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Pivot to Podcasting: A Q&A with Jess McHugh

From Layoff To Pulitzer: A Q&A With Investigative Reporter Yael Grauer

In May 2026, independent investigative reporter and longtime Study Hall member Yael Grauer, alongside a team of full-time reporters at the Associated Press, won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. “It was pretty surreal,” she said on the latest episode of the Study...

A Very Specific Period Piece: On "The Scoop" by Erin Van Der Meer

The Scoop by Erin Van Der Meer. Grand Central Publisher, 320 pages. 2026. The latest episode of Serial is playing in your wired earbuds. You just moved from Kips Bay to somewhere called East Williamsburg. You’ll try that new place Sweetgreen for lunch, sit down with the Gawker...

Anson Tong Wrote A Short Story About Grief

Anson Tong wrote a short story, "Sorry For My Loss," , which is out now in The Rumpus. Tong told Study Hall: "It's about a girl who's legally obligated to tell everyone she meets that her dad died."

William Brennan Reported On Terminal Lucidity

For The New York Times Magazine, William Brennan published a feature on "what some researchers call 'terminal lucidity' or 'paradoxical lucidity,' a phenomenon in which people with late-stage dementia suddenly regain capacities they were thought to have irrevocably lost,...

Tobias Carroll Wrote About The Sex Purge Discourse

At Reactor, Tobias Carroll wrote about "the worldbuilding of 'One Night Only' and figured out a way to work in some thoughts on the 2003 film 'Code 46.'" Carroll added: "You liked Samantha Morton in 'The Odyssey,' right? Well, she's great in "Code 46" as well."