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The Best American Magazine Writing 2023 offers a selection of outstanding journalism on timely topics, including inequalities and injustices pressuring families, especially mothers. Rozina Ali tells the story of a U.S. marine who unlawfully adopted an Afghan girl and her family’s efforts to bring her home (New York Times Magazine). A Mother Jones exposé confronts the imprisonment of women for failing to protect their children from their abusive partners. “The Landlord and the Tenant” juxtaposes the lives of a poor single mother convicted for her children’s deaths in a fire and the man who owned the fatal property (ProPublica with Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). Caitlin Dickerson investigates the history of the U.S. government’s family-separation policy (The Atlantic). Jia Tolentino’s New Yorker commentary considers abortion in a post-Roe world.

The anthology features pieces on a wide range of subjects, such as Nate Jones on the “Nepo Baby” and Allison P. Davis’s essay about a decade on Tinder (New York). Natalie So recounts how her mother’s small computer chip company became the target of a Silicon Valley crime ring (The Believer). Clint Smith asks what Holocaust memorials in Germany can teach the United States about our reckoning with slavery (The Atlantic). Esquire’s Chris Heath examines the FBI’s involvement in a plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan. Courtney Desiree Morris takes a queer psychedelic ramble through New Orleans (Stranger’s Guide). Namwali Serpell reflects on representations of sex workers (New York Review of Books). An ESPN Digital investigation uncovers Penn State’s other serial sexual predator before Jerry Sandusky. Profiles of the acclaimed actress Viola Davis (New York Times Magazine) and the self-taught artist Matthew Wong (New Yorker), as well as Michelle de Kretser’s short story “Winter Term” (Paris Review), round out the volume.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Columbia University Press (November 21, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 616 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0231208936
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0231208932
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.5 x 8.3 inches
Reviewer: writer wannabe
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Oh how I wish we got “where are they now” updates
Review: I’ve always loved the Best Writing series although I stopped reading books cold turkey a few years ago. Call it a strike of sorts. Long story for another day.Was excited to dive into this selection of outstanding magazine pieces. However, I’ve put down the book for weeks now because I’m frustrated with the lack of updates/what has happened since. This could so easily have been done by contacting the journalists who wrote the pieces. I now find myself googling for whatever I can glean. Which only just puts me back online, which is what I am trying so hard to avoid. Oh, the conundrum of it all.Still a fantastic selection.

Reviewer: Alexandra M. Ledbetter
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: 2023, in case you missed it
Review: A well-curated collection of the most salient stories of 2023, all in one handy volume. My favorites were Caitlin Dickerson’s searing reporting on the Trump Administration’s family separation policy and Jia Tolentino’s essay on the Post-Roe era.

Reviewer: ARW
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Exposes the corrupt side of people who are supposed to serve
Review: I had to stop reading this book. The articles expose the immoral, self serving, evil side of those in power. Not a speck of empathy or competence in the bunch

Reviewer: Tardigrade
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A lot of good writing
Review: A new volume of the best magazine writing, selected and honored by the American Society of Magazine Editors in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.As every year, you will find a lot of good writing in these pages, with many pieces you might otherwise have missed. It is interesting how many of them revolve around children and family - some of them heartbreaking. But what I found most rewarding was a forgotten story about Silicon Valley's "drug of the nineties," computer chips, and all the criminal activities surrounding them.Thanks to the publisher, Columbia University Press, and NetGalley for an advanced copy of this book.

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