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Vivid images of war and famine make human misery impossible to ignore.

A Hutu man who did not support the genocide had been imprisoned in a concentration camp, starved, and attacked with machetes. He managed to survive, and after he was freed…

Mark Kramer, who directs a narrative journalism conference each year at Boston University, opens our series of articles by asserting that “narrative writing is returning to newspapers.” The reasons are…

A new section called “Narrative Matters” began appearing last summer in Health Affairs, a bimonthly policy journal. As Founding Editor John K. Iglehart wrote, “I never regarded publishing material that…

In college classes, students read great storytellers and learn how to tell a story.

An American AlbumOne Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper’s MagazineEdited by Lewis Lapham and Ellen RosenbushFranklin Square Press. 712 Pages. $50.The crowded racks on newsstands and the torrent of junk…

Two journalists give thumbs down to coverage of the Clinton scandals.

Chicago Tribune reporters highlight fault lines in the justice system.

A local television reporter finds ways to go beyond the usual coverage.

An editor laments the demise of the narrative. And welcomes its return.