The Best American Magazine Writing 2017 Entertainment_Gift_Guide Once hired

Once hired

protecting the world for another ten years

the organizational genius who mapped much of the Antarctic coastline and oversaw some of the earliest scientific experiments to be conducted there

and the enduring ties of family

The Best American Magazine Writing 2017 Entertainment_Gift_Guide Once hiredWith the work of reporters under fire worldwide, this years anthology of National Magazine Award finalists and winners is a timely reminder of the power of journalism. The pieces included here explore the fault lines in American society. Shane Bauers visceral My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard (Mother Jones) and Sarah Stillmans depiction of the havoc wreaked on young peoples lives when they are put on sex offender registries (The New Yorker)