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<i>The Best American Magazine Writing 2021</i> presents outstanding journalism and commentary that reckon with urgent topics, including COVID-19 and entrenched racial inequality. In “The Plague Year,” Lawrence Wright details how responses to the pandemic went astray (<i>New Yorker</i>). Lizzie Presser reports on “The Black American Amputation Epidemic” (<i>ProPublica</i>). In powerful essays, the novelist Jesmyn Ward processes her grief over her husband’s death against the backdrop of the pandemic and antiracist uprisings (<i>Vanity Fair</i>), and the poet Elizabeth Alexander considers “The Trayvon Generation” (<i>New Yorker</i>). Aymann Ismail delves into how “The Store That Called the Cops on George Floyd” dealt with the repercussions of the fatal call (<i>Slate</i>). Mitchell S. Jackson scrutinizes the murder of Ahmaud Arbery and how running fails Black America (<i>Runner’s World</i>).<br><br>The 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 (<i>Reveal</i>) and Oakland’s efforts to rethink its approach to gun violence (<i>Mother Jones</i>). It includes selections from a <i>Public Books</i> special issue that investigate what 2020’s overlapping crises reveal about the future of cities. Excerpts from <i>Marie Claire</i>’s guide to online privacy examine topics from algorithmic bias to cyberstalking to employees’ rights. Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s perceptive <i>Paris Review</i> 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” (<i>New York Times Magazine</i>). The collection concludes with Susan Choi’s striking short story “The Whale Mother” (<i>Harper’s Magazine</i>).

Sid Holt is executive director of the American Society of Magazine Editors and a former editor at <i>Rolling Stone</i> and <i>Adweek</i> magazines.<br><br>Clara Jeffery is editor in chief of <i>Mother Jones</i>.