If You Are Teaching It--It Helps to Read It: Recommended Essays

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Recommended Essays: An Eclectic Set

Home and Exile

Chinua Achebe

Something to Declare

Julia Alvarez

War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000

Martin Amis

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Gloria E. Anzaldúa

The Human Condition

Hannah Arendt

Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012

Dan Ariely, Ed.

Best American Essays 2012

Robert Atwan, Ed.

Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin

The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

Walter Benjamin

Ways of Seeing

John Berger

The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

Standing By Words: Essays

It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays

Wendell Berry

Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays

Eula Biss

On Grief and Reason: Essays

Joseph Brodsky

Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean

Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, and Michelle Cliff

The Morality of Marriage and Other Essays on the Status and Destiny of Women

Mona Caird

Why Read the Classics?

Italo Calvino

Women in Front of the Sum: On Becoming a Writer

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Halls of Fame: Essays

John D’Agata

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

Edwidge Danticat

I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams

Mark Dery

The White Album

Slouching towards Bethlehem: Essays

Joan Didion

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Annie Dillard

Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments

Michael Dirda

Best African American Essays 2010

Gerald Early, Ed. And Randall Kennedy, Ed.

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

Umberto Eco

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Stories of Those Who Survives the Great American Dust Bowl

Timothy Egan

Nickel and Dimed

Barbara Ehrenreich

The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of man and Nature

Loren Eiseley

Narcissus Leaves the Pool: Familiar Essays

Joseph Epstein

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays

Anne Fadiman

Farther Away: Essays

How to Be Alone

Jonathan Franzen

Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of its Second Century

Gary Giddins

Red: The Next Generation of American writers—Teenage Girls—On what Fires Them Up

Amy Goldwasser, Ed.

The Dialectic of Freedom

Maxine Greene

What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World

Robert Hass

Arguably: Essays

Best American Essays, 2012

Mortality

Christopher Hitchens

Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living

Linda Hogan (Chickasaw)

Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice

bell hooks

The Triggering Town

Richard Hugo

Small Wonder: Essays

Barbara Kingsolver

A Small Place

Jamaica Kinkaid

We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons

Tim Kreider

Operating Instructions

Anne Lamont

These United States: Original Essays by Leading American Writers in Their State Within the Union

John Leonard

Things That Are

Amy Leach

Getting Personal: Selected Essays

Philip Lopate

Crossing Open Ground

Barry Lopez

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Audre Lorde

The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution

Carolyn Merchant

To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays

Czeslaw Milosz

You Have to Pay for the Public Life: Selected Essays of Charles W. Moore

Charles W. Moore

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

Toni Morrison

Wilderness Essays

John Muir

Art and Technics

From the Ground Up: Observations on Contemporary Architecture, Housing Highway Building, and Civic Design

Lewis Mumford

Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

Kathleen Norris

Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and Places

Naomi Shihab Nye

In Rough Country: Essays and Reviews

Joyce Carol Oates

Long Life: Essays and Other Writings

Mary Oliver

Silences

Tillie Olsen

Running through the Family

Michael Ondantje

Signposts in a Strange Land: Essays

Walker Percy

On Looking: Essays

Lia Purpura

Best Canadian Essays 2012

Ray Robertson and Chris Doda

When I Was a Child I Read Books

Marilynne Robinson

On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain

Reflections on Exile and Other Essays

Edward Said

Me Talk Pretty One Day

David Sedaris

Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination

Lee Siegel

Yellow Woman and a Beauty of Spirit

Leslie Marmon Silko

Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

Zadie Smith

Against Interpretation and Other Essays

On Photography

Susan Sontag

Pulphead_Essays

John Jerimiah Sullivan

Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism

John Updike

The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000

Gore Vidal

A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

David Foster Wallace

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice

Terry Tempest Williams

The Common Reader

Virginia Woolf

The Writer Who Stayed

William Zinsser