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Elon Green

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads March 5, 2021October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Leah Sottile, Elon Green, Lisa Whittington-Hill, Kate Morgan, and Virginia Morell.

Rukmini Callimachi
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women

‘Women and Girls Were Not Jumping Up and Down to be Interviewed’: Rukmini Callamichi on Interviewing ISIS Sex Slaves

by Sari Botton April 12, 2017October 19, 2022

The New York Times correspondent tells the story behind the story to Columbia Journalism Review.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Behind the Story: NYT’s Rukmini Callimachi on Covering ISIS Sex Slaves

by Sari Botton April 11, 2017October 19, 2022

An as-told-to account of what has to be one of the most emotionally challenging jobs in journalism: interviewing women enslaved by ISIS fighters, reporting on their experiences being repeatedly raped and having their lives threatened. Fearless New York Times writer Rukmini Callimachi talks to Elon Green.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Searching for the Missing Children of Soul Asylum’s ‘Runaway Train’ Video

by heymarkarms November 2, 2016October 19, 2022

In any case, he said, the video was “an opportunity to provide massive exposure to a huge segment of the population that may not routinely see missing child photos, and making whoever sees these photos think, I might be able to do something. I might have actually seen this person.” So Allen agreed to help […]

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