Read The Best American Essays 2015 Online
Authors: Ariel Levy
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ELECTED BY
R
OBERT
A
TWAN
L
AURIE
A
BRAHAM
It's Complicated,
Elle
, November.
P
EARL
A
BRAHAM
For the Sins We Have Committed Before You Through Hard-Heartedness,
Michigan Quarterly Review
, Winter.
A
NWAR
F. A
CCAWI
Hunger,
The Sun
, October.
A
NDRE
A
CIMAN
Are You Listening?,
The New Yorker
, March 17.
J
UDITH
A
DKINS
Lingua Familia,
Fourth
Genre
, Spring.
M
ARCIA
A
LDRICH
Enough,
The Florida
Review
, vol. 38, nos. 1 & 2.
R
YAN
A
LLEN
Fixing Myself at Broken Kettle,
North Dakota Quarterly
, Spring.
S
ANDRA
A
LLEN
The Sad, Strange, True Story of Sandy Allen, the Tallest Woman in the World,
BuzzFeed
, July 14.
B
ETH
A
LVARADO
Stars and Moons and Comets,
The Sun
, December.
A
MY
A
MOROSO
Cut Wide Open,
Mount
Hope
, Spring.
S
TEPHANIE
A
NDERSEN
My Mother's Secret,
Brain, Child
, Summer.
S
AM
A
NDERSON
-R
AMOS
On Leaving Dove Springs,
Austin Chronicle
, August 24.
M
OLLY
A
NTOPOL
Conflict Resolution,
Southern Humanities Review
, vol. 48, no. 1 (Winter).
J
ACOB
M. A
PPEL
Sudden Death: A Eulogy,
Kenyon Review Online
, Spring.
M
ARY
A
RGUELLES
Mending Petals,
Bellevue Literary Review
, Spring.
C
HRIS
A
RTHUR
Putting Two and Two Together,
New Hibernia Review
, Summer.
J
ABARI
A
SIM
Color Him Father: Three Reflections,
Solstice
, Winter.
R
OGER
A
TWOOD
Searching for a Head in Nigeria,
Massachusetts Review
, Fall.
M
ATTHEW
J
AMES
B
ABCOCK
My Nazi Dagger,
War, Literature, and the Arts
, no. 26.
N
ICHOLSON
B
AKER
Dallas Killers Club: How JFK Got Shot,
The Baffler
, no. 25.
R
OSECRANS
B
ALDWIN
Learn to Kill in Seven Days or Less,
GQ
, February.
P
OE
B
ALLANTINE
Even Music and Gold,
The Sun
, November.
P
AMELA
B
ALLUCK
Parts of a Chair,
Southeast Review
, vol. 32, no. 1.
I
AIN
B
AMFORTH
The Embodied World,
Threepenny Review
, Winter.
T
ONY
B
ARNSTONE
Monkey Mind,
Southern California Review
, no. 7.
H
ELEN
B
AROLINI
The Crossing,
Southwest Review
, vol. 99, no. 3.
T
IM
B
ASCOM
My Mystical Body,
Briar Cliff Review
, no. 26.
A
NN
B
AULEKE
Spinsters,
North
American Review
, Summer.
A
NN
B
EATTIE
On Visitors,
American
Scholar
, Summer.
S. G. B
ELKNAP
The Tragic Diet: Food and Finitude,
The Point
, no. 9.
G
ARY
B
ELSKY
Cab Share with an Infidel,
December
, Fall/Winter.
G
EOFFREY
B
ENT
Falling Out of Love with Vertigo,
Boulevard
, Spring.
S
TEPHEN
B
ENZ
Liminal Wendover,
Superstition Review
, Spring.
E
MILY
B
ERNARD
Mother on Earth,
Green Mountains Review
, vol. 27, no. 2.
A
NN
E. B
ERTHOFF
Homiletic Silence and the Revival of Conversation,
Sewanee Review
, Fall.
C
HELSEA
B
IONDOLILLO
En Memoriam,
River Teeth
, Spring.
E
ULA
B
ISS
Vampires and Vaccines,
The
Believer
, September.
E
STER
B
LOOM
One Way to Shut Her Up,
Dogwood
, no. 13.
W
ILL
B
OAST
Pain,
Virginia Quarterly
Review
, Winter.
K
IM
C
HENG
B
OEY
Rambling on My Mind,
Manoa
, vol. 26, no. 1.
B
ELLE
B
OGGS
Imaginary Children,
Ecotone
, Spring/Summer.
T
ANYA
B
OMSTA
Erosion,
Gettysburg Review
, Spring.
J
OE
B
ONOMO
34 of 86 stories,
Passages
North
, Winter.
M
ARC
B
OOKMAN
Executed Against the Judgment of 12 Jurors,
theatlantic.com
, January 6.
B
RIGITTE
B
OWERS
Attempted Homicide,
Under the Gum Tree
, October.
R
OBERT
B
OYERS
My Pleasure, My Pleasures,
Normal School
, Spring.
S
VETLANA
B
OYM
Like New: A Tale of Immigrant Objects,
Five Points
, vol. 16, no. 2.
W
ILLIAM
B
RADLEY
Marked,
Cleaver
Magazine
, December.
M
ARK
B
RAZAITIS
Locked in to Life,
The
Sun
, April.
C
ATHERINE
A. B
RERETON
Trance,
Slice
, no. 14.
E
LLEN
B
ROOKS
Dayenu,
Blue Lyra
Review
, Spring.
F
LEDA
B
ROWN
Strong Brown God,
New
Letters
, vol. 80, no. 2.
R
OBERT
S. B
RUNK
Selling Everything,
Iowa Review
, Spring.
F
RANK
B
URES
What Price Experience?
The Rotarian
, March.
B
ENJAMIN
B
URGHOLZER
Don't Go Over Your Hipboots,
Little Patuxent
Review
, Summer.
S
TEPHEN
B
URT
“Like,”
American
Poetry Review
, January/February.
A
MY
B
UTCHER
Reenacting,
Iowa
Review
, Winter.
H
ARMONY
B
UTTON
Dear Spider(s),
Chicago Quarterly Review
, no. 17.
S
ATYA
D
OYLE
B
YOCK
Gone Astray,
Oregon Humanities
, Fall/Winter.
G
ARNETTE
C
ADOGAN
Due North,
Virginia Quarterly Review
(online), September 30.
D
REW
C
ALVERT
A Free Life Is Made with Words,
Pleiades
, Summer.
R
ON
C
APPS
On the Ragged Edge,
American Interest
, Summer.
H. G. C
ARRILLO
Splaining Yourself,
Conjunctions
, no. 62.
D
OUG
P
AUL
C
ASE
The Only Boy in Indiana,
Hobart
, no. 15.
M
ARCIA
C
AVELL
Waiting,
Chicago
Quarterly Review
, no. 17.
A
LISON
C
HAPMAN
The Paradise Within,
PMS
, no. 13.
K
ELLY
C
HASTAIN
Diego Forever,
Isthmus
, Spring.
J
AMES
M. C
HESBRO
The Return of the Prodigal Father,
Spiritus
, Fall.
C
AITLYN
C
HRISTENSEN
Sinkholes,
Columbia
, no. 52.
J
ILL
C
HRISTMAN
The Avocado,
Fourth
Genre
, Spring.
S
TEVEN
C
HURCH
Crown and Shoulder,
Passages North
, no. 35 (Winter).
M
ATTHEW
C
LARK
Fully Automatic,
Indiana Review
, Summer.
T
A
-N
EHISI
C
OATES
The Case for Reparations,
The Atlantic
, July/August.
A
NDREW
D. C
OHEN
Looking at Sheila,
Alaska Quarterly Review
, Spring/Summer.
G
ARNETT
K
ILBERG
C
OHEN
Scrambled,
Gettysburg Review
, Winter.
J
EREMY
C
OLLINS
Basic Composition,
Chattahoochee Review
, Spring.
M
ARY
C
OLLINS
The Coverless Book,
Solstice
, Summer/Fall.
A
UDREY
C
OLOMBE
Burning Down the Schoolhouse,
Main Street Rag
, Winter.
J
OAN
C
ONNOR
Bloodlines,
Hotel
Amerika
, Winter.
S
TEVEN
C
ONNOR
Spelling Things Out,
New Literary History
, Spring.
P
ATRICK
C
ONWAY
How It's Done: A Criminal Defense Investigator at Work,
Post Road
, no. 27.
J
OHN
C
OTTER
Losing Music,
Open
Letters Monthly
, July.
M
ARIAN
C
ROTTY
Love at a Distance,
Gettysburg Review
, Autumn.
K
ATIE
C
ROUCH
To Bloom, to Bust, to Blaze,
ZYZZYVA
, Spring/Summer.
J
OHN
C
ROWLEY
Time After Time,
Lapham's Quarterly
, Fall.
J
AMES
C
UNO
Culture War: The Case Against Repatriating Museum Art,
Foreign Affairs
, November/December.
M
ARC
D
ANZIGER
Fathers and Sons,
Proud To Be
, no. 3.
R
ENEE
E. D'A
OUST
Harry & Dancer,
Notre Dame Review
, no. 37.
C
HAD
D
AVIDSON
Not Taking Pictures,
Five Points
, vol. 16, no. 1.
D
AWN
D
AVIES
Don't Like It Too Much,
River Styx
, Fall.
C
AMAS
D
AVIS
Human Principles,
Ecotone
, Fall.
C
AROL
A
NN
D
AVIS
On Practice, School Buses, Hummingbirds, Rumi, and Being Led,
AGNI
, no. 79.
E
RIC
D
AY
Raised by Trees,
Catamaran
, Fall.
H
ILARY
D
EAN
Vocational Rehabilitation,
Event
, vol. 43, no. 3.
S
ARAH
D
EMING
Colorless, Odorless, Tasteless,
Threepenny Review
, Spring.
J
AQUIRA
D
ENEVI
My Mother and Mercy,
The Sun
, August.
T
IMOTHY
D
ENEVI
John the Baptist,
Gulf Coast
, Summer/Fall.
L
OUIS
A. D
I
L
EO
The Polar Bear Ethic,
Journal of Environmental Law and
Litigation
, vol. 28, no. 3.
C
HRIS
D
OMBROWSKI
Three,
The Sun
, July.
K
ATIE
D
ONOVAN
The Splitting,
New
Hibernia Review
, Autumn.