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PROFILE: A Girl Worth Fighting For

Except for when she was sleeping, 9-year-old Mimi Chan did not spend a lot of time in her house in Orlando. After school, she would […]

PROFILE: Center Stage

The setting is San Francisco, Chinatown. The characters are Lauren Yee and her father, Larry Yee. On the stage are two large red double doors, […]

PROFILE: How Trey Phills found — and shared — his perspective

Fifteen minutes into my first face-to-face conversation with Trey Phills ’19 in three years, we started talking about a washing machine in Denmark. I met […]

PORTRAIT: With Food We Grow

BAKLAVA When you enter Havenly, you’re welcomed by the warm chatter of people enjoying hibiscus tea with baklava, falafel wraps, and mujadarra. Busy college students […]

PORTRAIT: History in a Hat

“This is where Dracula would hide,” said Elena Mușat, our tour guide, as we stepped through a virtually hidden, narrow passage in Bucharest. The smell […]

PROFILE: Between Lee Isaac Chung and Me

When I reached out to Lee Isaac Chung to request an interview, he tentatively agreed, then gently asked if I’d gotten the chance to see […]

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PROFILE: Dr. Bandy Lee and the psychiatric case against Donald Trump

“I never really thought of speaking up about a president as something that would be my role,” Dr. Bandy Lee told me. “I was uninvolved […]

PROFILE: John Ginnetti, Owner of 116 Crown

John Ginnetti sits on a barstool, a drink in hand, his face illuminated by the glowing onyx bar. He is reading, reviewing the chapters for […]

Lukas Flippo
PORTRAIT: Urn Pendragon

A new flag flies over the New Haven Green. Its right half bears the traditional Pride rainbow of six bright stripes; its left, a black-and-brown-and-cyan-and-pink-and-white […]

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Between Love and War

Mohamed Hafez paced around his cluttered studio at 909 Whalley Ave. as he discussed his native Syria. “I am an architect, so I know how buildings fall apart,” he told me.

Calling on Miss Patty

February is a strange time of year. Some burrow into bed, some get a new haircut and some drink themselves into a stupor, all in […]

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