Articles

During summers of my childhood, a highlight was the twice-monthly visit by the bookmobile. Our small village had no formal public library at the time — we weren’t blessed with…

As the wildfire reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, Johnson looked beyond events to people and place for award-winning work

The New York Times reporter takes on first-person writing in her profile of a mysterious Indian "prince"

It’s that season. Not erratic spring, but the reliable roll-out of journalism awards, aka a free education in the best of this work and how it’s done. You can roll…

One of my engineer brothers often pesters me about the thicket that is the English language. Silent or paired letters that defy logic: psychic, knave, climb. Words that have letters…

A journalist's mother tuned her, and then her daughter, into the sound of written language by reading Chaucer aloud in Middle English

As a man grieves his dog, he argues that the best writing is as much about the feeling as it is about the words

A few days ago, I caught a Lyft to Sea-Tac Airport from my home in Seattle. The driver was originally from Eritrea, as are many of the taxi and share…

Ah, those pesky numbers. Not, we journalists are often told, our strong suit. Or to cite the old and very lame joke: “Jourmalists don’t do math.”And yet we must, especially…

A biographer of Arctic explorers writes about the discovery of Shackleton's Endurance and why adventure narratives hold our attention through time