Notable Narratives

In the 100-plus days since Vladimir Putin ordered his Russian army into Ukraine, I have done something I rarely do on social media: Forwarded shares, many days a week, of…

"Sports Guy" author and politics blogger Charles P. Pierce with a reflection on legendary sportswriter and baseball fan Roger Angell

Author Lauren Kessler finds echoes of her work in a prisoner profile by Boston Globe reporter Evan Allen that reveals the journalist's role in the story

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

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

How Nellie Bly and a sisterhood of crusaders foreshadowed today's narrative nonfiction

A re-read of Didion's work shows the evolution of excellence that came through years of hard work and self scrutiny

A charter member of IRE carried lessons from Didion's probe of the 1989 Central Park jogger case throughout his career

At the end of each semester, after all the discussions of craft, I remind my reporting students at the Missouri School of Journalism the why of it all: the larger…

I had an exchange the other night with my 4 ½-year-old daughter about what qualifies as a story. Who knew one of the joys of parenthood would be to see…