Books of 2017
Recommended Reading 2017
- Bless This Oafish Koch Heir And His Hideous Shirts by David Roth, Deadspin, December 22
- Productivity is Dangerous by Vincent Bevins, The Outline, December 18
- Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear by Ted Chiang, Buzzfeed News, December 18
- As Venezuela Collapses, Children Are Dying of Hunger by Meridith Kohut and Isayen Herrera, The New York Times, December 17
- The Secret Savior of Net Neutrality? by Victor Luckerson, The Ringer, December 14
- Inside Trump’s Hour-by-Hour Battle for Self-Preservation by Maggie Haberman, Glenn Thrush and Peter Baker, The New York Times, December 9
- The Reckoning Republicans—and the Rest of Us—Deserve by Brian Beutler, Crooked.com, December 8
- The Nationalist’s Delusion by Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, November 20
- The History of Photography is a History of Shattered Glass by Teju Cole, The New York Times Magazine, November 15
- Left to Suffer: Abused, Ignored Across Minnesota by Chris Serres, Star Tribune, November 12
- Promethea Unbound by Mike Mariani, The Atavist Magazine, November 2017
- Salem-Keizer staff told to report student sexual activity, including own kids by Natalie Pate, The Salem Statesman Journal, October 31
- One person’s history of Twitter, from beginning to end by Mike Monteiro, Medium, October 15
- Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds your new music by Sophia Ciocca, Hackernoon, October 10
- Alt-White: How the Breitbart Machine Laundered Racist Hate by Joseph Bernstein, Buzzfeed, October 5
- What Happened? by Brandy Jensen, The Baffler, October 3
- The First White President by Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, October 2017
- A Storm in Germany by Nathan Thornburgh, Roads & Kingdoms, October 2017
- Good Riddance to an Abusive Creep by Nathan J. Robinson, Current Affairs, September 28
- Is Anybody Home at HUD? by Alec MacGillis, New York Magazine, August 22
- The Week When President Trump Resigned by Frank Bruni, The New York Times on Medium, August 21
- Real American Terrorists by Gaby Del Valle, The Outline, July 28
- The Voter Purges Are Coming by Vanita Gupta, The New York Times, July 19
- Stop patronizing the working class by Alex Nichols, The Outline, July 14
- What Do We Think Poverty Looks Like? by Tracie McMillan, The New York Times, July 8
- Instagram Food Is a Sad, Sparkly Lie by Amanda Mull, Eater, July 6
- My Family’s Slave by Alex Tizon, The Atlantic, June
- The Loneliness of Donald Trump by Rebecca Solnit, Literary Hub, May 30
- Hillary Clinton Is Furious. And Resigned. And Funny. And Worried. by Rebecca Traister, New York Magazine, May 26
- The Lesser Part of Valor by Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, May 26
- Superiority Complex: Why Lake Superior Is The Country’s Most Overlooked Playground by Stephanie Pearson, Outside, May 23
- Why Are You People Surprised That Ivanka Trump Sucks? by Brandy Jensen, Broadly, May 8
- Trumpism: It’s Coming From the Suburbs by Jesse A. Myerson, The Nation, May 8
- ‘If You Take Out Kenan Thompson, The Studio Will Explode’ by Maxwell Strachan, Huffington Post, April 26
- The Palestine Exception by David Palumbo-Liu, Jacobin, April 24
- Living by the Girl Scout Law, Even Without a Home by Nikita Stewart, The New York Times, April 16
- Restraint and seclusion: struggle or safety? by Natalie Pate, Statesman Journal, April 14
- Of Sheep and Men by Jacob Balzani Lööv, Roads and Kingdoms, April 12
- At the mercy of the mailbox: Dairies dropping farms by Danielle Endvick, Wisconsin State Farmer, April 7
- ESPN Has Seen the Future of TV and They’re Not Really Into It by Ira Broudway and Max Chafkin, Bloomberg Businessweek, March 30
- In the Land of Giants by Jon Mooallem, The New York Times Magazine, March 23
- Inside Alabama’s Auto Jobs Boom: Cheap Wages, Little Training, Crushed Limbs by Peter Waldman, Bloomberg Businessweek, March 23
- Thinx Promised a Feminist Utopia to Everyone But Its Employees by Hilary George-Parkin, Racked, March 14
- ‘Missing Richard Simmons,’ the Morally Suspect Podcast by Amanda Hess, The New York Times, March 14
- ‘False prophet’: Duterte, the Catholic Church and the fight for the soul of the Philippines by Emily Rauhala, The Washington Post, March 4
- Woman of Color in Wide Open Spaces by Minda Honey, Longreads, March
- God Bless Corinne Olympios, the Best Bachelor Contestant of All Time by Allie Jones, New York Magazine, February 28
- In search of Forrest Fenn’s treasure by Zachary Crockett, Vox, February 28
- What We’ll Tolerate, and What We Won’t by Nathan J. Robinson, Current Affairs, February 21
- The Quest to Make Minnesota America’s Hottest Travel Destination by Reid Forgrave, GQ, February 18
- Trump, Aggrieved and Sometimes Gregarious, Stands Up for Himself by Michael D. Shear, Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush, New York Times, February 16
- 4chan: The Skeleton Key to the Rise of Trump by Dale Beran, Medium, February 14
- Once again, the ACLU takes its place on the front lines of a liberal resistance by Matt Pearce and Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times, February 4
- How Black Books Lit My Way Along the Appalachian Trail by Rahawa Haile, BuzzFeed News, February 2
- How to Listen to Authoritarians (Without Losing Your Mind) by Umair Haque, UmairHaque.com, January 25
- The Case Against Unity by Sarah Jones, New Republic, January 24
- Delusional Democrats Yearning to Prove They Can Work With Trump by Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine, January 24
- Inside the Weird, Industry-Shaking World of Donald Glover by Allison Samuels, Wired, January 19
- U.S. Spy Report Blames Putin for Hacks, But Doesn’t Back It Up by Kimberly Dozier, Noah Shachtman and Michael Weiss, The Daily Beast, January 6
- The Detective of Northern Oddities by Christopher Solomon, Outside, January 4
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