The best American essays 2020

How to bartend / Rabih Alameddine --

Ghost museum / Elvis Bego --

Driving as metaphor / Rachel Cusk --

The humanoid stain / Barbara Ehrenreich --

After the three-moon era / Gary Fincke --

Cosmic latte / Ron Huett --

A street full of splendid strangers / Leslie Jamison --

A letter to Robinson Crusoe / Jamaica Kincaid --

Maly Trostinets / Joseph Leo Koerner --

Body language / Alex Marzano-Lesnevich --

A thing about cancer / Clinton Crockett Peters --

The other Leopold / Susan Fox Rogers --

To grieve is to carry another time / Matthew Salesses --

77 Sunset me / Peter Schjeldahl --

Under the sign of Susan / A. O. Scott --

Semantic drift / Lionel Shriver --

Ode al vento occidentale / Mark Sullivan --

Holiday review / Mark Sundeen --

My pink lake and other digressions / Alison Townsend --

Bed / David L. Ulin --

Breathe / Jerald Walker --

The unfound door / Stephanie Powell Watts --

Soul-error / Philip Weinstein --

Was Shakespeare a woman? / Elizabeth Winkler.