Deborah H. Holdstein is Professor of English at Columbia College Chicago.Danielle Aquiline is Professor of English at Oakton Community College.

The Oxford Reader's principle strengths are in its multinational/multiethnic perspective and its emphasis on visual communication and hybrid modes.

• CHRONOLOGICAL CONTENTS PrefaceIntroduction The Allegory of the Cave PlatoFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing A Modest Proposal (1729) Jonathan Swift For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing The Cask of Amontillado (1846) Edgar Allan Poe For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT'S NEW IS OLD What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) Frederick Douglass For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Address to the Legislature of New York (1854) Elizabeth Cady StantonFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Life Without Principle (1863) Henry David ThoreauFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Advice to Youth (1882) Mark TwainFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing The Necklace (1884) Guy de MaupassantFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Shooting an Elephant (1936) George OrwellFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT'S NEW IS OLD The Lottery (1948) Shirley JacksonFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Notes of a Native Son (1955) James BaldwinFor Informal WritingFor DiscussionFor Writing WHAT'S NEW IS OLD Excerpts from 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' (1963) Martin Luther King, Jr.For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing The Ballot or the Bullet (1964)Malcolm XFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT'S NEW IS OLD Trip to Hanoi (1968) Susan SontagFor Informal Writing For Discussion For WritingWHAT'S NEW IS OLD Speech on Impeachment (We the People) (1974) Barbara JordanFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Why I Write (1976) Joan DidionFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Split at the Root (1982) Adrienne RichFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Ability to Alter Public Space (1986) Brent StaplesFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Am I Blue? (1986) Alice WalkerFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing How to Tame a Wild Tongue, an Excerpt (1987) Gloria AnzaldúaFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing The Management of Grief (1988) Bharati MukherjeeFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Sh**** First Drafts (1994) Anne LamottFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing The Secret Life of the Love Song (1999) Nick CaveFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing The Waiter's Wife (1999) Zadie SmithFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing The Perils of Indifference (1999) Elie WieselFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Fast Food Nation, an Excerpt (2000) Eric SchlosserFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Why We Travel (2000) Pico IyerFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing The Youth in Asia (2000) David SedarisFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT'S NEW IS OLD Shooting Dad (2000) Sarah VowellFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Consider the Lobster (2004) David Foster WallaceFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing 1918 Influenza: The Mother of All Pandemics (2006) Jeffrey K. Taubenberger and David M. MorensFor Informal Writing For DiscussionFor Writing WHAT'S NEW IS OLD Is Google Making Us Stupid? (2008) Nicholas Carr For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing The Matthew Effect (2008) Malcolm Gladwell For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Go Gentle Into That Good Night (2009) Roger Ebert For Informal Writing For DiscussionFor Writing Assassins of the Mind (2009) Christopher Hitchens For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Reprieve (2009) Tim Kreider For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing A Tale of Three Coming Out Stories (2012) Roxane Gay For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing My President Was Black (2017) Ta-Nehisi CoatesFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Going It Alone (2017) Rahawa HaileFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing To Be, or Not to Be (2018)Masha GessenFor Informal WritingFor Discussion For Writing WHAT'S NEW IS OLD You Owe Me an Apology (2018) Brittany Packnett CunninghamFor Informal Writing For DiscussionFor Writing Origin Story: Carrying Histories of Protest (2019) Jaquira DíazFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing The American Nightmare (2020)Ibram X. KendiFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Pandemics Leave Us Forever Altered (2020) Charles C. MannFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT'S NEW IS OLD Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine (2020) Adrienne LaFranceFor Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT'S NEW IS OLD