The Best American Magazine Writing 2014

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Our annual anthology of finalists and winners of the National Magazine Awards 2014 includes Jonathan Franzens eloquent rumination in National Geographic on the damage we continue to inflict on the environment and its long-lasting consequences; William T. Vollmans blackly comic reflections in Harpers magazine on being the target of an extensive FBI investigation into whether he could be the Unabomber, an anthrax mailer, or a jihadi terrorist; and Ariel Levys account of extreme travel and great escape to a remote land'while pregnant'in the New Yorker.

Other essays include Wright Thompsons bittersweet profile of Michael Jordans fifty-something second act (ESPN); Jean M. Twenges revealing look at fertility myths and baby politics (The Atlantic); David Kamps poignant portrait of a small town recovering from one of the nations worst mass shootings (Vanity Fair); Janet Reitmans controversial study of the Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (Rolling Stone); Ted Conovers eye-opening account of working undercover in a commercial slaughterhouse (Harpers); and Wells Towers wild tale of bonding with his father at a notorious art and music festival (GQ). The collection also features a short story by the critically acclaimed author Zadie Smith (The New Yorker).