{"product_id":"best-american-magazine-writing-2020","title":"Best American Magazine Writing 2020","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Best American Magazine Writing 2020\u003c\/i\u003e brings together outstanding writing, from in-depth reporting to incisive criticism. The anthology features excerpts from major projects that challenge American certitudes: the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e’s “Prison” issue, detailing the scope of mass incarceration, and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e’s “The 1619 Project,” which recenters the nation’s history around slavery and its legacies. It includes extraordinary globe-spanning journalism, including pieces on the genocide against the Rohingya (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e) and the unintended consequences of a dengue fever vaccine (\u003ci\u003eFortune\u003c\/i\u003e). Pamela Colloff details prosecutors’ reliance on an untrustworthy jailhouse informant (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine \u003c\/i\u003ein partnership with \u003ci\u003eProPublica\u003c\/i\u003e), and a \u003ci\u003eProPublica\u003c\/i\u003e series investigates the disaster that befell the USS Fitzgerald.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe anthology showcases the work of remarkable stylists, including Jia Tolentino’s cultural commentary (\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e) and Ligaya Mishan’s columns on food and culture (\u003ci\u003eT: The New York Times Style Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e). Columns by s.e. smith consider disability (\u003ci\u003eCatapult\u003c\/i\u003e), and the DeafBlind poet John Lee Clark writes about art he can touch (\u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e). Jordan Kisner visits a Martha Washington–themed debutante ball in Texas near the Mexican border for \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e, and Jacob Baynham offers a moving portrait of his father-in-law (\u003ci\u003eGeorgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e). Arundhati Roy excoriates the increasing authoritarianism of Modi’s India (\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e in partnership with Type Media Center). The anthology concludes with Jonathan Escoffery’s short story of homesickness for Jamaica, “Under the Ackee Tree” (\u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54219684774232,"sku":"9780231198011","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780231198011_88f1f6dd-223f-4a85-821a-5c6369a64d06.jpg?v=1776856519","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/best-american-magazine-writing-2020","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}