by Robert Atwan
Imagination: Powers and Perils, Raritan, Fall.
C. RONALD EDWARDS
The Coffin Handles Were Stalks of Wheat, Post Road, no. 22.
JOHN M. EDWARDS
Who Is This Charlie Sands?, Hack Writers, March.
BARBARA EHRENREICH
The Animal Cure, The Baffler, no. 19.
SUE EISENFELD
North River Roux, Deep Waters, June.
JOSEPH EPSTEIN
Old Age and Other Laughs, Commentary, March.
KRISTINE S. ERVIN
Cleaving To, Crab Orchard Review, Winter/Spring.
BERNADETTE ESPOSITO
Speck of Light, Conjunctions, no. 58.
MATT EVANS
Burn All the Liars, Morning News, February 22.
ANNE FADIMAN
The World’s Most Southerly Periodical, Harvard Review, no. 43.
JIM FAIRHALL
Nui Khe Revisited, Crab Orchard Review, Winter/Spring.
AMANDA M. FAISON
A Place at the Table, 5280, August.
ANDREW FARKAS
Somewhere Better Than This Place, Florida Review, Summer.
SHAWN FAWSON
Belongings Of, South Loop Review, no. 14.
GEORGE FEIFER
Okinawa 66 Years Later, Collier’s, February.
GARY FINCKE
Plant Voices, Tampa Review, nos. 43 & 44.
CAROL FIRSTMAN
Liminal Scorpions, Colorado Review, Summer.
JOHN FISCHER
The Last Place You Ever Live, Guernica, September 17.
SETH FISCHER
Notes from a Unicorn, The Rumpus, February 24.
RYAN FLAHERTY
Craquelure, Conjunctions, no. 58.
PATRICIA FOSTER
The Red Chair, Southern Humanities Review, Fall.
PORTER FOX
The Glass Filter, Poets & Writers, September/October.
JONATHAN FRANZEN
A Rooting Interest, The New Yorker, February 13 & 20.
IAN FRAZIER
A Farewell to Yarns, Outside, November.
BONITA FRIEDMAN
The Watcher, Image, no. 70.
MARY FUNK
Killdeer, Oregon Quarterly, Summer.
J. MALCOLM GARCIA
What Happens After Sixteen Years in Prison, McSweeney’s, no. 41.
WILLIAM GASS
Narrative Sentences, Yale Review, January.
ATUL GAWANDE
Big Med, The New Yorker, August 13 & 20.
ROXANE GAY
To Scratch, Claw, or Grope Clumsily or Frantically, Ninth Letter, Fall/Winter.
DIANA HUME GEORGE
On Denying Denial, a Meditation, Chautauqua, no. 9.
PHILIP GERARD
Indivisible, Our State, November.
DAVID GESSNER
Clappers, Ecotone, Spring.
SARAH GILBERT
The Good Fight, Oregon Humanities, Summer.
AARON GILBREATH
’ra-di-kel, Hotel Amerika, Spring.
A. A. GILL
Can This Wedding Be Saved?, Vanity Fair, September.
MALCOLM GLADWELL
Slackers, The New Yorker, July 30.
ALBERT GOLDBARTH
The Hamza, Boulevard, Spring.
FRANCISCO GOLDMAN
The Unresilient, The Believer, September.
CAMILLE GOODISON
Twelve Days, Relief, Spring.
JESSE GOOLSBY
Waiting for Red Dawn, Alaska Quarterly Review, Fall/Winter.
ADAM GOPNIK
The Caging of America, The New Yorker, January 30.
MARY GORDON
The Taste of Almonds, Ploughshares, Fall.
SARAH GORHAM
Sentimental à la Carte, Alimentum, no. 13, Winter.
TONY GORRY
War Stories, War, Literature, and the Arts, no. 24.
MAX GRAY
No Stranger, Jelly Bucket, no. 3.
AINE GREANEY
Green Card, Amoskeag, Spring.
VICKY GRUT
Into the Valley, Harvard Review, no. 43.
AARON GWYN
Ostrander at the Door, Missouri Review, Summer.
PAMELA HAAG
Death by Treacle, American Scholar, Spring.
DONALD HALL
Out the Window, The New Yorker, January 23.
PATRICIA HAMPL
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Essays from the Edge, American Scholar, Spring.
JEAN HARPER
Colic, Florida Review, Winter.
STEPHEN HARRIGAN
Where Is My Home?, Texas Monthly, March.
KATE HARRIS
The Contours of Cold, Cutbank, no. 77.
STEVEN HARVEY
The Open Door, Hunger Mountain, no. 17.
CHRIS HEDGES
War Is Betrayal, Boston Review, July/August.
DAISY HERNANDEZ
Before Love, Memory, Fourth Genre, Fall.
PETER HESSLER
Identity Parade, The New Yorker, May 21.
JENNIFER BOWEN HICKS
Attention, North American Review, Summer.
GRAHAM HILLARD
Honor Bound, Memphis, September.
EDWARD HOAGLAND
The Gravity of Falling, American Scholar, Winter.
ADINA HOFFMAN
Imagining the Real, Raritan, Spring.
EVA HOLLAND
Not an Ike and Tina Thing, Vela Magazine, March 6.
KAREN HOLMBERG
Songs and Calls of the Human Species, New England Review, vol. 33, no. 1.
TERRENCE HOLT
The Perfect Code, Granta, Summer.
JOE HOOVER
SJ, Occupy My Heart, Jesuit Post, February 6.
NICK HORNBY
My Patron, The Believer, February.
PAM HOUSTON
Corn Maze, Hunger Mountain, no. 17.
PATRICK HRUBY
Game Over, Sports on Earth, August 29.
EWA HRYNIEWICZ-YARBROUGH
Reading Under the Table, Threepenny Review, Summer.
HUA HSU
The Death Star, Lucky Peach, Fall.
AUSTIN L. HUGHES
The Folly of Scientism, New Atlantis, Fall.
EVAN HUGHES
Consider the Gentrifier, Tin House, no. 53.
MARIA HUMMEL
Sparrow, Narrative, Winter.
ROCHELLE HURT
A Disbeliever in Limbo, Image, no. 74.
SIRI HUSTVEDT
Freud’s Playground, Salmagundi, Spring/Summer.
PICO IYER
On Not Eating, Portland, Winter.
LAWRENCE JACKSON
The Ledger, n + 1, Summer.
ANJALI JAIN, MD
The Social History, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, November.
LESLIE JAMISON
Lost Boys, A Public Space, no. 15.
WES JAMISON
The Secret Garden, South Loop Review, no. 13.
MELANIE JANISSE
Detroit, Bayou, no. 57.
MYRA JEHLEN
How Georges Simenon Knew Where to Place the Couch, Raritan, Summer.
JAC JEMC
Notes Toward a Definition of Luck, Hobart, no. 13.
TREBBE JOHNSON
Gaze Even Here, Orion, November/December.
TOM JUNOD
The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama, Esquire, August.
ADRIANNE KALFOPOULOU
With My Daughter, Hannah Arendt, and the City of Futures, Hotel Amerika, Spring.
LAURE KATSAROS
A New World of Love, Massachusetts Review, Fall.
LEON KATZ
A Year with Alice B. Toklas, Yale Review, July.
GARRET KEIZER
A Harmony in Living, Lapham’s Quarterly, WINTER.
JESSE KELLERMAN
Deviated: A Memoir, Commentary, May.
PHILIP KELLY
Painting the Summer Palace of t
he Queen, The Sun, February.
GILLIAM KENDALL
Easily Led, The Sun, November.
THOMAS E. KENNEDY
A Night in Tunisia, Epoch, vol. 61, no. 2.
TIMOTHY KENNY
Dark Nights and Feral Dogs, Green Mountain Review, vol. 25, no. 2.
HARRISON SCOTT KEY
The Imaginary Farm, Oxford American, no. 77.
COLLEEN KINDER
Blot Out, Creative Nonfiction, Spring.
HEATHER KING
Of All the Mothers in the World, The Sun, August.
JOE KLEIN
How to Die, Time, June 11.
GWENDOLYN KNAPP
The Mother Load, Southeast Review, vol. 30, no. 1.
SANDRA KOBRIN
The Hitler Fund, Alaska Quarterly Review, Fall/Winter.
ANDREA KOTT
The Guns, North Dakota Quarterly, vol. 77, no. 4.
JANE KRAMER
A Reporter at Odds, The New Yorker, July 23.
DIANE KRAYNAK
Lazarus, Zone 3, Spring.
DANIEL KRIEGER
Going Gently into That Good Night, Narratively, September.
CONNIE KUHNS
Last Days in Cheyenne, Geist, Spring.
MAXINE KUMIN
Love in Wartime, American Scholar, Autumn.
BOB KUNZINGER
Baby on a Windshield, Southern Humanities Review, Winter.
KIM DANA KUPPERMAN
Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone, Hunger Mountain, December.
KELLY KURT
Death’s Yellow Door, This Land, February 15.
AMBER KUZMICK
Famine and Feast, Alimentum, no. 13, Winter.
MATT LABASH
The Meme Generation, Weekly Standard, June 4.
ROBERT LACY
Saturdays at the Paramount, Sewanee Review, Summer.
JHUMPA LAHIRI
My Life’s Sentences, New York Times Sunday Review, March 18.
ANNA LEAHY
Half-Skull Days, The Pinch, Spring.
MARTHA WEINMAN LEAR
The Comfort Zone, Narrative.
MELISSA LEAVITT
Show Off, Willow Springs, Spring.
DAVID LEGAULT
Significant Screams, Barrelhouse, no. 10.
NATON LESLIE
All Around the World, North Dakota Quarterly, vol. 77, nos. 2 & 3.
J. D. LEWIS
Tell Me, Cimarron Review, Spring.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
The Temporary Universe, Tin House, no. 51.
BRANDON LINGLE
Queen’s Creek, Guernica, August 30.
MEL LIVATINO
Wintry Rooms of Love, Notre Dame Magazine, Summer.
SONJA LIVINGSTON
Our Lady of the Roses, Fourth Genre, Spring.
PRISCILLA LONG
Studio, Under the Sun, Summer.
PHILLIP LOPATE
City Essay Films, Normal School, Fall.
JESSICA LOVE
Reading Fast and Slow, American Scholar, Spring.
DAVID LUMPKIN
Church Is Wherever You Are, Oxford American, no. 77.
SEAN LYSAGHT
Sleeping with Books, New Hibernia Review, Summer.
STEVE MACONE
Rites of Passage, American Scholar, Summer.
PATRICK MADDEN
Fixity, Southwest Review, vol. 97, no. 2.
MARGARET MALONE
A Crooked Still Life, Oregon Humanities, Fall/Winter.
STEPHEN MARCHE
Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?, The Atlantic, May.
FRANCESCA MARI
The Clock Test, Alaska Quarterly Review, Fall/Winter.
DEBRA MARQUART
Losing the Meadow, Alligator Juniper, 2012.
PEYTON MARSHALL
The Other Hemisphere, Blackbird, vol. 11, no. 1.
ANDY MARTIN
Hair Piece: Derrida in the Wilderness, Raritan, Summer.
CLANCY MARTIN
My Old Man, Harper’s Magazine, June.
ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH
Origins of a Murder, Oxford American, no. 78.
DAVID MASELLO
Addicted to a Younger Man, Salon.com, August 27.
JASON MASTALER
Shadow Walk, Harvard Review, no. 42.
HILARY MASTERS
Amelia Earhart’s Last Landing, Sewanee Review, Summer.
NEIL MATHISON
Wooden Boat, Blue Lyra Review, vol. 1, no. 2.
REBECCA MCCLANAHAN
Ginkgo Song, Kenyon Review, Summer.
MAC MCCLELLAND
Shelf Lives, Mother Jones, March/April.
DEIRDRE MCCLOSKY
Happyism, New Republic, June 28.
MAUREEN MCCOY
Brother Joseph, Wapsipinicon Almanac, no. 19.
THOMAS MCGONIGLE
Then, Notre Dame Review, Summer/Fall.
MICHAEL MCGREGOR
A Gyroscope on the Island of Love, Image, no. 70.
JOHN MCPHEE
Editors & Publisher, The New Yorker, July 2.
DANIEL MENDELSOHN
Unsinkable, The New Yorker, April 16.
DAPHNE MERKIN
We’re All Helmut Newton Now, Elle, October.
CLAIRE MESSUD
The Road to Damascus, Granta, Winter.
KIMBERLY MEYER
Demeter and Persephone in the Heartland, Kenyon Review, Fall.
CAROLYN MILLER
Arts and Science, Missouri Review, Fall.
DAVID MILLER
The Four Seasons Mini Almanac, Wapsipinicon Almanac, no. 19.
SAM J. MILLER
The Luke Letters, Upstreet, no. 8.
TONI MIROSEVICH
This Once Bright Thing, Hayden’s Ferry Review, no. 51.
DEBRA MONROE
Gray Area, Guernica, April 1.
AMY MONTICELLO
The Other Woman, Iron Horse Literary Review, vol. 14, no. 3.
DINTY W. MOORE
Buried Alive, Zone 3, Fall.
COREY MORRIS
Carp River, Crab Orchard Review, Summer/Fall.
SANDELL MORSE
Hiding, Ascent, August 12.
SCOTT NADELSON
I’m Your Man, Iron Horse Literary Review, vol. 14, no. 1.
ALEXIS NELSON
On Love and Memory, Normal School, Spring.
JACOB NEWBERRY
French Suite, Hunger Mountain, no. 17.
Summer, Granta, Winter.
ROB NIXON
Baboon, Sycamore Review, Winter/Spring.
NANCY NORDENSON
Prelude, Lake Effect, Spring.
MARK O’CONNOR
Holy Ghosts, Massachusetts Review, Winter.
SARAH A. ODISHOO
Eat Me: Instructions from the Unseen, Zone 3, Spring.
ARIKA OKRENT
Body Language, Lapham’s Quarterly, Spring.
BRIAN OLIU
Friday the 13th, Los Angeles Review, Fall.
W. SCOTT OLSEN
Tag, Tampa Review, nos. 43 & 44.
RICHARD O’MARA
Brothers, Sewanee Review, Summer.
MARK OPPENHEIMER
Who Needs Poetry?, New York Times Magazine, September 16.
PETER ORNER
Renters, Fifth Wednesday, Spring.
LAUREN C. OSTBERG
On Hair, So to Speak, Spring.
DAVID OWEN
Scars, The New Yorker, March 19.
ADRIANA PARAMO
Oil Spills Remind Me of Him, Compass Rose, vol. 12.
ALAN MICHAEL PARKER
Beach House as Nostalgia Museum, The Believer, November/December.
ANN PATCHETT
The Sense of an Ending, Vogue, September.
ANDREW PAYTON
Family Medicine, Bayou, no. 57.
GAIL PECK
Child Waiting, Apple Valley Review, Spring.
JEN PERCY
The Guinea Pig Lady,
Ninth Letter, Fall/Winter.
JENNIFER PERCY
Bodies, Witness, Spring.
JED PERL
Cash-and-Carry Aesthetics, The Baffler, no. 20.
ANN PETERS
The House on the Ledge, Southwest Review, vol. 97, no. 1.