Best American series.

"The essays in this year's Best American Travel Writing are an antidote to the isolation of the year 2020, giving us views into experiences unlike our own and taking us on journeys we could not take ourselves. From the lively music of West Africa, to the rich culinary traditions of Muslims in Northwest China, to the thrill of a hunt in Alaska, this collection is a treasure trove of diverse places and cultures, providing the comfort, excitement, and joy of feeling elsewhere." --

Inside the nightmare voyage of the Diamond Princess / Doug Bock Clark, from GQ -- Mississippi: a poem, in days / Kiese Makeba Laymon, from Vanity Fair -- Warmth of a lost world / Leslie Jamison, from The New York Times Magazine -- To the swimmer in the Borneo rainforest / Meghan Gunn, from Off Assignment -- I decided to leave / Meghan Daum, from GEN -- New York you once knew is gone. The one you loved remains / Glynnis MacNicol, from GEN -- Good bread / Bill Buford, from the New Yorker -- Food, it turns out, has little to do with why I love to travel / Noah Galuten, from Eater -- People of Las Vegas / Amanda Fortini, from The Believer -- In the City of Saints / Sarah Khan, from Travel + Leisure -- Reindeer at the end of the world / Bathsheba Demuth, from Emergence Magazine -- Senegal's beating heart / Jim Benning, from Westways -- Five oceans, five deeps / Ben Taub, from The New Yorker -- Water or sky? / Meg Bernhard, from Hazlitt -- California's weed country is lit / Jackie Bryant, from Cannabitch -- Youtopia / Carrie Battan, from Outside -- Can travel become an addiction? / Natalie Stoclet, from Playboy -- On the complicated questions around writing about travel / Intan Paramaditha, from Literary Hub -- Out there, nobody can hear you scream / Latria Graham, fromOutside -- Losing coast / Elizabeth Miller, from The Statesider -- To the doctor of Bujumbura's quarantine hotel / Jina Moore, from Off Assignment -- A change in perspective / Sarah Moss, from Travel + Leisure -- Thousand fields of grain / Ligaya Mishan, from T: The New York Times Style Magazine -- A fear-filled lockdown / Paul Theroux, from The New York Times -- Wanderlust / Jon Lee Anderson, from The New Yorker