The Best American Magazine Writing 2020

Published by Columbia University Press 2020

The Best American Magazine Writing 2020

Edited by: Sid Holt

https://doi.org/10.7312/holt19801

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About this book

The Best American Magazine Writing 2020 brings together outstanding in-depth reporting and incisive criticism. It features extraordinary globe-spanning journalism and showcases the work of remarkable stylists.

Author / Editor information

Sid Holt is chief executive of the American Society of Magazine Editors and a former editor at Rolling Stone and Adweek magazines.

Jake Silverstein is editor in chief of the New York Times Magazine.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Jonathan Dorn Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Sid Holt Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
New York Times Magazine in partnership with ProPublica WINNER— REPORTING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
False Witness Pamela Colloff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
We’ve Normalized Prison Piper Kerman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Can We Build a Better Women’s Prison? Keri Blakinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Epidemic of Fear Erika Fry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Las Marthas Jordan Kisner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
The Schoolteacher and the Genocide Sarah A. Topol Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Unlike Any Other Nick Paumgarten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Jerry’s Dirt Jacob Baynham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Elizabeth Warren’s Classroom Strategy Rebecca Traister Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Tactile Art John Lee Clark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
India: Intimations of an Ending Arundhati Roy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
When Disability Is a Toxic Legacy and The Ugly Beautiful and Other Failings of Disability Representation and What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Mental Health and Medication S.E. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Kanye West’s Sunday Service Is Full of Longing and Self- Promotion and Love, Death, and Begging for Celebrities to Kill You and E. Jean Carroll’s Accusation Against Donald Trump, and the Raising, and Lowering, of the Bar Jia Tolentino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Nothing Sacred and An Assault on the Tongue and Interlopers Ligaya Mishan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Our Democracy’s Founding Ideals Were False When They Were Written. Black Americans Have Fought to Make Them True Nikole Hannah Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
Fight the Ship T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose and Robert Faturechi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
Under the Ackee Tree Jonathan Escoffery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	441
Permissions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	467

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: General/trade;

eBook

Published: December 8, 2020
ISBN: 9780231552448