Notable Narratives

Going small: the fragile world of a single constituent

Going small: the fragile world of a single constituent

Our latest Notable Narrative is a story from The Washington Post about Clarence Cammers, a Wisconsin man who asks a question at a town hall meeting with his congressman.So many…

The Union general, Malcolm X and the tides of history

Our latest Notable Narratives are a pair of stories that focus on race in America. Both Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “The Legacy of Malcolm X” (from The Atlantic) and Adam Goodheart’s “How…
Mark Boal profiles "The Kill Team"

Mark Boal profiles "The Kill Team"

Our latest Notable Narrative, “The Kill Team,” recounts a series of killings in Afghanistan by American soldiers, one of whom recently pleaded guilty to three counts of murder.Rolling Stone has…

Dissecting disaster: "nine precious minutes" on the Deepwater Horizon

Our latest Notable Narrative, “Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours,” tracks events leading up to the inferno that destroyed a Gulf oil rig in April of 2010. This tick-tock from The New York…

The People V. Football: the case for the prosecution

In our latest Notable Narrative, “The People V. Football,” Jeanne Marie Laskas follows former NFL linebacker Fred McNeill into the abyss of his ruined life. Touching intermittently on the larger…

Political footnote or comeback kid? Robert Sanchez goes for a ride with Tom Tancredo

In “Down But Not Out,” our latest Notable Narrative, writer Robert Sanchez checks in with Tom Tancredo, who was a candidate for governor of Colorado just a few short months…

Death and football: reconstructing the last days of Max Gilpin

In our latest Notable Narrative, “The Boy Who Died of Football,” Sports Illustrated senior writer Thomas Lake takes on the collapse of high school football player Max Gilpin during team…
"One in a Billion": a narrative window into the future of medicine

"One in a Billion": a narrative window into the future of medicine

Our latest Notable Narrative, “One in a Billion: A boy's life, a medical mystery,” tells the story of Nicholas Volker, a 4-year-old boy who has made more than 100 trips…
Telling their story, twins turn horror into hope for a different life

Telling their story, twins turn horror into hope for a different life

In our latest Notable Narrative, “Promise Not To Tell,” we meet Kellie and Kathie Henderson, two girls raped day after day by their brother, and later their father, for nearly a…
Facebook as narrative: The Washington Post tries it out online and in print

Facebook as narrative: The Washington Post tries it out online and in print

This morning’s Washington Post print edition carried a story built out of an annotated Facebook feed. The piece was posted to washingtonpost.com last night with the title “A Facebook story:…