The Best American Magazine Writing 2018 / / ed. by The American Society of Magazine Editors.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Adewunmi, Bim,; Bryant, Howard,; Coates, Ta- Nehisi,; Farrow, Ronan,; Frazier, Ian,; Gopal, Anand,; Khan, Azmat,; Mar, Alex,; Martin, Nina,; Montagne, Renee,; Overholt, Alison,; Penny, Laurie,; Roupenian, Kristen,; Thompson, Ginger,; Tizon, Alex,; Traister, Rebecca,; Van Natta, Don,; Wallace-Wells, David,; Wickersham, Seth,
• HerausgeberIn: The American Society of Magazine Editors, ,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In a time of reckoning, this year's National Magazine Awards finalists and winners focus on abuse of power in many forms. Ronan Farrow's Pulitzer Prize-winning revelation of Harvey Weinstein's depredations (New Yorker), along with Rebecca Traister's charged commentary for New York and Laurie Penny's incisive Longreads columns, speak to the urgency of the #MeToo moment. Ginger Thompson's reporting on the botched U.S. operation that triggered a cartel massacre in Mexico (National Geographic/ProPublica) and Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal's New York Times Magazine investigation of the civilian casualties of drone strikes in Iraq amplify the voices of those harmed by U.S. actions abroad. And Alex Tizon's "My Family's Slave" (Atlantic) is a powerful attempt to come to terms with the cruelty that was in plain sight in his own upbringing.Responding to the overt racism of the Trump era, Ta-Nehisi Coates's "My President Was Black" (Atlantic) looks back at the meaning of Obama. Howard Bryant (ESPN the Magazine) and Bim Adewunmi (Buzzfeed) offer incisive columns on the intersections of pop culture, sports, race, and politics. In addition, David Wallace-Wells reveals the coming disaster of our climate-change-ravaged future (New York); Don Van Natta Jr. and Seth Wickersham's ESPN the Magazine reporting exposes the seamy sides of the NFL; Nina Martin and Renee Montagne investigate America's shameful record on maternal mortality (NPR/ProPublica); Ian Frazier asks "What Ever Happened to the Russian Revolution?" (Smithsonian); and Alex Mar considers "Love in the Time of Robots" (Wired with Epic Magazine). The collection concludes with Kristen Roupenian's viral hit short story "Cat Person" (New Yorker).

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Abuses of Power and Weighing the Costs of Speaking Out About Harvey Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein's Army of Spies -- Why the Harvey Weinstein Sexual- Harassment Allegations Didn't Come Out Until Now and Your Reckoning. And Mine. and This Moment Isn't (Just) About Sex. It's Really About Work -- The Horizon of Desire and We're All Mad Here: Weinstein, Women, and the Language of Lunacy and The Unforgiving Minute -- The Last Person You'd Expect to Die in Childbirth -- The Uncounted -- How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico -- What Ever Happened to the Russian Revolution? -- The Uninhabitable Earth -- My President Was Black -- Standing Down and Roger Goodell Has a Jerry Jones Problem -- How the Oscar Flub Demonstrates the Limits of Black Graciousness and How Oprah Got Her Acting Groove Back and Maria Sharapova's Rivalry With Serena Williams Is in Her Head -- The Williams Movement and Power Play and How Is This Still a Debate? -- Lola's Story -- Love in the Time of Robots -- Cat Person -- Permissions -- Contributors