Read The Best American Essays 2015 Online
Authors: Ariel Levy
Justin Timberlake Has a Cold,
n+1
, no. 20.
S
COTT
L
ORING
S
ANDERS
My Father,
Creative Nonfiction
, Fall.
S
COTT
R
USSELL
S
ANDERS
Hooks Baited with Darkness,
Daedalus
, Winter.
A
NDREW
S
ANTELLA
All in Due Time,
Notre Dame Magazine
, Autumn.
M
ARIN
S
ARDY
A Shapeless Thief,
Missouri Review
, Summer.
E
VA
S
AULITIS
Wild Darkness,
Orion
, March/April.
A
NITA
S
AWYER
Good Humor,
Southern
Humanities Review
, vol. 48, no. 1 (Winter).
R
OGER
S
CHMIDT
To What Shall I Compare This Life?
Raritan
, Spring.
R
ICHARD
S
CHMITT
Crossroads,
North
American Review
, Summer.
JL S
CHNEIDER
Unculting Ayn Rand,
Boulevard
, Fall.
C
ANDY
S
CHULMAN
Opening the Family's Vaults,
The Forward
, July 4.
K
ATHRYN
S
CHULZ
Final Forms,
The
New Yorker
, April 7.
A. O. S
CHWARTZ
You Must Remember This,
New York Times Magazine
, December 14.
L
YNNE
S
HARON
S
CHWARTZ
Letters from Robben Island,
Denver Quarterly
, vol. 48, no. 2.
S
TEVEN
S
CHWARTZ
Principal's Office,
Normal School
, Fall.
R
ION
A
MILCAR
S
COTT
The Etiquette of Police Brutality: An Autopsy,
As It Ought
to Be
, August 14.
R
OY
S
CRANTON
The Terror of the New,
Sierra Nevada Review
, no. 25.
A
NDREW
D. S
CRIMGEOUR
Scribbling in the Margins,
New York Times
, February 2.
M
OLLY
S
EALE
Illness,
Hotel Amerika
, Winter.
D
AVID
S
EARCY
Still Life Painting,
Paris Review
, Fall.
R
OBERT
S
EIDMAN
Sports Fanaticism: An Insider's Report,
Southwest Review
, vol. 99, no. 2.
F
RANCES
S
TEAD
S
ELLERS
The Long Way Home,
Washington Post
Magazine
, September 14.
H
EATHER
S
ELLERS
Breathless,
Brevity
, January.
L
YNDA
S
EXSON
Implicit Tree,
Image
, no. 81.
D
AN
S
HANAHAN
To Be Unfathered: An Ode,
North Dakota Quarterly
, Winter.
A
NIS
S
HIVANI
A Manifesto Against Authors Writing for Free,
Boulevard
, Fall.
J
AN
S
HOEMAKER
Tenebrae,
Colorado
Review
, Summer.
D
AVID
S
HRIBMAN
Why We Love Sports,
Notre Dame Magazine
, Summer.
J
ASON
S
HULTS
Finer Than Prayer,
Carolina Quarterly
, Summer.
G
REG
S
IEGEL
A Decent Interval,
Cabinet
, November.
C
HARLES
S
IMIC
The Prisoner of History,
New York Review of Books
, August 14.
W
ILLIAM
H. S
IMON
Rethinking Privacy,
Boston Review
, September/October.
P
ATSY
S
IMS
No Twang of Conscience Whatever,
Oxford American
, Fall.
P
AUL
S
KENAZY
The World Left Behind,
Chicago Quarterly Review
, no. 17.
R. D. S
KILLINGS
M'Dear,
Notre Dame
Review
, no. 37.
D
AVID
S
KINNER
The Rise of Cool,
Humanities
, July/August.
J
EFFREY
S
KINNER
Religio Scriptor,
Yale Review
, July.
F
LOYD
S
KLOOT
Let the Dark Come Upon You,
Boulevard
, Fall.
S
ARAH
S
MARSH
Poor Teeth,
Aeon
, October 23.
J
ODY
S
MILING
Through the Rockies,
Prism
, Winter.
A
LI
S
MITH
The Hour and the Woman,
Brick
, no. 92.
G
ERALD
L. S
MITH
Whittling at the Edges of Childhood,
Sewanee Review
, Fall.
M
IKE
S
MITH
My Two Emilys,
Notre
Dame Magazine
, Winter.
M
IKE
S
MITH
Place Names of 501 Filomeno,
Tin House
, vol. 16, no. 1.
R
ON
C
LINTON
S
MITH
A Pilgrimage to Dennis Hopper,
River Teeth
, Fall.
R
OBERT
F. S
OMMER
Leavenworth,
Rathalla Review
, January.
A
LYSSA
G
RACE
S
ORRESSO
Don't Borrow Trouble,
Creative Nonfiction
, Summer.
D
IANA
S
PECHLER
The Matchmaker's Mouth,
Southern Review
, Spring.
M
ATTHEW
S
PELLBERG
The Chimeric Element in Perception: A First Exploration,
Southwest Review
, vol. 99, no. 1.
W
ILLARD
S
PIEGELMAN
Proust Goes to the Country Club,
American Scholar
, Summer.
S
USAN
M. S
TABILE
Bestiary,
Iowa
Review
, Fall.
J
EFF
S
TAIGER
Kindle 451,
New England
Review
, vol. 34, no. 3/4.
B
RIAN
J
AY
S
TANLEY
Taxonomy of Disorder,
North American Review
, Winter.
T
IFFANY
S
TANLEY
Jackie's Goodbye,
National Journal
, October 4.
M. D. S
TEIN
Remains,
Southwest Review
, vol. 99, no. 3.
A
DAM
S
TERNBERGH
Smile, You're Speaking Emoji,
New York Magazine
, November 17/23.
S
EBASTIAN
S
TOCKMAN
This Fan's Notes: A Football Elegy,
Los Angeles
Review
, January 31.
A
NDREA
S
TUART
Tourist,
Granta
, no. 129 (Autumn).
S
ARAH
P
AYNE
S
TUART
Pilgrim Mothers,
The New Yorker
, May 5.
S
USAN
F
ISHER
S
ULLAM
The Art of War,
Washington Post Magazine
, June 22.
J
OHN
J
EREMIAH
S
ULLIVAN
The Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie,
New York Times Magazine
, April 13.
R
OBERT
S
ULLIVAN
Forest Farewell,
Orion
, March/April.
N
ANDHINI
S
UNDARESAN
Catch and Release,
Harvard Review
, no. 46.
C
AROLINE
S
UTTON
Tennis: Fort-da!
Literary Review
, Spring.
B
ARRETT
S
WANSON
This Swift and Violent Forgetting,
Ninth Letter
, Spring/Summer.
J
ILL
T
ALBOT
Stalled,
The Pinch
, Spring.
E
LIZABETH
T
ALLENT
Instruction,
Threepenny Review
, Summer.
J
ONI
T
EVIS
What Looks Like a Mad Disorder: The Sarah Winchester House,
Ecotone
, Spring/Summer.
P
AUL
T
HEROUX
Soul of the South,
Smithsonian
, July/August.
M
ARYJO
T
HOMAS
The Writing Spider,
Gettysburg Review
, Summer.
D
EBORAH
T
HOMPSON
The Four Stages of Cancer,
Upstreet
, no. 10.
T
ONI
T
IPTON
-M
ARTIN
Breaking the Jemima Code,
Ecotone
, Fall.
L
AD
T
OBIN
Here Everything Is Possible,
Rumpus
, June 9.
R
ACHEL
T
OOR
Learning to Pitch,
SBNation
, June 13.
D
ANIEL
T
ORDAY
The Third Golden Age of Television,
Salmagundi
, Fall.
A
LISON
T
OWNSEND
Wild Swans,
Chautaugua
, no. 11.
A
BBY
T
RAVIS
They Say,
Crab Orchard
Review
, Winter/Spring.
D
AVID
T
REUER
Off the Land,
Harper's Magazine
, November.
S
AYDA
T
RUJILLO
Listening: Soundscapes from Palestine,
The
Labletter
, no. 16.
E
RIC
T
RUMP
My Illness, the Third Partner in Our Relationship,
New York
Times
, April 27.
F
REDERIC
T
UTEN
Some Episodes in the History of My Reading,
Conjunctions
, no. 63.
D
AVID
L. U
LIN
Green Shirt,
ZYZZYVA
, Spring/Summer.
B
ETHANY
V
ACCARO
The Presence of Absence,
American Scholar
, Spring.
S
ARAH
V
ALLANCE
The Pockmark on the Wall,
The Pinch
, Fall.
L
ESLIE
V
AN
G
ELDER
Measuring Time,
Bellevue Literary Review
, Spring.
J
AMES
V
ERINI
Love and Ruin,
The
Atavist
, February.
V
ANESSA
V
ESELKA
The Fort of Young Saplings,
The Atavist
, November.
W
YL
V
ILLACRES
Constant Motion,
One
Throne Magazine
, Fall.
J
ODIE
V
INSON
Sleeping in on Sundays,
Minerva Rising
, Spring.
R
OBERT
V
IVIAN
Mother Forever,
Upstreet
, no. 10.
M
ATTHEW
V
OLLMER
Music of the Spheres: A Meditation on NASA's Symphonies of the Planets,
Normal
School
, Spring.
J
ULIE
M
ARIE
W
ADE
The Big Picture,
Southern Indiana Review
, Spring.
N
ICOLA
W
ALDRON
My Thick Waist,
Sonora Review
, no. 64/65.
D
ONNA
W
ALKER
The Stone God's Daughter,
Prick of the Spindle
, no. 7.
N
ICOLE
W
ALKER
On Anger,
Passages
North
, no. 5.
T
HEODORE
W
ALTHER
Homeless in the City,
American Scholar
, Winter.
M
OIRA
W
EIGEL
Searching for Shanghai,
The Point
, no. 8.
E
MILY
M
EG
W
EINSTEIN
Mating Habits of the Asterisk,
Morning News
, June 25.
S
ARAH
M. W
ELLS
Human Resources Training,
The Pinch
, Fall.
T
ONY
W
HEDON
Belvidere,
Green
Mountains Review
, vol. 27, no. 1.
S
USAN
W
HITE
Crazy Legs,
The Labletter
, no. 16.