- Nicole Dennis-Benn, “Innocence Is a Privilege: Black Children Are Not Allowed to Be Innocent in America” (Electric Literature)
- Jeffrey Meyers, “Iris Murdoch, The Art of Fiction No. 117” (The Paris Review)
- Lynn Stuart Parramore, “The Social Death Penalty: Why Being Ostracized Hurts Even More Than Bullying” (Alternet)
- Jordan G. Teicher, “Rarely Seen Color Images of America Emerging From the Great Depression” (Slate)
- Jess Zimmerman, “Hunger Makes Me” (Hazlitt)