FEATURES
Staying Home to Write: Talking Process with Sheila Heti

“In the missing of the mark,” Heti reasons, “the literary interest happens.” She makes a distinction between the books that imitate the novel and the one that imitates life itself. Her own novels, I think, belong to the latter category. 

At the Heart of Things: Yale’s Life at the Cemetery

"The dead shall be raised... if Yale ever needs the property."

The Beginning of the War (from the Perspective of Lydia Fomenko)

On February 24 at 2 a.m., 32-year-old Lydia woke to the sound of a bomb hitting a building nearby her apartment in Odessa, “My heart went to my heels. There was smoke, and then light. It was the start of the war. We decided to leave the next morning."

FEATURE: New Haven on the Mend

FEATURE: Figures of Speech

FEATURE: Finding Home

FEATURE: Protest and Progress

Donations and the Curriculum

The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy was extraordinary for several reasons. One of the reasons it was so distinctive is that the group of graduate […]

FEATURE: Trust Your Guts

As part of Yale’s distributional requirements, every student is required to take a foreign language. Students sometimes balk at the requirement, perhaps believing their four […]

FEATURE: Undefining Misbehavior

How did my words or actions make you feel? What do you wish I understood? What do you wish had happened instead? What do you […]

Reconsidering the Summer Internship