The Best American Magazine Writing 2023
Edited by Sidney Holt for the American Society of Magazine Editors
Columbia University Press, November 2023
The Battle for Baby L.
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?
Samantha Michaels - Mother Jones
Aristocrat Inc.
Natalie So - The Believer
Monuments to the Unthinkable
Clint Smith - The Atlantic
The Landlord and the Tenant
Raquel Rutledge & Ken Armstrong - ProPublica & Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Death Sentence
Nicholas Florko - Stat
The Time to Pass Paid Leave Is Now
Natasha Pearlman - Glamour
A Post-Roe Threat and The Post-Roe Era and Is Abortion Sacred?
Jia Tolentino - New Yorker
"We Need to Take Away Children"
Caitlin Dickerson - The Atlantic
The Militiamen, the Governor, and the Kidnapping That Wasn’t
Chris Heath - Esquire
How a Nepo Baby Is Born
Nate Jones - New York
Tinder Hearted
Allison P. Davis - New York
Acid Church
Courtney Desiree Morris - Stranger’s Guide
"She’s Capital!"
Namwali Serpell - New York Review of Books
Viola Davis, Inside Out
Jazmine Hughes - New York Times Magazine
Light and Shadow
Raffi Khatchadourian - New Yorker
Winter Term [Paywalled]
Michelle de Kretser - Paris Review
Untold
Tom Junod & Paula Lavigne - ESPN Digital