Sara Teasdale |
| | "The Solitary" |
| Dylan Thomas |
| | "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" |
| Haunani-Kay Trask |
| | "From a Native Daughter" |
| Mark Twain |
| | "The Lowest Animal" |
| Anne Tyler |
| | "Still Just Writing" |
| |
| U |
| |
| V |
| Luisa Valenzuela |
| | "The Censors" |
| Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| | "How to Write with Style" |
| |
| W |
| Alice Walker |
| | "Am I Blue?" |
| H. G. Wells |
| | "The Country of the Blind" |
| Sheila Whitelye |
| | "Mick Jagger, Sexuality, Style, and Language" |
| Walt Whitman |
| | "When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer" |
| William Wordsworth |
| | "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" |
| |
| X |
| |
| Y |
| Rae Yang |
| | "At the Center of the Storm" |
| W. B. Yeats |
| | "The Second Coming" |
| |
| Z |
| Irene Zabytko |
| | "Home Soil" |
| William Zinsser |
| | "Niagara Falls" |
