Best Contemporary American Essays

　　目录 　　 　　 Introductlon I 　　 “Hai r”Marcia A／drich 　　 “Random Reflections 0f a Second．Rate Mind”Woody Alien 　　 “Graven Images”Sau／Be／／oW 　　 “States Of Reading”SvenBirkerts 　　 “Life with Daughters：Watching the Miss America Pageant’’ 　　 Gerald Early 4_6 　　 “The Arl Of ihe Nap”Joseph Epstein 　　 “Skunk Dreams”Louise Erdrich 　　 “The Test Of Time”Wilam H．Gass 　　 “What’S Wrong with Animal Rights’’Vicki Heame 　　 “Waiting”Edna O’Brien 　　 “Beauty”ScotT Russel／Sanders 　　 “The Page Turner”Lynne Sharon Schwartz 　　 “One Violent Crime”Bruce Shapiro 　　 “Gray Area：Thinking with a Damaged Brain”Floyd Skloot 194 　　 “Striptease”Lauren Slater 　　 “Listening‘or Silence”Mark Slouka 　　 “After Amnesia”J0ve Caro／Oates 　　 “The Break”Cynthia Ozick 　　 “Six Days：Some Rememberings”Grace Paley 　　 “Mother Tongue”Amytn 　　 “The Gangster We Are All Looking For”Le Thi Diem Thuy 　　 “A Visit tO Camelot”Diana Trilling 　　 “CiviIian”TobUs Wolff