Well that dumb list of the best magazine articles at least inspired me to start making a list of some of my favorite magazine articles, in alphabetical order by author. (Note I didn’t say “best”; I said “my favorite.”) Some of these link to abstracts because the full article is not online.
These are the ones I thought of this morning. I’ll keep adding to the list and your suggestions are of course welcome. (I just saw Jolie’s comment on The Awl about George Gurley’s article about furries in Vanity Fair and… oh my God.)
Malcolm Gladwell, “The Coolhunt,” The New Yorker, March 17, 1997
Vanessa Grigoriadis, “New York’s Power Girl Publicists,” New York Magazine, Dec. 7, 1998
Vanessa Grigoriadis, “The Tragedy of Britney Spears,” Rolling Stone, Feb. 7, 2008
Claire Hoffman, “Baby, Give Me a Kiss,” LA Times Magazine, August 6, 2006
Janet Malcolm, “Iphigenia in Forest Hills,” The New Yorker, May 3, 2010
Janet Malcolm, “The Journalist and the Murderer (Part I),” The New Yorker, March 13, 1989
Janet Malcolm, “The Journalist and the Murderer (Part II),” The New Yorker, March 20, 1989
Gail Sheehy, “Paradise Lost: A Gothic Tale of Wealth and Rebellion in East Hampton,” New York Magazine, January 10, 1972
