Susan Sontag, “In Plato’s Cave” (from On Photography)
Auden, “The Unknown Citizen”
Chang-Rae Lee, “Coming Home Again”
Judith Ortiz Cofer, “The Story of My Body”
Natalie Kusz, “Ring Leader”
Junot Diaz, “The Money”
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid”