SELECTED BY JASON WILSON
GRAHAM BOYNTON
The New Jet Age. Vanity Fair, July.
FRANK BURES
Branding Guyana. Nowhere, August.
ERICA CAVANAGH
Oranges. Bellevue Literary Review, Fall.
JULIA COOKE
Waiting for Exile. Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring.
NATHAN DEUEL
The Cantina Scene. Morning News, May 20.
COLIN DICKEY
On the Open Polar Sea. The Believer, February.
BILL DONAHUE
The Hero’s March. Washington Post Magazine, March 23.
CAMILLE T. DUNGY
A Brief History of Near and Actual Losses. Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer.
GEOFF DYER
Shipmates. The New Yorker, April 21.
BRIAN T. EDWARDS
Road to Rapid City. The Believer, June.
NATHAN ENGLANDER
Inside the Liquidrom. New York Times Magazine, March 30.
STEVE FEATHERSTONE
Snakelandia. Oxford American, Spring.
DOUGLAS FOX
The Time I Got Stranded in Antarctica. TheAtlantic.com, January 7.
J. MALCOLM GARCIA
Praying in Reyhanli. Tampa Review, Fall.
KEITH GESSEN
Waiting for War. The New Yorker, May 12.
ANNE GOLDMAN
Travels with Jane Eyre. Georgia Review, Fall.
ADAM GOPNIK
Stones and Bones. The New Yorker, July 7 & 14.
JEFF GUNDY
The Other Side of Empire. Georgia Review, Fall.
GABRIELLE HAMILTON
Big Night in Uruguay. Travel + Leisure, April.
KATE HARRIS
Lands of Lost Borders. Georgia Review, Fall.
EVA HOLLAND
Birth of a Birder. World Hum, June 24.
ANDY ISAACSON
Island at the End of the World. National Geographic Traveler, August/September.
LESLIE JAMISON
It Does Not Happen by Machine. Witness, Spring.
GEORGE JOHNSON
The Nuclear Tourist. National Geographic, October.
GIDEON LEWIS-KRAUS
Story A. Harper’s Magazine, June.
LAURA MILLER
Romancing the Stones. The New Yorker, April 21.
JON MOOALLEM
A Journey to the Center of the World. New York Times Magazine, February 23.
DAVID NAIMON
Third Ear. Fourth Genre, Spring.
JOSIP NOVAKOVICH
Jerusalem According to Cats. Narrative, Winter.
DAVID OWEN
Floating Feasts. The New Yorker, November 3.
Game of Thrones. The New Yorker, April 21.
STEPHANIE PEARSON
The Devil Made Me Do It. Outside, February.
TONY PERROTTET
The Cave Dwellers. Smithsonian, February.
BRIAN PHILLIPS
The Sea of Crises. Grantland, November 5.
DAVID QUAMMEN
Franz Josef Land. National Geographic, August.
EMILY RABOTEAU
Who Is Zwarte Piet? Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter.
ANDREW REINER
One Man’s Beat. Washington Post Magazine, March 23.
NATHANIEL RICH
Hitler’s Airport. The Atlantic, April.
CHRIS RYAN
Cuba, Undistilled. World Hum, December 20.
DAVE SEMINARA
Day of the Goose. Morning News, March 20.
GARY SHTEYNGART
Wet Hot Israeli Summer. New York Times Magazine, February 23.
FLOYD SKLOOT
To Land’s End and Back. Boulevard, Spring.
CHRISTOPHER SOLOMON
The Soul of Skiing in the Great White North. Outside, November.
JEFFREY TAYLER
Bogotá’s Bohemian Renaissance. National Geographic Traveler, October.
SCOTT WALLACE
Over the Horizon. National Geographic Traveler, February/March.
JASON WEIL
Back in the U.S.S.R. New York Times Magazine, June 29.
GRAEME WOOD
Burmese Daze. The Atlantic, March.
ESTHER YI
Pistachio Politics. The Atlantic, September.