Read The Best American Essays 2013 Online
Authors: Robert Atwan
T
ERRENCE
H
OLT
The Perfect Code,
Granta
, Summer.
J
OE
H
OOVER
SJ, Occupy My Heart,
Jesuit Post
, February 6.
N
ICK
H
ORNBY
My Patron,
The Believer
, February.
P
AM
H
OUSTON
Corn Maze,
Hunger Mountain
, no. 17.
P
ATRICK
H
RUBY
Game Over,
Sports on Earth
, August 29.
E
WA
H
RYNIEWICZ
-Y
ARBROUGH
Reading Under the Table,
Threepenny Review
, Summer.
H
UA
H
SU
The Death Star,
Lucky Peach
, Fall.
A
USTIN
L. H
UGHES
The Folly of Scientism,
New Atlantis
, Fall.
E
VAN
H
UGHES
Consider the Gentrifier,
Tin House
, no. 53.
M
ARIA
H
UMMEL
Sparrow,
Narrative
, Winter.
R
OCHELLE
H
URT
A Disbeliever in Limbo,
Image
, no. 74.
S
IRI
H
USTVEDT
Freud’s Playground,
Salmagundi
, Spring/Summer.
P
ICO
I
YER
On Not Eating,
Portland
, Winter.
L
AWRENCE
J
ACKSON
The Ledger,
n + 1
, Summer.
A
NJALI
J
AIN
, MD
The Social History,
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
, November.
L
ESLIE
J
AMISON
Lost Boys,
A Public Space
, no. 15.
W
ES
J
AMISON
The Secret Garden,
South Loop Review
, no. 13.
M
ELANIE
J
ANISSE
Detroit,
Bayou
, no. 57.
M
YRA
J
EHLEN
How Georges Simenon Knew Where to Place the Couch,
Raritan
, Summer.
J
AC
J
EMC
Notes Toward a Definition of Luck,
Hobart
, no. 13.
T
REBBE
J
OHNSON
Gaze Even Here,
Orion
, November/December.
T
OM
J
UNOD
The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama,
Esquire
, August.
A
DRIANNE
K
ALFOPOULOU
With My Daughter, Hannah Arendt, and the City of Futures,
Hotel Amerika
, Spring.
L
AURE
K
ATSAROS
A New World of Love,
Massachusetts Review
, Fall.
L
EON
K
ATZ
A Year with Alice B. Toklas,
Yale Review
, July.
G
ARRET
K
EIZER
A Harmony in Living,
Lapham’s Quarterly
, W
INTER
.
J
ESSE
K
ELLERMAN
Deviated: A Memoir,
Commentary
, May.
P
HILIP
K
ELLY
Painting the Summer Palace of the Queen,
The Sun
, February.
G
ILLIAM
K
ENDALL
Easily Led,
The Sun
, November.
T
HOMAS
E. K
ENNEDY
A Night in Tunisia,
Epoch
, vol. 61, no. 2.
T
IMOTHY
K
ENNY
Dark Nights and Feral Dogs,
Green Mountain Review
, vol. 25, no. 2.
H
ARRISON
S
COTT
K
EY
The Imaginary Farm,
Oxford American
, no. 77.
C
OLLEEN
K
INDER
Blot Out,
Creative Nonfiction
, Spring.
H
EATHER
K
ING
Of All the Mothers in the World,
The Sun
, August.
J
OE
K
LEIN
How to Die,
Time
, June 11.
G
WENDOLYN
K
NAPP
The Mother Load,
Southeast Review
, vol. 30, no. 1.
S
ANDRA
K
OBRIN
The Hitler Fund,
Alaska Quarterly Review
, Fall/Winter.
A
NDREA
K
OTT
The Guns,
North Dakota Quarterly
, vol. 77, no. 4.
J
ANE
K
RAMER
A Reporter at Odds,
The New Yorker
, July 23.
D
IANE
K
RAYNAK
Lazarus,
Zone 3
, Spring.
D
ANIEL
K
RIEGER
Going Gently into That Good Night,
Narratively
, September.
C
ONNIE
K
UHNS
Last Days in Cheyenne,
Geist
, Spring.
M
AXINE
K
UMIN
Love in Wartime,
American Scholar
, Autumn.
B
OB
K
UNZINGER
Baby on a Windshield,
Southern Humanities Review
, Winter.
K
IM
D
ANA
K
UPPERMAN
Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone,
Hunger Mountain
, December.
K
ELLY
K
URT
Death’s Yellow Door,
This Land
, February 15.
A
MBER
K
UZMICK
Famine and Feast,
Alimentum
, no. 13, Winter.
M
ATT
L
ABASH
The Meme Generation,
Weekly Standard
, June 4.
R
OBERT
L
ACY
Saturdays at the Paramount,
Sewanee Review
, Summer.
J
HUMPA
L
AHIRI
My Life’s Sentences,
New York Times Sunday Review
, March 18.
A
NNA
L
EAHY
Half-Skull Days,
The Pinch
, Spring.
M
ARTHA
W
EINMAN
L
EAR
The Comfort Zone,
Narrative
.
M
ELISSA
L
EAVITT
Show Off,
Willow Springs
, Spring.
D
AVID
L
EGAULT
Significant Screams,
Barrelhouse
, no. 10.
N
ATON
L
ESLIE
All Around the World,
North Dakota Quarterly
, vol. 77, nos. 2 & 3.
J. D. L
EWIS
Tell Me,
Cimarron Review
, Spring.
A
LAN
L
IGHTMAN
The Temporary Universe,
Tin House
, no. 51.
B
RANDON
L
INGLE
Queen’s Creek,
Guernica
, August 30.
M
EL
L
IVATINO
Wintry Rooms of Love,
Notre Dame Magazine
, Summer.
S
ONJA
L
IVINGSTON
Our Lady of the Roses,
Fourth Genre
, Spring.
P
RISCILLA
L
ONG
Studio,
Under the Sun
, Summer.
P
HILLIP
L
OPATE
City Essay Films,
Normal School
, Fall.
J
ESSICA
L
OVE
Reading Fast and Slow,
American Scholar
, Spring.
D
AVID
L
UMPKIN
Church Is Wherever You Are,
Oxford American
, no. 77.
S
EAN
L
YSAGHT
Sleeping with Books,
New Hibernia Review
, Summer.
S
TEVE
M
ACONE
Rites of Passage,
American Scholar
, Summer.
P
ATRICK
M
ADDEN
Fixity,
Southwest Review
, vol. 97, no. 2.
M
ARGARET
M
ALONE
A Crooked Still Life,
Oregon Humanities
, Fall/Winter.
S
TEPHEN
M
ARCHE
Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?,
The Atlantic
, May.
F
RANCESCA
M
ARI
The Clock Test,
Alaska Quarterly Review
, Fall/Winter.
D
EBRA
M
ARQUART
Losing the Meadow,
Alligator Juniper
, 2012.
P
EYTON
M
ARSHALL
The Other Hemisphere,
Blackbird
, vol. 11, no. 1.
A
NDY
M
ARTIN
Hair Piece: Derrida in the Wilderness,
Raritan
, Summer.
C
LANCY
M
ARTIN
My Old Man,
Harper’s Magazine
, June.
A
LEXANDRIA
M
ARZANO
-L
ESNEVICH
Origins of a Murder,
Oxford American
, no. 78.
D
AVID
M
ASELLO
Addicted to a Younger Man,
Salon.com
, August 27.
J
ASON
M
ASTALER
Shadow Walk,
Harvard Review
, no. 42.
H
ILARY
M
ASTERS
Amelia Earhart’s Last Landing,
Sewanee Review
, Summer.
N
EIL
M
ATHISON
Wooden Boat,
Blue Lyra Review
, vol. 1, no. 2.
R
EBECCA
M
CCLANAHAN
Ginkgo Song,
Kenyon Review
, Summer.
M
AC
M
C
C
LELLAND
Shelf Lives,
Mother Jones
, March/April.
D
EIRDRE
M
CCLOSKY
Happyism,
New Republic
, June 28.
M
AUREEN
M
C
C
OY
Brother Joseph,
Wapsipinicon Almanac
, no. 19.
T
HOMAS
M
C
G
ONIGLE
Then,
Notre Dame Review
, Summer/Fall.
M
ICHAEL
M
CGREGOR
A Gyroscope on the Island of Love,
Image
, no. 70.
J
OHN
M
C
P
HEE
Editors & Publisher,
The New Yorker
, July 2.
D
ANIEL
M
ENDELSOHN
Unsinkable,
The New Yorker
, April 16.
D
APHNE
M
ERKIN
We’re All Helmut Newton Now,
Elle
, October.
C
LAIRE
M
ESSUD
The Road to Damascus,
Granta
, Winter.
K
IMBERLY
M
EYER