當代英語散文：閱讀與欣賞（修訂版）

Unit 1
Families
What Is Happiness?
Unit 2
Femininity
The Appeal of the Androgynous Man
Unit 3
Learning to Listen
The Fine Art of Complaining
Unit 6
The Chase
Bombs Bursting in Air
Unit 5
In Defense of Talk Shows
Why We Crave Horror Movies
Unit 6
I Surf, Therefore I Am
A Design for Living on the Internet
Unit 7
Less Is More: A Call for Shorter Work Hours
What Is the Point of Working?
The Portraits of My Parents
A Chinaman's Chance: Reflections on the American Dream
Unit 9
Of Shopping
Kill 'Era! Crush 'Era! Eat 'Era Raw!
Unit 10
But What Do You Mean?
Pornoviolence
Unit 11
That Lean and Hungry Look
The Ugly Truth About Beauty
Unit 12
On Self-Respect
The Medusa and the Snail
Unit 13
The Word Police
Sexism and Language
Unit 14
The Broken Chain
Ann Wrestling with My Father
Unit 15
What the Great Books Do
The Limits of the Great Books
Unit 16
Love Sick
Love Story
Unit 17
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
Safe-Sex Lies
Unit 18
The "Values" Wasteland
Student Loans
Unit 19
A Fable for Tomorrow
Is Technology Making Us Intimate Strangers?
Unit 20
Of Headless Mice... and Men
Study Cloning, Don't Ban It
Appendix: Reading Critically
References