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The Best American Essays 2016
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The National Book Award–winning author compiles a "thought-provoking volume" of essays by Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, Jaquira Diaz and others ( Publishers Weekly).
As Jonathan Franzen writes in his introduction, his main criterion for selecting The Best American Essays 2016 "was whether an author had taken a risk." The resulting volume showcases authorial risk in a variety of forms, from championing an unpopular opinion to the possibility of ruining a professional career, or irrevocably alienating one's family. What's gained are essential insights into aspects of the human condition that would otherwise remain concealed—from questions of queer identity, to the experience of a sibling's autism and relationships between students and college professors.
The Best American Essays 2016 includes entries by Alexander Chee, Paul Crenshaw, Jaquira Diaz, Laura Kipnis, Amitava Kaumar, Sebastian Junger, Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, George Steiner, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and others.Frequently asked questions
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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...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Foreword by Robert Atwan
- Introduction by Jonathan Franzen
- FRANCISCO CANTÚ: Bajadas
- ALEXANDER CHEE: Girl
- CHARLES COMEY: Against Honeymoons
- PAUL CRENSHAW: Names
- JAQUIRA DÍAZ: Ordinary Girls
- IRINA DUMITRESCU: My Father and The Wine
- ELA HARRISON: My Heart Lies Between “The Fleet” and “All the Ships”
- SEBASTIAN JUNGER: The Bonds of Battle
- LAURA KIPNIS: Sexual Paranoia
- JORDAN KISNER: Thin Places
- AMITAVA KUMAR: Pyre
- RICHARD M. LANGE: Of Human Carnage
- LEE MARTIN: Bastards
- LISA NIKOLIDAKIS: Family Tradition
- JOYCE CAROL OATES: The Lost Sister: An Elegy
- MARSHA POMERANTZ: Right/Left: A Triptych
- JILL SISSON QUINN: Big Night
- JUSTIN PHILLIP REED: Killing Like They Do in the Movies
- OLIVER SACKS: A General Feeling of Disorder
- KATHERINE E. STANDEFER: In Praise of Contempt
- GEORGE STEINER: The Eleventh Commandment
- MASON STOKES: Namesake
- THOMAS CHATTERTON WILLIAMS: Black and Blue and Blond
- Contributors’ Notes
- Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2015
- Notable Special Issues of 2015
- Read More from The Best American Series®
- About the Editors