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The badass women of the Qur’an: “An Emancipatory Reading”

The badass women of the Qur’an: “An Emancipatory Reading”

Want an end-of-summer beach read that’ll turn heads faster than a Burkini ban? Consider Asma Lamrabet’s book, Women in the Qur’an: An Emancipatory Reading, which has just been translated into English…
Celebrating "Slow Journalism" and the Pulitzers' 100th birthday (You look fabulous, darling)

Celebrating “Slow Journalism” and the Pulitzers’ 100th birthday (You look fabulous, darling)

Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included,…
The Pulitzer at 100: The Boston Globe's Spotlight team and an epic series on priest abuse

The Pulitzer at 100: The Boston Globe’s Spotlight team and an epic series on priest abuse

The reporters won the 2003 Public Service award for its dogged and far-reaching investigation that put a human face on the victims
Annotation Tuesday! Rachel Aviv and "Your Son Is Deceased"

Annotation Tuesday! Rachel Aviv and “Your Son Is Deceased”

The New Yorker writer talks about a police department awash in machismo and parents who are told their home is in a "kill zone"
Notable Narrative: Shane Bauer and “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard”

Notable Narrative: Shane Bauer and “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard”

The Mother Jones reporter on the risks, rewards and lessons learned after going undercover inside America’s private prison system
Annotation Tuesday! Thomas Curwen and a Big Sur hermit named Jack English

Annotation Tuesday! Thomas Curwen and a Big Sur hermit named Jack English

"My best stories attempt to answer an almost psychoanalytic need to address the larger, more philosophic questions about life"
"Why's This So Good?" Michael Brick and Jingo Unchained

“Why’s This So Good?” Michael Brick and Jingo Unchained

This is the tenth of ten stories Storyboard will post from a new collection honoring Michael Brick [see our 5 Questions on the project]. It’s also the longest by far; where all…
Annotation Tuesday! Ashley Powers and "The Man in the Woods"

Annotation Tuesday! Ashley Powers and “The Man in the Woods”

The writer talks about the challenge of re-creating someone who is dead -- and who even in life was unknowable

Annotation Tuesday: The shadowy world of “involuntary celibates”

Elliot Rodger, 22, who went on a deadly rampage near a California university, was an “involuntary celibate.” Most in the “incel” culture disavowed his actions. Writer Peter C. Baker’s recent…
Annotation Tuesday! Sarah Scoles and “How to Save People from Snakebites”

Annotation Tuesday! Sarah Scoles and “How to Save People from Snakebites”

Science presents particular challenges for narrative writers, like deciphering the often arcane language of scientific studies, or coaxing pithy quotes from scientists accustomed to speaking in academicese, and wary of…