Introduction: the best American newspaper narratives, volume four / Gayle Reaves -- An American void: The Washington Post / by Stephanie McCrummen -- Fleeing Syria: The Choice: Los Angeles Times / by Christopher Goffard -- The life and times of Strider Wolf: Boston Globe / by Sarah Schweitzer -- Genny's world: Sacramento Bee / by Cynthia Hubert -- Inside an FBI hostage crisis: a stolen boy, a loner, a hidden bunker: The Wall Street Journal / by Michael M. Phillips -- Patient, surgeon work together: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / by Mark Johnson -- Norman Malone's quest: Chicago Tribune / by Howard Reich -- Telling JJ: The Washington Post / by John Woodrow Cox -- The boy who burned inside: Boston Globe / by Maria Cramer -- Unsolved: a murdered teen, a 40-year mystery: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / by Gina Barton