Deborah H. Holdstein and Danielle Aquiline
CHRONOLOGICAL CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
The Allegory of the Cave
Plato
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A Modest Proposal (1729)
Jonathan Swift
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The Cask
of Amontillado (1846)
Edgar Allan Poe
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WHAT'S NEW IS OLD
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852)
Frederick Douglass
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Address to the
Legislature of New York (1854)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Life Without Principle (1863)
Henry David Thoreau
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Advice to Youth (1882)
Mark
Twain
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The Necklace (1884)
Guy de Maupassant
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Shooting an Elephant (1936)
George Orwell
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Writing
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The Lottery (1948)
Shirley Jackson
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Notes of a Native Son (1955)
James Baldwin
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WHAT'S NEW IS OLD
Excerpts from 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' (1963)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Ballot or the Bullet (1964)
Malcolm X
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WHAT'S NEW IS OLD
Trip to Hanoi (1968)
Susan Sontag
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WHAT'S NEW IS OLD
Speech on Impeachment (We the People) (1974)
Barbara Jordan
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Why I Write (1976)
Joan Didion
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Split at the Root (1982)
Adrienne Rich
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Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Ability to Alter Public Space (1986)
Brent
Staples
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Am I Blue? (1986)
Alice Walker
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How to Tame a Wild Tongue, an Excerpt (1987)
Gloria Anzaldúa
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The Management of Grief (1988)
Bharati Mukherjee
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Sh**** First Drafts (1994)
Anne Lamott
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The Secret Life of the Love
Song (1999)
Nick Cave
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The Waiter's Wife (1999)
Zadie Smith
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The Perils of Indifference (1999)
Elie Wiesel
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Discussion
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Fast Food Nation, an Excerpt (2000)
Eric Schlosser
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Why We Travel (2000)
Pico Iyer
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The Youth in Asia (2000)
David Sedaris
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WHAT'S NEW IS OLD
Shooting Dad (2000)
Sarah Vowell
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Consider the Lobster (2004)
David Foster Wallace
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Writing
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1918 Influenza: The Mother of All Pandemics (2006)
Jeffrey K. Taubenberger and David M. Morens
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WHAT'S NEW IS OLD
Is Google Making Us Stupid? (2008)
Nicholas
Carr
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The Matthew Effect (2008)
Malcolm Gladwell
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Go Gentle Into That Good Night (2009)
Roger Ebert
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Discussion
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Assassins of the Mind (2009)
Christopher Hitchens
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Reprieve (2009)
Tim Kreider
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A Tale of Three Coming Out
Stories (2012)
Roxane Gay
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My President Was Black (2017)
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Going It Alone (2017)
Rahawa Haile
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Discussion
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To Be, or Not to Be (2018)
Masha Gessen
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WHAT'S NEW IS OLD
You Owe Me an Apology (2018)
Brittany Packnett Cunningham
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Origin Story: Carrying Histories of Protest (2019)
Jaquira Díaz
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The American Nightmare (2020)
Ibram X. Kendi
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Pandemics Leave Us Forever
Altered (2020)
Charles C. Mann
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WHAT'S NEW IS OLD
Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine (2020)
Adrienne LaFrance
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WHAT'S NEW IS OLD
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Deborah H. Holdstein is Professor of English at Columbia College Chicago.
Danielle Aquiline is Professor of English at Oakton Community College.
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