| Description |
xxii, 590 pages ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
"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." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction, / by Natasha Pearlman, executive editor, Glamour -- Acknowledgments -- The Battle for Baby L. / by Rozina Ali, New York Times Magazine -- She Never Hurt Her Kids. So Why Is a Mother Serving More Time Than the Man Who Abused Her Daughter? / by Samantha Michaels, Mother Jones -- Aristocrat Inc. / by Natalie So, The Believer -- Monuments to the Unthinkable / by Clint Smith, The Atlantic -- The Landlord and the Tenant / by Raquel Rutledge and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel -- Death Sentence / by Nicholas Florko, Stat -- The Time to Pass Paid Leave Is Now / by Natasha Pearlman, Glamour -- A Post-Roe Threat and The Post-Roe Era and Is Abortion Sacred? / by Jia Tolentino, New Yorker -- We Need to Take Away Children / by Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic -- The Militiamen, the Governor, and the Kidnapping That Wasn't / by Chris Heath, Esquire -- How a Nepo Baby Is Born / by Nate Jones, New York -- Tinder Hearted / by Allison P. Davis, New York -- Acid Church / by Courtney Desiree Morris, Stranger's Guide -- "She's Capital!" / by Namwali Serpell, New York Review of Books -- Viola Davis, Inside Out / by Jazmine Hughes, New York Times Magazine -- Light and Shadow / by Raffi Khatchadourian, New Yorker -- Winter Term / by Michelle de Kretser, Paris Review -- Untold / by Tom Junod and Paula Lavigne, ESPN Digital. |
| Subject |
American prose literature -- 21st century -- Periodicals.
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Journalism -- Awards -- United States -- Periodicals.
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American prose literature (OCoLC)fst00807422
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Journalism -- Awards
(OCoLC)fst00984041
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United States (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
periodicals. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300026657
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Periodicals (OCoLC)fst01411641
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Literature.
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Periodicals.
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| Added Author |
Holt, Sid, editor.
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Pearlman, Natasha, writer of introduction.
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American Society of Magazine Editors.
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| Other Form: |
ebook version : 9780231557696 |
| ISBN |
9780231208925 (hardcover) |
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0231208928 (hardcover) |
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9780231208932 (paperback) |
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0231208936 (paperback) |
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9780231557696 ePub ebook |
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