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South Africa was boiling. It was 1986, and security forces were cracking down on anti-apartheid activists daily and with brutal force. Black activists were disappearing from the streets. Bombs were…

When you read a lot of longform stories, you can’t help noticing something: They tend to be very, very serious.Think fast: How many made you laugh?Epic magazine’s “The Cold War,”…

Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included,…

In Niki Boon’s photographs, it’s a kids’ world. Grown-ups almost never show up, and when they do, they’re merely functional: putting on a bandage, cutting hair. The kids wear what…

The photojournalist talks about how he got unprecedented access — and images — inside the world's largest walled prison

Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included,…

[pq]”Elroy lives here. Tiny, half-blind, mentally retarded, 39-year-old Elroy. To find him, go past the counselor flirting on the phone.”[/pq]If you had been in the Georgetown University cafeteria back in…

Every once in a while you read a story that feels so authentic and true, you wish you’d written it. That’s how I felt reading Jon Mooallem’s New York Times…

Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included,…

Saudis are bringing an ancient literary festival into the 21st century with social media such as Instagram.History is happening in Saudi Arabia right now — but I’m not referring to…