Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Introduction xix
Abasement Brian Blanchfield 1
From Territory
Drinking Story Elissa Washuta 5
From Harper's Bazaar
Fire and Ice Debra Gwartney 10
From Granta
Ghosts Vauhini Vara 21
From The Believer
The Wild, Sublime Body Melissa Febos 35
From The Yale Review
So. Baby Yeah Anthony Veasna 43
From n+i
The Gye, the No-Name Hair Salon, the Coup d'État, and the Small Dreamers Jung Hae Chae 57
From New England Review
It Had to Be Gold Justin Torres 71
From Los Angeles Times Image
Futurity Alex Marzano-Lesnevich 79
From Harvard Review
Her Kind Naomi Jackson 92
From Harper's Magazine
Ghost Bread Angelique Stevens 105
From Prism
The Gamble Lina Mounzer 116
From Freeman's
The Wrong Jason Brown Jason Brown 131
From The New Yorker
Between These Lives, Azeroth Tanner Akoni Laguatan 145
From Wired
Among Men Calvin Gimpelevich 152
From Ploughshares
China Brain Andrea Long Chu 165
From n+i
What She Would Always and Should Always Be Doing Kaitlyn Greenidge 182
From BuzzFeed
My Gentile Region Gary Shteyngart 190
From The New Yorker
Anatomy of a Botched Assimilation Jesus Quintero 208
From Your Impossible Voice
Mother Country Elias Rodriques 231
From Virginia Quarterly Review
At the Bend of the Road Aube Rey Lescure 245
From Guernica
If You Ever Find Yourself Erika J. Simpson 257
From The Audacity
The Lost List Ryan Bradley 270
From The Sewanee Purview
Contributors' Notes 286
Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2021 291
Notable Special Issues of 2021 304
