Yale Daily News

My special-occasion soap, the lemon verbena with the exfoliating beads, was not behind the half-empty Free and Clear conditioner bottle where I’d left it, which […]

October 14, 2021

You came to America because you had a dream, and now that you’re here the dream is like that song on the radio with the […]

April 29, 2021

In a dreary hearing room, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices staged its first public inquiry. At the center of an elevated, U-shaped table […]

March 14, 2021

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March 14, 2021

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January 31, 2021

Despite my best passive aggression, my mother took a Wednesday afternoon off from her extremely demanding job as the E.D. (executive director) of an elite […]

November 25, 2020

To the Headmaster of the 23rd Celestial Academy Dear Seraph, Not long ago, in the southerly regions of Limbo, one of our patrols apprehended a […]

May 19, 2019

It was Laying Day. Sam shivered in line outside Susan B. Anthony High School and chewed over the rumors: The exacting judges, the rare perfect […]

April 20, 2019

Ms. Blok wears see-through, cream-colored shirts to school every day. Her bra today is dark purple, clearly a size too small for her, and her […]

April 20, 2019

She was wearing a black dress, he thought. Or at least it looked black; in this dimness (“warehouse lighting,” he called it privately, “ambiance lighting,” […]

April 20, 2019

The acceptance letter is enclosed in a glossy red folder, the kind that shows sweat marks when you take your thumbs off. There’s a picture […]

April 20, 2019