Overview

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).

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Author:   Sid Holt ,  Jeffrey Goldberg
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
ISBN:  

9780231208918

ISBN 10:   023120891
Pages:   472
Publication Date:   29 November 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction, by Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief, The Atlantic Acknowledgments, by Sid Holt, chief executive, American Society of Magazine Editors Bodies on the Line, by Carina del Valle Schorske, New York Times Magazine, Winner—Essays and Criticism We’re Already Barreling Toward the Next Pandemic, by Ed Yong, The Atlantic, Finalist—Public Interest These Precious Days, by Ann Patchett, Harper’s, Finalist—Feature Writing Venus Rising, by Megan I. Gannon, Popular Science, Winner—Single-Topic Issue The Webb Space Telescope Will Rewrite Cosmic History. If It Works, by Natalie Wolchover, Quanta, Finalist—Reporting The Methane Hunters, by Zachary R. Mider, Bloomberg Green with Bloomberg Businessweek, Finalist—Public Interest We Need to Change How We Talk About Abortion, by Kristin Canning, Women’s Health, Finalist—Service Journalism The Games We Play, by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, AARP the Magazine, Finalist—Lifestyle Journalism The Original Cowboys, by Katie Gutierrez, Texas Highways, Finalist—Lifestyle Journalism Infinite Self, by E. Alex Jung, New York, Finalist—Profile Writing Is Jake Paul Bad for Boxing? Next Question, by Dotun Akintoye, ESPN.com, Finalist—Profile Writing The Wrong Daddy, by Jeremy Atherton Lin, Yale Review, Finalist—Lifestyle Journalism Past Imperfect, by Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, Winner—Profile Writing Beyond Britney: Abuse, Exploitation, and Death Inside America’s Guardianship Industry, by Heidi Blake and Katie J. M. Baker, BuzzFeed News, Finalist—Public Interest Put on the Diamonds, by Vivian Gornick, Harper’s, Finalist—Essays and Criticism What Do We Do About John James Audubon?, by J. Drew Lanham, Audubon, Finalist—Essays and Criticism The Collapse, by Matthieu Aikins, New York Times Magazine, Winner—Reporting Twenty Years Gone, by Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic, Winner—Feature Writing Come With Me, by Nishanth Injam, Georgia Review, Winner—ASME Award for Fiction Permissions List of Contributors

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Sid Holt is executive director of the American Society of Magazine Editors and a former editor at Rolling Stone and Adweek magazines. Jeffrey Goldberg is editor in chief of The Atlantic and a recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting. He is the author of Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror (2006).

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