The Best American Essays 2014 (40 page)

Coming Apart,
Brick
, Winter.

R
ICHARD
P
RINS

Crying for the Razor in Dar es Salaam,
Transition
, no. 110.

L
IA
P
URPURA

Dot,
Normal School
, Fall.

 

J
ILL
S
ISSON
Q
UINN

The Myth of Home,
Ecotone
, Spring.

 

A
NNE
R
AEFF

Lorca in the Afternoon,
ZYZZYVA
, Fall.

S
ANDRA
R
AMIREZ

Stray,
Free State Review
, Summer.

J
ONATHAN
R
AUCH

The Case for Hate Speech,
The Atlantic
, November.

W
ENDY
R
AWLINGS

Weight Watching,
Cincinnati Review
, Winter.

A
NNA
R
EDSAND

Naturalization,
Clockhouse
, Summer.

A
DENA
R
EITBERGER

Here Is Always Somewhere Else,
Black Warrior Review,
Fall/Winter.

C
HELSIA
A. R
ICE

Tough Enough to Float,
Los Angeles Review
, Spring.

E
MILY
R
ICH

On the Road to Human Rights Day,
Little Patuxent Review,
Winter.

C
OLIN
R
OBINSON

Paddleball,
Granta
, Winter (no. 122).

W
ALTER
R
OBINSON

Nurse Clappy Gets His,
Literary Review
, vol. 56, no. 4.

J
OHN
G. R
ODWAN
, J
R
.

Carlessness,
Midwestern Gothic
, Fall.

J
AMES
S
ILAS
R
OGERS

The Sadly Sweet Season,
Notre Dame Magazine
, Autumn.

P
EGGY
R
OSENTHAL

An Apprenticeship in Affliction: Waiting with Simone Weil,
Image
, Spring (no. 77).

E
ARL
R
OVIT

The Waning of the Wayne,
Sewanee Review
, Winter.

A
NASTASIA
R
UBIS

Girl Falling,
North American Review
, Summer.

M
ARY
R
UEFLE

My Private Property,
KROnline
, October 9.

P
AUL
R
UFFIN

Laying that Awful Burden Down,
Boulevard
, no. 85/86.

K
ENT
R
USSELL

Mithradates of Fond du Lac,
The Believer
, June.

 

O
LIVER
S
ACKS

Speak, Memory,
New York Review of Books
, February 21.

N
ICK
S
ALVATO

Cringe Criticism: On Embarrassment and Tori Amos,
Critical Inquiry
, Summer.

S
COTT
R
USSELL
S
ANDERS

A Writer's Calling,
Chautauqua
, no. 10.

E
VA
S
AULITIS

Nonexistent Black and White Photograph,
Catamaran Literary Reader
, Spring.

G
ERDA
S
AUNDERS

Telling Who I Am Before I Forget: My Dementia,
Georgia Review
, Winter.

L
YNNE
S
HARON
S
CHWARTZ

You Gotta Have Heart,
Agni
, no. 77.

M
IMI
S
CHWARTZ

If You Are Absolutely Certain, I Get Suspicious,
TriQuarterly,
June 3.

K
AETHE
S
CHWEHN

Tailings,
Witness,
Spring.

M
ARTIN
S
CORSESE

The Persisting Vision: Reading the Language of Cinema,
New York Review of Books
, August 15.

R
OGER
S
CRUTON

Scientism in the Arts and Humanities,
New Atlantis
, Fall.

D
AVID
S
EARCY

Mad Science,
The Paris Review
, Spring.

M
ICHELLE
S
EATON

The Jet Set,
Lake Effect
, Spring.

D
AVID
S
EDARIS

Company Man,
The
New Yorker
, June 3.

P
ETER
S
ELGIN

My New York: A Romance in Eight Parts,
Missouri Review
, Summer.

S
USAN
E
LIZABETH
S
HEPHARD

Wildcatting,
Buzzfeed
, July 25.

B
ILL
S
HERWONIT

Of Waxwings and Goshawks and Standing Up to Power,
Anchorage Press
, January 17–23.

D
AVID
S
HIELDS

I Can't Stop Thinking Through What Other People Are Thinking,
New Letters
, vol. 79, nos. 3 and 4.

G
ARY
S
HTEYNGART

O.K., Glass,
The New Yorker
, August 5.

R
OBERT
A
NTHONY
S
IEGEL

Unreliable Tour Guide,
Ploughshares
, Winter.

F
LOYD
S
KLOOT

Elliptical Journey,
Post Road
, no. 24.

J
OHN
S
KOYLES

A Stay at Yaddo,
Five
Points
, vol. 15, no. 3.

M
AURA
S
MITH

Omphalos,
Bellevue Literary Review
, Spring.

P
ATRICIA
S
MITH

83 Problems, A–Z,
Jabberwock Review
, Winter.

S
UZANNE
F
ARRELL
S
MITH

The Pearl,
Post Road
, no. 25.

K
ATHARINE
S
MYTH

Prey,
The Point
, Fall.

R
EBECCA
S
OLNIT

Mysteries of Thoreau, Unsolved,
Orion
, May/June.

P
ATTY
S
OMLO

If We Took a Deep Breath,
Gold Man Review
, no. 2.

B
RIAN
J
AY
S
TANLEY

Odyssey of Desire,
Pleiades
, Winter (vol. 33, no. 1).

K
ATHRYN
S
TARBUCK

Nazis,
Sewanee Review
, Winter.

D
AVID
S
TEVENSON

A Cultural History of the Ice Axe, in Eight Fascicles,
Rock & Ice
, ascent issue.

D
EBORAH
S
TONE

Picking Pebbles,
Boston Review
, May/June.

S
USAN
S
TRAIGHT

What My Brother Left Behind,
The Believer
, March/April.

G
INGER
S
TRAND

Company Town,
Tin House
, Fall (no. 57).

H
AL
S
TUCKER

Strapped,
Boston Review
, February.

I
RA
S
UKRUNGRUANG

Atlas, Don't Let Me Down,
Southeast Review
, no. 2.

C
AROLINE
S
UTTON

Fin,
Ascent
, April 30.

B
ARRETT
S
WANSON

Perilous Aesthetics,
The Point
, Fall.

N
EIL
S
WIDEY

Restart,
Boston Globe Magazine
, May 12.

 

J
ILL
T
ALBOT

Autobiographies,
Full Grown People,
December 18.

D
EBORAH
T
HOMPSON

Scavenger Love,
Chattahoochee Review
, Fall/Winter.

M
ORITZ
T
HOMSEN

The Bombardier's Handbook,
ZYZZYVA
, Winter.

M
ELANIE
R
AE
T
HON

Galaxies Beyond Violet,
Five Points
, vol. 15, nos. 1 and 2.

C
AITLIN
T
HORNBRUGH

Ahuacatl Agovago. Avocado: The Corrupt Alligator Pear,
Parcel
, Spring.

S
ALLIE
T
ISDALE

An Uncommon Pain,
Harper's Magazine
, May.

L
AD
T
OBIN

My Fifty-Minute Hour,
The Sun
, August.

A
LISON
T
OWNSEND

At the Bottom of the Ocean: Psych Ward, 1986,
Feminist Studies
, vol. 39, no. 2.

W
ILLIAM
T
ROWBRIDGE

Ode to the Motel,
River Styx
, no. 90.

 

Z
HANNA
V
AYNBERG

Because a Wall Fell Down,
Michigan Quarterly Review,
Winter.

I
NARA
V
ERZEMNIEKS

The Last Days of the Baldock,
Tin House
, Fall (no. 57).

N
ATALIE
V
ESTIN

Forms of Wanting,
Water-Stone Review
, no. 16.

P
ATRICIA
V
IGDERMAN

The Real Life of the Parthenon,
Kenyon Review,
Winter.

W
ILLIAM
T. V
OLLMANN

Life as a Terrorist,
Harper's Magazine
, September.

 

J
ULIE
M
ARIE
W
ADE

Holy Orders,
Zone 3,
Spring.

J
ESSE
W
ALKER

America the Paranoid,
Reason
, October.

N
ICOLE
W
ALKER

Antibodies,
Fifth Wednesday
, Fall.

M
ARK
W
ARREN

The Father You Choose,
Esquire
, August.

J
OHN
W
ATERS

The Dress That Changed My Life,
Harper's Bazaar
, September.

M
ICHELLE
W
EBSTER
-H
EIN

Counting Apples,
Ruminate
, Winter (no. 30).

S
ARAH
W
ELLS

Field Guide to Resisting Temptation,
Brevity
, May.

C
AROLYN
W
HITE

Narrative Supplemental,
Prism
, Spring.

P
ATTI
W
HITE

The Sound,
Gulf Coast,
Summer/Fall.

C
OLSON
W
HITEHEAD

Loving Las Vegas,
Harper's Magazine
, December.

A. W
HITFIELD

The Garden,
Prism
, Fall.

L
EON
W
IESELTIER

Crimes Against Humanities,
New Republic
, September 16.

J
ESSICA
W
ILLBANKS

On the Far Side of the Fire,
Ninth Letter
, Fall/Winter.