PROFILE
Naming Birds

Arne Rosengren sometimes forgets a human name, but he rarely forgets a bird name. Before he learns my name, or I learn his, I watch […]

Standing Athwart

On an overcast day in January, George Will left his hotel room at The Study with a purposeful stride. He had just arrived at Yale […]

Among the Thangmi

Mark Turin took the bus as far as it would go. When the road stopped, he got off with only a rucksack and set out […]

The New Humanist

On a sunny weekday afternoon last October, Gary Tomlinson, the new director of Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center, was singing Verdi in Stoeckel Hall. This was […]

Neuroscience, Underwater

[media-credit name=”Natalie Wolff” align=”alignnone” width=”300″][/media-credit]On the night of June 23rd, neuroscientist Vincent Pieribone knelt on the bottom of the ocean, chiseling off a shard of […]

The Great American Sfogliatella

Peter Faggio’s hands are large. They have soft, wide palms that look both worked and untouched and long, thick fingers ending in floury white nails. […]

Kid in a Candy Shop

  All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in […]

A Fighting Chance

[ydn-legacy-photo-inline id=”83″ ] 1) Four bags hang from silver metal chains. They are evenly spaced in the dimly lit room, and it is cold and […]

McClure Plays McDonald’s

In the Financial District of Manhattan, the McDonald’s at 160 Broadway serves the usual hamburger fare. As cashiers at the first-floor register process orders within […]

Su Wei and Su Laoshi

In Su Wei’s cluttered office, Chinese calligraphy, framed photographs, and awards cover the wall. Papers and books are spread across every surface. The floor creaks […]

Brian Waswani

Seconds after 1 a.m., in an off-campus apartment at the top of a steep and claustrophobically narrow flight of stairs, there’s a pitch black room […]