The Best American Travel Writing 2015 (59 page)

Paul Theroux
is the author of many highly acclaimed books. His novels include
The Lower River
and
The Mosquito Coast
, and his renowned travel books include
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
and
Dark Star Safari
. He lives in Hawaii and Cape Cod.

S
ELECTED BY
J
ASON
W
ILSON

G
RAHAM
B
OYNTON

The New Jet Age.
Vanity Fair
, July.

F
RANK
B
URES

Branding Guyana.
Nowhere
, August.

E
RICA
C
AVANAGH

Oranges.
Bellevue Literary Review
, Fall.

J
ULIA
C
OOKE

Waiting for Exile.
Virginia Quarterly Review
, Spring.

N
ATHAN
D
EUEL

The Cantina Scene.
Morning News
, May 20.

C
OLIN
D
ICKEY

On the Open Polar Sea.
The Believer
, February.

B
ILL
D
ONAHUE

The Hero's March.
Washington Post Magazine
, March 23.

C
AMILLE
T. D
UNGY

A Brief History of Near and Actual Losses.
Virginia Quarterly Review
, Summer.

G
EOFF
D
YER

Shipmates.
The New Yorker
, April 21.

B
RIAN
T. E
DWARDS

Road to Rapid City.
The Believer
, June.

N
ATHAN
E
NGLANDER

Inside the Liquidrom.
New York Times Magazine
, March 30.

S
TEVE
F
EATHERSTONE

Snakelandia.
Oxford American
, Spring.

D
OUGLAS
F
OX

The Time I Got Stranded in Antarctica.
TheAtlantic.com
, January 7.

J. M
ALCOLM
G
ARCIA

Praying in Reyhanli.
Tampa Review
, Fall.

K
EITH
G
ESSEN

Waiting for War.
The
New Yorker
, May 12.

A
NNE
G
OLDMAN

Travels with
Jane Eyre
.
Georgia Review
, Fall.

A
DAM
G
OPNIK

Stones and Bones.
The
New Yorker
, July 7 & 14.

J
EFF
G
UNDY

The Other Side of Empire.
Georgia Review
, Fall.

G
ABRIELLE
H
AMILTON

Big Night in Uruguay.
Travel + Leisure
, April.

K
ATE
H
ARRIS

Lands of Lost Borders.
Georgia Review
, Fall.

E
VA
H
OLLAND

Birth of a Birder.
World Hum
, June 24.

A
NDY
I
SAACSON

Island at the End of the World.
National Geographic Traveler
, August/September.

L
ESLIE
J
AMISON

It Does Not Happen by Machine.
Witness
, Spring.

G
EORGE
J
OHNSON

The Nuclear Tourist.
National Geographic
, October.

G
IDEON
L
EWIS
-K
RAUS

Story A.
Harper's Magazine
, June.

L
AURA
M
ILLER

Romancing the Stones.
The New Yorker
, April 21.

J
ON
M
OOALLEM

A Journey to the Center of the World.
New York Times Magazine
, February 23.

D
AVID
N
AIMON

Third Ear.
Fourth Genre
, Spring.

J
OSIP
N
OVAKOVICH

Jerusalem According to Cats.
Narrative
, Winter.

D
AVID
O
WEN

Floating Feasts.
The New Yorker
, November 3.

Game of Thrones.
The New Yorker
, April 21.

S
TEPHANIE
P
EARSON

The Devil Made Me Do It.
Outside
, February.

T
ONY
P
ERROTTET

The Cave Dwellers.
Smithsonian
, February.

B
RIAN
P
HILLIPS

The Sea of Crises.
Grantland
, November 5.

D
AVID
Q
UAMMEN

Franz Josef Land.
National Geographic
, August.

E
MILY
R
ABOTEAU

Who Is Zwarte Piet?
Virginia Quarterly Review
, Winter.

A
NDREW
R
EINER

One Man's Beat.
Washington Post Magazine
, March 23.

N
ATHANIEL
R
ICH

Hitler's Airport.
The Atlantic
, April.

C
HRIS
R
YAN

Cuba, Undistilled.
World Hum
, December 20.

D
AVE
S
EMINARA

Day of the Goose.
Morning News
, March 20.

G
ARY
S
HTEYNGART

Wet Hot Israeli Summer.
New York Times Magazine
, February 23.

F
LOYD
S
KLOOT

To Land's End and Back.
Boulevard
, Spring.

C
HRISTOPHER
S
OLOMON

The Soul of Skiing in the Great White North.
Outside
, November.

J
EFFREY
T
AYLER

Bogotá's Bohemian Renaissance.
National Geographic Traveler
, October.

S
COTT
W
ALLACE

Over the Horizon.
National Geographic Traveler
, February/March.

J
ASON
W
EIL

Back in the U.S.S.R.
New York Times Magazine
, June 29.

G
RAEME
W
OOD

Burmese Daze.
The Atlantic
, March.

E
STHER
Y
I

Pistachio Politics.
The Atlantic
, September.

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A
NDREW
McC
ARTHY
, guest editor, is the author of the
New York Times
best-selling travel memoir
The Longest Way Home
. He has served as an editor at large at
National Geographic Traveler
and been named travel journalist of the year by the Society of American Travel Writers. He is also an actor and director.

J
ASON
W
ILSON
, series editor, is the author of
Boozehound: On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits
and the digital wine series Planet of the Grapes. He has written for the
Washington Post
, the
Boston Globe
, the
Philadelphia Daily News
, and many other publications. He is the founding editor of
The Smart Set
and
Table Matters
.