The Portable Benjamin Franklin (Penguin Classics)It takes a very inclusive anthology to encompass the protean personality and range of interests of Benjamin Franklin, but The Portable Benjamin Franklin succeeds as no collection has. In addition to the complete Autobiography, the volume contains about 100 of Franklins major writingsessays, journalism, letters, political tracts, scientific observations, proposals for the improvement of civic and personal life, literary bagatelles, and private musings.

The volume also features an overview of rap poetics and the forces that shaped each period in rap’s historical development

remember that time

Hines was a friend to Bowles and Tennessee Williams

nearing the end of hers

exploring themes such as modernity

Her visual art is spare

As Jake becomes more deeply involved with this glamorous and possibly crazy woman

Democracy is a tour de force from a writer who can dissect an entire society with a single phrase

protagonists Ellis and Dr

and the narrator

a former Green Beret convicted of murdering his pregnant wife and two young daughters

Orkin thought up editorials like the tongue-in-cheek reportage Who works harder