How to Write a Long-form Narrative for The New Yorker

An interview with Jiayang Fan about “The Accused,” a story on a Chinatown community bank.

One Man’s Path from “Berner” to Hillary Clinton Supporter

The Journalist Who Shattered My War Correspondent Dream

How I Earned $100 Using Just My Smartphone

In my desperation to find paid work as a journalist, I discovered two separate apps…

Beating the “I’m too busy” mentality to volunteer

When friends ask, “How are you?” I often respond with “Busy.” I’ve been saying that as an excuse to avoid many things in life, often things I don’t really want to do: learning a new programming language, teaching myself Spanish, cooking. But…

A Conversation on How to Make Boring Things Interesting with Francis Flaherty

How to Make a War Story

Chris Jones became nervous after the story published. He’d written about an unpopular war at a time when tensions…

How Writing 750 Words Every Day Changed Me As a Person

How “Spies in the Skies” Came to Be

Two journalists tracked U.S. government planes spying on the country.

The Island of Widows: Tracking A Mysterious Chronic Kidney Disease

Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, India, at the opposite side of the earth, shared one thing in common: the loss of young agricultural laborers due…