Notable Narratives Somewhere over the rainbow: the past and future of Niagara Falls AP Photo/McElroy SilA tourist attraction falls into decline. Grand urban renewal schemes fail to deliver. Residents talk about mafia infiltration, corruption and random arson.What might sound like a lost Raymond… December 8, 2010 Andrea Pitzer Art or abuse? A portrait of Larry Rivers Was artist Larry Rivers a sexual swashbuckler, breaking taboos and changing the way we think of the human body, or did some of his work have truly disturbing elements? Our… November 23, 2010 Andrea Pitzer Losing in Vegas: Jay Caspian Kang’s “literary moment” In our latest Notable Narrative, “The High Is Always the Pain, and the Pain Is Always the High,” we meet Jay Caspian Kang, a gambler who dreams of being a… November 11, 2010 Andrea Pitzer “California is a Place” draws viewers into dizzying, disturbing intimacy with the Golden State Our latest Notable Narrative is the collected series “California is a Place,” from filmmaker Drea Cooper and photographer Zackary Canepari. Cooper and Canepari have done commercial work and journalism around… October 29, 2010 Andrea Pitzer After the Wall: the strange story of German reunification Narrative journalism can provide a window into distant communities or a link to people you might pass without noticing in daily life, but it also lets readers be flies on… October 6, 2010 Andrea Pitzer GQ’s "An Army of One": The war on terror finds its own Don Quixote Though literary nonfiction takes its cues from literary fiction, William Faulkner would struggle to invent a more extreme character than his (possibly inadvertent) namesake Gary Faulkner, the subject of “An… September 22, 2010 Andrea Pitzer Christopher Goffard’s "Project 50" and the hard-core homeless of Los Angeles How do you take people -- ones whom your readers would cross the street to avoid -- and make them compelling enough to follow through a four-part series? Christopher Goffard… September 9, 2010 Andrea Pitzer USA Today’s Katrina anniversary project: stories from the second line When clicking across the digital universe, we like new bells and whistles as much as the next Twitter jockey. But with big multimedia projects, we want to feel the bones… August 24, 2010 Andrea Pitzer Katy Butler shows the bitter side of medical intervention In our latest Notable Narrative “What Broke My Father’s Heart,” from The New York Times Magazine, the broken heart that reporter Katy Butler writes about is both emotional and literal.… July 2, 2010 Andrea Pitzer Thomas Lake takes on the Brothers Grimm in “The Golden Boy and the Invisible Army” Our latest Notable Narrative conjures a fairy tale from mundane medical tragedy. Atlanta magazine reporter Thomas Lake takes a story that would normally be a statistic—the death of a healthy… June 17, 2010 Andrea Pitzer Previous 1 … 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 … 44 Next
