Creative Non-Fiction

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How the Index Card Cataloged the World

Carl Linnaeus, the father of biological taxonomy, also had a hand in inventing this tool for categorizing anything.

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More than 200 victims. At least 90 legal claims. At least 67 private schools in New England. This is the story of hundreds of students sexually abused by staffers, and emerging from decades of silence today. 

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Twenty-four years ago a Missouri father plunged a needle filled with HIV-positive blood into his son’s vein. No one at the time could’ve imagined anything worse. But the most astonishing part of all is the life the son turned out to live.

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format: Autiobio/journalistic topic: Behind the scenes of prison life 

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Sarah Bregel shows her emotion to describe how she embraces her family. Bregel creates a wonderful atmosphere for the readers to feel her emotion. 

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cw: death cw: bloody topic: teenagers topic: murder topic: crimes 

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This is about a girl named Hannah who is a teenager. 

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Topic: In ‘Pond,’ Claire-Louise Bennett stomps all over writing-dude-in-nature territory with her poetic unraveling of Thoreau’s wilderness jaunt.

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 Death Topic: Death of loved one cw: death cw: illness 

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Edwin Debrow committed murder at age 12. The article talks about how he is 37 and is still in jail.

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This is a story of a seemingly sick child Gypsy and her epitome of a perfect mother Dee Dee. She takes care of her gravely ill daughter and tends to her every need. However, after the shocking murder of Dee Dee, things were not as they were made out to be.

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How Angels in America Became the Defining Work of American Art of the Past 25 Years

Twenty-five years ago this summer, Tony Kushner’s Angels in America premiered in the tiny Eureka Theatre in San Francisco’s Mission District. Within tw ...

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This is what it's like to grow up in the age of likes, lols and longing

Inside the world of one 13-year-old girl.

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The Meaning of Serena Williams

On tennis and black excellence.

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The long coming-out of the NBA's first openly gay male referee

For two decades, NBA ref Bill Kennedy was hiding in plain sight -- watched by millions but never truly seen. Then came the biggest game-changer of his life, the call he had to make.

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If Animals Have Rights, Should Robots?

We can think of ourselves as an animal’s peer—or its protector. What will robots decide about us?