The Best American Magazine Writing 2017

The Best American Magazine Writing 2017

With the work of journalists under fire around the world, this yearâ€™s anthology of National Magazine Awards finalists and winners is a timely reminder of the power of journalism. These pieces from writers driven to explore Americaâ€™s fault lines include Shane Bauerâ€™s harrowing â€œMy Four Months as a Private Prison Guardâ€ (Mother Jones), a visceral portrait of the abuses of the carceral system, and Sarah Stillmanâ€™s account of the havoc wreaked on young peopleâ€™s lives when they are put on sex-offender registries (The New Yorker). In two different considerations of parenting, Nikole Hannah-Jones looks for a school for her daughter in a rapidly changing, racially divided Brooklyn (New York Times Magazine) and Michael Chabon takes his thirteen-year-old son to Fashion Week in Paris (GQ). Pamela Colloff explores how the 1966 University of Texas Tower mass shooting changed the course of one survivorâ€™s life (Texas Monthly), and Siddhartha Mukherjee depicts the art and agony of oncology (New York Times Magazine).

Other selections take up the shocks of the election, including Matt Taibbiâ€™s irreverent dispatches from the campaign trail (Rolling Stone) and George Saundersâ€™s transfixing account of Trumpâ€™s rallies (The New Yorker). Jeffrey Goldberg talks through Obamaâ€™s foreign-policy legacy with the president (The Atlantic), Andrew Sullivan fears for the future of democracy (New York), and Gabriel Sherman relates how the women of Fox News brought to light Roger Ailesâ€™s predations (New York). Joining them are Rebecca Solnitâ€™s wide-ranging Harperâ€™s commentary, Becca Rothfeldâ€™s pondering women waiting from The Odyssey to Tinder (Hedgehog Review), and bold expeditions into nature: David Quammen ventures to Yellowstone to consider the future of wild places (National Geographic), and Mac McClelland sets off for Cuba in search of the ivory-billed woodpecker (Audubon).
Country USA
Manufacturer Columbia University Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-12-19
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Columbia University Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-12-19
Format	Kindle eBook

The Best American Magazine Writing 2017

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