Search results for “5 questions” Showing 784 results “The house was a fawn-brown color with curved white interior walls and my dead grandmother’s purple velvet drapes still hanging from the curtain rods. A sentence that grabs you by the heart and hooks you into the narrative is one of the most powerful ways to become one with the pages. It also keeps… July 25, 2019 Haunting old photos — and happenstance — launch a search for answers At first glance, it might seem an unlikely story from a veteran investigative reporter. But it was those investigative instincts and skills that James Eli Shiffer used to report and… July 17, 2019 Unearthing L.A. through a tribal tongue In November 2017, Los Angeles Times staff writer Thomas Curwen noticed an email subject line that intrigued him: UCLA linguist seeking to awaken the sleeping language of the Tongva –… July 10, 2019 The LA Times resurrects Column One A signature space for writers is revived and reimagined for the digital age (Creative risk encouraged. But nut graphs? Not so much) July 9, 2019 A hitchhiker’s guide to a galaxy of stories Michael Paterniti meditates on hitting the road as a way to discover the wonders of the world, and the intimacies and risks of human connections July 5, 2019 A literary take on a hole in the ground Faced with nonstop jackhammering, the steady growl and beep of dump trucks, and sickening spirals of dust, residents of a peaceful Manhattan neighborhood searched for ways to take action against… June 19, 2019 Rethinking how we see and understand news — and who frames it If you have taken a picture and shared it with no text, or studied a news image to see if it was “real,” or wondered if “photography” is an accurate… June 7, 2019 A sex worker plunges to her death and a reporter demands to know: Who was she? Dan Barry led a team at The New York Times to uncover a name, a life history, and the sinister world of power and exploitation on 40th Road June 4, 2019 “A true war story is never moral.” —Tim O'Brien, from his novel "The Things They Carried" May 23, 2019 Reflections on the challenges and triumphs of masculinity in changing times An anthology of profiles by award-winning journalist Steve Oney is out in paperback, offering lessons in an essential journalistic artform May 17, 2019 Previous 1 … 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 … 79 Next