Thematic Contents

Perspectives on Human Existence
	Sally Armstrong: "Veiled Threat: "The Women of Afghanistan"
	Neil Bissoondath: "Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada"
	Ayanna Black: "Inglish: Writing With an Accent"
	Stevie Cameron: "Our Daughters, Ourselves"
	Albert Camus: "The Myth of Sisyphus"
	Annie Dillard: "Fecundity"
	Loren Eiseley: "The Cosmic Prison"
	Joe Fiorito: "Breakfast in Bed"
	David Foot and Daniel Stoffman: "Boomers and Other Cohorts"
	Northrop Frye: "The Double Mirror"
	Dany Laferrière: "Why Must a Negro Writer Always Be Political?"
	Hugh MacLennan: "Portrait of a City"
	Lee Maracle: "Survival Work"
	Marshall McLuhan: "How Not to Offend"
	Samuel Metcalfe: "Wooding"
	Philip Meyer: "If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? "
	Rita Moir: "Leave Taking"
	Michael Ondaatje: "Tabula Asiae"
	George Orwell: "A Hanging"
	Plato: "The Myth of the Cave"
	Paul Seesequasis: "The Republic of Tricksterism"
	Charles Taylor: "The Sources of Authenticity"
	Susan Allen Toth: "Cinematypes"
	Alice Walker: "Am I Blue?"
	Alexander Wolfe: "The Last Grass Dance"
	George Woodcock: "The Tyranny of the Clock"
	Virginia Woolf: "The Death of the Moth"
Descriptions of Place
	Alice Bloom: "On a Greek Holiday"
	Joan Didion: "The Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador"
	Margaret Laurence: "Where the World Began"
	Hugh MacLennan: "Portrait of a City"
	Lee Maracle: "Survival Work"
	Samuel Metcalfe: "Wooding"
	Rita Moir: "Leave Taking"
	Michael Ondaatje: "Tabula Asiae"
	Mary Taylor Simeti: "Easter in Sicily"
	Mark Twain: "Two Views of the Mississippi"
	Jane Urquhart: "Returning to the Village"
	Alexander Wolfe: "The Last Grass Dance"
Descriptions of Nature and Animals
	Annie Dillard: "Fecundity"
	Claudia Glenn Dowling: "Fire in the Sky"
	Euell Gibbons: "How to Cook a Carp"
	Sue Hubbell: "Honey Harvest"
	Samuel Metcalfe: "Wooding"
	Alexander Petrunkevitch: "The Spider and the Wasp"
	Alice Walker: "Am I Blue?"
	Virginia Woolf: "The Death of the Moth"
Portraits
	Maya Angelou: "Grandmother's Victory"
	Sally Armstrong: "Veiled Threat: "The Women of Afghanistan"
	Margaret Atwood: "Canadians: What Do They Want?"
	Anurita Bains: "Riding the Hyphen"
	Maxine Hong Kingston: "No Name Woman"
	Dany Laferrière: "Why Must a Negro Writer Always Be Political?"
	Naton Leslie: "Don't Get Comfortable"
	Doris Lessing: "My Father"
	Hugh MacLennan: "Portrait of a City"
	Lee Maracle: "Survival Work"
	Samuel Metcalfe: "Wooding"
	Paul Seesequasis: "The Republic of Tricksterism"
	Alexander Wolfe: "The Last Grass Dance"
Growing Up, Growing Old
	Maya Angelou: "Grandmother's Victory"
	Anurita Bains: "Riding the Hyphen"
	Neil Bissoondath: "Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada"
	Annie Dillard: "Fecundity"
	Marni Jackson: "Gals and Dolls: The Moral Value of "Bad" Toys"
	Naton Leslie: "Don't Get Comfortable"
	Doris Lessing: "My Father"
	Lee Maracle: "Survival Work"
	Samuel Metcalfe: "Wooding"
	Paul Seesequasis: "The Republic of Tricksterism"
	Gail Sheehy: "Predictable Crises of Adulthood"
	Alexander Wolfe: "The Last Grass Dance"
Power and Politics
	Sally Armstrong: "Veiled Threat: "The Women of Afghanistan"
	Margaret Atwood: "Canadians: What Do They Want?"
	Anurita Bains: "Riding the Hyphen"
	Neil Bissoondath: "Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada"
	Ayanna Black: "Inglish: Writing With an Accent"
	Stevie Cameron: "Our Daughters, Ourselves"
	Andrew Cash: "Rebels with Sponsors"
	Joan Didion: "The Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador"
	Barbara Ehrenreich: "A Step Back to the Workhouse?"
	David Foot and Daniel Stoffman: "Boomers and Other Cohorts"
	Cecil Foster: "The Black and the Blue"
	Meg Greenfield: "Why Nothing Is "Wrong" Anymore"
	Garrett Hardin: "Lifeboat Ethics: "The Case Against Helping the Poor"
	Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream"
	Jonathan Kozol: "Distancing the Homeless"
	Dany Laferrière: "Why Must a Negro Writer Always Be Political?"
	Marshall McLuhan: "How Not to Offend"
	Philip Meyer: "If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? "
	Michael Ondaatje: "Tabula Asiae"
	Jo Goodwin Parker: "What Is Poverty?"
	M. NourbeSe Philip: "The Absence of Writing or How I Almost Became Spy"
	Paul Seesequasis: "The Republic of Tricksterism"
	Shelby Steele: "White Guilt"
	Alexander Wolfe: "The Last Grass Dance"
	George Woodcock: "The Tyranny of the Clock"
Problems, Solutions, and Consequences
	Sally Armstrong: "Veiled Threat: "The Women of Afghanistan"
	Margaret Atwood: "Canadians: What Do They Want?"
	Anurita Bains: "Riding the Hyphen"
	Neil Bissoondath: "Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada"
	Andrew Cash: "Rebels with Sponsors"
	Barbara Ehrenreich: "A Step Back to the Workhouse?"
	Joe Fiorito: "Breakfast in Bed"
	David Foot and Daniel Stoffman: "Boomers and Other Cohorts"
	Cecil Foster: "The Black and the Blue"
	Northrop Frye: "The Double Mirror"
	Ellen Goodman: "Watching the Grasshopper Get the Goodies"
	Garrett Hardin: "Lifeboat Ethics: "The Case Against Helping the Poor"
	Nat Hentoff: "Should This Student Have Been Expelled?"
	Marni Jackson: "Gals and Dolls: The Moral Value of "Bad" Toys"
	Jonathan Kozol: "Distancing the Homeless"
	Dany Laferrière: "Why Must a Negro Writer Always Be Political?"
	Lee Maracle: "Survival Work"
	Ann N. Martin: "Food Pets Die For"
	Marshall McLuhan: "How Not to Offend"
	Rita Moir: "Leave Taking"
	Michael Ondaatje: "Tabula Asiae"
	Jo Goodwin Parker "What Is Poverty?"
	Paul Seesequasis: "The Republic of Tricksterism"
	Shelby Steele: "White Guilt"
	David Suzuki: "Repeating History at Our Peril"
	Jonathan Swift: "A Modest Proposal"
	Charles Taylor: "The Sources of Authenticity"
	Jane Urquhart: "Returning to the Village"
	Barbara Dafoe Whitehead: "Where Have All the Parents Gone?"
	Alexander Wolfe: "The Last Grass Dance"
	George Woodcock: "The Tyranny of the Clock"
Culture and Identity
	Sally Armstrong: "Veiled Threat: "The Women of Afghanistan"
	Margaret Atwood: "Canadians: What Do They Want?"
	Anurita Bains: "Riding the Hyphen"
	Neil Bissoondath: "Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada"
	Ayanna Black: "Inglish: Writing With an Accent"
	Alice Bloom: "On a Greek Holiday"
	Suzanne Britt: "Neat People vs. Sloppy People"
	Stevie Cameron: "Our Daughters, Ourselves"
	Andrew Cash: "Rebels with Sponsors"
	Robertson Davies: "A Few Kind Words for Superstition"
	Peter Farb and George Armelagos: "The Patterns of Eating"
	David Foot and Daniel Stoffman: "Boomers and Other Cohorts"
	Cecil Foster: "The Black and the Blue"
	Northrop Frye: "The Double Mirror"
	Donald Hall: "Four Kinds of Reading"
	Edward T. Hall: "The Anthropology of Manners"
	Maxine Hong Kingston: "No Name Woman"
	Dany Laferrière: "Why Must a Negro Writer Always Be Political?"
	Hugh MacLennan: "Portrait of a City"
	Lee Maracle: "Survival Work"
	Mark Mathabane: "At the Mercy of the Cure"
	Marshall McLuhan: "How Not to Offend"
	Samuel Metcalfe: "Wooding"
	Lydia Minatoya: "Discordant Fruit"
	Rita Moir: "Leave Taking"
	Michael Ondaatje: "Tabula Asiae"
	George Orwell: "A Hanging"
	M. NourbeSe Philip: "The Absence of Writing or How I Almost Became Spy"
	Paul Seesequasis: "The Republic of Tricksterism"
	Mary Taylor Simeti: "Easter in Sicily"
	Charles Taylor: "The Sources of Authenticity"
	Alexander Wolfe: "The Last Grass Dance"
	George Woodcock: "The Tyranny of the Clock"
The Media and the Arts
	Sally Armstrong: "Veiled Threat: "The Women of Afghanistan"
	Andrew Cash: "Rebels with Sponsors"
	David Foot and Daniel Stoffman: "Boomers and Other Cohorts"
	Cecil Foster: "The Black and the Blue"
	Northrop Frye: "The Double Mirror"
	Adam Goodheart: "How to Paint a Fresco"
	Donald Hall: "Four Kinds of Reading"
	Marni Jackson: "Gals and Dolls: The Moral Value of "Bad" Toys"
	Dany Laferrière: "Why Must a Negro Writer Always Be Political?"
	John Leo: "Stop Murdering the Language"
	Marshall McLuhan: "How Not to Offend"
	Gloria Steinem: "Erotica and Pornography"
	Susan Allen Toth: "Cinematypes"
Science and Technology
	Sally Armstrong: "Veiled Threat: "The Women of Afghanistan"
	Annie Dillard: "Fecundity"
	Claudia Glenn Dowling: "Fire in the Sky"
	Stephen Jay Gould: "Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs"
	Ann N. Martin: "Food Pets Die For"
	Marshall McLuhan: "How Not to Offend"
	Jessica Mitford: "Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain"
	Michael Ondaatje: "Tabula Asiae"
	David Suzuki: "Repeating History at Our Peril"
	George Woodcock: "The Tyranny of the Clock"
Health and Medicine
	Sally Armstrong: "Veiled Threat: "The Women of Afghanistan"
	Mark Mathabane: "At the Mercy of the Cure"
	Marshall McLuhan: "How Not to Offend"
	Philip Meyer: "If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? "
	Jessica Mitford: "Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain"
	Rita Moir: "Leave Taking"
	Gail Sheehy: "Predictable Crises of Adulthood"
	David Suzuki: "Repeating History at Our Peril"
Use and Abuse of Language
	Sally Armstrong: "Veiled Threat: The Women of Afghanistan"
	Ayanna Black: "Inglish: Writing With an Accent"
	Stevie Cameron: "Our Daughters, Ourselves"
	Cecil Foster: "The Black and the Blue"
	Northrop Frye: "The Double Mirror"
	Edward T. Hall: "The Anthropology of Manners"
	Dany Laferrière: "Why Must a Negro Writer Always Be Political?"
	John Leo: "Stop Murdering the Language"
	Michael Ondaatje: "Tabula Asiae"
	M. NourbeSe Philip: "The Absence of Writing or How I Almost Became Spy"
	Paul Seesequasis: "The Republic of Tricksterism"
	Susan Sontag: "Beauty"
	Gloria Steinem: "Erotica and Pornography"
	Charles Taylor: "The Sources of Authenticity"
	Judith Viorst: "The Truth about Lying"
	Alexander Wolfe: "The Last Grass Dance"