Contents
Introduction
James Bennet, editor in chief,
The Atlantic
Acknowledgments
Sid Holt, chief executive,
American Society of Magazine Editors
Fear of a Black President
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Atlantic
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—Essays and Criticism
Who in God’s Name Is Mitt Romney?
Frank Rich
New York
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—Columns and Commentary
It’s Not About the Law, Stupid
and
The Supreme Court’s Dark Vision of Freedom
and
Where Is the Liberal Outrage?
Dahlia Lithwick
Slate
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—Columns and Commentary
The Innocent Man
Pamela Colloff
Texas Monthly
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—Feature Writing Incorporating Profile Writing
18 Tigers, 17 Lions, 8 Bears, 3 Cougars, 2 Wolves, 1 Baboon, 1 Macaque, and 1 Man Dead in Ohio
Chris Heath
GQ
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—Reporting
Did You Think About the Six People You Executed?
Robert F. Worth
New York Times Magazine
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—Reporting
A Life Worth Ending
Michael Wolff
New York
F
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—Essays and Criticism
Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, Wives
Mimi Swartz
Texas Monthly
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—Public Interest
School of Hate
Sabrina Rubin Erdely
Rolling Stone
F
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—Public Interest
Atonement
Dexter Filkins
The New Yorker
F
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—Feature Writing Incorporating Profile Writing
The Big Book
Chris Jones
Esquire
F
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—Magazine of the Year
Terry Southern: The Art of Screenwriting
Interview by Maggie Paley
The Paris Review
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—General Excellence, Print
Mega: Ten Days Inside the Mansion—and the Mind—of Kim Dotcom, the Most Wanted Man on the Internet
Charles Graeber
Wired
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—Feature Writing Incorporating Profile Writing
Portrait of a Lady
and
Social Animal
and
We’re All Helmut Newton Now
Daphne Merkin
Elle
F
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—Columns and Commentary
Over the Wall
Roger Angell
The New Yorker
F
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—Essays and Criticism
Batman and Robin Have an Altercation
Stephen King
Harper’s
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—Fiction
The Living and the Dead
Brian Mockenhaupt
Byliner
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—Feature Writing Incorporating Profile Writing
State of the Species
Charles C. Mann
Orion
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—Essays and Criticism
Permissions
List of Contributors