{"product_id":"the-best-american-magazine-writing-2021-9780231198035","title":"The Best American Magazine Writing 2021","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Best American Magazine Writing 2021\u003c\/i\u003e presents outstanding journalism and commentary that reckon with urgent topics, including COVID-19 and entrenched racial inequality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \"The Plague Year,\" Lawrence Wright details how responses to the pandemic went astray (\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e). Lizzie Presser reports on \"The Black American Amputation Epidemic\" (\u003ci\u003eProPublica\u003c\/i\u003e). In powerful essays, the novelist Jesmyn Ward processes her grief over her husband's death against the backdrop of the pandemic and antiracist uprisings (\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e), and the poet Elizabeth Alexander considers \"The Trayvon Generation\" (\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e). Aymann Ismail delves into how \"The Store That Called the Cops on George Floyd\" dealt with the repercussions of the fatal call (\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e). Mitchell S. Jackson scrutinizes the murder of Ahmaud Arbery and how running fails Black America (\u003ci\u003eRunner's World\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe anthology features remarkable reporting, such as explorations of the cases of children who disappeared into the depths of the U.S. immigration system for years (\u003ci\u003eReveal\u003c\/i\u003e) and Oakland's efforts to rethink its approach to gun violence (\u003ci\u003eMother Jones\u003c\/i\u003e). It includes selections from a Public Books special issue that investigate what 2020's overlapping crises reveal about the future of cities. Excerpts from \u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e's guide to online privacy examine topics from algorithmic bias to cyberstalking to employees' rights. Aisha Sabatini Sloan's perceptive \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e columns explore her family history in Detroit and the toll of a brutal past and present. Sam Anderson reflects on a unique pop figure in \"The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection concludes with Susan Choi's striking short story \"The Whale Mother\" (\u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471726821612,"sku":"9780231198035","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/df9a19b4d400a7ed6374a43355d1ada8.jpg?v=1775792170","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-best-american-magazine-writing-2021-9780231198035","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}