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Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2015
Selected by Robert Atwan
Raymond Abbott
Seymour Krim, Oyez Review, Spring
Sufiya Abdur-Rahman
Surrender at the Cinema, Ummah Wide, February 15
Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams
Dog and Wolf: The Time Between, Southern Humanities Review, vol. 48, no. 3
Steve Adams
Border Crossing, Grist, no. 8
Tamara Adelman
Rustic Canyon, Rubbertop Review, no. 7
Marcia Aldrich
The Blue Dress, Hotel Amerika, Winter
Tariq al Haydar
Machine Language, Crab Orchard Review, Summer/Fall
Cynthia Allen
When the Walls Came Down, So to Speak, Fall
Lauren Alwan
Eldorado, ZYZZYVA, Winter
Zay Amsbury
Immersive Theater, New York: A Report from the Field, The Labletter, no. 17
Kate Angus
My Catalog of Failures, The Southeast Review, vol. 33, no. 1
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Race in the Modern World, Foreign Affairs, March/April
Aaron Apps
The Formation of This Grotesque Fatty Figure, Passages North, no. 36
Amye Archer
Slow Motion, PMS, no. 14
Chris Arthur
Memory Sticks, The Literary Review, Spring
Glass, Tahoma Literary Review, vol. 2, no. 2
Rilla Askew
Trail, This Land, Spring
Howard Axelrod
Into the Blind Spot, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter
Matthew James Babcock
Boogaloo Too, Small Print Magazine, Spring/Summer
C. Morgan Babst
Death Is a Way to Be, Guernica, June 15
Julianna Baggott
A Portrait of My Father Mapping a Plane Crash, The Cincinnati Review, Summer
Ronald Bailey
Eternal Youth for All, Reason, March
Sarah E. Baker
Every Western Is a Ghost Story, Ninth Letter, Spring/Summer
Poe Ballantine
No Talking to Imaginary People, The Sun, October
Russell Banks
Last Days Feeding Frenzy, Conjunctions, no. 64
Barret Baumgart
The Mountain, The Gettysburg Review, Autumn
Elizabeth Benedict
What We Talk About When We Talk About Money, Salmagundi, Winter/Spring
Geoffrey Bent
John Singer Sargent: The Great Good Painter, Boulevard, Fall
Stephen Benz
A Grave on the High Plain, River Teeth, Fall
Laurel Berger
The Magic of Untidiness, The Point, September 23
Emily Bernard
Black Is the Body, Creative Nonfiction, Spring
Sven Birkerts
Double Take, Agni, no. 82
Eula Biss
White Debt, The New York Times Magazine, December 6
Mary Clearman Blew
What My Hands Know, The Gettysburg Review, Summer
Paul Bloom
The Lure of Luxury, Boston Review, November/December
Will Blythe
Five Encounters with Vegetation, Oxford American, Summer
Ken Bode
Settling Scores: Revenge Louisiana Style, The Antioch Review, Winter
Kyle Boelte
Reluctant Citizens: A Juror’s Education, ZYZZYVA, Spring/Summer
Belle Boggs
Baby Fever, Orion, November/December
Leslie Bohem
What Everybody Wants, Parcel, Summer
Benedicte Boisseron
Afro-Dog, Transition, no. 118
Marc Bookman
“That’s What That N—— Deserved,” Mot...
