Naomi is a founding member and convenor of the Essayists, a group that meets several times a year to study essays.
Selection of essays:
Modernism And Human Rights Near The Millennium by Marshall Berman
The Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
The Haunted House by Maria Stepanova
Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali by George Orwell
Authorship by George Eliot
The Ring of Time by E B White
The Best Substitute for War by Paul Auster
Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
On Good Nature by William Hazlitt
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The Invalidity of all Excuses for Betraying Secrets by Samuel Johnson
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On Drinking by James Boswell (from Life of Samuel Johnson)
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The Gaelic by Myles na gCopaleen
Decline of the English Murder by George Orwell
On the Rise of the Essay by Zadie Smith