The Grozny tourist bureau / Anthony Marra --
An oral history of Abdelrahman Al-Ahmar / Mateo Hoke and Cate Malek --
Jelly and Jack / Dana Spiotta --
The Teflon toxin / Sharon Lerner --
How I became a prison gardener / Michele Scott --
The gentlest village / Jesse Ball --
An interview with President Obama / Marilynne Robinson --
Buena Vista Park, 2 A.M. / sam sax --
The miracle years of Little Fork / Rebecca Makkai --
Death-qualified / Gary Indiana --
The trip treatment / Michael Pollan --
Strong city / Da'Shay Portis --
Sudba I / Anna Kovatcheva --
Homer Dill's undead / Inara Verzemnieks --
Reluctant citizens / Kyle Boelte --
Dream house / Ariana Reines --
Killing and dying / Adrian Tomine --
On this side / Yuko Sakata --
The lonely death of George Bell / N. R. Kleinfield --
The death of the sky / David Wagoner --
Last poem for Oe / Laurel Hunt --
Things I know to be true / Kendra Fortmeyer --
Algorithmic problem solving for father-daughter relationships / Xuan Juliana Wang --
Brown vs. Ferguson / Endnotes --
The Best American Nonrequired Reading Committee --
Notable nonrequired reading of 2015 --
