The Best American Essays 2016 (53 page)

C
HARISSE
C
OLEMAN

The Cafe Book,
Water-Stone Review
, no. 18

P
HILIP
C
ONNORS

Confirmation,
n+1
, Spring

J
ULIA
C
OOKE

The Art of Participation,
A Public Space
, no. 22

B
ETH
C
OOLEY

Colleville-Montgomery,
Mid-American Review
, vol. 36, no. 1

B
ERNARD
C
OOPER

The Uses of the Ghoulish,
Story Quarterly
, no. 48

B
ONNIE
C
OSTELLO

The English-Speaking Union,
The Southern Review
, Autumn

L
ISA
F
AY
C
OUTLEY

Why to Run Racks,
Prairie Schooner
, Winter

A
BIGAIL
C
OVINGTON

When the Fire Broke Out,
Oxford American
, no. 91

P
AUL
C
RENSHAW

Cold,
The Southwest Review
, vol. 100, no. 2

M
ATT
C
ROSSMAN

The Last #Tweet,
Charlotte
, November

J
OHN
C
ROWLEY

On Not Being Well Read,
Harper’s Magazine
, March

H
AL
C
ROWTHER

Terminal Depression: Is It Just Me? Narrative, Fall

C
HRISTINE
C
USICK

A Call to Tea,
New Hibernia Review
, Winter

J
IM
D
AMERON

A Eulogy for the Living,
Agni
, no. 81

J
.
D
.
D
ANIELS

Letter from the Primal Horde,
Paris Review
, Spring

R
ENEE
E
.
D
’
A
OUST

The Line of No Trees,
Ragazine
, November

D
AWN
S
.
D
AVIES

King of the World,
The Missouri Review
, Winter

C
AROL
A
NN
D
AVIS

Eva Hesse Material: A Memoir,
American Poetry Review
, November/December

R
OD
D
AVIS

Her Dark Places,
D Magazine
, October

P
ATRICK
D
EELEY

The Hurley-Maker’s Son,
New Hibernia Review
, Spring

B
RENT
D
E
L
ANOY

Airhead,
The Missouri Review
, Spring

T
AMMY
D
E
L
ATORRE

Diving Lessons,
Slippery Elm
, 2015

M
ENSAH
D
EMARY

This Is How You Become an Editor,
Catapult
, September 24

T
IMOTHY
D
ENEVI

Pigs, Sea,
The Normal School
, vol. 8, no. 1

W
ILIAM
D
ERESIEWICZ

The Death of the Artist and the Birth of the Creative Entrepreneur,
The Atlantic
, January/February

E
LIZABETH
E
VITTS
D
ICKINSON

Notes from a Suicide,
Post Road
, no. 29

L
AURA
M
ICHELE
D
IENER

The Ash Tree,
Lake Effect
, no. 19

L
AURA
S
.
D
ISTELHEIM

Nocturne in the Key of We,
Hunger Mountain
, no. 19

S
HARON
D
OLIN

The Man Who Knew Too Much and the Girl Who Knew Too Little,
Five Points
, vol. 17, no. 1

K
RISTIN
D
OMBEK

Going South,
Epiphany
, Summer

M
ATT
D
ONOVAN

Garden of the Fugitives,
The Kenyon Review
, March/April

N
OAM
D
ORR

Love Drones,
Gulf Coast
, Winter/Spring

D
AVID
D
OWNIE

Glasnost and Wedding Bells,
Chicago Quarterly Review
, no. 21

B
RIAN
D
OYLE

Sensualiterature,
Creative Nonfiction
, Winter

L
INDEY
D
RAGER

To Possess Is to Extinguish: A Gothic Essay,
Copper Nickel
, no. 21

L
AURENCE
D
UMORTIER

The Best Time I Lost My Virginity in the Catacombs of Paris,
The Hairpin
, June 15

K
ATHERINE
D
YKSTRA

Siena,
The Common
, October 20

G
WENDOLYN
E
DWARD

The Business of Bodies,
Cleaver Magazine
, no. 12

C
HASE
E
DWARDS

Roundabout the Rat Cage,
Yemassee
, Spring

D
AVE
E
GGERS

Nowhere Near Reykjavik,
Fifth Wednesday
, Fall

B
ARBARA
E
HRENREICH

Mind Your Own Business,
The Baffler
, no. 27

G
RETEL
E
HRLICH

Rotten Ice,
Harper’s Magazine
, April

S
UE
E
ISENFELD

Wild Feast,
Little Patuxent Review
, Winter

G
ENA
E
LLETT

The Back Roads,
Event
, vol. 44, no. 3

D
AVID
E
MBLIDGE

Asleep in the Cottage,
The Southwest Review
, vol. 100, no. 4

A
NJALI
E
NJETI

Borderline,
Prime Number
, October

J
OSEPH
E
PSTEIN

Whatever Happened to High Culture,
The Weekly Standard
, November 9

P
AMELA
E
RENS

Crave,
The Virginia Quarterly Review
, Spring

M
ELISSA
F
ALIVENO

Driftless,
Midwestern Gothic
, Fall

L
AURA
F
ARRELL

Things Blur,
OC87 Recovery Diaries
, February 18

S
TEVE
F
EATHERSTONE

Destiny, USA,
n+1
, Winter

M
ICAH
F
IELDS

How to Write a War Poem,
Hayden’s Ferry Review
, Fall/Winter

G
ARY
F
INCKE

Proximity,
December
, Spring/Summer

C
AITLIN
F
LANAGAN

That’s Not Funny,
The Atlantic
, September

D
AISY
F
LORIN

Crash,
Under the Gum Tree
, July

P
AUL
F
ORD

Code: An Essay,
Bloomberg Businessweek
, June 15

S
OYINI
A
YANNA
F
ORDE

Teet’,
Cleaver Magazine
, no. 12

R
OBERT
L
ONG
F
OREMAN

Why I Write Nonfiction,
Copper Nickel
, no. 20

P
ATRICIA
F
OSTER

The Lost Years,
Colorado Review
, Spring

M
ATTHEW
G
AVIN
F
RANK

Grasshopper Diptych,
Midwestern Gothic
, Fall

J
OEY
F
RANKLIN

The Full Montaigne,
Ninth Letter
, Fall/Winter

J
ONATHAN
F
RANZEN

Carbon Capture,
The New Yorker
, April 6

I
AN
F
RAZIER

The Syrian Woman,
Portland
, Winter

S
TEVE
F
RIEDMAN

My Sister, the Runner?
Runner’s World
, January/February

R
EBEKAH
F
RUMKIN

Atypical,
Catapult
, December 11

A
NDREW
F
URMAN

Starting from Seed,
The Southern Review
, Spring

B
RENDAN
G
ALVIN

A Few Thousand Walks by the Little Pamet River: One Poet’s Geography,
Sewanee Review
, Summer

J
.
M
ALCOLM
G
ARCIA

The Feral Children of Kabul,
Tampa Review
, no. 50

K
ENNETH
G
ARCIA

Cattle, Casinos, and Cathouses,
The Southwest Review
, vol. 100, no. 2

E
MILY
G
EMINDER

Coming To: A Lexicology of Fainting,
Prairie Schooner
, Summer

E
LIZABETH
G
ENTRY

The Possum, the Wren, and My Animal-Soul,
Third Coast
, Fall

P
HILIP
G
ERARD

Sherman’s Final March,
Our State
, February

D
AVID
G
ESSNER

The Prankster and the Professor,
Tin House
, no. 64

E
THAN
G
ILSDORF

The Day My Mother Became a Stranger,
Boston Magazine
, May

D
.
G
ILSON

Michael Jackson & Michel Foucault Walk into a Bar,
The Threepenny Review
, Fall

A
MANDA
G
IRACCA

The Art of Butchery,
Aeon
, April 24

W
ILLIAM
G
IRALDI

Object Lesson,
The New Republic
, May

A
MY
G
LYNN

Apple,
Literal Latte
, Spring

F
LORA
G
ONZALEZ

The Sewing Room,
Solstice
, Summer

A
DAM
G
OPNIK

The Driver’s Seat,
The New Yorker
, February 2

A
LISON
G
OPNIK

David Hume and the Buddha,
The Atlantic
, October

E
MILY
F
OX
G
ORDON

Confessing and Confiding,
The American Scholar
, Spring

V
IVIAN
G
ORNICK

Why I Live Where I Live,
The New Republic
, November

M
ICHAEL
G
RACEY

My Own Good Daemon,
Ninth Letter
, Fall/Winter

T
.
A
USTIN
G
RAHAM

Songs of the Century,
New Literary History
, vol. 4, no. 4

S
UE
G
RANZELLA

Andiamo!
Ascent
, May 20

A
LLISON
G
REEN

Twenty Hours and Ten Minutes of Therapy,
The Gettysburg Review
, Spring

S
TEPHEN
G
REENBLATT

Shakespeare in Tehran,
The New York Review of Books
, April 2

M
ARK
G
RIEF