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From a Kickstarter about avocados to conviction as an American spy

From a Kickstarter about avocados to conviction as an American spy

How Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian turned 544 days in an Iranian prison into a story about love, journalism and a broken homeland
January 22, 2019
Newsroom Ode #3: The last desk of defense

Newsroom Ode #3: The last desk of defense

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third of a series of odes that chronicle the legacy newsroom. Each is written from different first-person perspective. Together they create the mumbled narrative of a…
January 21, 2019
Newsroom Ode #1: Friday night on the city desk

Newsroom Ode #1: Friday night on the city desk

EDITOR’S NOTE: For something a bit different, we offer the Monday bonus: an eight-week series (give or take) of poems that chronicle the legacy newsroom. Each is written from first-person…
January 7, 2019

The Power of Storytelling: Daring to bear witness to society’s villains

A documentarian and a podcaster explain the value of exploring the darker corners of humanity as a way to understand our shared reality
November 2, 2018
Rebecca Solnit's long and winding road through the tangled tale of politics

Rebecca Solnit’s long and winding road through the tangled tale of politics

The opening paragraph of Rebecca Solnit’s new LitHub essay, “Why the President Must Be Impeached,” is a single sentence, 88 words long. It is one of the shortest paragraphs in…
September 4, 2018
Immigration reporting from the inside-out: through the mouths and eyes of babes

Immigration reporting from the inside-out: through the mouths and eyes of babes

Dan Barry and a team of New York Times reporters channel the voices of children held in migrant detention camps
August 14, 2018
Feeding the world – and feeling despair

Feeding the world – and feeling despair

A former farmer turns to writing to uncover the global crisis of farmer suicides – and plants the seeds of a response
June 12, 2018
Syria's "selfie teen" highlights the devastation of war -- and the fog of war

Syria’s “selfie teen” highlights the devastation of war — and the fog of war

The blond, baby-faced 15-year-old has captured international attention with his videos and tweets, but it's hard to piece together the whole story
March 8, 2018
Liana Aghajanian and the story of immigrants in America, one recipe at a time

Liana Aghajanian and the story of immigrants in America, one recipe at a time

In her blog "Dining in Diaspora," the Detroit-based writer tries to document the complexity of Armenian identity through the lens of food
December 14, 2017
Literary journalism gets some love, from "Hiroshima" to Shane Bauer's prison exposé

Literary journalism gets some love, from “Hiroshima” to Shane Bauer’s prison exposé

A weekly roundup of some favorite things, for your reading and listening pleasure
May 12, 2017