The Best American Magazine Writing 2022 / / ed. by Sid Holt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem,; Aikins, Matthieu,; Akintoye, Dotun,; Atherton Lin, Jeremy,; Aviv, Rachel,; Baker, Katie J. M.,; Blake, Heidi,; Canning, Kristin,; Gannon, Megan I.,; Goldberg, Jeffrey,; Gornick, Vivian,; Gutierrez, Katie,; Holt, Sid,; Injam, Nishanth,; Jung, E. Alex,; Lanham, J. Drew,; Mider, Zachary R.,; Patchett, Ann,; Senior, Jennifer,; Valle Schorske, Carina del,; Wolchover, Natalie,; Yong, Ed,
• HerausgeberIn: Holt, Sid,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The Best American Magazine Writing 2022 presents a range of outstanding writing on timely topics, from in-depth reporting to incisive criticism: Kristin Canning calls for a change in how we talk about abortion (Women’s Health), and Ed Yong warns us about the next pandemic (The Atlantic). Matthieu Aikins provides a gripping eyewitness account of the Taliban’s seizure of Kabul (New York Times Magazine). Heidi Blake and Katie J. M. Baker’s “Beyond Britney” examines how people placed under legal guardianship are deprived of their autonomy (BuzzFeed News). Rachel Aviv profiles a psychologist who studies the fallibility of memory—and has testified for defendants including Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby (The New Yorker).The anthology includes dispatches from the frontiers of science, exploring why Venus turned out so hellishly unlike Earth (Popular Science) and detailing the potential of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (Quanta). It features celebrated writers, including Harper’s magazine pieces by Ann Patchett, whose “These Precious Days” is a powerful story of friendship during the pandemic, and Vivian Gornick, who offers “notes on humiliation.” Carina del Valle Schorske depicts the power of public dance after pandemic isolation (New York Times Magazine). And the NBA icon Kareem Abdul-Jabbar lauds the Black athletes who fought for social justice (AARP the Magazine). Amid the continuing reckoning with racism, authors reconsider tarnished figures. The Black ornithologist and birder J. Drew Lanham assesses the legacy of John James Audubon in the magazine that bears his name, and Jeremy Atherton Lin questions his youthful enthusiasm for Morrissey (Yale Review). Jennifer Senior writes about memory and the lingering grief felt for a friend killed on 9/11 (The Atlantic). The collection concludes with Nishanth Injam’s story of queer first love across religious boundaries, “Come with Me” (Georgia Review).

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Bodies on the Line -- We’re Already Barreling Toward the Next Pandemic -- These Precious Days -- Venus Rising -- The Webb Space Telescope Will Rewrite Cosmic History. If It Works -- The Methane Hunters -- We Need to Change How We Talk About Abortion -- The Games We Play -- The Original Cowboys -- Infinite Self -- Is Jake Paul Bad for Boxing? Next Question -- The Wrong Daddy -- Past Imperfect -- Beyond Britney Abuse, Exploitation, and Death Inside America’s Guardianship Industry -- Put on the Diamonds -- What Do We Do About John James Audubon? -- The Collapse -- Twenty Years Gone -- Come with Me -- Permissions -- Contributors