The Best American Magazine Writing 2020 /.

The Best American Magazine Writing 2020 brings together outstanding writing from in-depth reporting to incisive criticism. It features extraordinary globe-spanning journalism, including Sarah A. Topol on the genocide against the Rohingya ( New York Times Magazine ) and Erika Fry on the unintended consequences of a dengue fever vaccine ( Fortune ). In "India: Intimations of an Ending," Arundhati Roy excoriates the increasing authoritarianism under Modi ( The Nation in partnership with Type Media Center). A Q&A with Pamela Colloff accompanies her piece detailing prosecutors' reliance on an untrustworthy jailhouse informant ( New York Times Magazine in partnership with ProPublica ), and a ProPublica series investigates the disaster that befell the USS Fitzgerald. The anthology showcases the work of remarkable stylists, including Jia Tolentino's cultural commentary ( New Yorker ) and Ligaya Mishan's columns on food and culture ( T: The New York Times Style Magazine ). Jordan Kisner visits a Martha Washington?themed debutante ball for The Believer , alongside a discussion with the magazine's editor in chief, Joshua Wolf Shenk. Columns by s.e. smith consider disability ( Catapult ), and the DeafBlind poet John Lee Clark writes about art he can touch ( Poetry ). The anthology features excerpts from major projects that challenge American certitudes: the Washington Post Magazine 's "Prison" issue, detailing the scope of mass incarceration, and the New York Times Magazine' s "The 1619 Project," which recenters the nation's history around slavery and its legacies.