A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
by David Foster Wallace | 
What the Dog Saw
by Malcolm Gladwell | 
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard | 
The White Album
by Joan Didion | 
Sister Outsider
by Audre Lorde | 
The Wordy Shipmates
by Sarah Vowell | 
Impossible Owls
by Brian Phillips | 
Essays of E. B. White
by E. B. White | 
One Man's Meat
by E. B. White | 
Holy the Firm
by Annie Dillard | 
Upstream
by Mary Oliver | 
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
by Albert Camus | 
Teaching a Stone to Talk
by Annie Dillard | 
Self-Reliance and Other Essays
by Ralph Waldo Emerson | 
What Are People For?
by Wendell Berry |
The Geography of the Imagination
by Guy Davenport | 
In Defense of Sanity
by G. K. Chesterton | 
Not That Kind of Girl
by Lena Dunham | 
Less Than One
by Joseph Brodsky | 
But Beautiful
by Geoff Dyer |
Whether celebrating Hogarth or savaging Hollywood, mocking modern manners or defending traditional English architecture, inviting readers to 'come inside' the Catholic Church or expressing his contempt for modish Marxism and American-style religion, Evelyn Waugh's journalism is sparkling, sometimes vitriolic and always full of good sense. In this wonderful selection he explores his Oxford youth, his unexpected conversion, his literary enthusiasms (from P. G. Wodehouse to Graham Greene) and the perils of basing fictional characters on real people. Decades after their publication, these pieces still retain their capacity to delight, to surprise and to shock.