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Best American Nonrequired Reading
Best American Essays, Notable
Pushcart Prize
AKO Caine Prize for African Writing
208 pages.
In this issue:
Tales of the Uncanny
“Shelter” by Kate Folk: the concrete vault in the basement of a rented house exerts a strange pull on the woman living above it.
“Take the Water Prisoner” by Shawn Vestal: when the sins (and pains) of the father are visited upon the son.
“The Canyon” by Jim Ruland: the struggle for sobriety leads Lindsay to a confrontation she couldn’t have imagined.
“The Lake and the Onion” by David Drury: “There once was a lake who fell in love with an onion. This is merely what we 100 percent know.” (Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019)
Interview
Michael Ondaatje on character, plot, West Marin, and diaspora.
Nonfiction
Fabián Martínez Siccardi on revisiting his family’s stoical estancia (“Patagonian Fox”—Best American Essays 2019, Notable) and Teresa H. Janssen on relief work and refugees (“Adrift at Sea”)
And More Fiction and Poetry:
Meron Hadero’s “The Street Sweep” (winner of a 2021 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing—a young man’s future may be decided at a hotel gathering in Addis Ababa), Karl Taro Greenfeld’s “The Golden Age of Television” (winner of a 2021 Pushcart Prize), Jane Gillette’s “Ten Little Feet” (a less-than-innocent tradition at a tony school for boys), plus new work from Jessica Francis Kane and Olivia Clare.
Poems by Bruce Snider, Austen Leah Rosenfeld, Flower Conroy, Ryanaustin Dennis, Heather Altfeld, Allison Adair, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, and Heather Christle
Art: Featuring photographs from Kate Ballis’s “Infra Realism” series.
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Dimensions | 9 × 6 × 1 in |