Walking in through the side entrance, I sit down in darkness, a hushed shuffling of feet around me the only...
Month: November 2000
Jazz Age Harlem holds a special place in the American popular imagination. The words "Harlem Renaissance" conjure up images of...
Brother Stephen White, born-again Christian preacher, modern-day "saint" and self-proclaimed "Soldier of Christ," has positioned himself no more than 50...
It’s five minutes before the gun, and we are gathered at the starting line to stretch. The Official Guide to...
Just as every high school student in America knows a Tracy Flick, the painfully overachieving protagonist from Tom Perrotta’s novel...
When I was five years old, a poet came to my house and sat at my kitchen table. I couldn’t...
One Monday last March, three CIA agents walked into a Yale classroom. Professor Paul Kennedy introduced them to his class-"Studies...
Halfway up Broadway, near the center of New Haven, the York Square Cinema readies for combat. Strategy requires a business-as-usual...