Issue 37 (2026) The Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. 3
Front Matter
Table of Contents
From the Editor
Introduction: Agent of Change
Lee Gutkind
Articles
Literary Murder
Julianna Baggott
Show, Don't Tell
John Griswold
Table of Figures
Brenda Miller
Okahandja Lessons
Emily Rapp
No Other Joy
Christina Olson
First Year
Laura Bramon Good
Letter from a Japanese Crematorium
Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Uncle Moïse
Edwidge Danticat
The Face of Seung-Hui Cho
Wesley Yang
The Poet's Mother's Deathbed Conversion
Jeffrey Ethan Lee
The Storyteller
Jay Lewenstein
Lavish Dwarf Entertainment
Alice Dreger
Chicago Transit Priority
Matt Wood
Grasshopper
Margaret Conway
What Comes Out
Dawnelle Wilkie
(names have been changed)
Aislinn Doyle
Community College
Tim Bascom
Cantata 147: The Final Chorale
Amy Andrews
I Can't Answer
Michael Copperman
An Open Letter
Kathy Rhodes
A Perfunctory Affair
Chris Cobb
Return to Hayneville
Gregory Orr
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