The Finest American Publication Writing 2014

Our annual anthology of finalists and winners of the National Publication Awards 2014 includes Max Chafkin’s oral history of Apple from Fast Business, Joshua Davis’s intimate picture of tech pioneer John McAfee’s individual and public breakdown from Wired; Kyle Dickman’s haunting investigation into the preventable death of nineteen firefighters fighting an Arizona wildfire; and Ariel Levy’s emotional account of extreme travel to a remote land– while pregnant– from The New Yorker. Other essays include Wright Thompson’s bittersweet profile of Michael Jordan’s fifty-something 2nd act (ESPN the Publication); Jean M. Twenge’s revealing look at fertility misconceptions and child politics (The Atlantic); Janet Reitman’s controversial study of the Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (Rolling Stone); Luke Mogelson’s painful experience accompanying asylum hunters on a possibly lethal sea trip to Australia (New York Times Publication); Lisa Miller’s poignant report from Newtown, Connecticut, as the town tries to cope with the consequences of one of the country’s worst mass shootings (New York); Emily Nussbaum’s reviews of gender and politics on television (The New Yorker); and Witold Rybczynski’s poetic engagement with modern-day architecture (Architect).

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