2010 Best American Essays

Elif Batuman

Edited by Christopher Hitchens

Harper's (2), NY Review of Books (3), The Sun, Oregon Humanities, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Atlantic (2), The American Scholar, The New Yorker (3), The NY Times Book Review, The Weekly Standard, Harvard Review, Wilson Quarterly, NY Times Magazine, Gettysburg Review, The New Republic

Elif Batuman (1977) (Author of The Possessed)- The Murder of Leo Tolstoy (Harper’s);

Toni Bentley- The Bad Lion (NY Review of Books)
Jane Churchon- The Dead Book (The Sun)
Brian Doyle- Irreconcilable Dissonance (Oregon Humanities)
John Gamel- The Elegant Eyeball (Alaska Quarterly Review)

Walter Isaacson- How Einstein Divided America’s Jews (The Atlantic)
Steven L. Isenberg- Lunching on Olympus (The American Scholar)
Jane Kramer (1938)- Me, Myself, and I (The New Yorker)
Arthur Krystal- When Writers Speak (NY Times Book Review)
Matt Labash- A Rake’s Progress (The Weekly Standard)
Phillip Lopate- Brooklyn the Unknowable (Harvard Review)
Ian McEwan- On John Updike (NY Review of Books)
Steven Pinker- My Genome, My Self (NY Times Magazine)
Ron Rindo- Gyromancy (Gettysburg Review)
David Sedaris (1956)- Guy Walks into a Bar Car (New Yorker)
Zadie Smith- Speaking in Tongues (NY Review of Books)
S. Frederick Starr (1940)- Rediscovering Central Asia (Wilson Quarterly)
John H. Summers- Gettysburg Regress (The New Republic)
John Edgar Wideman (1941)- Fatheralong (Harper’s)
Garry Wills (1934)- Daredevil (The Atlantic)
James Wood (1965)- A Fine Range (The New Yorker)