Yale Daily News

Hail. Everybody hail Augustus. Augustus, who didn’t need glasses; Augustus, my friend. Augustus and I haven’t spoken in ten years, and he is not missing. […]

April 11, 2014

They appeared in the night. Milo heard them first, from outside of his bedroom window — a low buzz, deep buzz, a buzz that sank […]

March 22, 2014

Sunlight. The room is touched with yellow. She rolls over. She is fourteen and her bed is covered in eyelets, a bedspread bought when she […]

January 30, 2014

Like the décor of my old pediatrician’s waiting room, the design of the Insect Inquiry Office at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES) kindly informs you of […]

January 30, 2014

What picture? Daddy sent you a picture message this morning? Must have gotten one of his friends in line there to take a picture of […]

December 1, 2013

Isabel is already awake. Her comforter lies heaped on the floor, bottom end folded under the mattress (as always). Peter lies naked on her bare […]

November 7, 2013

Stepping down into the bar Tagore’s, I found before him two small cups of port already poured. He wore red pants and a white tunic, […]

September 8, 2013

Oliver is going to be a paleontologist one day, but Mrs. D. doesn’t believe it. Oliver talks to her about the dinosaur fossils that are […]

April 14, 2013

[media-credit name=”Karen Tian” align=”alignnone” width=”300″][/media-credit]We’re in the backyard when Mr. Howard pulls into the driveway. It is 5:15 in the evening; it is Memorial Day; […]

November 27, 2012

  When I was a boy and first upset by the strange filthy-looking people who paraded about our streets, asking for things, my father explained […]

September 17, 2012

It was Anthony who first told me the Sun would explode. He said he’d seen it in a magazine. (Or a book, he couldn’t remember. […]

February 21, 2012