The Best American Essays 2016 (55 page)

A
LISON
L
IE

Her Boyhood,
Catamaran
, Fall

K
ERSTIN
L
IEFF

A Boy Named Klaus,
The Southeast Review
, vol. 33, no. 1

M
ICHAEL
L
INDENBERGER

The Vanishing Terrain of Gay America,
The New Republic
, July/August

B
RANDON
L
INGLE

Tourniquet,
The Southeast Review
, vol. 33, no. 2

G
ORDON
L
ISH

Postcards,
The Antioch Review
, Fall

M
EL
L
IVATINO

How Do We Love?
Notre Dame Magazine
, Winter

R
OBERTO
L
OIEDERMAN

Roadblock,
Fifth Wednesday
, Spring

P
RISCILLA
L
ONG

Old Things, Used Things,
The Antioch Review
, Fall

P
HILLIP
L
OPATE

Experience Necessary,
Salmagundi
, Winter/Spring

B
ARRY
L
OPEZ

The Invitation,
Granta
, no. 133

A
LICE
L
OWE

My Quarrel with Grieving,
Permafrost
, Winter

S
ARA
B
ETH
L
OWE

Ridge Hounds,
The Louisville Review
, Fall

J
ENNIFER
L
UNDEN

Evidence,
River Teeth
, Spring

R
ACHEL
L
URIA

The Rush Gives Warmth Enough,
Sport Literate
, vol. 9, no. 1

S
TEPHEN
J
.
L
YONS

The River Will Have the Last Word,
Narratively
, August 27

M
ONICA
M
ACANSANTOS

Becoming a Writer: The Silences We Write Against,
TAYO Literary Magazine
, May 31

J
ODY
M
ACE

The Population of Me,
Full Grown People
, June 23

C
ARMEN
M
ARIA
M
ACHADO

A Girl’s Guide to Sexual Purity,
The Los Angeles Review of Books
, March 5

K
YO
M
ACLEAR

Faltering,
Brick
, no. 95

S
TEVE
M
ACONE

On Taphonomy: Digging for Dinosaurs in My Twenties,
The Atlantic
, October 16

J
.
B
.
M
AC
K
INNON

Facing Fear,
Orion
, May/June

P
ATRICK
M
ADDEN

Spit,
Fourth Genre
, Spring

T
ERESE
M
ARIE
M
AILHOT

I Know I’ll Go,
Burrow Press Review
, August 18

P
ATRICK
M
AINELLI

Hope, Change, Etc.,
Isthmus
, Spring/Summer

A
NTONIA
M
ALCHIK

Bitterroot,
1966: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction
, Summer

P
AMELA
M
ANDELL

Berry B.,
The Los Angeles Review
, Spring

C
ORINNE
M
ANNING

The Language of Kudzu,
Lake Effect
, no. 19

T
ERRANCE
M
ANNING
J
R.

Leave Them Hurtin’ When You Leave,
Crazyhorse
, Fall

S
TEPHEN
M
ARCHE

The Ghost of Hemingway,
Esquire
, October

J
EANNIE
M
ARSHALL

A Kind of Hunger,
Brick
, no. 95

C
HELSEA
M
ARTIN

Voluntary Responses to Involuntary Sensations,
Catapult
, September 10

C
LANCY
M
ARTIN

We Buy Broken Gold,
Lapham’s Quarterly
, Spring

L
UCY
M
ARTIN

Abe & I,
Witness
, Spring

M
ARILYN
M
ARTIN

State of Grace,
Third Coast
, Fall

G
REG
M
ARSHALL

Suck Ray Blue,
Tampa Review
, no. 50

M
ICHAEL
M
ARTONE

Live Blogging My Father’s Death,
Witness
, Spring

A
LEXANDRIA
M
ARZANO-
L
ESNEVICH

The Taste of Sardines,
Hotel Amerika
, Winter

D
AVID
M
ASELLO

Come Through for Me,
Gay & Lesbian Review
, July/August

D
ANIEL
M
ASON

Rogue Wounds,
Lapham’s Quarterly
, Spring

R
YAN
M
ASTERS

Unless a Kernel of Wheat Falls,
Image
, no. 87

M
ELISSA
M
ATTHEWSON

A Gathering of Then & Now,
Mid-American Review
, vol. 36, no. 1

D
.
L
.
M
AYFIELD

Blessed Are the Pure in Heart,
Ruminate
, Summer

E
MRY
M
C
A
LEAR

A Hat in the Wind,
CutBank
, no. 83

C
YNTHIA
M
C
C
ABE

Ending It All,
The Washington Post Magazine
, January 18

S
USAN
M
C
C
ALLUM-
S
MITH

Smithereens,
Agni
, no. 82

K
ENNETH
A
.
M
C
C
LANE

Thomas: A Hymn to Life,
The Antioch Review
, Spring

C
LINT
M
C
C
OWN

Somewhere West of Truth or Consequences,
Crazyhorse
, Fall

M
AUREEN
M
C
C
OY

Smile: Your War Is Over,
The Gettysburg Review
, Spring

G
ARY
L
.
M
C
D
OWELL

How to Cope with Risk,
The Massachusetts Review
, Summer

K
AREN
S
ALYER
M
C
E
LMURRAY

Elixir,
South Dakota Review
, vol. 51, nos. 3 and 4

J
EAN
M
C
G
ARRY

On Writer’s Block,
The Yale Review
, July

C
AITLIN
M
C
G
ILL

Silent Interrogation,
The Southeast Review
, vol. 33, no. 2

K
IM
M
C
L
ARIN

The Low Road,
The Morning News
, July 22

J
AMES
M
C
W
ILLIAMS

The Examined Lie,
The American Scholar
, Summer

D
INAW
M
ENGESTU

Returning to Ethiopia,
Guernica
, December 15

S
UZANNE
M
ARIA
M
ENGHRAJ

Usciolu,
Flyway
, February 15

D
APHNE
M
ERKIN

Desperately Seeking No One,
Elle
, June

M
AGGIE
M
ERTENS

Death with Dignity,
Pacific Standard
, January 31

J
EFFREY
M
EYERS

The Lost Girl,
Denver Quarterly
, vol. 50, no. 1

K
ATHRYN
M
ILES

Mapping the Bottom of the World,
Ecotone
, Fall

N
ICOLE
E
.
M
ILLER

Last Night at the Breakers,
New Letters
, vol. 81, no. 2

S
AM
M
ILLER

Gandhi the Londoner,
Granta
, no. 130

D
EBRA
M
ONROE

The Wild Life,
Texas Monthly
, November

A
NDER
M
ONSON

Considering a Stain,
Sierra Nevada Review
, no. 26

R
ICK
M
OODY

Shabby Gentility,
Salmagundi
, Winter/Spring

D
INTY
W
.
M
OORE

The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis, or How I Learned to Love My Paranasal Sinuses,
The Normal School
, vol. 8, no. 2

D
IONISIA
M
ORALES

Catch Me, I’m Falling,
Hunger Mountain
, no. 19

K
YOKO
M
ORI

Pet Grief,
Harvard Review
, no. 47

M
ARILYN
M
ORIARTY

Territorial Imperative in Planaria,
Creative Nonfiction
, Spring

R
OBERT
M
ORRIS

A Few Thoughts on Bombs, Tennis, Free Will, Agency Reduction, the Museum, Dust Storms, and Labyrinths,
Critical Inquiry
, Winter

S
COTT
R
USSELL
M
ORRIS

Speak English, Please,
The Chattahoochee Review
, Spring

W
ESLEY
M
ORRIS

Who Do You Think You Are?
The New York Times Magazine
, October 11

J
OHN
M
URILLO
III

Black (in) Time,
Indiana Review
, Winter

N
ICK
N
EELY

Discovering Anna,
The Southern Review
, Winter

C
RISTINA
N
EHRING

The Death of Eros,
Elle
, April

J
OHN
N
ELSON

Birds of the New World,
The Antioch Review
, Winter

B
ETH
N
EWBERRY

The Curve of the Smoke,
Appalachian Heritage
, Fall

C
ATHERINE
N
EWMAN

This Is Fourteen, Brain,
Child
, Spring

D
.
T
.
N
GUYEN

Dining Out,
The Briar Cliff Review
, no. 27

R
ANDON
B
ILLINGS
N
OBLE

The Heart as a Torn Muscle,
Brevity
, January 8

N
ANCY
J
.
N
ORDENSON

Physiology Lessons,
Comment
, Spring

L
YNNE
N
UGENT

The Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card,
Full Grown People
, March 12

C
HRIS
O
FFUTT

At Last, Sex,
Slice
, no. 17

M
ELISSA
O
LIVEIRA

Analog,
Agni
, no. 82

R
ANDY
O
SBORNE

Seaside Bohemia,
Thread
, Fall

A
LEXIS
P
AIGE

The Right to Remain,
The Rumpus
, March 29

W
ILFREDO
P
ASCUAL