China Still Lifes

• by William Gass
• from House & Garden
• The Best American Essays 1986

When the Cockroach Stood by the Mickle Wood

• by Robert Fitzgerald
• from The Yale Review
• The Best American Essays 1986

Of Accidental Judgments and Casual Slaughters

• by Kai Erikson
• from The Nation
• The Best American Essays 1986

The Passing of Jazz's Old Guard: Remembering Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, and Sonny Stitt

• by Gerald Early
• from The Kenyon Review
• The Best American Essays 1986
• https://www.jstor.org/stable/4335570

Heatherdown: A Late Imperialist Memoir

• by Alexander Cockburn
• from Grand Street
• The Best American Essays 1986
• https://www.jstor.org/stable/25006772

Flight from Byzantium

• by Joseph Brodsky
• from The New York Times Book Review
• The Best American Essays 1986
• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1985/10/28/flight-from-byzantium

Not-Knowing

• by Donald Barthelme
• from The Georgia Review
• The Best American Essays 1986
• https://manoftheword.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/not-knowing-donald-barthelme.pdf