The Best American Magazine Writing 2014

Our annual anthology of finalists and winners of the National Magazine Awards 2014 includes Max Chafkin's oral history of Apple from Fast Company , Joshua Davis's intimate portrait of tech pioneer John McAfee's personal and public breakdown from Wired ; Kyle Dickman's haunting investigation into the preventable death of nineteen firemen battling an Arizona wildfire; and Ariel Levy's emotional account of extreme travel to a remote land—while pregnant—from The New Yorker . Other essays include Wri