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Little shop of porn

“I bought a few things,” Neil* says casually, before rattling off a list: “some little vibrators, a few movies, an anal plug, cock rings, wet […]

For Allah, for country and for Yale

As the sun sets on a cold October day, rain taps against the windows of the MacDougal Center in the Hall of Graduate Studies. In […]

I-Banking For Dummies

  “Master of the universe,” “indentured servant,” “shallow corporate raider”: Yale graduates working at New York City investment banks use these phrases on Facebook.com to […]

Wallace Prize Winners

FICTION 1st Place “Incidental Music” – Daniel Levin Becker 2nd Place (tie) “Good Chocolate” – Alexander Cote “Jackson” – Rachel Khong NONFICTION 1st Place “Every […]

First Place Nonfiction: Every nation needs a tsar

All across America, manila envelopes are rolling. Up from the South they roll, down from New England and over winding roads from the Adirondacks they […]

First Place Fiction: Incidental music

As no check is so unique that the average billing clerk does not see it a dozen times a day, not Scooby Doo nor babies […]

The Witches of West Haven

My descent feels like falling down the rabbit hole. Out of the icy city night I tumble, awkward and uninitiated, into a low-ceilinged room carpeted […]

The New Kids at The New Yorker

Seven years ago, on the day that Matthew Diffee sold his first cartoon to The New Yorker, he waited for the elevator to arrive on […]

The seven steps to votergasm

Emily Michaud does not resemble the sexy blonde icon of the Votergasm Web site. Emily’s ab muscles are not as hard as Dick Cheney’s line […]

Almost Famous

It was October 29th, and the first anniversary celebration for Cafe Nine’s new owners was happenin’. That night, the second of nine anniversary nights, was […]

Professors cultivate a class, not a menagerie

In March 2003, the Yale Law School auditorium overflowed with hundreds of students eager to hear a panel of professors’ opinions on the potential war […]