A review by yooperann
Best American Travel Writing 2020 by Jason Wilson, Robert Macfarlane

5.0

Excellent. So much better than The Best American Food Writing. Both editors try, under time pressure, to respond to the zeitgeist, but this one does it much better. For example, both include first person stories by authors with disabilities. But the one in the Food volume reads like a to-do list. The one in the Travel volume is a breath-taking account of a trip to Lake Como, including a detail in which a man masturbating in the shrubbery sees the author and immediately stops and crosses himself. Not a weak essay in the volume.