The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 / / ed. by Sid Holt.

• MitwirkendeR: Alexander, Elizabeth,; Anderson, Sam,; Applebaum, Anne,; Bogado, Aura,; Choi, Susan,; Coates, Ta- Nehisi,; DiTrolio, Megan,; Gellman, Barton,; Holt, Sid,; Ismail, Aymann,; Jackson, Mitchell S.,; Jeffery, Clara,; Klinenberg, Eric,; Michaels, Samantha,; O’Mara, Margaret,; Peterson, Farah,; Presser, Lizzie,; Sedacca, Matthew,; Sloan, Aisha Sabatini,; Thompson, Wright,; Tooze, Adam,; Ward, Jesmyn,; Wright, Lawrence,
• HerausgeberIn: Holt, Sid,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 presents outstanding journalism and commentary that reckon with urgent topics, including COVID-19 and entrenched racial inequality. In “The Plague Year,” Lawrence Wright details how responses to the pandemic went astray (New Yorker). Lizzie Presser reports on...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• The Plague Year
• The Black American Amputation Epidemic
• The Disappeared
• Global Inequality and the Corona Shock
• The Limits of Telecommuting
• Rebuilding Solidarity in a Broken World
• The Election That Could Break America
• The Collaborators
• Editor’s Letter from “The Great Fire”
• Witness and Respair
• The Store That Called the Cops on George Floyd
• Whose Streets?
• The Trayvon Generation
• Excerpts From “Marie Clarie’s Guide to Protecting Yourself Online”
• Graham Court. The Gilded Age Rental
• One Fifth. The Downtown Co- op of All Downtown Co- ops
• Ladies of the Good Dead and On Immolation and On Doulas
• The Patriot Slave
• The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic
• Michael Jordan. A History of Flight
• Twelve Minutes and a Life
• The Whale Mother
• Permissions
• Contributors