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Fifteen years ago, after being diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a rare eye disease that causes progressive vision loss, JinSu found solace and spirituality in pottery. I was struck by the way she sees her relationship with clay as dialogue: listening to the clay and responding to its desires and callings. To her, clay is a form of healing.

May 12, 2025

But there, tucked into an archway of sanded beige concrete, right next to Vival, the corner store we’ve been frequenting for crates of eggs and gallons of rosé, a window with letters swirled in green and orange: La Petite Inde. The Little India.

May 12, 2025

Watching Camari Mick bake is watching a woman in her element. She presses her finger assertively on the blade of an icing spatula, spreading whipped […]

February 10, 2025

Richard Prum got his first pair of glasses in the spring of fourth grade. Near-sightedness directs a person’s attention inward, he says, so the glasses […]

May 7, 2024

The morning Daniel Alarcón found out he won the MacArthur fellowship, he bought three pairs of sneakers. The other plans would come later, the more […]

February 9, 2024

When I ask the cashiers at Lambert Books—one of the oldest esoteric bookstores in London—if I might interview one of the store’s tarot readers, the […]

November 14, 2023

Growing up in rural West Texas, Christian Wiman didn’t have much of a reason to question the faith for which he was named. “The roots […]

November 14, 2023

Every year Kagan’s “Introduction to Ethics” course draws over a hundred undergraduates; his Bulldog Days lecture causes Battell Chapel to overflow with prospective students. His recorded lectures on the philosophy of death have been viewed more than thirty million times in China, and his book based on that lecture series, Death (2012), was a national bestseller in South Korea. In a word, Shelly Kagan is the closest figure Yale has to a public philosopher.

April 28, 2023

Betts' shows convey the richness of Black life, undergirded by the belief that being able to see representations of ourselves fills a gap in our identity.

October 30, 2022

The walk “down the hill” on Prospect Street from the Divinity School — the highest geographical point on Yale’s campus — to the School of […]

May 31, 2022

In Puerto Rican puppeteer Manuel Morán’s “latinized” reimagination of Pinocchio, “Viva Pinocho! A Mexican Pinocchio,” “pregunatitis” — or “questionitis” — is a curiosity that proves […]

May 31, 2022