On the Best American Essays 2021
Atwan, Robert and Kathryn Schulz, eds. The Best American Essays 2021. New York: Mariner Books, 2021. pp. 256. Paperback.
This is an incredible collection of essays published throughout 2020, many of which deal with the grief and pain of that year (that still continues to the present). The crowning achievement here is Jesmyn Ward’s “Witness and Respair”—what an incredible piece of writing.