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Book SynopsisOur collection of the year’s most original writing on politics, culture, sports, health, sex, race, celebrity, and more.
Trade ReviewBeginning with Ta-nehisi Coates' brilliant essay on reparations and ending with a poignant New Yorker piece, this collection lets you be in the know without having to scramble through endless material. Campus Circle
Table of ContentsIntroduction, by Evan Ratliff, editor of The Atavist Acknowledgments, by Sid Holt, chief executive, American Society of Magazine Editors The Case for Reparations, by Ta-Nehisi Coates Women Aren't Welcome Here, by Amanda Hess The College Rape Overcorrection, by Emily Yoffe When Michael Dunn Compared Himself to a Rape Victim, He Was Following an Old, Racist Script and I Don't Care If You Like It and The Slenderman Stabbing Shows Girls Will Be Girls, Too, by Rebecca Traister Shame and Survival, by Monica Lewinsky Inside the Iron Closet: What It's Like to Be Gay in Putin's Russia, by Jeff Sharlet Love and Ruin, by James Verini The Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie, by John Jeremiah Sullivan The Truth About Chicago's Crime Rates, by David Bernstein and Noah Isackson The Sea of Crises, by Brian Phillips Zombies on the Walls: Why Does So Much New Abstraction Look the Same? and Taking in Jeff Koons, Creator and Destroyer of Worlds and Post-Macho God: Matisse's Cut-Outs Are World-Historically Gorgeous, by Jerry Saltz Follow Me: Kate Upton Leads the Charge of Models Who've Gone Crazy for Social Media, by Jonathan Van Meter Jackie's Goodbye, by Tiffany Stanley This Old Man, by Roger Angell The Emerald Light in the Air, by Donald Antrim Permissions List of Contributors
