Author Archives: Maria Yagoda

The other day I was on the subway and found myself thinking, “Wow, someone really smells like meat on this train.” Then I realized, “Wait, that’s me.” And that’s a scary thing to come to terms with — that you’re the one on the subway that smells like meat. Yet I took pride in that »

“Money is better than Kim Jong-il,” Yoo-Sung Kim argued at his talk, “Shedding Light on the Hermit Kingdom: Testimonies of a North Korean Spy,” which was given in Korean and translated by two Yale students. Kim, who was born in North Korea, described his experiences as a prisoner in North Korea in the 1990s under »