The Best American Essays 2015 (38 page)

M
OLLY
H
OWES

Home Waters,
Tampa
Review
, no. 47/48.

P
AT
C. H
OY
II

Warring with Words,
Sewanee Review
, Spring.

S
TEFFAN
H
RUBY

New Age Atheist,
Antioch Review
, Winter.

E
WA
H
RYNIEWICZ
-Y
ARBROUGH

Translation,
Threepenny Review
, Winter.

S
ONYA
H
UBER

The Lava Lamp of Pain,
Rumpus
, December 28.

C
HRISTINE
H
UFFARD

Octopus Lady,
Catamaran
, Winter.

Z
AC
H
UG

Whatever It Is,
Event
, vol. 43, no. 3.

B
ARBARA
H
URD

Listening to the Same River Twice: Theme and Variation,
Prairie Schooner
, Spring.

A
LLEGRA
H
YDE

Banjo in the Backpack,
Grist
, no. 7.

M
IKE
I
NGRAM

A Curious Indifference,
North American Review
, Spring.

P
ICO
I
YER

The Beauty of the Package,
Granta
, Spring.

L
ESLIE
J
AMISON

52 Blue,
The Atavist
, August.

M
YRA
J
EHLEN

On How, to Become Knowledge, Cognition Needs Beauty,
Raritan
, Summer.

A
LEXANDRA
J
OHNSON

Twice Eggs,
Ploughshares Omnibus
, no. 2.

F
ENTON
J
OHNSON

Power and Obedience,
Appalachian Heritage
, Winter.

A
LEX
R. J
ONES

The Big Breakfast,
Harvard Review
, no. 45.

M
ARTHA
S. J
ONES

Who Here Is a Negro,
Michigan Quarterly Review
, Winter.

M
ARY
J
ONES

The Suicide Disease,
Alaska Quarterly Review
, Fall/Winter.

A
NNA
J
OURNEY

The Goliath Jazz,
Prairie Schooner
, Winter.

H
EIDI
J
ULAVITS

Diagnose This,
Harper's Magazine
, April.

T
OM
J
UNOD

Everything We Think We Know About Mass Shooters Is Wrong,
Esquire
, October.

P
AUL
K
ALANITHI

How Long Have I Got Left?
New York Times
, January 26.

J
ILL
N. K
ANDEL

Paying the Piper,
Missouri Review
, Spring.

S
ARAH
K
ASBEER

Is It Cancer?
Salon.com
, April 26.

S
AM
K
EAN

How Einstein Became a Celebrity,
Humanities
, May/June.

J
OHN
E. K
EATS

Dream of the Butcher's Daughter,
Under the Sun
, Summer.

G
ARRET
K
EIZER

Reformed,
Virginia
Quarterly Review
, Summer.

C
HRISTOPHER
K
EMPF

Bad Faith: The Worst First Date of an OKCupid Moderator,
Michigan Quarterly Review
, Spring.

T
HOMAS
E. K
ENNEDY

How James Joyce Changed My Life,
New Letters
, vol. 80, no. 2/3.

J
ON
K
ERSTETTER

Learning to Breathe,
Normal School
, Fall.

H
ARRISON
S
COTT
K
EY

How I Became a Famous Writer,
Oxford American
, November 20.

H
EATHER
K
ING

Save All of Yourself for the Wedding,
Portland
, Winter.

S
TEPHEN
K
ING

The Ring,
Tin House
, vol. 15, no. 3.

P
AUL
K
INGSNORTH

In the Black Chamber,
Orion
, March/April.

M
ICHAEL
K
INSLEY

Have You Lost Your Mind?
The New Yorker
, April 28.

N
ORA
K
IPNIS

Survival in the Preparatory Environment: A Field Guide,
Southeast Review
, vol. 32, no. 1.

M
ELISSA
K
IRSCH

Most Helpful Critical Review,
Southwest Review
, vol. 99, no. 4.

J
UDITH
K
ITCHEN

Tenors,
Harvard
Review
, no. 46.

L
ISA
K
NOPP

Still Life with Peaches,
Georgia Review
, Spring.

W
AYNE
K
OESTENBAUM

Odd Secrets of the Line,
Tin House
, July 28.

E
LIZABETH
K
OLBERT

Stone Soup,
The
New Yorker
, July 28.

J
ACQUELINE
K
OLOSOV

Wherefore,
Under the Sun
, Summer.

C
AROLYN
K
RAUS

A Thing with Feathers,
1966: A Journal of Creative
Nonfiction
, vol. 2, no. 1.

J
IM
K
RUSOE

Traffic,
ZYZZYVA
, Fall.

K
ATYA
K
ULIK

Annihilation Tango,
Cut
Bank
, no. 81.

A
LLEN
K
URZWEIL

Whipping Boy,
The
New Yorker
, November 17.

A
VIYA
K
USHNER

A Duck with One Leg,
Gettysburg Review
, Spring.

O
LIVIA
L
AING

The Magic Box,
Granta
, no. 126 (Winter).

H
AFEEZ
L
AKHANI

If We Show That We Like They Make More Mainga,
Southern Review
, Autumn.

R
ICK
L
AMPLUGH

How Death Feeds Life,
Gold Man Review
, no. 3.

J
OHN
L
ANCASTER

Shut Up and Eat,
The
New Yorker
, November 3.

E
RICA
L
ANGSTON

Landfall,
Appalachian Heritage
, Fall.

L
ISA
L
ANSER
-R
OSE

Turnpike Psycho,
Florida Review
, vol. 38, nos. 1 & 2.

L
ANCE
L
ARSEN

I Am Thinking of Pablo Casals,
Southern Review
, Spring.

J
ONATHAN
V. L
AST

Virtues, Past & Present,
Weekly Standard
, November 10.

J
ENNIFER
L
ATSON

Anatomy of a Murderer,
Briar Cliff Review
, no. 26.

S
YDNEY
L
EA

Black Marks,
River Teeth
, Fall.

B
RITT
L
EACH

An Inability to Control Objects Around Me,
River Teeth
, Fall.

J
EFFREY
B. L
EAK

Memories of Brooklyn,
Charlotte
, September.

C
HRISTOPHER
J. L
EE

Mourning Mandela,
Transition
, December.

F
RANCES
L
EFKOWITZ

Dry Season,
Catamaran
, Summer.

D
AVID
L
E
G
AULT

On Bridges,
Wake: Great Lakes Thought and Culture
, April 9.

L
AWRENCE
L
ENHART

Give Me That for Nothing, Now I Am Going Away,
Wag's
Review
, no. 19
.

S
ARAH
K. L
ENZ

Dad's Kitchen Table,
South Dakota Review
, Summer.

H
ENRY
W. L
EUNG

Quitting the Box,
Crab Orchard Review
, Winter/Spring.

P
HILLIS
L
EVIN

Four Tesserae,
Southwest
Review
, vol. 99, no. 3.

E. J. L
EVY

Bread,
Normal School
, Spring.

J. D. L
EWIS

Heat,
Hayden's Ferry Review
, Spring/Summer.

S. L
I

Criticism and Self-Criticism,
Kenyon
Review Online
, Fall.

T
AO
L
IN

Final Fantasy III,
Granta
, no. 127.

A
LPHONSO
L
INGIS

Being Seen, Being Faced,
Denver Quarterly
, vol. 48, no. 4.

B
RANDON
L
INGLE

Keeping Pace,
Guernica
, August 1.

G
ORDON
L
ISH

The Boys on the Block,
Harper's Magazine
, January.

M
EL
L
IVATINO

The Lost Friend,
Under
the Sun
, Summer.

S
ANDRA
T
SING
L
OH

After the Affair,
Harper's Bazaar
, May.

P
RISCILLA
L
ONG

What Killed My Sister,
American Scholar
, Spring.

A
RTHUR
L
ONGWORTH

Wheeled Fortress,
PEN America
, no. 17.

P
HILLIP
L
OPATE

Early Memories of a Class Traitor,
Tin House
, vol. 15, no. 3.

J
OE
M
ACKALL

Reflections of a Moderately Disturbed Grandfather,
River
Teeth
, Spring.

P
ATRICK
M
ADDEN

Aborted Essay on Nostalgia,
Tusculum
, no. 10.

B
ETHANY
M
AILE

Anything Will Be Easy After This,
Normal School
, Fall.

P
ATRICK
M
AINELLI

But We Loved It All the Same,
Fourth Genre
, Fall.

A
NTONIA
M
ALCHIK

Reclaimed Ambition,
Full Grown People
, July 15.

E
MILY
S
T
. J
OHN
M
ANDEL

Notes on Sontag,
Humanities
, September/October.

S
ARAH
M
ANGUSO

Short Days,
Paris Review
, Winter.

V
YSHALI
M
ANIVANNAN

The Meaning of a Machete,
Consequence
, no. 6.

A
LEX
M
AR

Sky Burial,
Oxford American
, Fall.

C
LANCY
M
ARTIN

The Marriage Paradox,
The Chronicle
, February 28.

L
EE
M
ARTIN

Heart Sounds,
River Teeth
, Fall.

B
OBBIE
A
NN
M
ASON

Reading Between the Lines,
Virginia Quarterly Review
, Spring.

P
ATRICIA
M
ARX

A Tale of a Tub,
The
New Yorker
, February 3.

A
LEXANDRIA
M
ARZANO
-L
ESNEVICH

The Trouble with Knives,
Iowa
Review
, Fall.

D
AVID
M
ASELLO

Reasons for Looking,
Fine Art Connoisseur
, April.

H
ILARY
M
ASTERS

My Father's Mistress,
Sewanee Review
, Winter.

K
HALED
M
ATTAWA

Repatriation: A Libya Memoir,
Massachusetts
Review
, Winter.

J
OYCE
M
AYNARD

We Regret to Inform You . . . ,
New York Observer
, April 7.

C
OLIN
M
C
A
DAM

The OA,
Harper's Magazine
, February.

J
OSH
M
C
C
ALL

A Love of Food,
Southern Review
, Winter.

J. B. M
C
C
RAY

Blue Magic,
The Sun
, April.

G
ARY
L. M
C
D
OWELL

An Eye That Never Closes in Sleep: A Nightbook,
Green
Mountains Review
, vol. 27, no. 2.

D
AVID
M
C
G
LYNN

On Wisconsin,
Yale Review
, October.