The Best American Magazine Writing 2019

Introduction, by Adam Moss
Acknowledgments, by Sid Holt, chief executive, American Society of Magazine Editors
A Betrayal, by Hannah Dreier, ProPublica, copublished with New York, Finalist-Public Interest
American Hustler, by Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, Finalist-Reporting
A Kingdom from Dust, by Mark Arax, The California Sunday Magazine, Finalist- Feature Writing
Shallow Graves and An Interview with Ben Taub by Eric Sullivan, by Ben Taub, The New Yorker, Winner-Reporting
The Genocide the U.S. Didn't See Coming, by Nahal Toosi, Politico, Finalist-Reporting
We Made It. We Depend on It. We're Drowning in It. Plastic, by Laura Parker, National Geographic, Finalist- Public Interest
The First Porn President and I Believe Her and The Abandoned World of 1982, by Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, Finalist-Columns and Commentary
Misjudged, by Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, Finalist-Essays and Criticism
The National Geographic Twins and the Falsehood of Our Post-Racial Future and The Profound Presence of Doria Ragland and The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearing Will Be Remembered as a Grotesque Display of Patriarchal Resentment, by Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, Winner-Columns and Comentary
This Place Is Crazy, by John J. Lennon, Esquire, Finalist-Feature Writing
Getting Out of Prison Meant Leaving Dear Friends Behind, by Robert Wright, The Marshall Project with Vice, Finalist-Columns and Commentary
Getting Out, by Reginald Dwayne Betts, New York Times Magazine, Winner-Essays and Criticism
How to Be an Artist, by Jerry Saltz, New York, Winner-Leisure Interests
The Art of Dying Well, by Kasey Cordell and Lindsey B.Koehler, 5280, Winner-Personal Service
Taming the Lionfish, by Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian, Finalist-Feature Writing
The Breakup Museum, by Leslie Jamison, Virginia Quarterly Review, Finalist-Essays and Criticism
Skinned, by Lesley Nneka Arimah, and A Conversation with McSweeney's Claire Boyle and Karolina Waclawiak, by The ASME Award for Fiction, McSweeney's, Winner-ASME Award for Fiction
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