The Best American Magazine Writing 2021The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 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 (New Yorker). Lizzie Presser reports on "The Black American Amputation Epidemic" (ProPublica). In powerful essays, the novelist Jesmyn Ward processes her grief over her husband's death against