This week’s newsletter honors the nominees for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing, for which I had the privilege of serving as jury chair this year. And in a new video series, I spotlight freelancer and author Raksha Vasudevan, a 2025 recipient of the Whiting Nonfiction Grant for Works in Progress. Raksha and I discuss one of her writing inspirations, Saidiya Hartman and her nonfiction book, “Lose Your Mother.”