[December 1891]
Mental Telegraphy
A manuscript with a history.
By Mark Twain

[October 1953]
Stranger in the Village
By James Baldwin

[August 1973]
Monster in a Mason Jar
The lethal liturgy of the praying mantis.
By Annie Dillard

[November 1989]
Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast
A literary manifesto for the new social novel.
By Tom Wolfe

[December 1992]
Palestine, Then and Now
An exile’s journey through Israel and the Occupied Territories.
By Edward W. Said

[March 1994]
On Not Being a Victim 
Sex, rape, and the trouble with following rules.
By Mary Gaitskill

[January 1996]
Shipping Out
On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise.
By David Foster Wallace

[January 1999]
Nickle-and-Dimed
On (not) getting by in America.
By Barbara Ehrenreich

[August 2000]
A Court of No Appeal
How one obscure sentence upset the New York Times.
By Renata Adler

[November 2010]
Figures of Speech 
By Lewis H. Lapham