“At the Bend of the Road” by Aube Rey Lescure. First published in Guernica, July 20, 2021 Featured in: The Best American Essays 2022...

“Mother Country” by Elias Rodriques. First published in Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2021. Featured in: The Best American Essays 2022 Read at: https://www.vqronline.org/summer-2021/essays/mother-country

“Anatomy of a Botched Assimilation” by Jesus Quintero. First published in Your Impossible Voice, #24. Featured in: The Best American Essays 2022 Read at: https://www.yourimpossiblevoice.com/anatomy-of-a-botched-assimilation/

“My Gentile Region” by Gary Shteyngart. First published in The New Yorker, October 11, 2021. Featured in: The Best American Essays 2022 Read at: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/11/a-botched-circumcision-and-its-aftermath

“What She Would Always and Should Always Be Doing” by Kaitlyn Greenidge. First published in BuzzFeed, April 6, 2021. Featured in: The Best American...

“China Brain” by Andrea Long Chu. First published in n+1, #41. Featured in: The Best American Essays 2022 Read at: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-41/essays/china-brain/

“Among Men” by Calvin Gimpelevich. First published in Ploughshares, Issue 148, Summer 2021. Featured in: The Best American Essays 2022 Read at: https://pshares.org/issue-article/among-men/

“Between These Lives, Azeroth” by Tanner Akoni Laguatan. First published in Wired, February 19, 2021. Featured in: The Best American Essays 2022 Read at: https://www.wired.com/story/world-of-warcraft-escape-memorial/