- The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson
- Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States by Bill Bryson
- When in French: Love in a Second Language by Lauren Collins
- The essay To Speak is to Blunder by YiYun Li published in the January 2, 2017 issue
- Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
- A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
- The writings of Vladimir Nabokov and Joseph Conrad, both of whom wrote their masterworks in English, which was not their first language.
Thursday, March 16, 2017
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