New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2022. This cutting-edge research companion addresses our current understanding of literary journalism's global scope and evolution, offering an immersive study of how different nations have experimented with and perfected the narrative journalistic form/genre over time. It demonstrates the genre's rich genealogy and global impact through a comprehensive study of its many traditions, including the crónica, the ocherk, reportage, the New Journalism, the New New Journalism, Jornalismo literário, periodismo narrativo, bao gao wen xue, creative nonfiction, Literarische Journalismus, As-SaHafa al Adabiyya, and literary nonfiction.