May 6, 2004

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Because I’m back, and having been away for a while I felt the need to do a public service to the world of the Internet, and I love magazine journalism, here are all the links I could find to the articles nominated for a National Magazine Award. (Compiled before I realized Cursor did the exact same thing, only not for all the categories. D’oh!) No link means I couldn’t find it online; if you can, tell me. Whenever possible, I’ve linked to any free version I could find online (even the ghetto ones), but if it’s in brackets, you need a subscription to view it.

PERSONAL SERVICE:

Consumer Reports
- How safe is your hospital?
- Decoding your hospital bills
Men’s Health
- A tale of 3 hearts
- 100 ways to live forever
- Death by exercise
Psychotherapy Networker
- Living on purpose
Self
- Healthy breasts for life!
Time Out New York
- Your new apartment: from hunting to housewarming

LEISURE INTERESTS:

Bon Appetit
- Thanksgiving starts here
Consumer Reports
- Veterinary care without the bite
Esquire
- The $20 theory of the universe (PDF)
National Geographic Adventure
- Ultimate America
Outside
- The 25 (essential) books for the well-read explorer

REPORTING:

The Atlantic
- Columbia’s last flight
Institutional Investor
- [Misdirected brokerage]
The New Yorker
- The David Kelly affair
Rolling Stone
- The killer elite
Time
- The sum of two evils
- The secret collaborators (PDF)
- [Life behind enemy lines]

PUBLIC INTEREST:

The Atlantic Monthly
- The dark art of interrogation
BusinessWeek
- Is your job next?
- The rise of India
The New Yorker
- Lunch with the chairman
- Selective intelligence
- The stovepipe
Newsweek
- The $87 billion money pit
Self
- Pharmacy fakes
The Washington Monthly
- Malpractice makes perfect

FEATURE WRITING:

Esquire
- The league of extraordinary gentlemen (PDF)
- The falling man
Men’s Journal
- The first to die
The New Yorker
- The marriage cure
Popular Science
- Yesterday, they would have died

PROFILE WRITING:

The American Scholar
- [The Arctic hedonist]
The Atlantic Monthly
- Wynton’s blues
Esquire
- [The confession of Bob Greene]
Nest
- Francis Gabe’s self-cleaning house
The New Yorker
- Newshound

ESSAYS:

GQ
- The vulgarian in the choir loft
Men’s Journal
- Me and the X-man
Natural History
- The pleasure (and pain) of “maybe”
The New Yorker
- A sudden illness
- The end matter

COLUMNS AND COMMENTARY:

Governing
- Devolution’s double standard
- Republicans behaving badly
- Machine politics
New York Magazine
- Live from Doha
- My big fat question
- Al Jazeera’s edge
The New Yorker
- Down to earth
- Building nations
- Rush in rehab
Newsweek
- Here’s a bet for Mr. Rumsfeld
- And he’s head of intelligence?
- No way to make friends
Sports Illustrated
- Fear and clothing in Atlanta
- My big fat sports wedding
- [Yule be amazed]

REVIEWS AND CRITICISM:

The Atlantic Monthly
- The wifely duty
- Housewife confidential
- Let’s call the whole thing off
Esquire
- [Increasingly berserk developments]
- [Back to the Terminator]
- [Mr. Uncongeniality]
The Nation
- [Paint it black]
- [Vision of the sublime]
- The abstract impressionist
The New Yorker
- The thin envelope (supposedly, doesn’t work for me)
- The devil’s disciples (again, supposedly)
- After the revolution (you know the drill)
- Glacier head
- Playing for immortality
- Borrowed culture

FICTION:

The Atlantic Monthly
- Happy hour
- We have a pope!
- Yao’s chick
- What is visible
- Monstress
- Ghost-birds
Esquire
- [Presence]
- [The red bow]
- [Rest stop]
The New Yorker
- A rich man
- Runaway
- Debarking
Paris Review
- Immortality
- The final solution
- Letter from the last bastion
Zoetrope All-Story
- The phrenologist’s dream
- The smoothest way is full of stones
- [The only meaning of the oil-wet water]

PHOTO PORTFOLIO/PHOTO ESSAY:

National Geographic
- 21st century slaves
- Inhuman profit (sample)
Outside
- Tigers of the snow
Texas Monthly
- [Cuts above]
Time
- A soldier’s life
Vogue
- Alice in wonderland
W
- The Kate Moss portfolio