2004 Best American Essays edited by Louis Menand

Oxford American, Granta (2), Harpers (2), American Scholar, New Yorker (7), Artforum, Threepenny Review (2), Raritan, Gingko Tree Review, Harvard Review, New York Review of Books, Georgia Review, Michigan Quarterly Review


"America, Look at Your Shame!" from Oxford American by James Agee 1
"Envy" from Granta 9 by Kathryn Chetkovic
"The Last Americans" from Harper's Magazine 30 by Jared M. Diamond
"The Arctic Hedonist" from The American Scholar 48 by James Crow
"Caught" from The New Yorker 61 by Jonathan Franzen
"The Unreal Thing" from The New Yorker 86 by Adam Gopnik
"A Sudden Illness" from The New Yorker 96 by Lauren Hillenbrand
"Passover in Baghdad" from Granta 114 by Tim Judah
"My '80s" from Artforum 128 by Sylvere Lotringer
"My Yiddish" from The Threepenny Review 138 by Leonard Michaels
"Bix and Flannery" from Raritan 152 by Ben Miller
"Against Cool" from Gingko Tree Review 160 by Rick Moody
"Yarn" from Harvard Review 194 by Kyoko Mori
"Lifelike" from The New Yorker 203 by Joan Acocella
"Rock 101" from The New Yorker 213 by Alex Ross
"The Mind's Eye" from The New Yorker 225 by Oliver Sacks
"My Lost City" from The New York Review of Books 246 by Luc  Sante
"Arrow and Wound" from Harper's Magazine 257 by Mark Slouka
"My Father is a Book" from The Threepenny Review 269 by Janna Malamud Smith
"Bullet in My Neck" from The Georgia Review 277 by Gerald Stern
"Amor Perdida" from Michigan Quarterly Review 287 by Tennessee Williams
"An Enlarged Heart" from The New Yorker 293 by Cynthia Zarin