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The badass women of the Qur’an: “An Emancipatory Reading”

The badass women of the Qur’an: “An Emancipatory Reading”

Want an end-of-summer beach read that’ll turn heads faster than a Burkini ban? Consider Asma Lamrabet’s book, Women in the Qur’an: An Emancipatory Reading, which has just been translated into English…
September 12, 2016
Rashomon (the ice cream truck version), and a headline-happy dame called Florabel Muir

Rashomon (the ice cream truck version), and a headline-happy dame called Florabel Muir

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,…
September 9, 2016
The Pulitzer at 100: Michael Parks and the unraveling of apartheid

The Pulitzer at 100: Michael Parks and the unraveling of apartheid

Former foreign correspondent Scott Kraft reflects on an unflinching portrait of a nation on the brink of historic change by his Los Angeles Times predecessor in South Africa
September 8, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! David Wolman + Julian Smith and "The Cold War"

Annotation Tuesday! David Wolman + Julian Smith and “The Cold War”

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,”…
September 6, 2016
It's photography week here at Storyboard (including a cool one of Paul Newman)

It’s photography week here at Storyboard (including a cool one of Paul Newman)

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,…
September 2, 2016
5(ish) Questions: Photographer Niki Boon on documenting her children "Wild and Free"

5(ish) Questions: Photographer Niki Boon on documenting her children “Wild and Free”

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…
September 1, 2016
The Pulitzer at 100: Taro Yamasaki and life inside Jackson State Prison

The Pulitzer at 100: Taro Yamasaki and life inside Jackson State Prison

The photojournalist talks about how he got unprecedented access — and images — inside the world's largest walled prison
August 30, 2016
Following the Idler's Manifesto and listening to the Supremes on a summer's-end day

Following the Idler’s Manifesto and listening to the Supremes on a summer’s-end day

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,…
August 26, 2016

The Pulitzer at 100: Katherine Boo and “Invisible Lives” at group homes

Reporter Garrett Therolf talks about finding inspiration for his own career in the Washington Post series on neglect and abuse of the mentally disabled
August 25, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Jon Mooallem’s “The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community”

Annotation Tuesday! Jon Mooallem’s “The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community”

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…
August 23, 2016