Incoming Resources
- Making sense, Ellen Goodman
- Don't get too comfortable, David Rakoff
- Grapes from thorns
- Notes on the kitchen table, families offer messages of hope for generations to come, [edited by] Bob Greene and D.G. Fulford
- The Darwin Awards next evolution, chlorinating the gene pool, Wendy Northcutt
- Late night thoughts on listening to Mahler's Ninth symphony, Lewis Thomas. --
- Imagined worlds, Freeman Dyson
- The notes, Ronald Reagan's private collection of stories and wisdom, Ronald Reagan ; edited by Douglas Brinkley
- Talk, NPR's Susan Stamberg considers all things, by Susan Stamberg
- A Henry Adams reader, edited and with an introd. by Elizabeth Stevenson. --
- Unusually stupid Americans, a compendium of all-American stupidity, [compiled by] Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras
- Far-flung Hubbell, Sue Hubbell
- The Darwin awards 4, intelligent design, Wendy Northcutt with Christopher M. Kelly
- A mathematician reads the newspaper, John Allen Paulos
- Peripheral visions, Phyllis Theroux. --
- Once more around the block, familiar essays, Joseph Epstein. --
- Fraud, essays, David Rakoff ; with illustrations by the author
- As they were, M.F.K. Fisher. --
- The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts, George F. Will. --
- The second John McPhee reader, selected by David Remnick and Patricia Strachan ; edited by Patricia Strachan ; with an introduction by David Remnick
- Far-flung and footloose, pieces from the New Yorker, 1937-1978, by E. J. Kahn, Jr. ; pref. by William Knapp. --
- The Darwin awards, evolution in action, Wendy Northcutt
- The challenges of change, Foreword by Irving Dilliard
- The New York Public Library book of twentieth-century American quotations, edited by Stephen Donadio ... [and others]
- Sketches in the sand, [by] James Reston
- The Harper book of American quotations, Gorton Carruth and Eugene Ehrlich
- Paul Harvey's for what it's worth, edited by Paul Harvey, Jr. ; compiled by Liz Murray ; art direction by Paul Harvey, Jr., and Liz Murray
- The devil and Sherlock Holmes, tales of murder, madness, and obsession, David Grann
- Before the Sabbath, Eric Hoffer. --
- Reporting, writings from The New Yorker, David Remnick
- Acts of recovery, essays on culture and politics, Jeffrey Hart
- Still life, Samuel F. Pickering, Jr
- Irons in the fire, John McPhee
- Present tense; an American editor's Odyssey. --
- At large, Ellen Goodman. --
- Bound to please, an extraordinary one-volume literary education : essays on great writers and their books, Michael Dirda
- Paper trail, common sense in uncommon times, Ellen Goodman
- The patient has the floor, Alistair Cooke. --
- Scalia speaks, reflections on law, faith, and life well lived, Antonin Scalia ; edited by Christopher J. Scalia and Edward Whelan
- Dancing naked in the mind field, Kary Mullis and David Fisher
- The worlds of Maurice Samuel, selected writings, edited, and with an introd. by Milton Hindus ; foreword by Cynthia Ozick
- Living out loud, by Anna Quindlen
- Controversy and other essays in journalism, 1950-1975, by William Manchester. --
- The best of Pickering, Sam Pickering
- At home in the world, collected writings from the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Pearl ; edited by Helene Cooper ; foreword by Mariane Pearl
- Nothing could be finer than a crisis that is minor in the morning, Charles Osgood. --
- This pen for hire. -
- Constant Reader
- Giving good weight, John McPhee. --
- Thank God for the atom bomb, and other essays, Paul Fussell