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The best American science and nature writing 2021
"The stories I have chosen reflect where I feel the field of science and nature writing has landed, and where it could go," Ed Yong writes in his introduction. "They are often full of tragedy, sometimes laced with wonder, but always deeply aware that science does not exist in a social vacuum. They are beautiful, whether in their clarity of ideas, the elegance of their prose, or often both." The essays in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing brought clarity to the complexity and bewilderment of 2020 and delivered us necessary information during a global pandemic. From an in-depth look at the moment of the virus's outbreak, to a harrowing personal account of lingering Covid symptoms, to a thoughtful analysis on how the pandemic will impact the environment, these essays, as Yong says, "synthesize, evaluate, dig, unveil, and challenge," imbuing a pivotal moment in history with lucidity and elegance." --back cover.
This overlooked variable is the key to the pandemic / Zeynep Tufekci
They say Coronavirus isn't airborne
but it's definitely bourne by air / Roxanne Khamsi
The difference between feeling safe and being safe / Amanda Mull
I'm an ER doctor in New York. None of us will ever be the same / Helen Ouyang
The Covid drug wars that pitted doctor vs. doctor / Susan Dominus
The soft butch that couldn't (or: I got Covid-19 in March and never got better) / Heather Hogan
What happened in Room 10? / Katie Engelhart
It's not too late to save Black lives / Julia Craven
The scramble to pluck 24 billion cherries in eight weeks / Brooke Jarvis
Rabbit fever / Susan Orlean
An atlas of the cosmos / Shannon Stirone
Periwinkle, the color of poison, Modernism, and dusk / Katy Kelleher
The unsung heroine of lichenology / Sabrina Imbler
Happiness won't save you / Jennifer Senior
Out there, nobody can hear you scream / Latria Graham
The empty space where normal once lived / Bathsheba Demuth
This is how we live now / Emily Raboteau
What the Coronavirus means for climate change / Meehan Crist
River of time / Namwali Serpell
Fish out of water / Maya L. Kapoor
Cancel earthworms / Julia Rosen
Long may they reign / Nora Caplan-Bricker
A toxic secret lurks in deep sea / Rosanna Xia
SpaceX is taking over a tiny Texas neighborhood / Marina Koren
The friendship and love hospital / Jiayang Fan
The last children of Down Syndrome / Sarah Zhang.
They say Coronavirus isn't airborne
but it's definitely bourne by air / Roxanne Khamsi
The difference between feeling safe and being safe / Amanda Mull
I'm an ER doctor in New York. None of us will ever be the same / Helen Ouyang
The Covid drug wars that pitted doctor vs. doctor / Susan Dominus
The soft butch that couldn't (or: I got Covid-19 in March and never got better) / Heather Hogan
What happened in Room 10? / Katie Engelhart
It's not too late to save Black lives / Julia Craven
The scramble to pluck 24 billion cherries in eight weeks / Brooke Jarvis
Rabbit fever / Susan Orlean
An atlas of the cosmos / Shannon Stirone
Periwinkle, the color of poison, Modernism, and dusk / Katy Kelleher
The unsung heroine of lichenology / Sabrina Imbler
Happiness won't save you / Jennifer Senior
Out there, nobody can hear you scream / Latria Graham
The empty space where normal once lived / Bathsheba Demuth
This is how we live now / Emily Raboteau
What the Coronavirus means for climate change / Meehan Crist
River of time / Namwali Serpell
Fish out of water / Maya L. Kapoor
Cancel earthworms / Julia Rosen
Long may they reign / Nora Caplan-Bricker
A toxic secret lurks in deep sea / Rosanna Xia
SpaceX is taking over a tiny Texas neighborhood / Marina Koren
The friendship and love hospital / Jiayang Fan
The last children of Down Syndrome / Sarah Zhang.
Item details
- ISBN: 0358400066
- ISBN: 9780358400066
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Physical Description:
xxv, 388 pages ; 21 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : Mariner Books, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Contents / Notes
| Formatted Contents Note: | This overlooked variable is the key to the pandemic / Zeynep Tufekci They say Coronavirus isn't airborne but it's definitely bourne by air / Roxanne Khamsi The difference between feeling safe and being safe / Amanda Mull I'm an ER doctor in New York. None of us will ever be the same / Helen Ouyang The Covid drug wars that pitted doctor vs. doctor / Susan Dominus The soft butch that couldn't (or: I got Covid-19 in March and never got better) / Heather Hogan What happened in Room 10? / Katie Engelhart It's not too late to save Black lives / Julia Craven The scramble to pluck 24 billion cherries in eight weeks / Brooke Jarvis Rabbit fever / Susan Orlean An atlas of the cosmos / Shannon Stirone Periwinkle, the color of poison, Modernism, and dusk / Katy Kelleher The unsung heroine of lichenology / Sabrina Imbler Happiness won't save you / Jennifer Senior Out there, nobody can hear you scream / Latria Graham The empty space where normal once lived / Bathsheba Demuth This is how we live now / Emily Raboteau What the Coronavirus means for climate change / Meehan Crist River of time / Namwali Serpell Fish out of water / Maya L. Kapoor Cancel earthworms / Julia Rosen Long may they reign / Nora Caplan-Bricker A toxic secret lurks in deep sea / Rosanna Xia SpaceX is taking over a tiny Texas neighborhood / Marina Koren The friendship and love hospital / Jiayang Fan The last children of Down Syndrome / Sarah Zhang. |
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| Subject: | Science Literary collections Nature Literary collections COVID-19 (Disease) COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- Medicine in Literature Science in Literature COVID-19 |
| Genre: | Creative nonfiction. Essays. Popular Work. Collected Work. |
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