The Best American Magazine Writing 2023
Edited by Sidney Holt for the American Society of Magazine Editors
Columbia University Press, November 2023

The Battle for Baby L.
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?
Samantha Michaels - Mother Jones

Aristocrat Inc.
Natalie So - The Believer

Monuments to the Unthinkable
Clint Smith - The Atlantic

The Landlord and the Tenant
Raquel Rutledge & Ken Armstrong - ProPublica & Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Death Sentence
Nicholas Florko - Stat

The Time to Pass Paid Leave Is Now
Natasha Pearlman - Glamour

A Post-Roe Threat and The Post-Roe Era and Is Abortion Sacred?
Jia Tolentino - New Yorker

“We Need to Take Away Children”
Caitlin Dickerson - The Atlantic

The Militiamen, the Governor, and the Kidnapping That Wasn’t
Chris Heath - Esquire

How a Nepo Baby Is Born
Nate Jones - New York

Tinder Hearted
Allison P. Davis - New York

Acid Church
Courtney Desiree Morris - Stranger’s Guide

“She’s Capital!”
Namwali Serpell - New York Review of Books

Viola Davis, Inside Out
Jazmine Hughes - New York Times Magazine

Light and Shadow
Raffi Khatchadourian - New Yorker

Winter Term [Paywalled]
Michelle de Kretser - Paris Review

Untold
Tom Junod & Paula Lavigne - ESPN Digital