The Best American Essays 2015 (41 page)

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
, War—That 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
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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.