The Best American Essays from the pre-apocalypse era
October 1, 2020 9:30 AM Subscribe
The new edition of The Best American Essays for 2020 is not out until November 3rd, by which time the nation will be busy with other matters, so why not look back at the essays selected for 2019 by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit? Here is the full list of the essays in that edition as available online:
Comforting Myths by Rabih Alameddine (Harper’s Magazine, June 2018)
We Are Not The Resistance by Michelle Alexander (The New York Times, September 21, 2018)
Obituary for Dead Languages by Heather Altfeld (Conjunctions, Issue No. 70, 2018)
Come Heat and High Water by Mario Ariza (The Believer, December 2018)
Getting It Twisted by Jabari Asim (The Yale Review, October 2018)
The Autobiography of My Novel by Alexander Chee (The Sewanee Review, Spring 2018)
Is All Writing Environmental Writing? by Camille T. Dungy (The Georgia Review, Fall 2018)
Stories of a Life / To Be, or Not to Be by Masha Gessen (The New York Review of Books, February 8, 2018)
My Father Says He’s a ‘Targeted Individual.’ Maybe We All Are by Jean Guerrero (Wired, October 25, 2018)
On Likability by Lacy M. Johnson (Tin House, October 11, 2018)
Guns in the Family by Walter Johnson (The Boston Review, March 21, 2018)
How to Write About a Vanishing World by Elizabeth Kolbert (The New Yorker, October 15, 2018)
Forever Gone by J. Drew Lanham (Orion, Spring 2018)
Men Are More Afraid Than Ever by Lili Loofbourow (Slate, September 18, 2018)
Silence Breaking Woman / Surviving Racism by Terese Marie Mailhot (Pacific Standard, May 8, 2018)
When a Person Goes Missing by Dawn Lundy Martin (n+1, Winter 2018)
Autobiography of an Iceheart by Kai Minosh Pyle (Prism, Winter 2018)
Death of an English Major by Gary Taylor (Tampa Bay Times, November 9, 2018)
The Rage of the Incels by Jia Tolentino (The New Yorker, May 15, 2018)
In the Maze by Dayna Tortorici (n+1, Issue 30, Winter 2018)
Comforting Myths by Rabih Alameddine (Harper’s Magazine, June 2018)
We Are Not The Resistance by Michelle Alexander (The New York Times, September 21, 2018)
Obituary for Dead Languages by Heather Altfeld (Conjunctions, Issue No. 70, 2018)
Come Heat and High Water by Mario Ariza (The Believer, December 2018)
Getting It Twisted by Jabari Asim (The Yale Review, October 2018)
The Autobiography of My Novel by Alexander Chee (The Sewanee Review, Spring 2018)
Is All Writing Environmental Writing? by Camille T. Dungy (The Georgia Review, Fall 2018)
Stories of a Life / To Be, or Not to Be by Masha Gessen (The New York Review of Books, February 8, 2018)
My Father Says He’s a ‘Targeted Individual.’ Maybe We All Are by Jean Guerrero (Wired, October 25, 2018)
On Likability by Lacy M. Johnson (Tin House, October 11, 2018)
Guns in the Family by Walter Johnson (The Boston Review, March 21, 2018)
How to Write About a Vanishing World by Elizabeth Kolbert (The New Yorker, October 15, 2018)
Forever Gone by J. Drew Lanham (Orion, Spring 2018)
Men Are More Afraid Than Ever by Lili Loofbourow (Slate, September 18, 2018)
Silence Breaking Woman / Surviving Racism by Terese Marie Mailhot (Pacific Standard, May 8, 2018)
When a Person Goes Missing by Dawn Lundy Martin (n+1, Winter 2018)
Autobiography of an Iceheart by Kai Minosh Pyle (Prism, Winter 2018)
Death of an English Major by Gary Taylor (Tampa Bay Times, November 9, 2018)
The Rage of the Incels by Jia Tolentino (The New Yorker, May 15, 2018)
In the Maze by Dayna Tortorici (n+1, Issue 30, Winter 2018)
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