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"There is a time to write and a time to walk and a time to reflect and a time to act"

“There is a time to write and a time to walk and a time to reflect and a time to act”

This week’s One Great Sentence, by the novelist John Cheever, has stayed with me all week. It’s an existential matter for writers and artists of all types, the battle between…
January 12, 2018
Notable Narrative: Ben Goldfarb and “The Deliciously Fishy Case Of The 'Codfather'"

Notable Narrative: Ben Goldfarb and “The Deliciously Fishy Case Of The ‘Codfather'”

Ben Goldfarb has found a niche in fish. A freelancer based in New Haven, Conn., he regularly covers commercial fisheries and wildlife conservation for magazines such as Science and Boston…
May 25, 2017
Katia Savchuk
Some longform stories that will chill you in more ways than one

Some longform stories that will chill you in more ways than one

This week we’re getting a sneak preview of spring in Maine, and the two feet of snow is fast melting. But there’s still a bit of a chill in this…
February 24, 2017
5 Questions: The Washington Post's Eli Saslow and "A survivor's life"

5 Questions: The Washington Post’s Eli Saslow and “A survivor’s life”

In a media landscape quite dependent on quick takes on Twitter and videos transmitted by smartphones, Eli Saslow’s byline offers reassurance of the staying power of the written word. We…
October 20, 2016
Francisco Vara-Orta
The Pulitzer at 100: Michael Parks and the unraveling of apartheid

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

South Africa was boiling. It was 1986, and security forces were cracking down on anti-apartheid activists daily and with brutal force. Black activists were disappearing from the streets. Bombs were…
September 8, 2016
Scott Kraft
Sharing the Viewfinder: Instagram as a Medium for Documentary Photography

Sharing the Viewfinder: Instagram as a Medium for Documentary Photography

I’m standing halfway up Hrushevskoho Street on a frosty February morning in Kiev. It’s -13 degrees Celsius, and I’m chain-smoking with my friend and fixer Emine. It makes us feel…
September 16, 2015
Anastasia Taylor-Lind
"Watching the detectives" at the New Yorker Festival

"Watching the detectives" at the New Yorker Festival

We were sad to miss the New Yorker Festival a ways back, but have finally had a chance to look at some videos from the event, and wanted to deliver…
January 12, 2012
Andrea Pitzer

Aminatta Forna interview on "The Last Vet"

We recently talked with Aminatta Forna about her Granta essay “The Last Vet,” which follows the work of Dr. Gudush Jalloh in his clinic at Freetown, Sierra Leone. Forna, who…
March 5, 2010
Andrea Pitzer