Introduction: The Last Correspondents: Literary Journalists Bring Death to Life
Part1: Confronting Death and the Making of History
1. ‘They Can Never Die’ – Sacco, Vanzetti and Moa Martinson; 2. Writing on the Deaths of African Royals: How Sol T. Plaatje Applied Literary Journalism Techniques; 3. Considering the Deaths of Nonhumans: Inside Svetlana Alexievich’s ‘Voices of Utopia’ Cycle; 4. Epic Exceptionalism: History, Chronotope and The New York Times Obituary
Part2: How Literary Journalists Humanise the Dying
5. Literary Journalists on the Early HIV Epidemic in Canada; 6. Death as the Basis of Morality in Dannie Martin’s Prison Journalism; 7. The Grieving Writer: Intertextuality as Companionship in Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking; 8. Facing Death: Life-Threatening Illness in Memoir as Literary Journalism
Part3: War And the Pity of Dying
9. Rising From Gaza Ruins: Bearing Witness with Abū-Sayf; 10. Shared Grief, Divided Worlds: The Representation of Child Loss in The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; 11. Struggle And Introspection: Three Journalists on Enduring War in Ukraine
Part4: Crafting Meaning from Death: International Perspectives
12. The Death Storytellers: When Narrative Journalists in Romania Reach Beyond Life13. Seeing The Dying with The ‘Gaze, Depth and Language of a Novelist’: Considering the Work of Susana Moreira Marques14. Truth To Power: Using Multi-Platform Literary Journalism to Investigate Racism and Death in Australia; 15. Ghosts Of the Tsunami: In Response to Catastrophic Loss, a Listening Literary Journalism; 16. A Post-Mortem Perspective on Oneself – The Gonzo Way; 17. Death Goes Digital: The Rebirth and Evolution of Literary Journalism Through Human-Focused Multimedia Storytelling; Afterword: Last Words,; Index