Continuing with our series of “Best of 2019″ lists curated by the entire 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 2019.
(For last year’s list, click here.)
In no particular order…
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“What climate collapse asks of us” by Bayo Akomolafe (The Emergence Network)
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“Fat and Fetishized: Understanding the Power and Worth of a Body That Blooms” by Natalie Lima (Catapult)
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“To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time” by Matthew Salesses (Longreads)
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“The Straight Story” by Julia Madsen (Tarpaulin Sky)
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“Ethnicity As Counterculture” by Ken Chen (n+1)
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“The Quickening: A story of two births” by Leslie Jamison (The Atlantic)
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“How to Mourn a Glacier” by Lacy M. Johnson (The New Yorker)
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“The Period of Summoning Relatives” by Brandon Shimoda (The Margins)
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“Losing Whiteness When You Lose Your Father” by Corina Zappia (Catapult)
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“When the Hero is the Problem” by Rebecca Solnit (LitHub)
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“Compass” by Gabrielle Bellot (Mal)
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“Being the Place Where Someone Dies” by Sarah Boyer (Entropy)
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“White Ink and the Great American Macho” by Jennifer Colville (The Iowa Review)
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“He’s Perfect” by Rachelle Toarmino (Cosmonauts Avenue)
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“What Vin Diesel Taught Me About Singing and Sincerity” by Joshua Bohnsack (Catapult)
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“She Invented Banana Ketchup & Saved Thousands of Lives. Why Have We Never Heard of Her?” by Amelia Rampe (Food52)
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“Track Changes in English” by Kenneth Lee (Split Lip Magazine)
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“On Kathy Acker: A Desk, A Disease, An Accounting” by Teresa Rose Carmody (LitHub)
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“The End of Straight” by Gabriel Mac (GQ)
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“Nostalgia for a Less Innocent Time” by Elisa Gabbert (The Paris Review)
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“The end times are here, and I am at Target” by Hayes Brown (The Outline)
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“The Karate Kid, Cobra Kai, and the Odd Legacy of Mr. Miyagi” by Sonia Saraiya (Vanity Fair)
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“Survival of the Friendliest” by Kelly Clancy (Nautilus)
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“An Unsentimental Education” by Wendy Chin-Tanner (Gay Mag)
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“My Cousin Was My Hero. Until the Day He Tried to Kill Me.” by Wil S. Hylton (The New York Times)
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“The Earth Is Just as Alive as You Are” by Ferris Jabr (The New York Times)
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“A New Season” by Amy Orazio (The Rumpus)
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“FREE INDIRECT SUICIDE: AN UNFINISHED FUGUE IN H MINOR” by Seo-Young Chu (The Rumpus)
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“The Implicit I: Contesting Ambiguity in Korean Literature” by Sora Kim-Russell (The Margins)
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“Corrective” by Joshua James Amberson (Vol. 1 Brooklyn)
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“A Boy Called Moose” by Santi Elijah Holley (Nailed)
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“Men aren’t volatile riddles for women to solve” by Reema Zaman (Salon)
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“The Thread: Fatherless” by Marissa Korbel (The Rumpus)
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“Secret Life of a Mormon Porn Star” by Amy Bond (Narratively)
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“On Being a Woman in America While Trying to Avoid Being Assaulted” by R.O. Kwon (The Paris Review)
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“Turn and live with animals” by Bathsheba Demuth (Aeon)
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“Books Are Not Products, They Are Bridges: Challenging Linear Ideas of Success in Literary Publishing” by Janice Lee (Vol 1. Brooklyn)
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“It’s wrongheaded to protect nature with human-style rights” by Sally Davies (Aeon)
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“After the Storm” by Mary Heglar (Guernica)
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“The Rainforest Is Teeming with Consciousness” by Philip Goff (Nautilus)
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