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Samar Yazbek: Novelist, patriot, fighter-in-exile

Q. Why do you write? A. It’s so natural that it doesn’t feel like a facet of my life, but life itself. You can’t ask […]

Bill McKibben: Environmentalist, Journalist, Activist

Q. When did you develop an interest in the environment? Was it from your youth? A. Not so much. My father was an outdoorsman, and […]

Glenn Kelman: CEO, creative, self-described “goofy” guy

Q. What advice were you trying to get across during the Master’s Tea? A. I tried to convince everyone that you can be brilliant without […]

Amale Andraos and Dan Wood: Spunky, Fast-Talking, Lovers of Nature

Amale Andraos and Dan Wood are the principal architects at WORKac, a New York-based architecture firm known for its cutting-edge urban designs incorporating nature into […]

Verlyn Klinkenborg: writer, farming buff, master of sentences

What are you thinking about? Ruminate; write about anything. Such is the bold directive steering Verlyn Klinkerborg’s unique course this semester, “The Genre of the […]

Meeting Harold: A Q&A with John Cho

Q. So, how do you like Yale so far? A. It’s very beautiful. I’m stunned by how clean it is. I went to a very […]

Slavoj Žižek: Leftist, paradox, WTF?

Q. What did you think of speaking at the Yale Political Union tonight, using their format, which is not the kind of lecture you’re usually […]

Nitty Scott: Rapper, modernizer, atypical 21-year-old

Nitty Scott MC is a 21-year-old hip hop musician who has attracted attention from the music industry for her skillfully orchestrated and lyrical raps. Born […]

Allison Williams ‘10: One of the ‘Girls’

Q. Lena Dunham, the show’s writer, has said that a lot of what’s in “Girls” comes directly from her life and the lives of other […]

John Irving: American Storyteller, English Professor, Wrestling Coach

John Irving, one of America’s greatest storytellers, is the novelist behind bold, sprawling sagas that have topped bestseller lists, such as “The Cider House Rules,” […]

Millicent Marcus: Cineaste, Polymath, Cognoscenti of Italian Culture

Professor Millicent Marcus GRD ’74 is a professor in the Yale Italian department, who focuses on Italian culture through literature, history and film. She is […]