Naomi is a founding member and convenor of the Essayists, a group that meets several times a year to study essays.
Selection of essays:
The Sterner Sex by Rebecca West
A Farewell to Essay-Writing by William Hazlitt
On National Prejudices by Oliver Goldsmith
Approaching The Eerie by Mark Fisher
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