Read The Best American Essays 2015 Online
Authors: Ariel Levy
B
RIAN
D
OYLE
Sam & Louis,
Georgia Review
, Summer.
J
ACQUELINE
D
OYLE
Who's Your Stepdaddy?
Jabberwock Review
, Winter.
M
ONICA
D
RAKE
Where Nothing Bad Can Happen,
Rumpus
, February 17.
K. E. D
UFFIN
Castle Hill,
AGNI
, no. 80.
M
ARTHA
G
RACE
D
UNCAN
My Father and the Hair Grafter,
Tampa Review
, no. 47/48.
L
ENA
D
UNHAM
Difficult Girl,
The New
Yorker
, September 1.
M
ARY
B
ESS
D
UNN
Window Seat,
Pembroke Magazine
, no. 46.
K
ATHERINE
D
YKSTRA
Like Held Breath,
Crab Orchard Review
, Winter/Spring.
D
EREK
D
YSON
Letter from Ferguson,
This Land
, December 15.
L
AURIE
E
ASTER
Crack My Heart Wide Open,
Rumpus
, October 9.
X
UJUN
E
BERLEIN
Clouds and Rain over Three Gorges,
American Literary
Review
, March.
M
ARK
E
DMUNDSON
A Paint-Factory Education,
Virginia Quarterly Review
, Fall.
J
OHN
M. E
DWARDS
Kentucky Fried Moa,
Dave's Travel Corner
, July.
D
AVE
E
GGERS
The Dentist on the Ridge,
McSweeney's
, no. 48.
B
ARBARA
E
HRENREICH
Terror Cells,
The Baffler
, no. 26.
O
KLA
E
LLIOTT
Cinnamon or Crocodiles, Romanticized Suffering, and the Productivity of Error: A Polymorphous Essay-in-Fragments,
Chattahoochee
Review
, Spring.
E
ZEKIEL
J. E
MANUEL
Why I Hope to Die at 75,
The Atlantic
, October.
P
AMELA
E
MIGH
-M
URPHY
Seizure,
Little Patuxent Review
, Winter.
J
OSEPH
E
PSTEIN
Death Takes No Holiday,
Commentary
, June.
B
RIAN
E
VENSON
The Particulars,
Conjunctions
, no. 63.
T
HOMAS
F
ARBER
Writing from a Distance,
Catamaran
, Fall.
A
NGELA
F
EATHERSTONE
God Said No,
Gargoyle
, no. 61.
M
ELISSA
F
EBOS
All of Me,
Kenyon
Review
, Fall.
Call My Name,
Prairie Schooner
, Spring.
M
ATTHEW
F
ERRENCE
Exoskeleton,
Gettysburg Review
, Spring.
M
ELISSA
F
ERRONE
Touch,
The Pinch
, Spring.
G
ARY
F
INCKE
The Physics of Desire,
Kenyon Review Online
, Winter.
J
ONATHAN
F
INK
The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper,
Witness
, Spring.
N
ICK
F
LYNN
Whose Dream Is This?
Columbia
, no. 52.
T
ERRANCE
F
LYNN
Having Faith,
Southern Indiana Review
, Fall.
R
ICHARD
F
ORD
Magic,
Threepenny
Review
, Spring.
R
OBERT
L
ONG
F
OREMAN
Dirty Laundry,
Fourth Genre
, Spring.
J
OSHUA
F
OSTER
Bring on the Spins,
Tin
House
, vol. 16, no. 2.
P
ATRICIA
F
OSTER
Awakening,
Antioch Review
, Fall.
A
LASTAIR
F
OWLER
First Phrases,
Yale Review
, April.
A
MELIA
F
OWLER
Space and Time,
Cleaver Magazine
, September.
P
AULA
F
OX
Summer Losses,
Yale
Review
, July.
H. E. F
RANCIS
Prologue to a Life of Storywriting,
Southwest Review
, vol. 99, no. 3.
J
OEY
F
RANKLIN
Houseguest,
Mid-American Review
, vol. 35, no. 1.
S
TEVE
F
RIEDMAN
Citi Bikes Changed My Life,
Bicycling
, August.
D
AVID
A. F
RYXELL
Selfie Control,
Desert Exposure
, January.
A
JA
G
ABEL
The Sparrows in France,
Kenyon Review
, Fall.
M
ONA
G
ABLE
The Hugo Problem,
Los
Angeles Magazine
, April.
N
ICHOLAS
G
AMSO
On Marjorie,
Hotel
Amerika
, Winter.
J. M
ALCOLM
G
ARCIA
Stabbing Johnny,
Apple Valley Review
, Fall.
K
ENNETH
G
ARCIA
Diego and Our Lady of the Wilderness,
Gettysburg Review
, Summer.
N
ATASHA
G
ARDNER
Walking Scarred,
5280
, May.
P
HILIP
G
ARRISON
Before Long, in a While,
Southwest Review
, vol. 99, no. 2.
R
OXANE
G
AY
Not Here to Make Friends,
BuzzFeed
, January 3.
C
HRISTINE
G
ELINEAU
Courtesy of the Gravedigger,
New York Times Opinionator
, December 21.
L
YNELL
G
EORGE
Lost Angelena,
Southern California Review
, no. 7.
P
HILIP
G
ERARD
The Afterlives of the Dead,
Our State
, August.
R
ACHEL
K
AADZI
G
HANSAH
We a Badd People,
Virginia Quarterly Review
, Summer.
G
ARY
G
ILDNER
How I Married Michelle,
Southern Review
, Winter.
C
HRISTINA
M
ARSDEN
G
ILLIS
Waiting for the Dark,
Southwest Review
, vol. 99, no. 2.
A
MANDA
G
IRACCA
Within This Kingdom,
Fourth Genre
, Spring.
A
LBERT
G
OLDBARTH
Two Characters in Search of an Essay,
Georgia
Review
, Summer.
M
ICHELLE
G
OLDBERG
What Is a Woman?
The New Yorker
, August 4.
A
NNE
G
OLDMAN
Travels with
Jane
Eyre
,
Georgia Review
, Fall.
S
TEPHEN
G
OODWIN
Best, Tom,
Virginia Quarterly Review
, Fall.
A
DAM
G
OPNIK
Word Magic,
The New
Yorker
, May 26.
E
MILY
F
OX
G
ORDON
Barnacle,
Colorado Review
, Spring.
M
ICHAEL
G
RAFF
Up, and Away,
Washingtonian
, April.
C
HRISTINE
G
RANADOS
True Colors,
Texas Monthly
, May.
A
DAM
G
REEN
Late or Never?
Vogue
, April.
L
INNIE
G
REENE
Our Doubles, Ourselves:
Twin Peaks
and My Summer at the Black Lodge,
Hobart Web
, December 12.
C
YNTHIA
B. G
REER
Doris and the Dolls,
Little Patuxent Review
, Summer.
A
LLISON
G
RUBER
A Music in the Head,
Literary Review
, Summer.
P
ENNY
G
UISINGER
Coming Out,
Fourth
Genre
, Fall.
M
ARGARET
M
ORGANROTH
G
ULLETTE
Euthanasia as a Caregiving Fantasy in the Era of the New Longevity,
Age, Culture, Humanities
, no. 1.
D
EBRA
G
WARTNEY
Didn't Get It,
Prairie Schooner
, Summer.
J
OHN
H
ALES
Seeing, and Believing,
Hudson Review
, Winter.
D
ONALD
H
ALL
Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr.,
Narrative
, November 10.
D
AVID
H
AMILTON
Glenning the Thicket, Thicketing the Glen,
December
, Fall/Winter.
P
ATRICIA
H
AMPL
Montaigne's Lute,
Gulf Coast
, Winter/Spring.
L
EE
H
ANCOCK
That Bleak Rise Near Waco,
Consequence
, no. 6.
S
ILAS
H
ANSEN
An Annotated Guide to My OKCupid Profile,
Normal School
, Spring.
H
EATHER
H
ANSMAN
Lighthouse for Sale,
Medium.com
, December.
K
ERRY
H
ARDIE
Aftermath,
New
Hibernia Review
, Spring.
K
ATHRIN
H
ARRIS
The Dolphin Lady of Siesta Key,
Post Road
, no. 27.
J
IM
H
ARRISON
Gramps le Fou,
Brick
, no. 92.
M
ILES
H
ARVEY
At the Grave of Sadie Thorpe,
New Ohio Review
, Spring.
D
ANNY
H
EITMAN
The Boyish Side of Mencken,
Humanities
, November/December.
R
OBIN
H
EMLEY
Celebrating Russian Federation Day with Immanuel Kant,
Conjunctions
, no. 62.
D
AWN
H
ERRERA
-H
ELPHAND
Into the Cave,
The Point
, no. 9.
H
ENDRIK
H
ERTZBERG
You're Wrong, You're Wrong, You're Definitely Wrong, and I'm Probably Wrong, Too,
New
Republic
, November 24/December 8.
J
ENNY
G
ROPP
H
ESS
Notes on Attempting to Understand Human Hands,
Denver Quarterly
, vol. 48, no. 2.
K
ARRIE
H
IGGINS
Strange Flowers,
Manifest-Station
, November 11.
K
ATHLEEN
H
ILL
Portrait,
Ploughshares Omnibus
, no. 2.
J
EN
H
IRTT
Not Less than 1,000 Bottles for Horseradish,
Ninth Letter
, Spring/Summer.
B
ONNIE
-S
UE
H
ITCHCOCK
Every Third Week,
Sonora Review
, no. 64/65.
E
DWARD
H
OAGLAND
On Loneliness,
American Scholar
, Spring.
L
INDA
H
OGAN
Coming Home,
Orion
, May/June/July/August.
M
ING
H
OLDEN
Lenin,
Arts & Letters
, Spring.
E
VA
H
OLLAND
Why We Play,
SBNation
, June 25.
B. J. H
OLLARS
The Year of the Great Forgetting,
Hayden's Ferry Review
, Spring/Summer.
J
ENNY
H
OLLOWELL
The End of the End: An Evolution of Faith, in Five Films,
Bright Wall/Dark Room
, February.
J
IM
H
OLT
The Grand Illusion,
Lapham's
Quarterly
, Fall.
A
NN
H
OOD
Second Skin,
Chattahoochee Review
, Fall/Winter.
P
ATRICIA
H
ORVATH
Envy,
New Ohio
Review
, Fall.
G
AIL
H
OSKING
Ode to a Surrogate's Grace,
Slab
, no. 9.