The Best American Magazine Writing 2023

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
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