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Journalist Dena Takruri on being millennial, Arab American and a woman on camera

Journalist Dena Takruri on being millennial, Arab American and a woman on camera

The presenter for Al Jazeera digital video news outlet AJ+ says her background makes her determined to give voice to the voiceless
October 17, 2017
Ellen Barry and "How to Get Away with Murder in Small-Town India"

Ellen Barry and “How to Get Away with Murder in Small-Town India”

The New York Times foreign correspondent talks about her sensational last story from India, in which she uses first person to unparalleled effect
October 3, 2017
5(ish) Questions: Texas journalist Krys Boyd and the art of the radio interview

5(ish) Questions: Texas journalist Krys Boyd and the art of the radio interview

The longtime host of "Think" talks about preparing for her daily show, and how radio is a form of oral storytelling -- "I think it’s stronger than ever"
September 26, 2017
Notable Narrative: The Cincinnati Enquirer's stunning “Seven Days of Heroin”

Notable Narrative: The Cincinnati Enquirer’s stunning “Seven Days of Heroin”

A writer and editor talk about wrangling 60 staffers and a deluge of copy -- and creating a riveting portrait of the human face of the opioid epidemic
September 25, 2017
The late Alex Tizon and "My Family's Slave": his first memory, and his last byline

The late Alex Tizon and “My Family’s Slave”: his first memory, and his last byline

The Atlantic story, published just weeks after his death, drew a firestorm of criticism; a Pulitzer winner and friend examines the craft, and the loss
September 5, 2017
Monica Hesse and "American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land”

Monica Hesse and “American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land”

The Washington Post reporter talks about what it's like to juggle multiple projects (and genres), and the virtue of capturing the way people talk
August 31, 2017
5(ish) Questions: Mandy Len Catron and "How to Fall in Love With Anyone"

5(ish) Questions: Mandy Len Catron and “How to Fall in Love With Anyone”

The author of the viral Modern Love essay in The New York Times follows up with a book about romance -- and the danger of fetishizing love
August 22, 2017
5(ish) Questions: Maud Newton and her science-meets-personal-essay "I, Rodent"

5(ish) Questions: Maud Newton and her science-meets-personal-essay “I, Rodent”

The writer talks about her touching piece in The Awl, in which she intersperses disturbing facts about genetic engineering with her lifelong identification with mice
August 10, 2017
Why's This So Good? David Foster Wallace and the brilliant "Consider the Lobster"

Why’s This So Good? David Foster Wallace and the brilliant “Consider the Lobster”

Take a moment to bask in the splendor of the piece that maddened many Gourmet readers in 2004
August 1, 2017
In a South African cookbook-memory book, recapturing a life that was lost to apartheid

In a South African cookbook-memory book, recapturing a life that was lost to apartheid

"Huis Kombuis" offers an old-fashioned spin on multimedia storytelling: a collective memoir with lovingly hand-stitched recipes honoring a demolished neighborhood -- and a past that couldn't be destroyed
July 20, 2017