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In Sicily, an old oral storytelling tradition tries to renew itself in the 21st century

In Sicily, an old oral storytelling tradition tries to renew itself in the 21st century

The third-grade students in Misterbianco, a small town at the foot of Mount Etna in eastern Sicily, watched, rapt, as the heavy puppets moved on a school auditorium stage. The…
March 22, 2018
Writing through a whiteout: David Grann and "The White Darkness"

Writing through a whiteout: David Grann and “The White Darkness”

The lede came to David Grann a year before he would complete his epic story and a year after the events it describes:“The man felt like a speck in the…
March 13, 2018
Peter Stark and “As Freezing Persons Recollect the Snow – First – Chill – Then Stupor – Then the Letting Go –”

Peter Stark and “As Freezing Persons Recollect the Snow – First – Chill – Then Stupor – Then the Letting Go –”

Peter Stark’s second-person rendering of a hypothermic near-death experience took its 1997 print headline from the closing quatrain of an Emily Dickinson poem that, depending who you ask, is either…
February 22, 2018
Finding the story in the parentheses and other adventures with Jeffrey Stern

Finding the story in the parentheses and other adventures with Jeffrey Stern

It wasn’t the sensational headline — “The Real-Life Mad Max Who Battled ISIS in a Bulletproof BMW” — that grabbed my attention. It was the next bit.[pq]”Here is a person…
February 15, 2018
5(ish) Questions: Bridget Huber and “The Living Disappeared” of Argentina

5(ish) Questions: Bridget Huber and “The Living Disappeared” of Argentina

The California Sunday piece unpacks loss and resilience in the aftermath of the country's military dictatorship through the story of one family
November 30, 2017
Vice News correspondent Elle Reeve and "Charlottesville: Race and Terror"

Vice News correspondent Elle Reeve and “Charlottesville: Race and Terror”

The 22-minute “Vice News Tonight” documentary “Charlottesville: Race and Terror” provided a chilling look at the white supremacists behind the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., in August. It…
October 24, 2017
Notable Narrative: Nicole Lucas Haimes and "Who Killed Julian Pierce?"

Notable Narrative: Nicole Lucas Haimes and “Who Killed Julian Pierce?”

The article “Who Killed Julian Pierce?” was unusual on at least three counts. It was the author’s first magazine story. It took nearly 30 years to write. And it came…
August 3, 2017
Katherine Boo, Sarah Lyall and Harper Lee: It's grrl power week on Storyboard

Katherine Boo, Sarah Lyall and Harper Lee: It’s grrl power week on Storyboard

A weekly roundup of some favorite things, for your reading and listening pleasure
July 28, 2017
5(ish) Questions: Steve Oney and "A Man's World" (both the song and his new book)

5(ish) Questions: Steve Oney and “A Man’s World” (both the song and his new book)

The writer talks about how ideas about masculinity have changed over his 40-year career, and how he eerily predicted the rise of Breitbart America
July 18, 2017
Notable Narrative: Jason Fagone and “What Bullets Do to Bodies”

Notable Narrative: Jason Fagone and “What Bullets Do to Bodies”

The writer talks about his Huffington Post Highline profile of a trauma surgeon, and wanting readers to get a “visceral sense of what physically happens inside a person when he’s…
June 26, 2017