Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2015 Selected by Robert Atwan

Raymond Abbott Kate Angus Seymour Krim, Oyez Review, My Catalog of Failures, Spring The Southeast Review, vol. 33, Sufiya Abdur-Rahman no. 1 Surrender at the Cinema, Kwame Anthony Appiah Ummah Wide, February 15 Race in the Modern World, Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams Foreign Affairs, March/April Dog and Wolf: The Time Aaron Apps Between, Southern Humanities The Formation of This Review, vol. 48, no. 3 Grotesque Fatty Figure, Passages Steve Adams North, no. 36 Border Crossing, Grist, no. 8 Amye Archer Tamara Adelman Slow Motion, PMS, no. 14 Rustic Canyon, Rubbertop Review, Chris Arthur no. 7 Memory Sticks, The Literary Marcia Aldrich Review, Spring The Blue Dress, Hotel Amerika, Glass, Tahoma Literary Review, Winter vol. 2, no. 2 Tariq al Haydar Rilla Askew Machine Language, Crab Orchard Trail, This Land, Spring Review, Summer/Fall Howard Axelrod Cynthia Allen Into the Blind Spot, The Virginia When the Walls Came Down, Quarterly Review, Winter So to Speak, Fall Lauren Alwan Matthew James Babcock Eldorado, ZYZZYVA, Winter Boogaloo Too, Small Print Zay Amsbury Magazine, Spring/Summer Immersive Theater, New York: C. Morgan Babst A Report from the Field, The Death Is a Way to Be, Guernica, Labletter, no. 17 June 15 310 Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2015

Julianna Baggott Will Blythe A Portrait of My Father Mapping Five Encounters with Vegetation, a Plane Crash, The Cincinnati Oxford American, Summer Review, Summer Ken Bode Ronald Bailey Settling Scores: Revenge Eternal Youth for All, Reason, Louisiana Style, The Antioch March Review, Winter Sarah E. Baker Kyle Boelte Every Western Is a Ghost Story, Reluctant Citizens: A Juror’s Ninth Letter, Spring/Summer Education, ZYZZYVA, Spring/ Poe Ballantine Summer No Talking to Imaginary People, Belle Boggs The Sun, October Baby Fever, Orion, November/ Russell Banks December Last Days Feeding Frenzy, Leslie Bohem Conjunctions, no. 64 What Everybody Wants, Parcel, Barret Baumgart Summer The Mountain, The Gettysburg Benedicte Boisseron Review, Autumn Afro-Dog, Transition, no. 118 Elizabeth Benedict Marc Bookman What We Talk About When “That’s What That N ​—— ​ We Talk About Money, Deserved,” Mother Jones, Salmagundi, Winter/Spring March 24 Geoffrey Bent Katie Booth John Singer Sargent: The Sign for This, Vela, The Great Good Painter, June 29 Boulevard, Fall Robert Boucheron Stephen Benz Redbud Lane, MAKE, no. 16 A Grave on the High Plain, Nina Boutsikaris River Teeth, Fall I’m Trying to Tell You I’m Sorry, Laurel Berger Redivider, vol. 13, no. 1 The Magic of Untidiness, Chandra A. Bozelko The Point, September 23 The Right to Read, Quartz, Emily Bernard August 13 Black Is the Body, Creative Michelle Bracken Nonfiction, Spring Eating Together, Baltimore Review, Sven Birkerts Winter Double Take, Agni, no. 82 Diane Bracuk Eula Biss Doughnut Eaters, Prism, Spring White Debt, The New York Times Gayle Brandeis Magazine, December 6 IceTown, Sport Literate, vol. 9, Mary Clearman Blew no. 1 What My Hands Know, The Michael Brandow Gettysburg Review, Summer Don’t Buy This Dog, The Village Paul Bloom Voice, December 9–15 The Lure of Luxury, Anne Brannen Boston Review, November/ Agents of Death, Creative December Nonfiction, Fall Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2015 311

Blair Braverman Garnette Cadogan Welcome to Dog World! The Black and Blue, Freeman’s, Atavist Magazine, June no. 1 Molly Brodak Pablo Calvi Bandit, Granta, no. 132 Secret Reserves, The Believer, Fall Taffy Brodesser-Akner Shannon Michael Cane Turbulent Calm, Good, Spring Xerox, Paper, Scissors, Aperture, Mike Broida Spring Odysseus at Teleyplos, Kelly Grey Carlisle The Rumpus, November 18 Permutations of X, New England Victor Brombert Review, vol. 35, no. 4 Between Two Worlds, The Hudson Tom Carson Review, Autumn Clans of the Cathode, The Baffler, Nick Bromell no. 29 Dignity: A Word for Democracy, Liane Kupferberg Carter Raritan, Summer A Room of My Own, Manifest- David Bromwich Station, October 28 Trapped in the Virtual Doug Paul Case Classroom, The New York Review On Locker Rooms and of Books, July 9 Looking, December, Spring/ Victoria Brown Summer Nice Girl and Small Man, Apogee, Christopher Chambers no. 6 Amplifier,The Southern Review, Robert S. Brunk Summer We Shall All Be Forgotten, North J’Lyn Chapman Dakota Quarterly, vol. 80, no. 3 The Good Beast, Denver Quarterly, Lucy Bryan vol. 49, no. 3 In Between Places, Quarterly West, Wynn Chapman October 29 The War of the Ashes, Blackbird, Christopher Buckley Fall The Ontology of Hermeneutics, Julie Chinitz Catamaran, Spring Sleepless Nights with Khaled Frank Bures El-Masri, Confrontation, Fall Beyond Belief, The Rotarian, Roohi Choudhry August On Island, The Butter, Rose Burke March 2 Thirteen Stages of Grief, The Jill Christman Southampton Review, Summer/Fall Going Back to Plum Island, Amy Butcher River Teeth, Fall A Slow Kind of Unraveling, Gulf Amy Clark Coast, Winter/Spring The Rocks, The Chattahoochee David Byrne Review, Spring A Matter of the Skies, Boston Susannah Clark Review, January/February Signs (2002), Under the Gum Tree, April Michelle Cacho-Negrete Ta-Nehisi Coates First Husband, North American Letter to My Son, The Atlantic, Review, Summer September 312 Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2015

Alexis Coe John Crowley Dispatches from the Russian On Not Being Well Read, River: Locked and Loaded, Harper’s Magazine, March Pacific Standard, May 1 Hal Crowther Judith Ortiz Cofer Terminal Depression: Is It Just Display Only, Hotel Amerika, Me? Narrative, Fall Winter Christine Cusick Andrew D. Cohen A Call to Tea, New Hibernia To the Old Country, Review, Winter Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter Jim Dameron Helen Degen Cohen A Eulogy for the Living, Agni, The Sin of Choreography, no. 81 West Branch, Winter J. D. Daniels Paula Marantz Cohen Letter from the Primal Horde, On Granite Countertops and Paris Review, Spring Wolf Ovens, The Southwest Review, Renee E. D’Aoust vol. 100, no. 1 The Line of No Trees, Ragazine, Charisse Coleman November The Cafe Book, Water-Stone Dawn S. Davies Review, no. 18 King of the World, The Missouri Philip Connors Review, Winter Confirmation,n+1, Spring Carol Ann Davis Julia Cooke Eva Hesse Material: A Memoir, The Art of Participation, A Public American Poetry Review, Space, no. 22 November/December Beth Cooley Rod Davis Colleville-Montgomery, Her Dark Places, D Magazine, Mid-American Review, vol. 36, October no. 1 Patrick Deeley Bernard Cooper The Hurley-Maker’s Son, The Uses of the Ghoulish, New Hibernia Review, Spring Story Quarterly, no. 48 Brent DeLanoy Bonnie Costello Airhead, The Missouri Review, The English-Speaking Union, Spring The Southern Review, Autumn Tammy DeLatorre Lisa Fay Coutley Diving Lessons, Slippery Elm, 2015 Why to Run Racks, Prairie Mensah Demary Schooner, Winter This Is How You Become an Abigail Covington Editor, Catapult, September 24 When the Fire Broke Out, Timothy Denevi Oxford American, no. 91 Pigs, Sea, The Normal School, Paul Crenshaw vol. 8, no. 1 Cold, The Southwest Review, William Deresiewicz vol. 100, no. 2 The Death of the Artist and Matt Crossman the Birth of the Creative The Last #Tweet, Charlotte, Entrepreneur, The Atlantic, November January/February Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2015 313

Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson Gretel Ehrlich Notes from a Suicide, Post Road, Rotten Ice, Harper’s Magazine, no. 29 April Laura Michele Diener Sue Eisenfeld The Ash Tree, Lake Effect, no. 19 Wild Feast, Little Patuxent Review, Laura S. Distelheim Winter Nocturne in the Key of We, Gena Ellett Hunger Mountain, no. 19 The Back Roads, Event, vol. 44, Sharon Dolin no. 3 The Man Who Knew Too Much David Emblidge and the Girl Who Knew Too Asleep in the Cottage, The Little, Five Points, vol. 17, no. 1 Southwest Review, vol. 100, Kristin Dombek no. 4 Going South, Epiphany, Summer Anjali Enjeti Matt Donovan Borderline, Prime Number, Garden of the Fugitives, The October Kenyon Review, March/April Joseph Epstein Noam Dorr Whatever Happened to High Love Drones, Gulf Coast, Culture, The Weekly Standard, Winter/Spring November 9 David Downie Pamela Erens Glasnost and Wedding Bells, Crave, The Virginia Quarterly Chicago Quarterly Review, no. 21 Review, Spring Brian Doyle Sensualiterature, Creative Melissa Faliveno Nonfiction, Winter Driftless, Midwestern Gothic, Lindsey Drager Fall To Possess Is to Extinguish: A Laura Farrell Gothic Essay, Copper Nickel, no. 21 Things Blur, OC87 Recovery Laurence Dumortier Diaries, February 18 The Best Time I Lost My Virginity Steve Featherstone in the Catacombs of Paris, Destiny, USA, n+1, Winter The Hairpin, June 15 Micah Fields Katherine Dykstra How to Write a War Poem, Siena, The Common, October 20 Hayden’s Ferry Review, Fall/Winter Gary Fincke Gwendolyn Edward Proximity, December, Spring/ The Business of Bodies, Summer Cleaver Magazine, no. 12 Caitlin Flanagan Chase Edwards That’s Not Funny, The Atlantic, Roundabout the Rat Cage, September Yemassee, Spring Daisy Florin Dave Eggers Crash, Under the Gum Tree, July Nowhere Near Reykjavik, Paul Ford Fifth Wednesday, Fall Code: An Essay, Bloomberg Barbara Ehrenreich Businessweek, June 15 Mind Your Own Business, Soyini Ayanna Forde The Baffler, no. 27 Teet’, Cleaver Magazine, no. 12 314 Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2015

Robert Long Foreman David Gessner Why I Write Nonfiction, The Prankster and the Professor, Copper Nickel, no. 20 Tin House, no. 64 Patricia Foster Ethan Gilsdorf The Lost Years, Colorado Review, The Day My Mother Became a Spring Stranger, Boston Magazine, May Matthew Gavin Frank D. Gilson Grasshopper Diptych, Midwestern Michael Jackson & Michel Gothic, Fall Foucault Walk into a Bar, Joey Franklin The Threepenny Review, Fall The Full Montaigne, Ninth Letter, Amanda Giracca Fall/Winter The Art of Butchery, Aeon, Jonathan Franzen April 24 Carbon Capture, The New Yorker, William Giraldi April 6 Object Lesson, The New Republic, Ian Frazier May The Syrian Woman, Portland, Amy Glynn Winter Apple, Literal Latte, Spring Steve Friedman Flora Gonzalez My Sister, the Runner? Runner’s The Sewing Room, Solstice, World, January/February Summer Rebekah Frumkin Adam Gopnik Atypical, Catapult, December 11 The Driver’s Seat, The New Yorker, Andrew Furman February 2 Starting from Seed, The Southern Alison Gopnik Review, Spring David Hume and the Buddha, The Atlantic, October Brendan Galvin Emily Fox Gordon A Few Thousand Walks by the Confessing and Confiding, Little Pamet River: One Poet’s The American Scholar, Spring Geography, Sewanee Review, Vivian Gornick Summer Why I Live Where I Live, The New J. Malcolm Garcia Republic, November The Feral Children of Kabul, Michael Gracey Tampa Review, no. 50 My Own Good Daemon, Ninth Kenneth Garcia Letter, Fall/Winter Cattle, Casinos, and Cathouses, T. Austin Graham The Southwest Review, vol. 100, Songs of the Century, New Literary no. 2 History, vol. 4, no. 4 Emily Geminder Sue Granzella Coming To: A Lexicology of Andiamo! Ascent, May 20 Fainting, Prairie Schooner, Summer Allison Green Elizabeth Gentry Twenty Hours and Ten Minutes The Possum, the Wren, and My of Therapy, The Gettysburg Review, Animal-Soul, Third Coast, Fall Spring Philip Gerard Stephen Greenblatt Sherman’s Final March, Our State, Shakespeare in Tehran, The New February York Review of Books, April 2 Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2015 315

Mark Greif Bonnie Harris Seeing Through Police, n+1, Irene, Profane, Winter Spring Webb Harris Jr. Genese Grill Long Time Comin’: The Almandal Grimoire: The Book Education of Brother Webb, as Magical Object, The Georgia Southern Humanities Review, Review, Winter vol. 48, no. 4 Ona Gritz Lee Haupt It’s Time, The Rumpus, The Ring, Image, no. 87 August 12 Karen Hayes Melissa Grunow CV x K, Passages North, no. 36 We’re All Mad Here: A Field Ursula Hegi Guide to Feigning Sanity, I’m Searching for a Home Limestone, Fall for Unwed Girls, New England Penny Guisinger Review, vol. 36, no. 3 The Sound of Galton’s Whistle, Danny Heitman The Rumpus, June 14 Our Contemporary, Margaret Morganroth Gullette Montaigne, Humanities, March/ Morgie Waits for Her Future April Self to Appear, South Street, Fall Robin Hemley Debra Gwartney Border Crossing, Orion, July/ We All Must Live by the Rules, August Tin House, no. 63 Aleksandar Hemon In Search of Lost Space, Shahnaz Habib Freeman’s, no. 1 Hospitality, Brevity, September 3 Julie Henson Meaghan Hackinen Sisters Peeling, New Ohio Review, Where the Tide Rushes Between, Fall One Throne Magazine, Fall Michelle Herman Rachel Hadas Gone, Creative Nonfiction, The Honors Student, the Winter Plagiarist, and the Fan, Daisy Hernandez Hotel Amerika, Winter Los Ojos, Dogwood, Spring Jessica Erica Hahn Doug Hesse Last Man Standing, Prick of the Teaching a Stone to Read, Spindle, no. 8 Fourth Genre, Fall James Allen Hall Emily Hipchen Be Destroyed, Alaska Quarterly Hush, Under the Sun, Summer Review, Spring/Summer Edward Hoagland Jane Eaton Hamilton The Mysteries of Attraction, Never Say I Didn’t Bring You The American Scholar, Autumn Flowers, Full Grown People, Ann Hodgman January 8 Against Locavores, Tin House, Jeffrey Hammond no. 63 Eight-Per-Five, Under the Sun, Ming Holden Summer Jacqueline and the Negative Liz Windhorst Harmer Imagination, Hayden’s Ferry Correctives, Prism, Winter Review, Fall/Winter 316 Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2015

BJ Hollars Lacy M. Johnson Hirofukushima, Passages North, On Mercy, Guernica, no. 36 October 1 Ann Hood Alex R. Jones Abingdon Square, The Normal Small Time, The Sun, April School, vol. 8, no. 2 Louis B. Jones bell hooks Varney’s, The Threepenny Review, Writing Without Labels, Fall Appalachian Heritage, Fall Latoya Jordan Elizabeth Hoover After Striking a Fixed Object, Smudge, Story Quarterly, no. 48 Manifest-Station, July 22 Patricia Horvath Fabienne Josaphat Wrath, The Los Angeles Review, Fall Summer Is an Empty House, Kerry Howley Grist, no. 8 The Cage of You, Granta, no. 132 William Huhn Howard Kaplan You Forgot These, Thema, The St. Jude’s Old-Timers Autumn Softball Draft Night, Splice Today, Christine Hume May 6 Ventifacts, Conjunctions, no. 64 Moss Kaplan Courtney Humphries Viewing the Dead, The Literary Teeth, Bluestem, Spring Review, Fall Erica Hunt Garret Keizer Chasing a Ghost, Portrait of Hokusai’s Octopus: A Romp at My Father, The Literary Review, the Edge of the Deep, The Kenyon Fall Review, May/June Barbara Hurd Anne Marie Kennedy The Ear Is a Lonely Hunter, Nowhere on the Chart, Ecotone, Fall New Hibernia Review, Autumn Randall Kennedy Pico Iyer Lifting as We Climb, The Foreign Spell, Lapham’s Harper’s Magazine, October Quarterly, Winter Thomas E. Kennedy Prudence and Method, Shanley Jacobs New Letters, vol. 82, no. 1 The Oriel Window, Tampa Review, Harrison Scott Key no. 50 Man Is But an Ass, Image, Alison Condie Jaenicke no. 84 I Slept Well if You Slept Well, Ralph Keyes Isthmus, Fall/Winter Smoking with Mom, The Antioch Evan James Review, Winter Grotesk, Oxford American, no. 90 Porochista Khakpour Leslie Jamison Federer as Irreligious Giving Up the Ghost, Harper’s Experience, Prairie Schooner, Magazine, March Winter Fenton Johnson Lydia Kiesling Going It Alone, Harper’s Beautiful Babies, The Millions, Magazine, April July 28 Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2015 317

Jean Kim Victor Lavalle The Hijacked Flight My Mother Run Your Shit, Tin House, Didn’t Take, Medium, February no. 65 Kenneth King David Lazar At the Crossroads, North Dakota To the Reader, Sincerely, Quarterly, vol. 82, no. 4 The Normal School, vol. 8, no. 2 Martha King Anna Leahy Outside Inside, A Public Space, The Give and Take of Grief, no. 23 The Weeklings, January 30 Alison Kinney Harry Leeds The Uses of Orphans, The New They’re Not Pretending Inquiry, October 2 Anymore, Green Mountains Review, Dasha Kiper vol. 28, no. 2 Hope Is the Enemy, The American Lawrence Lenhart Scholar, Autumn Dogsucker: The Written Oral, Cassandra Kircher Alaska Quarterly Review, Spring/ No More to the Lake, North Summer Dakota Quarterly, vol. 80, no. 2 Sarah K. Lenz Judith Kitchen Killing Chickens, New Letters, Breath, River Teeth, Spring vol. 81, nos. 3 and 4 Jacqueline Kolosov Brigitte Leschhorn Pilgrimage to St. Ives, The Sewanee Ghosts March in Ferguson, MO, Review, Summer Crab Orchard Review, Summer/Fall Mary Kudenov Shara Lessley A History of Smoking, Point Blank, The Gettysburg Review, The Southampton Review, Spring Winter Gabriel Levin Don Lago Our Sorrow and Our Love Message from Space, Michigan Move into a Foreign Language, Quarterly Review, Winter Salamander, no. 41 Hafeez Lakhani Cynthia Lewis The Argument, Crazyhorse, Big Love, The Hudson Review, Fall Summer Annie Lampan Michael Lewis The Joints That Hold Us The White Stuff, Vanity Fair, Together, The Massachusetts November Review, Fall Alison Lie Heather Kirn Lanier Her Boyhood, Catamaran, Fall The R-Word, The Sun, May Kerstin Lieff Lance Larsen A Boy Named Klaus, The Southeast Too Many Mysteries to Shake a Review, vol. 33, no. 1 Stick At, The Southwest Review, Michael Lindenberger vol. 100, no. 1 The Vanishing Terrain of Gay Peter LaSalle America, The New Republic, July/ Invisible Travel: A Cycle August Concerning the Creative Brandon Lingle Imagination, in Nine Parts, Tourniquet, The Southeast Review, The Literary Review, Fall vol. 33, no. 2 318 Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2015

Gordon Lish J. B. MacKinnon Postcards, The Antioch Review, Fall Facing Fear, Orion, May/June Mel Livatino Patrick Madden How Do We Love? Notre Dame Spit, Fourth Genre, Spring Magazine, Winter Terese Marie Mailhot Roberto Loiederman I Know I’ll Go, Burrow Press Roadblock, Fifth Wednesday, Review, August 18 Spring Patrick Mainelli Priscilla Long Hope, Change, Etc., Isthmus, Old Things, Used Things, Spring/Summer The Antioch Review, Fall Antonia Malchik Phillip Lopate Bitterroot, 1966: A Journal of Experience Necessary, Creative Nonfiction, Summer Salmagundi, Winter/Spring Pamela Mandell Barry Lopez Berry B., The Los Angeles Review, The Invitation, Granta, no. 133 Spring Alice Lowe Corinne Manning My Quarrel with Grieving, The Language of Kudzu, Permafrost, Winter Lake Effect, no. 19 Sara Beth Lowe Terrance Manning Jr. Ridge Hounds, The Louisville Leave Them Hurtin’ When Review, Fall You Leave, Crazyhorse, Fall Jennifer Lunden Stephen Marche Evidence, River Teeth, Spring The Ghost of Hemingway, Rachel Luria Esquire, October The Rush Gives Warmth Enough, Jeannie Marshall Sport Literate, vol. 9, no. 1 A Kind of Hunger, Brick, Stephen J. Lyons no. 95 The River Will Have the Last Chelsea Martin Word, Narratively, August 27 Voluntary Responses to Involuntary Sensations, Catapult, Monica Macansantos September 10 Becoming a Writer: The Silences Clancy Martin We Write Against, TAYO Literary We Buy Broken Gold, Lapham’s Magazine, May 31 Quarterly, Spring Jody Mace Lucy Martin The Population of Me, Full Grown Abe & I, Witness, Spring People, June 23 Marilyn Martin Carmen Maria Machado State of Grace, Third Coast, Fall A Girl’s Guide to Sexual Purity, Greg Marshall The Los Angeles Review of Books, Suck Ray Blue, Tampa Review, March 5 no. 50 Kyo Maclear Michael Martone Faltering, Brick, no. 95 Live Blogging My Father’s Death, Steve Macone Witness, Spring On Taphonomy: Digging for Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Dinosaurs in My Twenties, The The Taste of Sardines, Hotel Atlantic, October 16 Amerika, Winter Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2015 319

David Masello James McWilliams Come Through for Me, Gay & The Examined Lie, The American Lesbian Review, July/August Scholar, Summer Daniel Mason Dinaw Mengestu Rogue Wounds, Lapham’s Returning to Ethiopia, Guernica, Quarterly, Spring December 15 Ryan Masters Suzanne Maria Menghraj Unless a Kernel of Wheat Falls, Usciolu, Flyway, February 15 Image, no. 87 Daphne Merkin Melissa Matthewson Desperately Seeking No One, A Gathering of Then & Now, Elle, June Mid-American Review, vol. 36, Maggie Mertens no. 1 Death with Dignity, Pacific D. L. Mayfield Standard, January 31 Blessed Are the Pure in Heart, Jeffrey Meyers Ruminate, Summer The Lost Girl, Denver Quarterly, Emry McAlear vol. 50, no. 1 A Hat in the Wind, CutBank, Kathryn Miles no. 83 Mapping the Bottom of the Cynthia McCabe World, Ecotone, Fall Ending It All, The Washington Post Nicole E. Miller Magazine, January 18 Last Night at the Breakers, Susan McCallum-Smith New Letters, vol. 81, no. 2 Smithereens, Agni, no. 82 Sam Miller Kenneth A. McClane Gandhi the Londoner, Granta, Thomas: A Hymn to Life, The no. 130 Antioch Review, Spring Debra Monroe Clint McCown The Wild Life, Texas Monthly, Somewhere West of Truth or November Consequences, Crazyhorse, Fall Ander Monson Maureen McCoy Considering a Stain, Sierra Nevada Smile: Your War Is Over, Review, no. 26 The Gettysburg Review, Spring Rick Moody Gary L. McDowell Shabby Gentility, Salmagundi, How to Cope with Risk, The Winter/Spring Massachusetts Review, Summer Dinty W. Moore Karen Salyer McElmurray The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis, Elixir, South Dakota Review, or How I Learned to Love My vol. 51, nos. 3 and 4 Paranasal Sinuses, The Normal Jean McGarry School, vol. 8, no. 2 On Writer’s Block, The Yale Dionisia Morales Review, July Catch Me, I’m Falling, Hunger Caitlin McGill Mountain, no. 19 Silent Interrogation, The Southeast Kyoko Mori Review, vol. 33, no. 2 Pet Grief, Harvard Review, no. 47 Kim McLarin Marilyn Moriarty The Low Road, The Morning News, Territorial Imperative in Planaria, July 22 Creative Nonfiction, Spring 320 Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2015

Robert Morris Randy Osborne A Few Thoughts on Bombs, Seaside Bohemia, Thread, Fall Tennis, Free Will, Agency Reduction, the Museum, Alexis Paige Dust Storms, and Labyrinths, The Right to Remain, Critical Inquiry, Winter The Rumpus, March 29 Scott Russell Morris Wilfredo Pascual Speak English, Please, The You Have Me, December, Chattahoochee Review, Spring Fall/Winter Wesley Morris Michael Paterniti Who Do You Think You Are? The Accident, GQ, March The New York Times Magazine, Jenny Patton October 11 A Different Direction, John Murillo III Kaleidoscope, Winter/Spring Black (in) Time, Indiana Review, Hilary Peach Winter The Wolf, Event, vol. 44, no. 3 Bradford Pearson Nick Neely My Kidnappers, Philadelphia Discovering Anna, The Southern Magazine, September Review, Winter Dale Peck Cristina Nehring Voyeur, The Threepenny Review, The Death of Eros, Elle, April Spring John Nelson Adrienne Perry Birds of the New World, A Dark and Simple Place, The Antioch Review, Winter Indiana Review, Winter Beth Newberry Kiki Petrosino The Curve of the Smoke, Literacy Narrative, The Iowa Appalachian Heritage, Fall Review, vol. 45, no. 3 Catherine Newman M. Nourbese Philip This Is Fourteen, Brain, Child, Drowning Not Waving, Room, Spring vol. 38, no. 4 D. T. Nguyen Adam Phillips Dining Out, The Briar Cliff Review, Edward Lear’s Nonsense and no. 27 British Psychoanalysis, Raritan, Randon Billings Noble Fall The Heart as a Torn Muscle, Deesha Philyaw Brevity, January 8 How Can You Be Mad at Nancy J. Nordenson Someone Who’s Dying of Physiology Lessons, Comment, Cancer? Full Grown People, Spring February 17 Lynne Nugent Eric M. Poeschla The Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card, Hemingway’s Last Letter, Full Grown People, March 12 The Southwest Review, 100, no. 1 David James Poissant Chris Offutt On the Disney Cruise, Burrow At Last, Sex, Slice, no. 17 Press Review, July 21 Melissa Oliveira Bella Pollen Analog, Agni, no. 82 Possession, Granta, no. 132 Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2015 321

Liza Porter Antonio Romani How to Survive the Dinner Table, She’ll Make Herself Alive, Chautauqua, no. 12 A Public Space, no. 23 Susan Power Lisa Romeo Breaking Stereotypes, Yellow Not Quite Meet-Cute, Medicine Review, Fall Blue Lyra Review, Spring Thomas H. Pruiksma Lee Ann Roripaugh First Loves, Ploughshares, Summer Swarm, South Dakota Review, Shelley Puhak vol. 52, no. 1 Five Bathrooms and an Maxine Rosaler Outhouse, Creative Nonfiction, The Lost Boy, Fifth Wednesday, Winter Spring Lia Purpura Phyllis Rose My Eagles, Orion, March/April My Mother’s Yiddish, The American Scholar, Claudia Rankine Summer Her Excellence, The New York Jeremy Rosen Times Magazine, August 30 An Insatiable Market for Wendy Rawlings Minor Characters: Genre in A Singular Apparatus, The Florida the Contemporary Literary Review, vol. 39, nos. 1 and 2 Marketplace, New Literary History, Robert Rebein Winter Bullet in the Brain, Yemassee, Jim Ross Spring Slow to Learn, Ray’s Road Review, Paul Reiferson Winter He Wears the Mask, The Southwest Theodore Ross Review, vol. 100, no. 3 How to Beat a Polygraph Test, Sue Repko Vice, April Detours, Literal Latte, Spring Allie Rowbottom Robin Rinaldi Ghosts and Houses, The Florida Love in a Time of Plethora, Review, vol. 39, nos. 1 and 2 San Francisco, February Lisa Ruddick Jim Ringley When Nothing Is Cool, The Point, What You Don’t Know for December 7 Certain, The Sun, March Heather Ryan Kristina Kay Robinson En Passant, The Los Angeles Review, Ten Years Since: A Meditation on Spring New Orleans, The Nation, August 31 and September 7 Kendell Newman Sadiik Marilyn Robinson The Man Behind Him, Humanism, The Nation, Jabberwock Review, Winter November 9 Matt Sailor Walter M. Robinson Great Moments in Cinematic White Cloth Ribbons, Harvard Drinking: Jaws, Hobart, Review, no. 48 October 2 John G. Rodwan Jr. Mark Sanders Pedal Power to the People, Homecoming Parade, The American Interest, May/June Permafrost, Winter 322 Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2015

Scott Russell Sanders Kenneth Sherman Writing While the World Burns, Living Susan Sontag’s Illness as The Georgia Review, Spring Metaphor, Brick, no. 95 Eva Saulitis Serena Shipp Man of Letters: An Elegy, Fishing, Room, vol. 38, no. 4 Alaska Quarterly Review, Fall/ Tom Shroder Winter Seoul Mates, The Washington Post Richard Schmitt Magazine, September 13 States of Mind, The Chattahoochee Ranbir Singh Sidhu Review, Fall/Winter The Indian Wedding That David Schneider Exploded in Violence, Salon, Scalpel, This Land, Summer January 1 Candy Schulman Gemma Sieff Je Suis a Mother in an Age Gone in 60 Seconds, Vice, January of Terror, Washington Post, Robert Anthony Siegel January 21 Criminals, Paris Review, Fall Kathryn Schulz Sherry Simon Pond Scum, The New Yorker, The Translational Life of Cities, October 19 The Massachusetts Review, Fall Eben S. Schwartz Steven Simoncic The Art of Medicine: Metaphors I Like You, Under the Gum Tree, and Medically Unexplained January Symptoms, The Lancet, August 22 Peter Singer Mimi Schwartz The Logic of Effective Altruism, The Coronation of Bobby, Boston Review, July/August Creative Nonfiction, Spring David Skinner Wayne Scott Edmund Wilson’s Big Idea, Summer Without End, Humanities, September/October The Millions, January 22 John Skoyles Danielle Petersen Searls Johnny London, Five Points, Crusader Chic, Lapham’s vol. 17, no. 1 Quarterly, Fall Lauren Slater Heather Sellers Bloodlines, The Sun, March I’ll Never Bother You Again, Aisha Sabatini Sloan The Sun, February D Is for the Dance of the Hours, Lynda Sexson Ecotone, Fall Rock, Paper, Scissors, Image, Sarah Smarsh no. 85 The First Person on Mars, Vela, Steven Shapin October 20 The Desire to Know, Boston Justin E. H. Smith Review, January/February The Joke, Harper’s Magazine, April Susan Shapiro Mike Smith What My Father Gave Me, Yahoo, My Magpie Mind, December, June 19 Fall/Winter Aurvi Sharma Phillip a. Snyder Eleven Stories of Water and Rental Horses, Sport Literate, vol. Stone, Prairie Schooner, Spring 9, no. 2 Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2015 323

Rebecca Solnit Kelly Sundberg Abolish High School, Harper’s Whirling Disease, Denver Magazine, April Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 3 Tamie Parker Song Caroline Sutton Manhandled, New Ohio Review, A Paper Trail, North American Fall Review, Spring Ana Maria Spagna Leopold Szor Hope Without Hope, Ecotone, Obligation, Bellevue Literary Spring Review, Fall Debra Spark The Dangerous Act of Writing, Jill Talbot Agni, no. 81 The Fiction of History, Matthew Spender The Normal School, vol. 8, Worldly Failure, The Yale Review, no. 1 October Adina Talve-Goodman Mairead Small Staid I Must Have Been That Man, Mad Pieces, The Georgia Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Fall Spring Erin Stalcup Simon Tam The Art of Teaching, stirjournal Trademark Offense, Oregon .com, June 15 Humanities, Summer M. D. Stein Ron Tanner Acting Like a Doctor, The Last Draft, The Louisville The Southwest Review, vol. 100, Review, Spring no. 3 Ashley P. Taylor Michael Steinberg Crying: An Exploration, Living in Michigan, Dreaming BrainDecoder, December 2 Manhattan, Great Lakes Review, Karen D. Taylor Summer/Fall Still Occupied, Transition, Susan Straight no. 118 The River in Me, Orion, January/ Matthew Teague February The Friend, Esquire, May Ginger Strand Gaurav Raj Telhan Vonnegut on the Road, Tin Begin Cutting, The Virginia House, no. 65 Quarterly Review, Fall Emily Strasser Kerry Temple Homeplace, Ploughshares, Winter The Sun in Our Midst, Abe Streep Notre Dame Magazine, Spring In Search of a Stolen Fiddle, Brandon M. Terry Harper’s Magazine, May After Ferguson, The Point, Sarah A. Strickley Summer The Beverly Hills Supper Club: Clifford Thompson An Assemblage of Failures, On the Bus, The Threepenny The Normal School, vol. 8, no. 1 Review, Spring Ira Sukrungruang Richard Tillinghast The First Transgression, Four Directions, The Sewanee Midwestern Gothic, Fall Review, Summer 324 Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2015

Lad Tobin Andrea Vassallo The Permission Slip, The Sun, Breathe, Solstice, Fall/Winter November Patricia Vigderman Joyce Tomlinson Out of the Shadows, Harvard Invasion of the Oldies, The Gold Review, no. 48 Man Review, no. 4 Jody Noel Vinson Alison Townsend The Way to Swann’s House, California Girl, Catamaran, Fall The Gettysburg Review, Summer The Scent of Always: A Personal Sarah Viren History, with Perfume, A Ballad for You, storySouth, Fall The Southern Review, Winter Robert Vivian Patrick Tripp Gobsmack Essay, Profane, Winter Refills,The Threepenny Review, Fall Jerald Walker Lori Tucker-Sullivan The Heritage Room, Apogee, Detroit, 2015, Midwestern Gothic, no. 6 Fall Nicole Walker Matt Tullis Tongue, Witness, Spring The Ghosts I Run With, SB Frank Walters Nation, April 15 The Wave That Tears at Us, Brian Turner Bellevue Literary Review, Fall Smoking with the Dead and Esme Weijun Wang Wounded, The Georgia Review, Fall Toward a Pathology of the Possessed, The Believer, Fall David L. Ulin Gina Warren Fifteen Takes on California, The The Chicken Project, Orion, Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer July/August Spring Ulmer Claire Vaye Watkins Bubbles, Crab Orchard Review, On Pandering, Tin House, Summer/Fall no. 66 Geri Ulrey Leon Weinmann 13th & B, The Carolina Quarterly, Bodies of Water, The Literary Fall Review, Summer David J. Unger Jillian Weise Fail Again, The Point, Summer Why I Own a Gun, Tin House, Lee Upton no. 65 A Reverse Alphabet for Finishing, Wil Weitzel The Kenyon Review, January/ Green Eyes of Harar, February Conjunctions, no. 64 Jim White Algis Valiunas Glossolalia, Epiphany, Fall The Man Who Thought of Chris Wiewiora Everything, The New Atlantis, Submerged, Story Magazine, Spring March Jeannie Vanasco Kathryn Wilder What’s in a Necronym? The Sundance, Southern Indiana Believer, Summer Review, Spring Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2015 325

Christian Wiman Amy Yee Kill the Creature, The American Exporting Clothes, Importing Scholar, Spring Safety, Roads and Kingdoms, Ariel Winter August 27 Tales of Grandma Whittier, Slice, no. 17 Lee Zacharias Melora Wolff A Circle, a Line, an Island, Mystery Girls, Southern Indiana Our State, May Review, Fall Jess Zimmerman Laura Esther Wolfson A Midlife Crisis, by Any Other After the Autobiography, Name, Hazlitt, July 20 Superstition Review, July Dave Zoby Baron Wormser Hobart Dreams, The Missouri Harrisong, Five Points, vol. 16, Review, Summer no. 3 Greg Wrenn Innocence, KROnline, Summer

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Notable Special Issues of 2015

The Antioch Review, “The Educated The Missouri Review, “Loners,” ed. Heart,” ed. Robert S. Fogarty, Speer Morgan, Spring. Fall. n+1, “Conviction,” ed. Nikil Saval The Baffler, “Venus in Furs,” ed. and Dayna Tortorici, Spring. John Summers, no. 27. The Nation, 150th anniversary issue, The Chattahoochee Review, “Migration,” ed. Katrina Vanden Heuvel and ed. Anna Schachner, Fall/Winter. D. D. Guttenplan, April. Conjunctions, “Natural Causes,” ed. New Literary History, “Song,” ed. Bradford Morrow, no. 64. Jahan Ramazani and Herbert F. Creative Nonfiction, “The Memoir,” ed. Tucker, Autumn. Lee Gutkind, Spring. North Dakota Quarterly, “Slow,” ed. Daedalus, “What Is the Brain Good Rebecca Rozelle-Stone and For?” guest editor, Fred H. Gage, William Caraher, vol. 80, no. 2. Winter. Oregon Humanities, “Safe,” ed. Ecotone, “The Sound Issue,” ed. Kathleen Holt, Summer. David Gessner, Fall. Orion, “Writing and Art from Freeman’s, “Arrival,” ed. America’s Prisons,” ed. Richard John Freeman, 2015. Shelton, January/February. Granta, “India: Another Way of Prairie Schooner, “Sports,” guest editor, Seeing,” guest editor, Ian Jack, Natalie Diaz, Winter. no. 130. Room, “Fieldwork,” ed. Tayrn Harper’s Magazine, “How to Be a Hubbard, vol. 38, no. 4. Parent,” August. Salmagundi, “The Best of Hayden’s Ferry Review, “Borderlands,” Salmagundi” (50th anniversary ed. Chelsea Hickok, Fall/Winter. issue), ed. Robert Boyers and Hunger Mountain, “The Body Issue,” Peg Boyers, Winter/Spring. ed. Miciah Bay Gault, no. 19. The Sewanee Review, “Folded Sunsets: Image, “Reading from Two At Home and Abroad,” ed. Books: Nature, Scripture, and George Core, Summer. Evolution,” ed. Gregory Wolfe, Slice, “Desire,” ed. Maria Gagliano, no. 85. Celia Blue Johnson, and Iron Horse Literary Review, Kirk Elizabeth Blachman, no. 17. Wisland, “Melancholy of Falling The Threepenny Review, “A Symposium Men” (single-author issue), ed. on Jokes,” ed. Wendy Lesser, Fall. Leslie Jill Patterson, vol. 17, no.5. Tin House, “Theft,” ed. Rob Spillman, The Literary Review, “Flight,” ed. no. 65. Minna Proctor, Fall. Vice, “The Prison Issue,” ed. Ellis MAKE, “The Value of What’s Jones, October. Forgotten,” ed. Jose-Luis Water-Stone Review, “All We Cannot Moctezuma, no. 16. Alter,” ed. Mary Francois Midwestern Gothic, nonfiction issue, Rockcastle, no. 18. ed. Jeff Pfaller and Robert James Witness, “Trans/lation,” ed. Maile Russell, Fall. Chapman, Spring.

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Corrections: Apologies to Jaquira Díaz, whose “Ordinary Girls” appears in this volume. Because of a printing mishap, the spelling of her last name was mangled in the list of “Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2014,” which included her essay “My Mother and Mercy” from the August issue of The Sun. The following essays should also have appeared in “Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2014”: Alexander Chee, Mr. & Mrs. B, Apology, Winter Bettina Drew, The Great Amnesia, Southwest Review, vol. 99, no. 4 Sonja Livingston, Mock Orange, Water-Stone Review, no. 17 John S. O’Connor, The Ice House, Under the Sun, July 31 Ned Stuckey-French, Our Queer Little Hybrid Thing, Assay, Fall