The Best of Slate
A 10th Anniversary Anthology
“I don’t think I’ve ever gone to Slate and not been fascinated, educated, infuriated, or simply found myself laughing out loud.” —Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink
When Slate launched a decade ago, the web was a novelty and internet journalism scarcely existed. In the decade since, it has come to shape how Americans think about politics, media, and culture, emerging as the most important new magazine of its generation.
The Best of Slate captures the magazine’s funny, conversational style, its extraordinary variety, and its provocative intellectual fierceness. These pages contain more than sixty pieces spanning the magazine’s first decade, including articles by some of the most exciting writers around: Michael Lewis, Jeffrey Goldberg, Christopher Hitchens, Jack Shafer, Dahlia Lithwick, Marjorie Williams, Jeffrey Steingarten, and Atul Gawande.
“This equation is indisputable: panoramic topics plus ingenious commentary equals the best book of the year. . . . Slate’s writers shape these topics into masterpieces of opinion. . . . This book is a funhouse of inspired ideas, effectively realized in compact, cerebral bursts. It demonstrates the unlimited possibilities that are available to be creatively cultivated in journalism.” —Courier-Post