Articles Facing Famine This essay appeared in Best American Travel Writing 2004. In much of his writing, Haines is a cross-cultural guide, seeking to take his readers into foreign worlds, to help them… July 20, 2006 Nell Lake Before the Rumble Seat As the auto writer for the Los Angeles Times, Neil got the chance to drive a replica of Karl Friedrich Benz’s first gas-powered car. While describing the run with pleasure,… July 20, 2006 Nell Lake Brainstorm This series is a great example of how good storytelling can help us understand issues in new and illuminating ways. Godines describes her descent into mental illness with dramatic skill.… July 20, 2006 Nell Lake Offering an Education in Aging This is a portrait of elderly nuns and the work of David Snowdon, a professor of neurology who has enrolled the nuns in a study on aging. Through several nuns,… July 19, 2006 Nell Lake A Sermon of Hatred and Doom… We include this piece in part because of its strong authorial presence. Sedensky guides readers through his portrait of Fred Phelps with a firm hand. Here’s an example: “They’re not… July 13, 2006 Nell Lake Death in Somalia Xan Rice had recently met Martin Adler when Adler was shot and killed at a rally in Somalia. Four days later Rice offered this account. We liked the vivid photo-like… July 12, 2006 Nell Lake Shaken Survivors Witness Pure Fury This piece won an American Society of Newspaper Editors’ Distinguished Writing Award for Deadline Reporting. We admire the friendly, human voice, the determination to find a fresh way to describe… July 12, 2006 Nell Lake The Wrong Man We found this story difficult to read, for good reason; we squirmed with sympathy for Elias Fishburne, a man who is swept into the criminal justice system in a case… July 11, 2006 Nell Lake Good Intentions DeGregory spent four months reporting this story about a 14-year-old girl, Lillie, her newborn son, Thomas, and the woman who takes her in, Amy. DeGregory’s structure is lucid, the scenes… July 11, 2006 Nell Lake The Lord Hath No Mercy This piece starts with a news-feature sort of lead, a focusing-in on one boy that is well-wrought and moving. Then comes a long, sweeping history, then a section of first-person… July 7, 2006 Nell Lake Previous 1 … 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 … 246 Next
