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What Can an Essayist Do in the Face of Massive Tragedy?
Thirteen years ago, my favorite writer was murdered. Anna Politkovskaya was a Moscow-based journalist who gained an international reputation as a critic of the Kremlin’s “dirty war” in Chechnya....
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Here are the finalists for the NYPL’s Helen Bernstein Award, which celebrates...
Since 1988, the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism has been shining a light on journalists who call attention to vital current events or societal issues....
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Journalists are being prosecuted for covering the Black Lives Matter protests.
Today, jurors begin deliberations in the trial of Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri, who has pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor charges—failure to disperse and interference with official...
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Bearing Witness: Why I Biked Around the Country to Humanize Climate Change
MISSISSIPPI In August 2013, I rode my bicycle 800 miles down the Mississippi River Trail from Memphis, Tennessee, to Venice, Louisiana, where the river meets the Gulf of Mexico. I traveled with an...
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Thrity Umrigar on Questioning the Rules of Objective Journalism
First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, nonfiction, essay writers, and poets, highlighting the voices of writers as they discuss their work,...
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“A Small, Vengeful Man:” How Vladimir Putin Began His Iron-Fisted Reign
Featured Image: PBS FRONTLINE When Putin was inaugurated, I was in Chechnya again: in the face of what now passed for politics and political journalism, I badly needed to feel I was doing something...
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How the Start of World War I Changed an American Heiress’s Life Forever
On the one hand, Mrs. Stan Harding Krayl, as she was known in Germany, and Mrs. Marguerite Harrison had much in common. Well bred, well educated, and well traveled, both were reddish-haired beauties...
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Belal Jadallah, the “godfather of Palestinian journalism,” has been killed in...
Belal Jadallah, one of the most beloved and respected journalists in Gaza, was killed yesterday by Israeli shelling. Known locally as “the godfather of Palestinian journalists,” Jadallah was the...
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Fierce, Fearless and Fun: How Maggie Higgins Broke New Ground For Women in...
“In the early sixties in the Washington bureau of the Times, the period around 9:00 pm used to be known as the Maggie Higgins Hour… Her frequently exclusive stories obviously had to be checked out,...
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How Nellie Bly and Other Trailblazing Women Wrote Creative Nonfiction Before...
I don’t think it is a coincidence or an exaggeration to say that down through time and certainly over the past century women writers, such as Rachel Carson, have produced an overwhelming number of...
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