The Novel Yorker Wins Two 2024 Pulitzer Prizes

Two works printed by The Novel Yorker received Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, placing them amongst the year’s high achievements in journalism, letters, music, and drama.

Sarah Stillman, a team author, received within the explanatory-reporting class for her illuminating investigation of prison waste, a draconian accurate doctrine that has sent hundreds of Americans—disproportionately younger and Dusky—to detention center, infrequently for life, for killings they didn’t commit. “It’s in actuality even handed one of many cruellest suggestions within the American accurate map,” one person suggested Stillman. “And most other folks don’t even perceive it exists.”

In its quotation, the Pulitzer committee praised Stillman’s “searing indictment” of “the prison-waste payment and its disparate penalties, usually devastating, for communities of color.”

The Novel Yorker’s other winner, Medar de la Cruz, received the Pulitzer within the illustrated-reporting-and-commentary class for “The Diary of a Rikers Island Library Employee,” which takes readers inner Novel York Metropolis’s very most realistic detention center complicated. De la Cruz’s evocative drawings depict his deliveries of books to incarcerated other folks, offering the public a rare survey inner Rikers, where cameras and telephones are banned and detainees are topic to stipulations which were harshly criticized by accurate and human-rights organizations. “I’m always moved by the sense of gratitude and warmth that every other folks hiss when we’re in a region to to find them the books that they requested for,” de la Cruz writes.

In honoring de la Cruz, the Pulitzer board cited his “intrepid gloomy-and-white photography that humanize the prisoners and team by means of their starvation for books.”

Stillman has written for The Novel Yorker since 2011, on matters collectively with human trafficking, the drug trade, and labor stipulations at factories abroad. Her work has received two National Journal Awards, two George Polk Awards, and a Hillman Prize for Journal Journalism. Stillman, a 2016 MacArthur Fellow, teaches investigative reporting at Yale and created the World Migration Project at Columbia University’s Graduate College of Journalism.

De la Cruz, a graduate of the ArtCenter Faculty of Create, teaches visual communications at community workshops in Novel York Metropolis and is working on a graphic unique about his experiences on Rikers Island. His Pulitzer-a hit Novel Yorker contribution modified into once his first submission to the newsletter.

Moreover to Stillman and de la Cruz, four Novel Yorker contributors were identified by the Pulitzer committee. The team author Jay Caspian Kang modified into once named a finalist within the commentary class for columns about the gulf between trusty-world injustices and how they’re publicly discussed, collectively with essays about the failed promise of affirmative motion for Asian Americans and the racial politics of the N.B.A.

The team author Vinson Cunningham modified into once named a finalist within the criticism class for theatre opinions that mixed astute stage prognosis with poignant reflections on life and death, artwork and politics, and identification and speed. In recognizing Cunningham, the Pulitzer committee thought about opinions of an unconventional Central Park production of “Hamlet” and a Broadway comedy about West African immigrants in a Harlem hair salon.

Angie Wang, a finalist within the illustrated-reporting class, modified into once honored for an imaginative Sketchbook that contrasted the language-pattern abilities of ChatGPT with these of her younger son.

Justin Changwho joined the newsletter’s team in February, received within the criticism class for his writing about movie on the Los Angeles Times.

With its 2024 awards, The Novel Yorker has received eight Pulitzer Prizes, collectively with the gold medal for public carrier. Magazines became eligible for Pulitzer consideration starting in 2014. ♦