I am the happiness of this world / Hilton Als
One summer / Nicholson Baker
Portrait of the bagel as a young man / Thomas Beller
Brave face / Sven Birkerts
Excerpt from "On immunity" / Eula Biss
Tactless / Mary Cappello
Decreation : how women like Sappho, Marguerite Porete and Simone Weil tell God / Anne Carson
Home alone / Terry Castle
Girl / Alexander Chee
Black body / Teju Cole
Greedy sleep / Bernard Cooper
The doctor is a woman / Sloane Crosley
Loitering / Charles D'Ambrosio
Matricide / Megan Daum
Joyas Voladoras / Brian Doyle
Otherwise known as the human condition (with particular reference to doughnut plant doughnuts) / Geoff Dyer
CID-LAX-BOG / Lina Ferreira
Doing no harm : some thoughts on reading and writing in the age of umbrage / Lynn Freed
The case of the angry daughter / Rivka Galchen
Scat / Ross Gay
On revenge / Louise Glück
Faculty wife Emily Fox Gordon
Other people's secrets / Patricia Hampl
The aquarium / Aleksandar Hemon
The terror of love / Samantha Irby
The empathy exams / Leslie Jamison
Negroland / Margo Jefferson
Domestic gulags / Laura Kipnis
Ann; death and the maiden / David Lazar
Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life / Yiyun Li
Experience necessary / Phillip Lopate
The invitation / Barry Lopez
Bodies in motion and at rest / Thomas Lynch
Draft no. 4 / John McPhee
Failure : another meditation, another iteration (with interruptions) / Ander Monson
Live through that?! / Eileen Myles
Excerpt from The argonauts / Maggie Nelson
Homeschool / Meghan O'Gieblyn
A visit to San Quentin / Joyce Carol Oates
Busted in New York / Darryl Pinckney
Against "gunmetal" / Lia Purpura
Beeper world / Karen Russell
This old house / David Sedaris
Differences : sex, separateness & marriage / Shifra Sharlin
Information sickness / David Shields
Gray area : thinking with a damaged brain / Floyd Skloot
Cassandra among the creeps / Rebecca Solnit
Eric Garner and me / Clifford Thompson
We out here / Wesley Yang.