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.
The anthology features pieces on a wide range of subjects, such as Nate Jones on the ＂Nepo Baby＂ and Allison P. Davis’s essay about a decade on Tinder (
New York). Natalie So recounts how her mother’s small computer chip company became the target of a Silicon Valley crime ring (
The Believer). Clint Smith asks what Holocaust memorials in Germany can teach the United States about our reckoning with slavery (
The Atlantic).
Esquire’s Chris Heath examines the FBI’s involvement in a plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan. Courtney Desiree Morris takes a queer psychedelic ramble through New Orleans (
Stranger’s Guide). Namwali Serpell reflects on representations of sex workers (
New York Review of Books). An ESPN Digital investigation uncovers Penn State’s other serial sexual predator before Jerry Sandusky. Profiles of the acclaimed actress Viola Davis (
New York Times Magazine) and the self-taught artist Matthew Wong (
New Yorker), as well as Michelle de Kretser’s short story ＂Winter Term＂ (
Paris Review), round out the volume.
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