In his introduction, series editor Jason Wilson notes that magazines are now publishing "less and less quality travel writing," and sadly in this year's volume (which spotlights work published in 2010) I did notice a difference for the first time. The pieces just weren't as consistently interesting as usual, though I did have some favorites: Andre Aciman on his search for the source of a Monet painting; Porter Fox on the troubles of a pacific commune in Copenhagen; Keith Gessen on traffic nightmares in Moscow; and Emily Witt on the "Miami party boom" just before the crash of 2008.