Albert Wojnilower, senior adviser to Monitor Clipper Partners, which manages private-equity investments, predicts enormous increases in financial risks for everyone in his "Life Without Treasury Securities, " a 16-page essay that is must reading on Wall Street these days.

FORBES: Treasurys, The Endangered Species

American trompe l'oeil is one of the surprises of this exhibition (for this reason alone the catalogue essay by Mark Mitchell is well worth reading).

ECONOMIST: The art of deception

Also worth reading is Henry James's 1893 essay, "London, " because he, too, was both thrilled and appalled by the "dreadful, delightful" city.

WSJ: Novels Set in London | Dear Book Lover

I've been reading a book a week and I have to write an essay on that and then a review of my essay.

BBC: A term older and wiser?