Articles 5 Questions: Anne Helen Petersen and the white supremacists who came for Whitefish The BuzzFeed writer talks about the contradictions of a small Montana town and the West, and why she seeks understanding, not empathy April 20, 2017 Olga Kreimer “Barcantier, of Le Kremlin, who had jumped in the river, tried in vain to throttle, aided by his Great Dane, the meddler who was dragging him out.” —Félix Fénéon, Le Matin, 1906 April 19, 2017 James Geary 5(ish) Questions: David Grann and “Killers of the Flower Moon” The author and New Yorker writer talks about his book on a sinister campaign against Osage Indians who had become fabulously wealthy from oil -- and what the murders, and… April 18, 2017 Frank Bures Why’s This So Good? Hunter S. Thompson and “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” It’s hard, I know, to make a case for gonzo journalism in an age when reality is beset by exaggeration, even lies. And yet I’ve found myself drawn back to… April 13, 2017 David L. Ulin “I go to sleep every night knowing I have the blood of so many on my hands and no amount of soap could ever wash these stains away.” —C.J. Chivers, "The Fighter," The New York Times Magazine, December 28, 2016. April 12, 2017 Kari Howard Annotation Tuesday! Kent Russell and “They Burn Witches Here” The writer talks about his Huffington Post Highline piece on ritualistic killings in Papua New Guinea -- and the differences between scapegoating in philosophy and in blood-curdling real life April 11, 2017 Davis Harper 5(ish) Questions: Iran’s “Blogfather” talks algorithms, hyperlinks and the lost art of communication Hossein Derakhshan spent six years in an Iranian prison cell; when he came out, the online world had changed -- for the worse, he believes April 6, 2017 Jasmine Bager “But then the not-knowing returns, and it keeps him awake at night.” —Alex Tizon, “In the Land of Missing Persons,” The Atlantic, April 2016. April 5, 2017 Kari Howard The making of binge-worthy serial narratives, from “S-Town” to “Framed” Podcasts and print alike are reinvigorating a form of storytelling that Dickens and Homer used to hook readers: "to be continued..." April 4, 2017 Ricki Morell “She is the mother of two fatherless children and she was walking into the history of this country because she was showing everybody who felt old and helpless and without hope that she had this terrible strength that everybody needed so badly.” —Jimmy Breslin, "Digging JFK Grave Was His Honor," the New York Herald Tribune, November 1963. March 29, 2017 Kari Howard Previous 1 … 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 … 243 Next
