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