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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Preface | ||
| Pt. 1 | Reckonings | |
| Wrestling With the Fact | ||
| Sigmund Freud: On Transience | 10 | |
| Bertolt Brecht: On His Mortality | 14 | |
| Michel De Montaigne: To Philosophize Is to Learn to Die | 16 | |
| Thomas Nagel: Death | 25 | |
| C. P. Cavafy: The Horses of Achilles | 33 | |
| Vladimir Nabokov: Speak, Memory | 35 | |
| Being Brave and Being Scared | ||
| Philip Larkin: Aubade | 40 | |
| Paul Zweig: Departures | 42 | |
| John Keats: Sonnet | 61 | |
| Marguerite Yourcenar: With Open Eyes | 62 | |
| Adam Smith: On the Death of David Hume | 66 | |
| William Hazlitt: On the Fear of Death | 80 | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson: Aes Triplex | 82 | |
| Time to Be Old | ||
| A. R. Ammons: From Garbage | 88 | |
| Samuel Clemens: On Old Age | 93 | |
| Luis Benuel: Swan Song | 95 | |
| Kingley Amis: Lovely | 101 | |
| Philip Larkin: The Old Fools | 102 | |
| Pt. 2 | What Words Are There? | |
| Left Behind | ||
| Paul Auster: Portrait of an Invisible Man | 110 | |
| Donald Justice: Sonnet to My Father | 115 | |
| Colette: He Died in His Seventy-Fourth Year | 116 | |
| Alvin Feinman: True Night | 121 | |
| Emily Dickinson: Poems and a Letter | 123 | |
| Sharon Olds: The Death of Marilyn Monroe | 129 | |
| One Fight More | ||
| Sir Thomas Browne: Religio Medici | 132 | |
| James Merrill: An Upward Look | 134 | |
| Simone De Beauvoir: A Very Easy Death | 136 | |
| Nicole Loraux: A Woman's Suicide for a Man's Death | 144 | |
| Sons and Daughters | ||
| Grace Paley: Mother | 152 | |
| James Baldwin: Notes of a Native Son | 154 | |
| Philip Roth: Patrimony | 162 | |
| Anne Sexton: The Child-Bearers | 167 | |
| Elizabeth Rosen: My Mother's Death | 169 | |
| Pt. 3 | Give Death the Crown: War, Pestilence, Genocide | |
| In Its Midst | ||
| Jasper Griffin: On Epic Death | 180 | |
| Alan Moorehead: Gallipoli | 182 | |
| Giovanni Boccaccio: The Plague in London | 196 | |
| Samuel Pepys: The Plague in London | 196 | |
| Primo Levi: October 1944 | 206 | |
| Robert Jay Lifton: Immersion in Death | 215 | |
| Our Plague: Aids | ||
| Emmanuel Dreuilhe: Mortal Embrace | 224 | |
| Thom Gunn: Terminal | 229 | |
| Paul Monette: 3275 | 230 | |
| Pt. 4 | Making Arrangements | |
| The "Formal Feeling": Rites and Ritual | ||
| Emily Vermeule: A Very Active Dead | 258 | |
| Geoffrey Gorer: Death, Grief, and Mourning in Contemporary Britain | 267 | |
| Sheila Awooner-Renner: I Desperately Needed to See My Son | 280 | |
| George Bernard Shaw: On the Cremation of His Mother | 285 | |
| Richard Selzer: Remains | 289 | |
| Death Cultures | ||
| Philippe Aries: The Modern Cemetery | 296 | |
| Jessica Mitford: The American Way of Death | 302 | |
| Rudolf Schafer: Photographing the Dead | 312 | |
| Roland Barthes: Camera Lucida | 314 | |
| Siegried Giedion: The Mechanization of Death | 317 | |
| Erwin Panofsky: The Dangerous Dead | 322 | |
| Legacies | ||
| E. A. J. Honigmann: The Second-Best Bed | 330 | |
| Carlos M. N. Eire: From Madrid to Purgatory | 340 | |
| Pt. 5 | Death Issues | |
| Final Care | ||
| George Orwell: How the Poor Die | 352 | |
| Anne Munley: The Hospice Alternative | 363 | |
| Jospeh A. Califano: Death Management | 370 | |
| Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide | ||
| Timothy Quill: The Burdens of Aggressive Medical Treatment | 378 | |
| Ronald Dworkin: Life's Dominion | 380 | |
| Michael Burleigh: "Euthanasia" In Germany | 386 | |
| Pt. 6 | A Healthy Distance | |
| Samuel Beckett: Malone Dies | 400 | |
| Stanley Elkin: The Beginning of the (Living)Dead | 402 | |
| Monty Python: The Dead Parrot | 409 | |
| Milan Kundera: Graveside Laughter | 413 | |
| Pt. 7 | Recapitulation | |
| William Shakespeare: Hamlet: The Graveyard | 419 |
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Linda Harper
reviewed The Grim Reader on May 06, 2014
The Grim Reader
There is some great work in here, but I thought the introductory essays preceding each piece were a bit long and usually unnecessary. The works selected, however, were almost all wonderful. If you're interested in the subject matter, check it out, as it combines a wide variety of essays and pieces you likely won't find on your own.
Jayson Stutsman
reviewed The Grim Reader on February 16, 2011
The Grim Reader
Since it's an anthology, I pick it up now and again to read an essay or a poem.
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