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Twenty-Five from the Archive

Ellen Willis
See America First (1970)

Peter Singer
Animal Liberation (1973)

Susan Sontag
Illness as Metaphor (1978)

James Baldwin
A Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis (1971)

Elizabeth Hardwick
Billie Holiday (1976)

Renata Adler
The Perils of Pauline Kael (1980)

Oliver Sacks
The Bull on the Mountain (1984)

Hannah Arendt
Lying in Politics: On The Pentagon Papers (1971)

Italo Calvino
Why Read the Classics? (1986)

Zadie Smith
Speaking in Tongues (2009)

Gore Vidal
Remembering Orson Welles (1989)

Joan Didion
Insider Baseball (1988)

Václav Havel
Kicking the Door (1979)

Maya Lin
Making the Memorial (2000)

Tony Judt
On ‘The Plague’ (2001)

Octavio Paz
Food of the Gods (1987)

Hilary Mantel
The Perils of Antoinette (2007)

Isaiah Berlin
The Great Amateur (1968)

Charles Rosen
Aimez-Vous Brahms? (1988)

Mary McCarthy
Saying Good-by to Hannah (1976)

Noam Chomsky
The Responsibility of Intellectuals (1967)

Hilton Als
Michael Jackson (2009)

J.M. Coetzee
The Marvels of Walter Benjamin (2001)

Alma Guillermoprieto
Fidel in the Evening (1998)

Darryl Pinckney
Sweet Evening Breeze (1984)