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.
Finalists (winners marked with asterisk)
PERSONAL SERVICE:
Consumer Reports
– Decoding your hospital bills
Men’s Health
Psychotherapy Networker
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
Outside
– The 25 (essential) books for the well-read explorer
REPORTING:
The Atlantic
Institutional Investor
The New Yorker
Rolling Stone
Time
– The secret collaborators (PDF)
PUBLIC INTEREST:
The Atlantic Monthly
– The dark art of interrogation
BusinessWeek
The New Yorker
Newsweek
Self
The Washington Monthly
FEATURE WRITING:
Esquire
– The league of extraordinary gentlemen (PDF)
Men’s Journal
– The first to die
The New Yorker
Popular Science
– Yesterday, they would have died
PROFILE WRITING:
The American Scholar
The Atlantic Monthly
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
Natural History
– The pleasure (and pain) of “maybe”
The New Yorker
COLUMNS AND COMMENTARY:
Governing
– Devolution’s double standard
New York Magazine
The New Yorker
Newsweek
– Here’s a bet for Mr. Rumsfeld
– And he’s head of intelligence?
Sports Illustrated
– Fear and clothing in Atlanta
– [Yule be amazed]
REVIEWS AND CRITICISM:
The Atlantic Monthly
– Let’s call the whole thing off
Esquire
– [Increasingly berserk developments]
The Nation
– [Paint it black]
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)
FICTION:
The Atlantic Monthly
Esquire
– [Presence]
– [The red bow]
– [Rest stop]
The New Yorker
– Runaway
Paris Review
– Immortality
– The final solution
– Letter from the last bastion
Zoetrope All-Story
– The smoothest way is full of stones
– [The only meaning of the oil-wet water]
PHOTO PORTFOLIO/PHOTO ESSAY:
National Geographic
– Inhuman profit (sample)
Outside
Texas Monthly
– [Cuts above]
Time
Vogue
W
– The Kate Moss portfolio