Read The Best American Essays 2015 Online
Authors: Ariel Levy
J
OEL
W
HITNEY
Poetry and Action: Octavio Paz at 100,
Dissent
, March 25.
D
OUGLAS
W
HYNOTT
The Extent of the Shock Is Equivalent to the Rate of the Flow,
Massachusetts Review
, Spring.
L
EON
W
IESELTIER
The Mental Odyssey of the Ordinary Citizen,
New
Republic
, November 24/December 8.
P
ATRICIA
W
ILLIAMS
The Luminance of Guilt,
Transition
, no. 113.
A
LAN
W
ILLIAMSON
The Trouble with “Theory,”
Yale Review
, July.
W
ENDY
W
ILLIS
Boxed In,
Oregon
Humanities
, Fall/Winter.
S. L. W
ISENBERG
The Jew in the Body,
Ars Medica
, vol. 10, no. 1.
L
AURA
E
STHER
W
OLFSON
Infelicities of Style,
ZYZZYVA
, Winter.
S
AINT
J
AMES
W
OOD
The Smuggling Humans Affair,
Boulevard
, Fall.
A
MY
Y
EE
“This Will All Be Under Water,”
Roads and Kingdoms
, July 30.
M
AKO
Y
OSHIKAWA
Tokyo Monsoon,
Harvard Review
, no. 45.
A
NDI
Z
EISLER
Feel-Good Feminism,
Oregon Humanities
, Fall/Winter.
Notable Special Issues of 2014
Aperture
, Fashion, guest ed. Inez & Vinoodh, Fall.
The Believer
, The 2014 Film Issue, ed. Heidi Julavits, Andrew Leland, Vendla Vida, March/April.
Brain, Child
, Special Issue: Teens, ed. Marcelle Soviero, vol. 16, no. 2.
Chattahoochee Review
, Skin, ed. Anna Schachner, Fall/Winter.
Chicago Quarterly Review
, The Chicago Issue, ed. S. Afzal Haider and Elizabeth McKenzie.
Conjunctions
, Speaking Volumes, ed. Bradford Marrow, no. 63.
Creative Nonfiction
, Telling Stories That Matter, ed. Lee Gutkind, Summer.
Daedalus
, What Humanists Do, guest ed. Denis Donoghue, Winter.
Denver Quarterly
, 150th Anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, ed. Billy J. Stratton and Eleni Sikelianos, vol. 49, no. 1.
Ecotone
, The Sustenance Issue, ed. David Gessner and Anna Lena Phillips, Fall.
Georgia Review
, Strange and Wondrous Pairings, ed. Stephen Corey, Summer.
Hobart
, Hotel Culture, ed. Aaron Burch and Elizabeth Ellen, no. 15.
Lapham's Quarterly
, Comedy, ed. Lewis Lapham, Winter.
Massachusetts Review
, Celebrating 50 Years of the Master of Fine Arts for Poets and Writers, ed. John Emil Vincent and Pamela Glaven, Spring.
Minerva Rising
, Turning Points, ed. Kimberly Brown, Spring.
New Literary History
, Interpretation and Its Rivals, ed. Rita Felski, Spring.
New Republic
, One Hundredth Anniversary Issue, ed. Franklin Foer, November 24/December 8.
North Dakota Quarterly
, Tribute to Robert W. Lewis, ed. Donald Junkins, Linda Patterson Miller, and Richard A. Davison, Summer/Fall.
Oregon Humanities
, Me, ed. Kathleen Holt, Spring.
Oxford American
, The Music Issue, ed. Roger D. Hodge, Winter.
Seneca Review
, We Might as Well Call It the Lyric Essay, ed. John D'Agata and the graduate students of the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, vols. 44, no. 2 and 45, no. 1.
Sewanee Review
, WarâThat Devil's Madness, ed. George Core, Spring.
Threepenny Review
, A Symposium on Libraries, ed. Wendy Lesser, Fall.
Transition
, What Is Africa to Me Now? ed. Alejandro de la Fuente, no. 113.
Witness, Ghosts, ed. Maile Chapman, Spring.
Correction:
The following essays should have appeared in
Notable Essays of 2013:
D
EVORAH
F
REUND
, My Father's Death,
Ami
, December 4.
T
YLER
C. G
ORE
, My Life of Crime,
The
American
, December.
C
HRIS
W
IEWIORA
, M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I,
Slice
, Fall/Winter.
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A
RIEL
L
EVY
, guest editor, has been a staff writer at
The New Yorker
since 2008. She received the National Magazine Award for essays and criticism for her piece “Thanksgiving in Mongolia,” which she is expanding into a book.
Female Chauvinist Pigs
, Levy's first book, has been translated into seven languages. She teaches at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and at Wesleyan University.
R
OBERT
A
TWAN
, the series editor of
The Best American Essays
since its inception in 1986, has published on a wide variety of subjects, from American advertising and early photography to ancient divination and Shakespeare. His criticism, essays, humor, poetry, and fiction have appeared in numerous periodicals nationwide.