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Author Dana A. Williams on Toni Morrison's influential work as an editor, plus Mina Kimes and Pablo Torre on the pitfalls of writing about athletes.

Williams's new book, “Toni at Random,” gives us a deeper look into the literary titan’s craft and career in elevating the voices of Black writers

Plus: Line Vaaben's visit to a palliative care unit, and Hua Hsu on AI's impact on college writing

Line Vaaben and photographer Jacob Ehrbahn visit a palliative care unit for terminally ill patients for the Denmark-based outlet Politiken

Nadia Reiman on the process behind "This American Life," and Irvin Weathersby Jr.'s deeply personal approach to confronting history.

The reporter and editor for ‘TAL’ reflects on the show’s unique voice, as well as her own experience with immigration

‘The goal of art is to seek out something pure and true and to convey it.’ The author of ‘In Open Contempt’ on making sense of history and his own…

In reporting about psilocybin, Robert Sanchez reveals his own story. Plus: True Story Award, Roy Peter Clark, and the Liang-Zhou Nieman Fellowship

Robert Sanchez of 5280 magazine reports on experiments around psilocybin therapy, while also using first person to tell his own story

Plus: The Black List's Franklin Leonard on journalism and Hollywood, and finding stories ‘in the strange minutiae’