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Word Play
Lexicographer Orin Hargraves estimated in 2017 that “the world of English lexicography” is populated by “no more than 100 people.” In the parallel world of Jacqueline Bircher’s play Webster’s Bitch,...
Word Play
Lexicographer Orin Hargraves estimated in 2017 that “the world of English lexicography” is populated by “no more than 100 people.” In the parallel world of Jacqueline Bircher’s play Webster’s Bitch,...
Central Purpose
For 320 years before the Yale Schwarzman Center soft-opened in 2021—and 125 years since the country’s oldest such structure opened at the University of Pennsylvania—Yale students didn’t have a student...
Central Purpose
For 320 years before the Yale Schwarzman Center soft-opened in 2021—and 125 years since the country’s oldest such structure opened at the University of Pennsylvania—Yale students didn’t have a student...
Photo Copies
A photo essay. To view all 14 images, check out the email edition. * * * “The ancient practice of hand-copying sacred scriptures has been a cornerstone of major religious...
Photo Copies
A photo essay. To view all 14 images, check out the email edition. * * * “The ancient practice of hand-copying sacred scriptures has been a cornerstone of major religious...
Script Notes IV
Three times last year, I reeled off a series of movie and TV moments referencing New Haven. Now I’ve recorded enough for a fourth. And while things usually go south...
Script Notes IV
Three times last year, I reeled off a series of movie and TV moments referencing New Haven. Now I’ve recorded enough for a fourth. And while things usually go south...
Works in Progress
I had never fully considered the social and cultural content of the color pink until I saw Sheila Levrant de Bretteville’s 1974 broadside Pink. Designed for an American Institution of...
Works in Progress
I had never fully considered the social and cultural content of the color pink until I saw Sheila Levrant de Bretteville’s 1974 broadside Pink. Designed for an American Institution of...
Garden Party
It’s teatime. Four women—Sally, Vi, Lena and Mrs. Jarrett—sit in a homey English garden, “nattering” (chatting) during a series of blue sky afternoons about their families, their neighbors, their former...
Garden Party
It’s teatime. Four women—Sally, Vi, Lena and Mrs. Jarrett—sit in a homey English garden, “nattering” (chatting) during a series of blue sky afternoons about their families, their neighbors, their former...