Foreword / Pete Hamill --
Introduction / Ilan Stavens --
Letter to His Mother and Father / Richard Frethorne --
"Upon the First Sight of New England" / Thomas Tillam --
"The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon's Sorrowful Account" / James Revel --
from Some Memoirs of the Life of Job ... Who Was a Slave about Two Years in Maryland / Ayuba Suleiman Diallo --
from Journey to Pennsylvania / Gottlieb Mittelberger --
from Letters from an American Farmer / J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
from "On being brought from Africa to America" /
from "Myself" / John James Audubon --
from Memoirs / Lorenzo Da Ponte --
from Journals / Fanny Kemble --
from Annie Reilly / John McElgun --
from The Story of an Emigrant / Hans Mattson --
from Reminiscences / Carl Schurz --
from The Making of an American / Jacob Riis
"Mrs. Spring Fragrance" /
from The Education of Abraham Cahan / Abraham Cahan --
from Up Stream: An American Chronicle / Ludwig Lewisohn --
from The Promised Land / Mary Antin --
from The Third Life of Per Smevik / O. E. Rølvaag --
from "Children of Loneliness" / Anzia Yezierska --
Poetry by Chinese Immigrants --
from The Mysteries of New York / Menotti Pellegrino --
from On the Island of Tears: Ellis Island / Ludovico Caminita --
from Call It Sleep / Henry Roth --
"In the Golden Land" / Moyshe-Leyb Halpern --
from Barrio Boy / Ernesto Galarza --
"The Tropics in New York" / Claude McKay --
"America" / Claude McKay --
from Laughing in the Jungle / Louis Adamic --
from Charlie Chaplin's Own Story / Charles Chaplin --
from Chromos / Felipe Alfau --
from Memoirs / Bernardo Vega --
from Eat a Bowl of Tea / Louis Chu --
from America Is in the Heart / Carlos Bulosan --
"A Wedding in Brownsville" / Isaac Bashevis Singer --
from The Vienna Paradox / Marjorie Perloff --
"Say this city has ten million souls" / W. H. Auden --
from The Pill, Pygmy Chimps and Degas' Horse / Carl Djerassi --
from Atoms in the Family / Laura Fermi --
from Diaries / Christopher Isherwood --
from Letter to Walter von Molo / Thomas Mann --
from Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov --
"Farewell in Welfare Island" / Julia de Burgos --
"Breaking Down the Glass Walls of Language" / Ariel Dorfman --
from Confessions of an Original Sinner / John Lukacs --
from Taking Risks / Joseph Pell --
"A Map of the Western Part of the County of Essex in England" / Denise Levertov --
from 'Tis / Frank McCourt --
from Out of Place / Edward Said --
"Immigrant Picnic" / Gregory Djanikian --
from "My Life Up to Now" / Thom Gunn --
from A Fly in the Soup / Charles Simic --
"Arrival" / Judith Ortiz Cofer --
from American Chica / Marie Arana --
"How I Got That Name" / Marilyn Chin --
"Our Papers" / Julia Alvarez --
from Milosz's ABC's / Czeslaw Milosz --
from "Cargo" / Luc Sante --
from The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit / Lucette Lagnado --
from The Gangster of Love / Jessica Hagedorn --
from Lost in Translation / Eva Hoffman --
"Self-Help for Fellow Refugees" / Li-Young Lee --
from Lucy / Jamaica Kincaid --
from Native Speaker / Chang-rae Lee --
from "Immigrant Mother" / Shirley Geok-lin Lim --
"Sometimes, as a child" / Olga Broumas --
"Dying in a Strange Country" / Tahira Naqvi --
"The Third and Final Continent" / Jhumpa Lahiri --
"Tío" / Luis H. Francia --
from "The Condition We Call Exile" / Joseph Brodsky --
from Monkey Bridge / Lan Cao --
from Drown / Junot Díaz --
"Grandmother's Tongue" / Josip Novakovich --
"The Mother Tongue Between Two Slices of Rye" / Gary Shteyngart --
"We Will Not Play the Harp Backward Now, No" / Greg Delanty --
from Before Night Falls / Reinaldo Arenas --
from The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears / Dinaw Mengestu --
from Brother, I'm Dying / Edwidge Danticat --
"Night" / Majid Naficy --
from "Autobiographical Essay" / Ilan Stavans --
"Barney Greengrass" / Norman Manea --
"Various Lives" / Anita Desai --
"The Nurse and the Novelist" / Anya Ulinich --
from Nowhere Man / Aleksandar Hemon --
"Mistress" / Lara Vapnyar --
from Hunger of Memory / Richard Rodriguez.
