The Best American Magazine Writing 2021

THE BEST AMERICAN MAGAZINE WRITING 2021 edited by Sid Holt offers pieces from a diverse set of authors including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jesmyn Ward, and Susan Choi. The articles themselves cover a range of topics, although many deal with current events: “The plague year” by Lawrence Wright; “Global inequality and the corona shock” by Ada Tooze; “The limits of telecommuting” by Margaret O'Mara or “Rebuilding solidarity in a broken world” by Eric Klinenberg. Others, like “The store that called the cops on George Floyd” by Aymann Ismail, “The Trayvon generation” by Elizabeth Alexander or “Michael Jordan: a history of flight” by Wright Thompson, have been read and referenced by our Junior Theme students. THE BEST AMERICAN MAGAZINE WRITING 2021 offers a hefty collection with over 540 pages and excellent writing - from investigative reporting to short story - for everyone.