The Best American Magazine Writing 2015

The Best American Magazine Writing 2015

<P>This year's Best American Magazine Writing features articles on politics, culture, sports, sex, race, celebrity, and more. Selections include Ta-Nehisi Coates's intensely debated "The Case For Reparations" <i>(The Atlantic</i>) and Monica Lewinsky's reflections on the public-humiliation complex and how the rules of the game have (and have not) changed (<i>Vanity Fair</i>). Amanda Hess recounts her chilling encounter with Internet sexual harassment (<i>Pacific Standard</i>) and John Jeremiah Sullivan shares his investigation into one of American music's greatest mysteries (<i>New York Times Magazine</i>).</P><P>The anthology also presents Rebecca Traister's acerbic musings on gender politics (<i>The New Republic</i>) and Jerry Saltz's fearless art criticism (<i>New York</i>). James Verini reconstructs an eccentric love affair against the slow deterioration of Afghanistan in the twentieth century (<i>The Atavist</i>); Roger Angell offers affecting yet humorous reflections on life at ninety-three (<i>The New Yorker</i>); Tiffany Stanley recounts her poignant experience caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's (<i>National Journal</i>); and Jonathan Van Meter takes an entertaining look at fashion's obsession with being a social-media somebody (<i>Vogue</i>). Brian Phillips describes his surreal adventures in the world of Japanese ritual and culture (<i>Grantland</i>), and Emily Yoffe reveals the unforeseen casualties in the effort to address the college rape crisis (<i>Slate</i>). The collection concludes with a work of fiction by Donald Antrim, exploring the geography of loss. (<i>The New Yorker</i>).</P>