1. Jonathan Swift on the death of Mrs. Johnson
2. Stieg Larsson at 22
3. Thomas Bernhard's anti-Austrian will
4. Beth Alcott's mist floats away
5. David Rakoff's last dance
6. Irene Nemirovsky's raft in an ocean of leaves
7. Michel de Montaigne's other half
8. Sigmund Freud's last reading
9. Christopher Hitchens's hospital library
10. Margaret Wise Brown's final kick
11. Heinrich von Kleist's joyous pact
12. William James's goodbye to his father