Articles Roy Peter Clark on the search for the “embedded narrative” Not long ago, I came out of a theater in Tampa, Florida, and heard someone calling my name. It was Adan Martinez, a young college student who had just performed… May 21, 2019 Roy Peter Clark Reflections on the challenges and triumphs of masculinity in changing times EDITOR’S NOTE: Authentic profiles are among the most rewarding, challenging and essential of journalistic art forms, requiring an alchemy of relationship, grit and elegance. The most successful often involve a… May 17, 2019 Kari Howard On trial for the Ghost Ship warehouse fire: Was an accused villain miscast as the bad guy? When Elizabeth Weil thought of profiling Max Harris, one of two people facing criminal charges for Oakland’s deadly Ghost Ship fire, she figured another reporter must already be on the… May 14, 2019 Katia Savchuk How The New York Times tracked public data to produce “Killing Khashoggi” Before humans learned to write, they documented their lives through images with technologies fashioned from materials at hand. To create the renowned galleries of animals — objects of fascination, dreams… May 9, 2019 Chip Scanlan From a caress of love to a fist of fear In her 20 years traveling the world as a freelance writer, Rachel Louise Snyder has covered a hurricane in Honduras, a tsunami in Indonesia, and the forced sterilization of women… May 7, 2019 Ricki Morell “He was followed by 30 seconds of silence, during which every sigh toured the walls of the church.” Now and again, in the wonderful world of reading, you stumble across a sentence that not only evokes a response or feeling because of what it says, but because of how… May 3, 2019 Jacqui Banaszynski Foreshadow forward; echo back. How writers harness the power of the callback In his “New in Town” standup comedy special, John Mulaney tells how, when he was 10, he was in love with his babysitter, who he thought was much older. But as… May 2, 2019 Ben Yagoda A young journalist is inspired by fickle spring weather (and an old newspaper story) Walking onto campus one morning in early April, coffee in hand, I approached Indiana University’s iconic Sample Gates. It’s always a spirit-lifting sight, especially with the statue of Ernie Pyle on… April 30, 2019 Kelley Benham French Going public with the private pain of suicide Modern society works hard to find ways to talk about subjects that have long been taboo, and that left sufferers isolated and shrouded in shame. Things like mental illness, abortion,… April 24, 2019 Jacqui Banaszynski Learning from what seem the unkindest cuts There were two things I knew: I wanted to write a story about how heartburn can kill you, as it did my father, and I wanted to write for Undark,… April 24, 2019 Caren Chesler Previous 1 … 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 … 246 Next
