50 Essays: A Portable Anthology - Samuel Cohen 2017
Table of contents by rhetorical mode
Introduction for students: active reading, critical thinking, and the writing process
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, To my one love
Gloria Anzaldúa, How to tame a wild tongue
Barbara Lazear Ascher, On compassion
James Baldwin, Notes of a native son
William F. Buckley jr., Why don’t we complain?
Alan Burdick, The truth about invasive species
Nicholas Carr, Is google making us stupid?
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The paranoid style of american policing
Judith Ortiz Cofer, The myth of the latin woman: I just met a girl named María
Daniel Defoe, The education of women
Joan Didion, On keeping a notebook
Frederick Douglass, Learning to read and write
Barbara Ehrenreich, Serving in Florida
Lars Eighner, On dumpster Diving
Stephanie Ericsson, The ways we lie
Malcolm Gladwell, Small change: Why the revolution will not be Tweeted
Zora Neale Hurston, How it feels to be colored me
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
Jamaica Kincaid, The ugly tourist
Stephen King, Reading to write
Verlyn Klinkenborg, Our vanishing night
Audre Lorde, The fourth of july
Nancy Mairs, On being a cripple
John Mcphee, The search for Marvin gardens
Bharati Mukherjee, Two ways to belong in America
George Orwell, Shooting an elephant
Plato, The allegory of the cave
Richard Rodriguez, Aria: Memoir of a bilingual childhood
Mike Rose, “I just wanna be average”
Oliver Sacks, My periodic table
David Sedaris, Me talk pretty one day
Brent Staples, Just walk on by: black men and public space
John Jeremiah Sullivan, Feet in smoke
Jonathan Swift, A modest proposal
Henry David Thoreau, Civil disobedience
James Thurber, The subjunctive mood
Miya Tokumitsu, In the name of love
E. B. White, Once more to the lake
Colson Whitehead, The loser edit