On dementia, bullying, alcoholism, and selfless love.

What can haunted houses and their history tell us about American history and culture? Writer Colin Dickey sets out across America to investigate America's haunted spaces in order to uncover what their ghost stories say about who we were, are, and will be.

Doree Shafrir reflects on how Halloween changed for her after struggling with infertility.

“I could see the ghosts,” recalled Lafcadio Hearn about his early childhood. Late in life, he became a celebrated chronicler of Japan’s folk tales: stories of strange demons and lingering visitations.

Horror movies give more screen time to strong female characters and attract a large female audience. But few female filmmakers get to work on them.

I was expecting a handy theory. What I found was a way of seeing that would help me decode a script I’d been stuck in for much of my life.

A surreal train ride between Chicago and New Orleans proves that Amtrak still has a lot to offer. (Not including speed or the food.)

Like the spies themselves, the image we have of something is often what gets us in trouble.

By trying on the role of Reality TV Villain, Logan Scherer confronts his gay shame.

Very rarely can we see an entire system reflected in one person. The creator and executive producer of “Saturday Night Live” is such a person.

"And so I remember that it’s this moment I want, before it becomes the next, where anything could happen and anything could not."

A man’s death revealed his secret masterpiece-his rented home, illegally transformed into a classical villa. What happened next questions how we define art.

Making sense of absence in the ever-dissolving karst of Missouri.

On what it means to nourish ourselves and others.

While my uncle was dying from a rare cancer, he found solace in a hotel whose staff became a surrogate family.

She will grow up and leave me and yet never leave me; she will be mine forever, a being I shaped.

Nearly 30 years ago, Christina Ricci’s version of the character reinforced millennials’ suspicion that “the bright side” is an illusion.

As host of The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, Brendan O’Meara is no stranger to talking about the art and craft of storytelling. In this craft-focused excerpt, we’re digging into Episode 340, in which he interviewed Atavist editor Jonah Ogles and freelance writer J.B. MacKinnon about his work on the latest issue of The Atavist.

In this excerpt from The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, host Brendan O’Meara talks to Cassidy Randall about “Alone at the Edge of the World,” the gripping story of a woman’s 160-day voyage at sea.

As host of The Creative Nonfiction Podcast , Brendan O'Meara is no stranger to talking about the art and craft of storytelling. In this craft-focused excerpt, we're digging into Episode 313, in which he interviewed Atavist editor-in-chief Seyward Darby and writer Katia Savchuk about their work on the latest issue of The Atavist.

In this excerpt from The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, host Brendan O’Meara talks to Kelly Loudenberg and Atavist editor-in-chief Seyward Darby about their work on “The Caregivers.”

Oh, yes I did! An attempt to explain the bizarre tradition of the British Christmas pantomime.

The longtime writer at Denver’s 5280 magazine talks about City Reads, the stellar work published by fellow journalists, and the intimate experience of reading thousands of solidarity letters mailed from across the country, demanding justice for Elijah McClain.

“How has someone who is a borderline rapist, murderer, and potential sociopath, endured through all these decades?”

The writer of the Immigrant Strong newsletter wants to diversify your bookshelf.

Sorayya Khan recalls racist threats to her young sons after the 2001 attacks, and worries about them as young men living in ‘Trumpistan.’

For 50 years, Enthusiastic Sobriety programs have offered to help teenagers kick drugs and alcohol. But former followers say ES doesn’t save lives-it destroys them.

A tale of racism.

Faith and cosplay at the Hill Cumorah Pageant.

The landscape of operating theaters must be terrifying for patients, but it’s becoming normal for me. It’s amazing what you can get used to.

In Scott Kimball, the FBI thought it had found a high-value informant who could help solve big cases. What it got instead was lies, betrayal, and murder.

Separated by war, boundaries, and immigration policies they cannot control, one young Yemeni couple refuses to give up on love.

On having a twin with cerebral palsy and navigating school bullies.

"When I moved to Billtown, I worried most about whether fracking tainted groundwater. By the time I left the area, my biggest concern was whether the liberty granted to citizens to lease their land, or to otherwise act in ways that limits others' access to environmental goods, taints democracy."