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| Introduction | |
| Encountering the Essay | |
| What Are Essays? | |
| Essays and Articles | |
| Essays and Fiction | |
| Autobiography and Truth | |
| The Autobiographical "I" Writing the "Standard" Essay | |
| Evaluating the "Standard" Essay | |
| Essays Can Be a Risky Business: The Contemporary Essay | |
| A Diversity of Forms and Voices | |
| The Essay and Public Events | |
| The Essay's Future Prologue | |
| Essayists on the Essay | |
| "What Is an Essay?" | |
| "Resisting Definitions" | |
| "The Ideal Essay" | |
| "The Essay as Object" | |
| "The Essay as Action" | |
| "Essays and the Real World" | |
| "The Essay's Subjectivity" | |
| "No Standard Essay" | |
| "The Essay's Diversity" | |
| "The Memorable Essay" | |
| "The Author's Gumption" | |
| "Essays and the Imagination" | |
| "Essays Versus Articles" | |
| "Essays Versus Stories" | |
| "Essays Versus Poems" | |
| "Why Essays Can Confuse People" | |
| "Essays Are Not Scientific Documents" | |
| "The Essayist's Defensiveness" | |
| "On Being an Essayist" | |
| "Essayists Must Tell the Truth" | |
| "The Essayist's Voice" | |
| "Voice and Personality" | |
| "The Demands of the First Person Singular" | |
| "The 'Who Cares?' Factor" | |
| "What 'Confessional Writing' Must Do" | |
| "How the Essayist Acquires Authority" | |
| "The Conversational Style" | |
| "The Essay as Dialogue" | |
| "The Attractions of Autobiography" | |
| "The Essayist's Audience" | |
| "Essays Start Out in Magazines" | |
| "The Importance of Being Edited" | |
| "On Certain Magazine Interviews" | |
| "Listening to People Think" | |
| "On the Subjects of Essays" | |
| "The Essay's Unlimited Possibilities" | |
| The Personal Voice: Identity, Diversity, Self-Discovery | |
| "The Telephone" | |
| "Hair" | |
| "Two Questions" | |
| "Silent Dancing" | |
| "Westbury Court" | |
| "The Blue Machinery of Summer" | |
| "My Friend Lodovico" | |
| "Book Marks" | |
| "Silk Parachute" | |
| "Shame" | |
| "The Inheritance of Tools" | |
| "Black Swans" | |
| "Mother Tongue" | |
| The Attentive Mind: Observation, Reflection, Insight | |
| "Turning Point" | |
| "The Stunt Pilot" | |
| "Joyas Voladoras" | |
| "Memoria ex Machina" | |
| "Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog" | |
| "A Loveley Sort of Lower Purpose" | |
| "The Stone Horse" | |
| "Yarn" | |
| "They All Just Went Away" | |
| "Lifelike" | |
| "Ali in Havana" | |
| "The Disposable Rocket" | |
| The Public Sphere | |
| Advocacy, Argument, Controversy | |
| "Think About It" | |
| "Shouting 'Fire!'" | |
| "Mail" | |
| "What's Wrong with Animal Rights" | |
| "On Seeing England for the First Time" | |
| "Living Will" | |
| "Exquisite Corpse" | |
| "Citizenship in Emergency" | |
| "The Singer Solution to World Poverty" | |
| "Six Seconds" | |
| "Dining with Robots" | |
| "The Killing Game" | |
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