Tag: Best American 2019 Notable

What will it take to get women’s baseball the recognition it deserves?

When Naz Riahi was 9, she escaped tragedy in Iran only to be confronted by a cruel new world in America. Food became her solace and her tool for assimilating.

Tryggvi Hlinason is a sheep farmer at the center of a new generation of Icelandic basketball talent. He’s trying to do something that only one other Icelander has done before — play in the NBA.

Living in a body can be hysterically complicated.

Elon Musk can’t wait to send humans to the Moon and Mars. But before we land ourselves on other worlds, we need to remember how we’ve treated our own.

Even if one of the last surviving Tolstoyan communes has fallen short of Leo Tolstoy’s ideals, it’s still turned into something meaningful. It’s a place for people who don’t want to be found.

German tennis player Andrea Petkovic meets the band.

We’re eating alone more often than in any previous generation. But why should a meal on our own be uninspired? Why shouldn’t the French saying “life is too short to drink bad wine” still apply?

When a woman and her daughter moved in next door, Jaquira Díaz found her world was suddenly turned upside down.

It was the place he came to feel wild, and I was ready to trespass into the world of men.

A pastry chef reflects on taste, memory, and literature’s most famous confection.

In the aftermath of rape, Alison Kinney discovers that a new lover who helps you to heal can just as easily betray you.

A booming injection well industry is pumping toxic waste deep into the earth in Ohio’s rural towns.