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Notable Narrative Archive
Author	Title	Source	Date	Format
Josh Schonwald	Grandmasters in Guayaberas	Miami New Times	10/07/2007	Long feature
Sarah Hammill	The Price of Redemption	Santa Barbara Independent	09/10/2007	Long feature
Tamara Jones	The Answers in the Wind	Washington Post	05/12/2007	Long feature
Erika Hayasaki	A Deadly Hush in Room 211 -- Then the Killer Returned	Los Angeles Times	04/25/2007	Long feature
David Finkel	A Grisly Problem, Grateful Iraqis and a Grim Outlook	Washington Post	04/24/2007	Long feature
Sudarsan Raghavan	In an Instant, a Junkyard of Humanity	Washington Post	04/13/2007	Long feature
Karen Brown	The Effects of War on the Homefront	WFCR	04/11/2007	Long feature
Ray Ring	Disposable Workers of the Oil and Gas Fields	High Country News	04/02/2007	Long feature
Carol Smith	Spy Robert Schaller's Life of Secrecy, Betrayal and Regrets	Seattle Post-Intelligencer	03/26/2007	Long feature
Barry Bearak	Head Trip	New York Times	03/25/2007	Long feature
Amy Harmon	Facing Life With a Lethal Gene	New York Times	03/18/2007	Long feature
Peter Manseau	A Marriage Made in Heaven?	Washington Post	03/11/2007	Long feature
Maureen O'Hagan	Sex-Crime Cop's Pursuit: Who was telling the truth?	Seattle Times	03/04/2007	Long feature
Tracie White	Silent Inferno	Stanford Medicine Magazine	03/01/2007	Long feature
Mary Wiltenburg	Casualties of Conscience	Spiegel	02/27/2007	Long feature
Kristen Gelineau	One Man's Quest for Forgiveness, One Woman's Nightmare	Associated Press	02/24/2007	Long feature
Cindy Lange-Kubick	Zach and the Reading Thrones	Lincoln Journal-Star	02/18/2007	Long feature
Amy Marcus	With Just 42 Known Cases, Drug Trial Is a Delicate Task	Wall Street Journal	01/29/2007	Long feature
Steve Paul	Journey of Forgiveness Isn't Taken Alone	Kansas City Star	01/28/2007	Long feature
Kurt Streeter	Growth on the Gridiron	Los Angeles Times	01/28/2007	Long feature
Erin Holmes	A Living Nightmare	Chicago Daily Herald	01/28/2007	Long feature
Warren St. John	Refugees Find Hostility and Hope on Soccer Field	New York Times	01/21/2007	Long feature
Laura Meckler	The High Price of Keeping Dad Alive	Wall Street Journal	01/20/2007	Long feature
Garrett Therolf	Living with a Failed Mission	Los Angeles Times	01/15/2007	Long feature
Rebecca Skloot	Why Is It So Damn Hard to Change	O: The Oprah Magazine	01/01/2007	Long feature
Gareth Cook	Untangling the Mystery of the Inca	Wired	01/01/2007	Long feature
David Swick	The Zen of Joan Didion	Shambhala Sun	01/01/2007	Long feature
Evelio Contreras	Far from Home	Roanoke Times	12/31/2006	Long feature
Abigail Tucker	Two Brothers Make a Family	Baltimore Sun	12/31/2006	Long feature
Diana Keough	Coping When All is Hopeless	Cleveland Plain Dealer	12/30/2006	Long feature
Todd Frankel	How One Racehorse Escaped the Slaughterhouse	St. Louis Post-Dispatch	12/26/2006	Long feature
Staff of the Los Angeles Times	A Desperate Mother Ignores the Odds	Los Angeles Times	12/19/2006	Long feature
Maura Lerner	A Prayer for Father Tim	Minneapolis Star Tribune	12/17/2006	Long feature
Rukmini Callimachi	Katrina's Nameless Dead	Associated Press	12/17/2006	Long feature
Leah Y. Latimer	Quarantined	Washington Post	12/10/2006	Long feature
Geoff Edgers	How They Did It	Boston Globe	12/06/2006	Long feature
Ryan Nadel	Equal Treatment	Jerusalem Post	11/30/2006	Long feature
Harriet Brown	One Spoonful at a Time	New York Times	11/26/2006	Long feature
Marilyn Geewax	Dueling PR Groups Wrestle Over Wal-Mart Policies	Cox News Service	11/26/2006	Long feature
Tom Dunkel	End of the Race for Family Farm	Baltimore Sun	11/26/2006	Long feature
David Finkel	A Working Dream	Washington Post	11/19/2006	Long feature
Josh Goldstein	A Cholesterol Gamble	Philadelphia Inquirer	11/12/2006	Long feature
Christopher Goffard	A War Only He Can End	Los Angeles Times	11/11/2006	Long feature
Allyson Bird	Recovering Addict Parts With Her Past, Then Her Baby	Palm Beach Post	11/06/2006	Long feature
Liza Mundy	Making Up for Lost Time	Washington Post	11/05/2006	Long feature
Mike Anton	Loss and Rebirth in a '66 Fire	Los Angeles Times	11/04/2006	Long feature
Erika Hayasaki	The Daughter	Los Angeles Times	10/29/2006	Long feature
Eli Saslow	A New Game Plan	Washington Post	10/29/2006	Long feature
Jo Ciavaglia	On to Her Next Race	Bucks County (Pa.) Courier-Times	10/29/2006	Long feature
Chris Rose	Hell and Back	Times-Picayune (New Orleans)	10/22/2006	Long feature
Kurt Streeter	Odyssey of Healing	Los Angeles Times	10/15/2006	Long feature
Elizabeth Leland	The Old White Oak of Mathews	Charlotte Observer	10/15/2006	Long feature
Jeff Seidel	An Assist for Maddie	Detroit Free Press	10/08/2006	Long feature
Bob Shaw	Homestead to Homes (Selections from the series)	Pioneer Press (Twin Cities)	09/17/2006	Long feature
Kristy Hebert	What's Left Behind	Farm and Dairy	09/14/2006	Long feature
Tamara Jones	Sons of the Mothers	Washington Post	09/11/2006	Long feature
Gary Smith	Remember His Name	Sports Illustrated	09/05/2006	Long feature
Christopher Goffard	Father, Son and Holy Rift	Lost Angeles Times	09/02/2006	Long feature
Stephen Kimber	The Last Best Hope	Halifax Coast	08/24/2006	Long feature
John Schwartz	A New Orleans Home is Reborn, With Persistence	New York Times	08/23/2006	Long feature
Neil Swidey	The Lessons of the Father	Boston Globe	08/13/2006	Long feature
Erika Hayasaki	A Time of Heartbreak and Humor	Los Angeles Times	08/12/2006	Long feature
Christie Aschwanden	Is It or Isn't It (Just Another Mouse)?	High Country News	08/07/2006	Long feature
Paul Salopek	A Tank of Gas, a World of Trouble	Chicago Tribune	07/29/2006	Long feature
Vicki Smith	Slow Death	Associated Press	07/17/2006	Long feature
Laura Rozen	Three Days in Rome	Mother Jones Magazine	07/01/2006	Long feature
Matt Kettmann	The Lord Hath No Mercy	Santa Barbara Independent	06/29/2006	Long feature
Tamara Jones	The Wrong Man	Washington Post	06/25/2006	Long feature
Tom Feeney	His Wondrous Leap of Faith and Love	Star-Ledger	06/25/2006	Long feature
Tom Dunkel	Offering an Education in Aging	Baltimore Sun	06/18/2006	Long feature
Matt Sedensky	A Sermon of Hatred and Doom...	Associated Press	06/04/2006	Long feature
Jacqueline Marino	Blood Brothers	Cleveland Magazine	05/25/2006	Long feature
Lane DeGregory	Good Intentions	St. Petersburg Times	05/14/2006	Long feature
Matt Viser	Dear World	Boston Globe	05/09/2006	Long feature
Joe Richman	Thembi's AIDS Diary	Radio Diaries	04/19/2006	Long feature
Howie Padilla	Suddenly It Was Up to Shane	Minneapolis Star Tribune	03/19/2006	Long feature
Alix Christie	Guarding the Truth	Washington Post	02/26/2006	Long feature
Stacey Burling	Probing a Mind for a Cure	Philadelphia Inquirer	02/23/2006	Long feature
Thomas Lake	Soldier's Final Journey	Florida Times-Union	01/29/2006	Long feature
Benjamin Harvey	Blog: Destruction Teams Tackling Bird Flu	Associated Press	1/14/2006	Long feature
Kevin Simpson	Letting Go: Dylan's last days	Denver Post	12/18/2005	Long feature
Jonathan Martin	What's Best for Baby M?	Seattle Times	12/08/2005	Long feature
Marilyn Geewax	The Minimum Wage: A Yearlong View From Capitol Hill and a Small Ohio Town	Cox News Service	11/27/2005	Long feature
Mary Schmich	The Journey of Judge Joan Lefkow	Chicago Tribune	11/20/2005	Long feature
Jim Sheeler	Final Salute	Rocky Mountain News	11/09/2005	Long feature
Scott Allen	Critical Care	Boston Globe	11/01/2005	Long feature
Neil Swidey	What Makes People Gay?	Boston Globe	08/14/2005	Long feature
J.R. Moehringer	The Red Sox's Bloodiest Day	Los Angeles Times	07/10/2005	Long feature
Jerald Winakur	What Are We Going to Do with Dad?	Health Affairs	07/01/2005	Long feature
Joanne Kenen	To Save Someone Else's Son	Washingtonian Magazine	07/01/2005	Long feature
Isabel Wilkerson	Angela Whitiker's Climb	New York Times	06/12/2005	Long feature
Kevin Pang	Nothing Up Sleeve but Friendship	Chicago Tribune	06/05/2005	Long feature
John Biewen	Married to the Military	American Public Media	06/01/2005	Long feature
Tamar Lewin	Up From the Holler: Living in Two Worlds, at Home in Neither	New York Times	05/19/2005	Long feature
Larry Getlen	The Champions of Consumption	Black Table	05/18/2005	Long feature
Heidi Benson	Historian Iris Chang Won Many Battles...	San Francisco Chronicle	04/17/2005	Long feature
Matt James	Inside the Mind of Philip Schuth	La Crosse Tribune	02/27/2005	Long feature
Michelle Nijhuis	Written in the Rings	High Country News	01/24/2005	Long feature
Karen R. Long	In Balraj's Realm	Cleveland Plain Dealer	12/05/2004	Long feature
Cathy Trost	Enter the Therapy Zone	Washington Post	11/30/2004	Long feature
J.R. Moehringer	Tough Boots to Fill	Los Angeles Times	11/21/2004	Long feature
Michelle Hiskey	The Convictions of Sadie Fields	Atlanta Journal-Constitution	11/14/2004	Long feature
Thomas French	Their Eyes Are Wide Open	St. Petersburg Times	10/31/2004	Long feature
Gareth Cook	Desperate Parents Chase a Stem-Cell Miracle	Boston Globe	09/26/2004	Long feature
Leila Atassi	Just Getting By	Cleveland Plain Dealer	9/7/2004	Long feature
Matt James	Shy Blair Teen Steps Out of Character to Give Her Dying Father a Final Memory	La Crosse Tribune	9/06/2004	Long feature
Staff of the St. Petersburg Times	Countdown to Landfall	St. Petersburg Times	8/22/2004	Long feature
Mary C. Curtis	My Rebel Journey	Charlotte Observer	07/18/2004	Long feature
Louise Kiernan	Coming Out on the Other Side	Chicago Tribune	07/02/2004	Long feature
Robert Sanchez	Jonathan's Journey	Rocky Mountain News	6/30/2004	Long feature
Staff of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette	It Was the First Day of Summer 2004	Pittsburgh Post-Gazette	6/22/2004	Long feature
Bruce DeSilva	The Deepest Wound	Associated Press	05/30/2004	Long feature
Rebecca Skloot	Fixing Nemo	New York Times	05/02/2004	Long feature
Ken Fuson	Back on Familiar Soil	Des Moines Register	02/05/2004	Long feature
Adam Hochschild	Against All Odds	Mother Jones	01/01/2004	Long feature
Kate Gurnett	Another Chance at Life	Albany Times-Union	05/18/2003	Long feature
Roy Wenzl	Mom's Lofty Goals, Jerise's Slam Dunk	Wichita Eagle	4/27/2003	Long feature
Elizabeth Leland	She's Driven	Charlotte Observer	04/27/2003	Long feature
Tom Haines	Facing Famine	Boston Globe	04/20/2003	Long feature
David Finkel	For the Ibrahims, Life is a Ledger	Washington Post	04/19/2003	Long feature
Colleen Kenney	Death, Again, Steers Fate of Refugee	Lincoln Journal Star	4/13/2003	Long feature
David Finkel	In Need Of Help, Nowhere To Turn	Washington Post	04/12/2003	Long feature
Thomas French	A Gown for Lindsay Rose	St. Petersburg Times	02/28/2003	Long feature
Eric Black	13 Days: Behind the scenes of two campaigns in one extraordinary election	Minneapolis Star Tribune	11/10/2002	Long feature
Gerald Carbone	The Miracle of Ladder 6 and Josephine	Providence Journal	09/11/2002	Long feature
David Hafetz	Jacqueline and Amadeo	Austin American-Statesman	5/12/2002	Long feature
Howard Altman	Chasing Shadows	Philadelphia City Paper	03/14/2002	Long feature
Barry Siegel	A Father's Pain, a Judge's Duty and a Justice Beyond Their Reach	Los Angeles Times	12/30/2001	Long feature
Paula Bock	An Otherwise Ordinary Day	Pacific Northwest Magazine	11/25/2001	Long feature
Thomas French	Please Help Me	St. Petersburg Times	11/20/2001	Long feature
Thomas French	America's New Friends	St. Petersburg Times	11/18/2001	Long feature
Deborah Petersen Swift	Ballouville: Poverty With a View	Hartford Courant	10/28/2001	Long feature
Barry Bearak	Death to Blasphemers	New York Times	5/12/2001	Long feature
Barry Bearak	In Hunger, Cold and War, Afghans Only Find Death	New York Times	3/2/2001	Long feature
Thomas Huang	Healing the Healer	Dallas Morning News	02/25/2001	Long feature
Barry Siegel	Seeking a Child's Love, a Child's Life is Lost	Los Angeles Times	02/04/2001	Long feature
Louise Kiernan	Act One: A Storm Gathers	Chicago Tribune	11/19/2000	Long feature
Louise Kiernan	Danger from Above: The Conclusion	Chicago Tribune	07/23/2000	Long feature
Dana Canedy	The Hurt Between the Lines	New York Times	6/29/2000	Long feature
Tamar Lewin	Growing Up, Growing Apart	New York Times	6/24/2000	Long feature
Ginger Thompson	Reaping What Was Sown on the Old Plantation	New York Times	6/22/2000	Long feature
Timothy Egan	When to Campaign with Color	New York Times	6/20/2000	Long feature
Charlie LeDuff	At a Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die	New York Times	6/16/2000	Long feature
Amy Harmon	A Limited Partnership	New York Times	6/14/2000	Long feature
Janny Scott	Who Gets to Tell a Black Story?	New York Times	6/11/2000	Long feature
Steven A. Holmes	Which Man's Army	New York Times	6/7/2000	Long feature
Mirta Ojito	Best of Friends, Worlds Apart	New York Times	6/5/2000	Long feature
Kevin Sack	Shared Prayers, Mixed Blessings	New York Times	6/4/2000	Long feature
Mike Anton	A Cry for Justice	Rocky Mountain News	02/27/2000	Long feature
J.R. Moehringer	Crossing Over	Los Angeles Times	08/22/1999	Long feature
Mike Anton	Osveli's Journey	Rocky Mountain News	02/14/1999	Long feature
Jon Franklin	To Make a Mouse	Raleigh News and Observer	01/01/1999	Long feature
Jon Franklin	A Death in the Family	Raleigh News and Observer	10/04/1998	Long feature
Betsy McKay	Moscow Diary: From Worry to Worse	Wall Street Journal	09/28/1998	Long feature
Jennifer Darr	Violent Femmes	Philadelphia City Paper	05/14/1998	Long feature
Lisa Pollak	The Umpire's Sons	Baltimore Sun	1/1/1996	Long feature
Adam Hochschild	Fishhooks and Chickens	San Francisco Examiner Magazine	07/23/1995	Long feature
Ron Suskind	Against All Odds	Wall Street Journal	5/26/1994	Long feature
Isabel Wilkerson	First Born, Fast Grown	New York Times	04/04/1993	Long feature
Elizabeth Leland	For Bill Brown, Main Street's Home	Charlotte Observer	07/07/1991	Long feature
Adam Hochschild	Aristocratic Revolutionary	Mother Jones	04/01/1985	Long feature
Jon Franklin	The Fastest Man on Earth	Guinea Pig Doctors	01/01/1984	Long feature
Cynthia Gorney	Stifling Darkness Descended	Washington Post	05/25/1980	Long feature
Adam Hochschild	Two Russians	Mother Jones	09/01/1979	Long feature
Adam Hochschild	A Gypsy for Our Time	Mother Jones	02/01/1978	Long feature
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