Chosen by the American Society of Magazine Editors, the stories in
this anthology include National Magazine Award-winning works of
public interest, reporting, feature writing, and fiction. This
year's selections include Pamela Colloff (Texas Monthly) on the
agonizing, decades-long struggle by a convicted murderer to prove
his innocence; Dexter Filkins (The New Yorker) on the emotional
effort by an Iraq War veteran to make amends for the role he played
in the deaths of innocent Iraqis; Chris Jones (Esquire) on Robert
A. Caro's epic, ongoing investigation into the life and work of
Lyndon Johnson; Charles C. Mann (Orion) on the odds of human
beings' survival as a species; and Roger Angell (The New Yorker) on
aging, dying, and loss. The former infantryman Brian Mockenhaupt
(Byliner) describes modern combat in Afghanistan and its ability
both to forge and challenge friendships; Ta-Nehisi Coates (The
Atlantic) reflects on the complex racial terrain traversed by
Barack Obama; Frank Rich (New York) assesses Mitt Romney's
ambiguous candidacy; and Dahlia Lithwick (Slate) looks at the
current and future implications of an eventful year in Supreme
Court history. The volume also includes an interview on the art of
screenwriting with Terry Southern from The Paris Review and an
award-winning short story by Stephen King published in Harper's
magazine.
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