The Best American Magazine Writing 2021

Introduction, by Clara Jeffery, editor in chief, Mother Jones
Acknowledgments, by Sid Holt, chief executive, American Society of Magazine Editors
The Plague Year, by Lawrence Wright
The Black American Amputation Epidemic, by Lizzie Presser
The Disappeared, by Aura Bogado
Global Inequality and the Corona Shock, by Adam Tooze
The Limits of Telecommuting, by Margaret O¿Mara
Rebuilding Solidarity in a Broken World, by Eric Klinenberg
The Election That Could Break America, by Barton Gellman
The Collaborators, by Anne Applebaum
Editor¿s Letter, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Witness and Respair, by Jesmyn Ward
The Store That Called the Cops on George Floyd, by Aymann Ismail
Whose Streets?, by Samantha Michaels
The Trayvon Generation, by Elizabeth Alexander
Excerpts From ¿Marie Claire¿s Guide to Protecting Yourself Online¿, by Edited by Megan DiTrolio
Graham Court: The Gilded Age Rental, by Matthew Sedacca
One Fifth: The Downtown Co-op of All Downtown Co-ops, by Matthew Sedacca
Ladies of the Good Dead and On Immolation and On Doulas, by Aisha Sabatini Sloan
The Patriot Slave, by Farah Peterson
The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic, by Sam Anderson
Michael Jordan: A History of Flight, by Wright Thompson
Twelve Minutes and a Life, by Mitchell S. Jackson
The Whale Mother, by Susan Choi
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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.

Clara Jeffery is editor in chief of Mother Jones.