This week features recommendations from Chidima Anekwe ’24, our wonderful Co-Editor-in-Chief. Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur If you’ve given up on appealing to moral sense…One of the FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorists,” Assata Shakur writes of her personal history and her rise as a political activist with ties to the Black Panther Party and the…
Lucy Ton That ’26 Rigidity married Routine—at 8:06 am, onNovember 11th, 2022, when it had been 71days of the same oatmeal placed on the sameringed water stain on the same wooden tablein front of the same gabled windows. I haveinfinite oatmeal days ahead of me. Theingredients of a day are very simple. Thebase is a…
Lucy Ton That ’26 Lucy Ton That—will be married on January18th, 2034, not in a church. It doesn’tparticularly matter who she will be marriedto, it just matters that she will become wife.She will be a wife. The space that she willhave jammed artificially in between “Ton”and “That” with her computer cursor, willdeflate, run all out…
a bi-weekly column by michelle ampofo ’25 managing editor ✶✶✶ Alchemy Although something tells me I might be mistaken, I had the strangest encounter yesterday. I was on a train. I was returning to New Haven from elsewhere, thinking late thoughts. While pondering these thoughts, an old man of around 80 came and sat next…
a bi-weekly column by michelle ampofo ‘25 managing editor ✶✶✶ objet petit a, or, On Spirals and Spiralling I entered winter break with a list of concrete objectives: Leaving break, my objectives (that make perfect sense to me, and of which I will not explain), are less clear: Those are my Resolutions. Of course, when…