The Best American Magazine Writing 2019 presents articles honored
by this year's National Magazine Awards, showcasing outstanding
writing that addresses urgent topics such as justice, gender,
power, and violence, both at home and abroad. The anthology
features remarkable reporting, including the story of a teenager
who tried to get out of MS-13, only to face deportation
(ProPublica); an account of the genocide against the Rohingya in
Myanmar (Politico); and a sweeping California Sunday Magazine
profile of an agribusiness empire. Other journalists explore the
indications of environmental catastrophe, from invasive lionfish
(Smithsonian) to the omnipresence of plastic (National Geographic).
Personal pieces consider the toll of mass incarceration, including
Reginald Dwayne Betts's "Getting Out" (New York Times Magazine);
"This Place Is Crazy," by John J. Lennon (Esquire); and Robert
Wright's "Getting Out of Prison Meant Leaving Dear Friends Behind"
(Marshall Project with Vice). From the pages of the Atlantic and
the New Yorker, writers and critics discuss prominent political
figures: Franklin Foer's "American Hustler" explores Paul
Manafort's career of corruption; Jill Lepore recounts the emergence
of Ruth Bader Ginsburg; and Caitlin Flanagan and Doreen St. Felix
reflect on the Kavanaugh hearings and #MeToo. Leslie Jamison crafts
a portrait of the Museum of Broken Relationships (Virginia
Quarterly Review), and Kasey Cordell and Lindsey B. Koehler ponder
"The Art of Dying Well" (5280). A pair of never-before-published
conversations illuminates the state of the American magazine: New
Yorker writer Ben Taub speaks to Eric Sullivan of Esquire about
pursuing a career as a reporter, alongside Taub's piece
investigating how the Iraqi state is fueling a resurgence of ISIS.
And Karolina Waclawiak of BuzzFeed News interviews McSweeney's
editor Claire Boyle about challenges and opportunities for fiction
at small magazines. That conversation is inspired by McSweeney's
winning the ASME Award for Fiction, which is celebrated here with a
story by Lesley Nneka Arimah, a magical-realist tale charged with
feminist allegory.
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