NICHOLAS DELBANCO
Conclusion, Salmagundi, Spring/ Summer.
A. N. DEVERS
On the Outskirts, Tin House, vol. 12, no. 1.
MICHELLE DISLER
Building, Massachusetts Review, vol. 51, no. 1.
ELIZABETH DODD
Concentric Canyon, Ascent, April 19.
MARK DOSTERT
Behavioral Management, Cimarron Review, Summer.
MARK DOTY
The Unwriteable, Granta, no. 110, Spring.
THERESE DOUCET
Farzad, Son of Glory, Bayou, no. 53.
BRIAN DOYLE
Go-o-o-o, Lemmings!, American Scholar, Winter.
RIKKI DUCORNET
Book of Origins (Two Essays: Seed and Nakht), Pen America, no. 12.
MARTHA GRACE DUNCAN
Beauty in the Dark of Night: The Pleasures of Form in Criminal Law, Emory Law Journal, vol. 59, no. 5.
HALINA DURAJ
The Company She Keeps, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Spring/Summer.
JANET ABBOTT DUTTON
Old Enough, Prairie Schooner, Winter.
KRISTA EASTMAN
Securing Mutual Response, Briar Cliff Review, no. 22.
JOHN M. EDWARDS
Revolutionary Wrath: A (Seriously) Biased Revision of the Burr vs. Hamilton Duel Based Upon an Old High-School Term Paper, Essays and Fictions, Winter.
SCOTT ELY
Drinking at the Fountain of Youth, Kenyon Review, Fall.
NORA EPHRON
My Life as an Heiress, New Yorker, October 11.
JOSEPH EPSTEIN
The Symphony of a Lifetime, Notre Dame Magazine, Spring.
LEYLA ERTEGUN
Projections, Believer, March/April.
ROBERT ERWIN
Having It All, Massachusetts Review, vol. 51, no. 2.
ELLEN ESTILAI
Front Yard Fruit, Alimentum, Winter.
EDWARD FALCO
An Elliptical Essay on Violence, Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring.
SUSAN FALUDI
American Electra, Harper’s, October.
NIALL FERGUSON
Complexity and Collapse, Foreign Affairs, March/April.
MATT FERRENCE
Spaces Between, Blue Mesa Review, Spring.
GARY FINCKE
The History of Lie Detection, North Dakota Quarterly, vol. 75, nos. 3 & 4.
ANNE FINGER
Walking to Abbasanta. Seneca Review, Spring.
EDWARD H. FISCHER
Matterhorn Dreams, Minnetonka Review, Winter.
AARON FOGEL
Some Elementary Chords:
Unanchored, Western Humanities Review, Winter.
CATHERINE FOLEY
Home to Ring, New Hibernia Review, Autumn.
IAN FRAZIER
On the Prison Highway, New Yorker, August 30.
MIKE FREEMAN
The Feel, Gettysburg Review, Spring.
DAVID A. FRYXELL
Both Sides Now, Desert Exposure, September.
MARY GAITSKILL The Betrayed Wives Club, Elle, February.
J. MALCOLM GARCIA
Cleaning My Father’s House After He Died, Salon, July 24.
ATUL GAWANDE
Letting Go, New Yorker, August 2.
DAVID GESSNER
All My Walks, Ecotone, Spring.
AARON GILBREATH
Dreams of the Atomic Era, Cincinnati Review, Summer.
WILLIAM GIRALDI
The Physics of Speed, Antioch Review, Fall.
JEN GIRDISH
The Impossible Return, Post Road, no. 19.
MALCOLM GLADWELL
Small Change, New Yorker, October 4.
ANNE GOLDMAN
Questions of Transport, Georgia Review, Spring.
ELISA GONZALEZ
All the Words I Knew, Harvard Review, no. 38.
J. DAVID GONZALEZ
How Can I Help You?, Southern Indiana Review, Spring.
ADAM GOPNIK
Van Gogh’s Ear, New Yorker, January 4.
EMILY FOX GORDON
Here Again, Boulevard, Spring.
CHRIS GOTTLIEB
Reflections on Judging Mothering, University of Baltimore Law Review, Spring.
MARK GREIF
What Was the Hipster?, New York Magazine, November 1.
KENNETH GROSS
Shadows, Yale Review, July.
CAIA HAGEL
Desire, Denver Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 4.
LINDA HALL
How to End Up Alone, Southwest Review, vol. 95, no. 3.
DANIEL HARRIS
Celebrity Clothing, Salmagundi, Fall/ Winter.
STEVEN HARVEY Blood Mountain, Ascent, March 9.
GLADYS HAUNTON
Glazing, Hunger Mountain, no. 15.
CHRISTOPHER HEDGES
Celebrity Culture and the Obama Brand, Tikkun, January/February.
MARK HILLRINGHOUSE
Passaic River Journal, American Poetry Review, January/February.
EDWARD HOAGLAND
Last Call, Harper’s, May.
INEZ HOLGER
The Origin of Fear, Bellevue Literary Review, Fall.
ANN HOOD
Long Beautiful Hair, Amoskeag, Spring.
BILLY HOWELL
How to Leave Your Mother, Florida Review, Winter.
EDWARD HOWER
Children of the Maze, Five Points, vol.
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PAT C. HOY II
Images on the Danube, Sewanee Review, Fall.
PETER HRANDBOIS
Driving to Puerto Rico, Potomac Review, Spring.
EWA HRYNIEWICZ-YARBROUGH
The Bearable Lightness of Being, American Scholar, Summer.
TOM IRELAND
Famous, Missouri Review, Spring.
JEREMY B. JONES
The Resurrection of Ray Jones, Ruminate, Spring.
PAT JORDAN
My Father, the Grifter, Men’s Journal, January.
TONY JUDT
Night, New York Review of Books, January 14.
TOM JUNOD
Invasion, Esquire, August.
REBECCA KANNER
Safety, War, Literature and the Arts, no. 22.
GARRET KEIZER
The Courtesy of God, Lapham’s Quarterly, Winter.
THOMAS E. KENNEDY
Adventures of an Old Dude, New Letters, vol. 76, no. 2.
BRIAN KEVIN
Songs Primarily in the Key of Life, Colorado Review, Summer.
ESON KIM
Fixed Everything, Cream City Review, Spring.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Fresh Water, National Geographic, April.
SHEILA SOLOMON KLASS
Aging and the Inaccessible City, Health Affairs, September.
GEORGINA KLEEGE
Blind Faith, Yale Review, July.
LINDSEY B. KOEHLER
A Baby Story, 5280, June.
RAFIL KROLL-ZAIDI
Jukeboxes on the Moon, Triple Canopy, June.
ROMAN KRZNARIC
Empathy with the Enemy, Pedestrian, no. 1.
KIM DANA KUPPERMAN
An Occurrence at Avignon, Normal School, Fall.
MATT LABASH
Living Like a Liberal, Weekly Standard, July 19.
DON LAGO
Storm Pattern, Alaska Quarterly Review, Fall/Winter.
LEWIS H. LAPHAM
Figures of Speech, Harper’s, November.
ROGER LATHBURY
Betraying Salinger, New York Magazine, April 4.
AMY LEACH
Complexion, Gettysburg Review, Autumn.
MICHELE LEAVITT
No Trespassing, Journal, Spring/ Summer.
DAVID LEHMAN
Among My Souvenirs, Boulevard, Spring.
ALEX LEMON
Heartdusting, Southern Review, Winter.
SETH LERER
First Love, Yale Review, October.
NATON LESLIE
A Compendium of Fa
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E. J. LEVY
Artichoke Hearts, Kenyon Review, Summer.
CAYNTHIA LEWIS
Crazy in Love, Massachusetts Review, vol. 51, no. 1.
MICHAEL LEWIS-BECK My Cherry Orchard in Iowa, Wapsipinicon Almanac, no. 17.
MEL LIVATINO
A Spy in the House of Experience, Under the Sun, Summer.
PRICILLA LONG
Balancing Act, Under the Sun, Summer.
PHILLIP LOPATE
How Do You End an Essay?, Salmagundi, Fall/Winter.
BARRY LOPEZ
An Intimate Geography, Portland, Summer.
JAMES MACDONALD
The Virtue of Living a Lie, Boulevard, Fall.
MARGARET MACINNIS
Portrait of a Man in a Fur Hat, Tampa Review, no. 40.
PATRICK MADDEN
Writer Michael Martone’s Leftover Water, Normal School, Fall.
JOY MANESIOTIS
What I Learned in Art School,
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LEE MARTIN All Those Fathers That Night, Gulf Coast, Summer/Fall.
HILARY MASTERS
Looking Back: A Provincetown Memoir, Provincetown Arts, no. 25.
CHARLES MCLEOD
Settlers of Unassigned Lands, South Dakota Review, Spring.
STEVE MCNUTT
SUV vs. Bike, SUV Wins, Iowa Review, vol. 40, no. 1.
JOHN MCPHEE
The Patch, New Yorker, February 8.
DAPHNE MERKIN
My Life in Therapy, New York Times Magazine, August 8.
A. B. MEYER
Keep This Fortune, Epiphany, Spring/Summer.
KATHRYN MILES
Killing Laughter, Flyway, vol. 13, no. 1.
BEN MILLER
The Reinvention of Ice, Ecotone, Spring.
JANE MILLER
Dying, Raritan, Fall.
LORNA MILNE
Bear Dreaming, Frontiers, vol. 31, no. 2.
ANNA MIRER
The Wills of Twenty Strangers, Bellevue Literary Review, Spring.
ANDER MONSON
Keyboarding, Zone, Spring.
SARAH FAWN MONTGOMERY
Ekphrasis: What My Grandfather Saw, Fugue, Summer/Fall.
ALEXIOS MOORE
Field Studies Roxbury, 1983, Post Road, no. 18.
DINTY W. MOORE
Son of Mr. Green Jeans: An Essay on Fatherhood, Alphabetically Arranged, Crazyhorse, Fall.
MICHELE MORANO
Evenings at the Collegeview Diner, Waterstone, no. 13.
VIRGINIA MORELL
The Immortal Ones: Plants and Animals That Live Forever, Creative Nonfiction, no. 38, Spring.
KYOKO MORI The Pleasure of Letting Go, Ploughshares, Fall.
KERRY MUIR
The Bridge, Willow Springs, no. 66.
DUNCAN MURRELL
The Meat Horses of Serbia, Normal School, Fall.
SCOTT NADELSON
Go Ahead and Look, Oregon Humanities, Spring.
ANTONYA NELSON
Hello, This Is Bob, Open City, no. 29.
ARNOLD G. NELSON
How to Write a Good Sentence: A Manual for Writers Who Know How to Write Correct Sentences, Alaska Quarterly Review, Spring/ Summer.
BETH NEWBERRY
The Center of the Compass, Louisville Review, Spring.
AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL
Birth Geographic, Waterstone, no. 13.
MEGAN NIX
Swim, Memory, Fourth Genre, Spring. T. A. NOONAN The Trouble with Correspondence, Ninth Letter, Spring/Summer.
JOSIP NOVAKOVICH
Cat Named Sobaka, Prairie Schooner, Spring.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Going Home Again, Smithsonian, March.
CYNTHIA-MARIE O’BRIEN A Figment of Your Imagination, Bellevue Literary Review, Fall.
JOHN S. O’CONNOR
Once More to the Ocean, Schools, Spring.
SARAH ODISHOO Time in a Bottle, North Dakota Quarterly, vol. 75, nos. 3 & 4.
DANIELLE OFRI Unstrung, Missouri Review, Winter.
W. SCOTT OLSEN
The World Record, Mid-American Review, vol. 30, nos. 1 & 2.
PETER ORNER Horace and Josephine, Ninth Letter, Fall/Winter.
LAWRENCE OSBORNE Hungry Ghosts, Bidoun, Spring.
JOHN PALATTELLA
The Death and Life of the Book Review, Nation, June 21.
ANNE PANNING The Mailbox, Ascent, January 7.
MICHAEL PARKER
I’m with Stupid, Oxford American, no. 70.
ELISE PARTRIDGE
Legends of Good Women, Southwest Review, vol. 95, no. 4.
DALE PECK
Dutcher’s Notch, Threepenny Review, Summer.
JOEL PECKHAM
Please Take What You Want, Jelly Bucket, no. 2.
DAVID TORREY PETERS Northern Aire Chinchilla Ranch, Indiana Review, Summer.
ROBERT PIPPIN No Good Reason: Film Noir as Philosophy, Point, no. 2, Winter.
DEBORAH TOMECEK PLEVA Czech Out His Name, Brain, Child, Spring.
EILEEN POLLACK
Thin Air, Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter.
FRANCINE PROSE
The King and Queen of the Roses, Southern Review, Summer.
ANNIE PROULX
A Yard of Cloth, Ecotone, no. 10.
DAVID QUAMMEN
Being Jane Goodall, National Geographic, October.
COLIN RAFFERTY Surfacing, Fourth Genre, Fall.
JONATHAN RAUCH
Letting Go of My Father, Atlantic, April.
PENELOPE SCHWARTZ ROBINSON Burrowing, Hotel Amerika, Fall.
ROXANA ROBINSON
Paralyzed, Harper’s, September.
DAVID ROMTVEDT
Notebook on a Post, Cimarron Review, Summer.
ROBERT ROOT
Time and Tide, Ascent, August 1.
NATANIA ROSENFELD
Life and Death, Southwest Review, vol. 95, no. 4.
HANNA ROSIN
The End of Men, Atlantic, July/ August.
SARAH ROTHENBERG
Reverse Immortality: The Memory of Music, TriQuarterly, no. 137.
MARY RUEFLE
Among the Clouds, Make, Spring/ Summer.
LAURA-ROSE RUSSELL
Scented, Gettysburg Review, Spring.
JAY RUTTENBERG
Billy Madison: A Love Letter, Lowbrow Reader, Fall/Winter.
MARJORIE SANDOR
Threshold, Fugue, Winter/Spring.
REG SANER
My Fall into Knowledge, Georgia Review, Spring.
ALEXIS SCHAITKIN
Living Relics, Ecotone, Spring.
HENRY I. SCHVEY
The Road to Tennessee, River Styx, no, 81–82.
JOHN SEABROOK
The Last Babylift, New Yorker, May 10.
TRACY SEELEY
Cartographies of Change, Prairie Schooner, Summer.
PETER SELGIN Alone: On Two Types of Solitude, Gull Coast, Summer/Fall.
PEGGY SHINNER
Leopold and Shinner, Colorado Review, Fall/Winter.
JUDITH SHULEVITZ
Downtime, New Republic, October 14.
MARGOT SINGER
A Natural History of Small-Town Ohio, Ninth Letter, Fall/Winter.
FLOYD SKLOOT
The Bottom Shelf Novels I Keep Failing to Read, Sewanee Review, Summer.
AISHA SLOAN
Fawlanionese, Michigan Quarterly Review, Summer.
J. D. SMITH
Mere Aesthetics, Boulevard, Spring.
REBECCA SOLNIT
The Story of the Storm, Nation, September 13.
ANDREW SOLOMON
To an Aesthete Dying Young, Yale Alumni Magazine, July/August.
BENJAMIN SOLOMON
A God Place, Southeast Review, vol. 28, no. 2.
WILLARD SPIEGELMAN
On the Road, Kenyon Review Online, Summer.
BRIAN JAY STANLEY
Medi
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KIRK STERLING
The Return of the Hostess Pajama, Epiphany, Fall/Winter.
MICHAEL STEINBERG
Chin Music, Gihon River Review, Fall.
GARRETT STEWART
Bookwork as Demediation, Critical Inquiry, Spring.
PETER STINE
Detroit Marathon, Sport Literate, vol. 7, no. 1.
LAURIE STONE
Toby Dead, Open City, no. 28.
ROBERT STOTHART
American Kestrel, Black Warrior Review, Spring/Summer.
LEE STRICKLAND
Girl, Ruined, Sun, November.
IRA SUKRUNGRUANG
Noisy Neighbor, Crab Orchard Review, Winter/Spring.
JOHN TALLMADGE
A Visit to the Creation Museum, Isotope, vol. 7, no. 2.
ABIGAIL THOMAS
Where the Woods Begin, Lumina, no. 9.
ALISON B. THOMAS
A Telescope at the Sky, Fourth Genre, Spring.
STEVEN THRASHER
White America Has Lost Its Mind, villagevoice.com, September 29-October 5.
SALLIE TISDALE
On Spectrum, Harper’s, April.
LAD TOBIN
There’s No Such Thing as Free Association, Sun, September.
ANNA TSING
Arts of Inclusion, or How to Love a Mushroom, Mánoa, Winter.
ROBIN UNDERDAHL
The Lovely Maiden Jumps into the Waters, Upstreet, no. 6.
RYAN VAN METER
The Goldfish History, Fourth Genre, Spring.
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN
A Good Death, Harper’s, November.
JULIE MARIE WADE
Eucharist, Salamander, Winter.
CHRISTOPHER WALL Look Down, Don’t Look Down, Missouri Review, Fall.
GARRY WALLACE
The Sportsmans’ Barber Shop, Owen Wister Review, 2010.
PHILIP WEITL
Restless, Jelly Bucket, no. a.
HOLLY WELKER
Leap Year, Alaska Quarterly Review, Fall/Winter.
JOE WENDEROTH
Drug-Testing for Writers, Western Humanities Review, Winter.
FREDERIC WILL
Time and Language: The Trials of a Philosophical Tourist, Massachusetts Review, vol. 51, no. 1.
LYNNA WILLIAMS
Humor Is Not a Mood, Fourth Genre, Spring.
KATHRYN WINOGRAD
Bathing, Fourth Genre, Spring.
LAURA ESTHER WOLFSON
The Bagel in the Snowflake, North Atlantic Review, no. 21.
JAMES WOOD
Serious Noticing, Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall.
CHRISTOPHER WRENN
Breaking Line, North Carolina Literary Review, no. 19.
ERICA ZORA WRIGHTSON
Artichoke, Slake, Summer.
BEN YAGODA
Trial and Eros, American Scholar, Autumn.
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