Articles Lost in the Music Stabler’s series about a black music prodigy is well-reported and -written. We like the rich detail, the elegant descriptions, deft characterizations. What seems left out are more insights into why… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Two Jobs and a Sense of Hope In this final, sad chapter of the series, a West African immigrant, Adama Camara, scrubs toilets and wipes tables for 16 hours a day. The world is a grimy, dreary,… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Dreaming Against the Odds In this second installment of Hull’s series, you’ll find this small example of how even a newspaper article (the voice of which is usually straight and communitarian) can include irony:… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake The Exorcist in Love The subject of this profile is not like most of us. Is she crazy? A hustler? Or does she know things we can’t? We need the writer to make sense… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake A Hidden Addiction Fuels a Life of Chaos Gurnett’s attitude in this piece is curious, compassionate, never melodramatic. Gurnett achieves "narrative distance," a detachment from her subject, even as she seeks to understand him. Her writing has more… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake At a Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die LeDuff got a job on the cutting floor at a North Carolina slaughterhouse, where the work burns your muscles and dulls your mind. He hacked meat off of bone and… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Best of Friends, Worlds Apart Ojito profiles two men, one black and one white, who have fled Cuba and live in Miami. In Cuba they were close friends; in America they have grown distant from… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Shared Prayers, Mixed Blessings This is a fascinating account of an integrated Fundamentalist southern church and its courageous struggles with race. Through his focus on two church couples, one white and one black, Sack… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Reaping What Was Sown on the Old Plantation This is the tale of a black park ranger and a white landowner, the descendant of slaveowners, in Louisiana. It’s a story about the unearthing of grievances, about perception, truth… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake The French Fry Connection This series has global reach, an international cast of characters—and shows that, to paraphrase Tip O’Neil, “all economics is local.” Read seeks to explain the wide repercussions of the Asian… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Previous 1 … 240 241 242 243 244 245 Next
