| Diane Ackerman | Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall |
| Maya Angelou | Sister Monroe |
| Margaret Atwood | The Female Body |
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| Bernard R. Berelson | The Value of Children: A Taxonomical Essay |
| David Bodanis | What's in Your Toothpaste? |
| Judy Brady | I Want a Wife |
| Joan Jacobs Brumberg | The Origins of Anorexia Nervosa |
| Robert Buderi | The Virus Wars |
| Fox Butterfield | Why They Excel |
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| Bruce Catton | Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts |
| Judith Ortiz Cofer | Marina |
| Judith Ortiz Cofer | The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria |
| Diane Cole | Don't Just Stand There |
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| Meghan Daum | Virtual Love |
| Charlie Drozdyk | Into the Loop: How to Get the Job You Want After Graduation |
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| Gregg Easterbrook | Watch and Learn |
| Barbara Ehrenreich | In Defense of Talk Shows |
| Lars Eighner | My Daily Dives in the Dumpster |
| Nora Ephron | Revision and Life: Take It from the TopÑAgain |
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| Susan Faludi | Sold Out: From Team Booster to TV Backdrop. |
| E.M. Forster | My Wood |
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| David Gelernter | What Do Murderers Deserve? |
| Bob Greene | Adults Only |
| Bob Greene | Cut |
| Gordon Grice | Caught in the Widow's Web |
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| Leslie Heywood | One of the Girls |
| John Hollander | Mess |
| Evans D. Hopkins | Lockdown |
| Langston Hughes | Salvation |
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| Suzanne Britt Jordan | That Lean and Hungry Look |
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| Jonathan Kellerman | The Scapegoat We Love to Hate |
| Tina Kelley | Whales in the Minnesota River |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | I Have a Dream |
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| Elizabeth Larsen | Buying Time |
| Eric Liu | Po-Po |
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| N. Scott Momaday | The Way to Rainy Mountain |
| William Least Heat Moon | Nameless, Tennessee |
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| Gloria Naylor | A Word's Meaning Can Often Depend on Who Says It |
| The New Yorker | Help for Sex Offenders |
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| Mary Pipher | Academic Selves |
| Kyle Pope | Network and Cable TV |
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| Anna Quindlen | The Name Is Mine |
| R | |
| Richard Rodriguez | None of This Is Fair |
| Barbara Katz Rothman | The Potential Cost of the Best Genes Money Can Buy |
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| Scott Russell Sanders | The Inheritance of Tools |
| Lynne Sharon Schwartz | The Page Turner |
| Brent Staples | Black Men and Public Space |
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| Amy Tan | Mother Tongue |
| Susan Allen Toth | Cinematypes |
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| US News & World Report | Plugging the Kegs |
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| Bert L. Vallee | Alcohol in the Western World |
| Judith Viorst | How Books Helped Shape My Life |
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| Terry Tempest Williams | The Village Watchman |
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| William Zinsser | The Transaction: Two Writing Processes |
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