The acclaimed author discusses how words like “grief” fail when writing about the loss of her teenage son James ...

Sometimes the idea for a book springs from what you don’t know. David Grann had never heard of the “Osage Murders” until a historian he was talking to mentioned the series of mysterious deaths among ...

As a child in Kentucky, my father always told me my granddaddy and my great-grandmother Neenaw were part Blackfoot Indian. “That’s why they got all that land out there.” Then I went to college and ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: For this installment in Storyboard’s occasional series on effective editing, we bring readers a conversation with an independent editor who works one-on-one with writers and has built a ...

Something I wanted to prioritize when I joined Nieman Storyboard was hearing from journalists, writers, and producers in their own words — to talk candidly about the craft of narrative nonfiction. So, ...

It started with a photograph. While doing research for an article about people trying to escape land during the pandemic, Sophie Elmhirst came across a website featuring a compendium of castaway tales ...

The title and subtitle of Wright Thompson’s “The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi” lay down a marker of its audacity. It’s a work of true crime that, in fact, is a story of land, of ...

Seven years ago, David Grann found himself staring at a faded journal in a digital archive. It belonged to John Byron, grandfather of the poet Lord Byron, and documented his journey as a midshipman on ...

Storyboard: Here are some of Esquire's cover subjects from 1992, the same year you wrote this story for the magazine: Howard Stern, Clint Eastwood, Spike Lee, George H.W. Bush and Winona Ryder. How ...

Science journalist Ed Yong of The Atlantic has earned the reputation as one of, if not the, top chroniclers of the COVID-19 pandemic. He won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting with a ...

I am away this week, so I’m excited to welcome journalist, author and Storyboard contributor Mallary Tenore Tarpley for a guest edition of our newsletter. Happy 4th! — Mark Armstrong, Editor Summers ...

In an occasional series, Storyboard examines the elusive art of the story pitch. We talk to writers and editors about their tips, tricks and pet peeves, and annotate some real pitches. “They’re often ...