Yale Daily News

At 11 a.m. on the first Friday of the semester, Commons Dining Hall was filling up for lunch. Weary-eyed students trudged through the door. Some […]

January 31, 2014

 I am always pausing in front of windows sunlit places of reflection of unclear inevitable memory and speaking to people I thought I had forgotten […]

January 30, 2014

Death row. Two tiers. Eight men on the top, two on the bottom, surrounding a room with three small circular tables bolted to the ground. […]

January 30, 2014

I will pick up the garbage lids this morning and twist them like ice cube trays, free an oval of leaves and water that will […]

December 1, 2013

When I was 16 years old and planting my first tomatoes, Jim Reynolds was already too old to pick or prune. But he watched me […]

September 8, 2013

The pot came from Tel Akko, Israel. It had spent the last few thousand years buried under a fieldstone wall when Jane Skinner uncovered it […]

April 7, 2013

La noche siempre caerá sin que te des cuenta   Listen: The day will end and I will bear witness.   I make you sit […]

February 10, 2013

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September 21, 2012

1) Bluebooked at 1 a.m. the day that OCI went live. And now you’re already complaining about the classes you were so excited about. 2) […]

September 17, 2012

The car had been following Helen for fifty-five miles. She corrected herself. The car had been behind her for fifty-five miles. It was important, in […]

April 27, 2012

“Did you eat bananas? Are you wearing leather?” Marina Marchese looks me up and down. I shake my head and zip my suit. “If you […]

April 27, 2012