Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2020
SELECTED BY ROBERT ATWAN
MARILYN ABILDSKOV
Krushchyovka, The Southern Review, 56/2
ANDRé ACIMAN
Adrift in Sunlit Night, The American Scholar, 89/3
KAZIM ALI
Naming Home, Ecotone, #29
BROOKE ALLEN
The Shakespeareans, The Hudson Review, 73/1
AMY AMOROSO
Your American Dream, Mount Hope, #17
SAM ANDERSON
Snowed Under, The New York Times Magazine, November 8
ANTONIA ANGRESS
A Secret Love Hidden in the Pages of The Price of Salt, Literary Hub, February 25
ROBERT ARCHAMBEAU
Concerning the Soul of Andy Warhol, Copper Nickel, #31–32
MEGAN J. ARLETT
On Castration, Prairie Schooner, 94/2
CHRIS ARTHUR
Listening to the Music of a Vulture’s Egg, Water-Stone Review, #23
JABARI ASIM
The Douglass Republic, The New Republic, September
RANA AWDISH
The Shape of the Shore, Intima, Fall
ANDRE BAGOO
In Praise of Corn-Pone Opinions, Electric Literature, January 29
JASMINE V. BAILEY
Destiny of Cumin, Ruminate, #54
AIMéE BAKER
Beasts of the Fields, Guernica, February 19
TIM BASCOM
Hiking into the Unknown, Under the Sun, #8
JACK BEATTY
The Cleopatra’s Nose of 1914, Lapham’s Quarterly, 13/2
NICKY BEER
My Brother Says “What the Fuck” The Cincinnati Review, 17/2
S. G. BELKNAP
Lovers in the Hands of a Patient God, The Point, #23
ALLISON FIELD BELL
The Body, the Onion: A Balagan, Shenandoah, 69/2
GABRIELLE BELLOT
The Curious Language of Grief, Catapult, March 11
ROSALIND BENTLEY
The Blessing and Burden of Forever, Oxford American, #109–110
HEATHER BRITTAIN BERGSTROM
Valley, Narrative, January 17
EMILY BERNARD
From the Stranger in Me to the Stranger in You, Image, #106
ERICA BERRY
Everything Bright Is Something Buried, The Yale Review, 108/3
ANDREA BIANCHI
Fade from Red, Witness, 33/3
SVEN BIRKERTS
Serendipity: Notebook, Arrowsmith, September 29
TOM BISSELL
Nabokov’s Rocking Chair: Lolita at the Movies, ZYZZYVA, #119
SEBASTIAN BITTICKS
Terra Incognita, Chautauqua, #17
GEORGE BLECHER
Ghosts on the Landing, Tiferet Journal, Spring/Summer
GARRETT BLISS
Accumulations, Tahoma Literary Review, #18
LUCIENNE S. BLOCH
Inside Stories, Five Points, 20/2
LOUISE A. BLUM
How It Ends, The Sun, #531
MICHAEL BOGAN
Indiana, Summer, 1984, Indiana Review, 42/1
JASWINDER BOLINA
Color Coded, Shenandoah, 69/2
SARI BOREN
He’s a Rope, Sycamore Review, 31/2
BRITTANY BORGHI
A Delicate Strength, The Iowa Review, 50/1
ZOE BOSSIERE
Fear in the Time of the Javelina, Guernica, May 13
JENNY BOULLY
I Want This to Be True, The Georgia Review, 74/4
CHRISTINE BOYER
Second Person, Tahoma Literary Review, #19
WILL BRIDGES
Bloodlines and Bitter Syrup, Creative Nonfiction, #73
REBECCA BRILL
On Gurning, Colorado Review, 47/2
VICTOR BROMBERT
In Praise of Jealousy? Raritan, 40/2
DAVID BROOKS
The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake, The Atlantic, March
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