Hattie Fletcher

When we decided to dedicate an issue to food, we hoped (as we do with every theme issue) that we would get a wide range of stories, and we did—more than two hundred in all.

CNF interviews Margaret Wardlaw, winner of the Dangerous Creations essay contest

The story behind True Story #16: "A Dirge for the Doubly Dead"

In 1887, a young reporter and her editor hatched a plot: The reporter should feign insanity to write an expose about conditions in a New York City asylum. It was investigative journalism, but of a sort that demanded an unusual degree of, well, commitment from the reporter, Nellie Bly; she endured rotten food, cold baths in filthy water, sleepless nights and abuse from nurses for 10 days before letting her editor spring her.The