Best of 2016: Best Online Articles & Essays

Continuing with our series of “Best of 2016″ lists curated by the entire CCM-Entropy community, we present some of our favorite selections as nominated by the diverse staff and team here at Entropy, as well as nominations from our readers.

This list brings together some of our favorite online articles & essays published in 2016.

In no particular order:

• ‘I Have No Choice but to Keep Looking’ by Jennifer Percy (NY Times)

• Fuck Work: What if Jobs Are Not the Solution But the Problem by James Livingston (Aeon)

• Eileen Myles on the Excruciating Pain of Waiting for Love by Eileen Myles (NY Mag / The Cut)

• Where I’m Bound by Amy McDaniel (Fanzine)

• War of Words: A woman’s battle to end stoning and juvenile execution in Iran. by Laura Secor (The New Yorker)

Making and Unmaking the Asian American Movement

• Let’s Rethink Space by George Musser (Nautilus)

• Going Diamond by Sarah Gerard (Granta)

• No, Lolita by Marissa Korbel (The Rumpus)

• Is Everything Wrestling by Jeremy Gordon (NY Times)

• homies don’t come out, they let you in. by jayy dodd (Medium)

This is how they broke our grandmothers

• How to Stay Sane While Black by Morgan Parker (NY Times)

• Bhanu Kapil’s Goddard College MFAW Commencement Speech

•  The end of walking by Antonia Malchik (Aeon)

• Wards Against the Day: Embracing Melancholy by Colin Dickey (Catapult)

• The Photographer Representing Her Non-Binary Friends as They’d Like to Be Seen by Sirin Kale (Broadly)

John D’Agata and the Art of the American Essay

• Magnificent Desolation by Elisa Gabbert (Real Life Mag)

• Crowdsourcing the Definition of “Punk” by Matt Daniels (Polygraph)

• Jimmy: What I Learned From My Father About the Criminalization of Black Griot Culture and the Poetics of Rehabilitation by Harmony Holiday (Harriet)

• On Privilege Guilt: My Fraught Path From Foster Care To Luxury High Rise by Lisa Marie Basile (The Establishment)

• The myth of the good victim: As an American facing street harassment abroad, I wondered what it meant to be a “good victim” by Patricia Grisafi (Salon)

Janice Lee: Depression, Denial, Depression

• ‘I am of both countries, and I feel sanctuary in neither’ by Laurel Fantauzzo (CNN)

• If Women Wrote Men the Way Men Write Women by Meg Elison (McSweeney’s)

• The Poetics of Haunting in Asian American Poetry by Jane Wong

• What to Do When Grandma Has Dementia by Larry Handy (Rivet)

• The white flight of Derek Black by Eli Saslow (Washington Post)

Apocalypse Logic

• The Week Democracy Died by Yascha Mounk (Slate)

• On Sexism in Literary Prize Culture by Natalie Kon-yu (LitHub)

• I Told Y’all—White People Don’t Give A Fuck by The Race Card (Afropunk)

•  ‘And yet, you try’: A father’s quest to save his son by Julie Greicius (Stanford Medicine)

• What I Pledge Allegiance To by Kiese Laymon (The Fader)

War in Translation: Giving Voice to the Women of Syria

• Here’s What I’m Telling My Brown Son About Trump’s America by Mira Jacob (Buzzfeed)

• The Day After The Election, I Told My Daughter The Truth by Nicole Chung (Buzzfeed)

• I Will Teach My Children To Survive The New America by Manuel Gonzales (Buzzfeed)

• Red-Faced and Shaking by Natashia Deón (Powell’s)

• This Is Why I Don’t Call Myself A Woman Anymore by Joanna C. Valente (Berry)

Why You Should Aim for 100 Rejections a Year

• Sin Will Find You Out by Megan Galbraith (Catapult)

• What It’s Like To Write About Your Best Friend’s Death by Robin Wasserman (Buzzfeed)

• How Evangelical Women Found a False Savior in Trump by Shawna Kay Rodenberg (Village Voice)

• Sick Woman Theory by Johanna Hedva (Mask Magazine)

• Walking While Black by Garnette Cadogan (LitHub)

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