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A day-in-the-life profile of a grocery store during the coronavirus shutdown

A day-in-the-life profile of a grocery store during the coronavirus shutdown

With a cell phone, an eye for evocative detail and 50 pages of notes, Brittny Mejia of the Los Angeles Times turned a day at a grocery store into a…
June 2, 2020
"... the only true medicine I could provide."

“… the only true medicine I could provide.”

—Dr. Jesse Charles, from his time volunteering at Brooklyn Hospital Center during coronavirus
May 29, 2020
The news joins the rituals of mourning

The news joins the rituals of mourning

EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece is published in partnership with our friends at the Poynter InstituteI was half-way through an essay on how the experience of news — especially in the…
May 28, 2020
"When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely."

“When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.”

—Ernest Hemingway in "A Moveable Feast"
May 20, 2020
A displaced writer picks up a camera — and falls back in love with learning

A displaced writer picks up a camera — and falls back in love with learning

We’re all reinventing ourselves in this suddenly sideways world. So here’s my reinvention story, and the theme that goes with it: Do it for love.The micro of what I did…
May 19, 2020
Triple profile: A mountain town, a beloved newspaper, and an unlikely hero

Triple profile: A mountain town, a beloved newspaper, and an unlikely hero

A veteran foreign correspondent finds a hero tale in a tiny California town: "A story is a story no matter where it takes place."
May 6, 2020
Congratulations to the 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners

Congratulations to the 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners

There are awards upon awards in journalism. But since its launch in 1917, the Pulitzer Prizes have set the gold standard for newspaper reporting, writing, commentary, photography and more. The…
May 4, 2020
"How was it I had let all wonder, all curiosity, seep from me?"

“How was it I had let all wonder, all curiosity, seep from me?”

—Esi Edugyan, from her novel "Washington Black"
May 1, 2020
Where writers write when they can't write where they like to write

Where writers write when they can’t write where they like to write

Two-time National Magazine Award winner Tom Junod often writes from home. But not always, and especially not on deadline. In a recent Facebook post, he mentioned that when he is…
April 29, 2020
A Writer's Survival Guide: Tips for defying distraction

A Writer’s Survival Guide: Tips for defying distraction

One moderately productive, relatively-sane freelancer’s approach to writing through a crisis
April 23, 2020