The Best American Essays 2015 (36 page)

S
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.