The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 Edited by Sid Holt Introduction by Clara Jeffery

The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 edited by Sid Holt

Introduction by Clara Jeffery is an iconic book, truly important this year, because the 2021 represents a year of big changes and shocks.

When I received this book the war of Russia against Ukraine wasn't started yet. I think that also 2022 will be highly remembered by the humanity. 

2021 represented for the world the Plague: it was called the Plague Year. A pandemic, the Covid, in the USA killed and is killing more people than in the rest of the Planet:  it was the year in which a President who had left the election tried to remain, with also an assault to the Capitol Hill of his supporters mining the democracy of a State, and letting us discover the fragility of democracies; it was the year of the murder of George Floyd, Minneapolis. Many demonstrations against racial hate still persisting in the USA took place in the entire territory and a new movement blacklivesmatter was born.

Enjoy the reading. You can jump here and there, reading what you appreciate the most. This compilation of articles is a powerful way for reflecting on the problematics of the world and it is, as always, illuminating.

Highly recommended book.

I thank Columbia University Press for the physical copy of the book.

Anna Maria Polidori