Commencement Issue 2013
Congratulations to the Class of 2013!
Special Issues
Yale Herald Literary Issue 2013
It’s almost summertime, when the readin’ is easy. Wherever you’ll be—at the beach, in a cubicle, on the Great effing Wall of China—soon it’ll finally be time to Read For Pleasure. Our job here...
Establishing Reality
Writers begin with the 26 letters of the alphabet. From there, arises infinite possibility. As an aspiring journalist, I am concerned with the compositional choices writers make in an effort to tell the truth....
Sestina of Southern California
A young female talk show host in a cold room says we are all in for a spell of hot, dry air so out come the new sunglasses while the Santa Ana winds snap...
On Joseph Wright’s “Cottage on Fire at Night”
Sometimes, in the hills of Derbyshire, cottages burn. The fires begin at night, from dinner embers neglected or unseen, and sometimes continue for generations. Smoke rakes the inside of a mother’s nostrils,...
Pillar
(after a sculpture by Louise Bourgeois) Found, strewn on the beach: Odysseus the object, the thing wanderer. A slit, a slot with a button; crooked and pockmarked bone— stop. Making this...
Portrait of a Man Who Looks Like My Father
Aside the river running and the real rocks abounding where we’d hit balls onto the freeway like skipping stones there is a man my age always taking pictures. He thinks his black hair...
Dmoney’s Sad Attempts at Astral Projection
once again last night I had a strange dream it’s weird when I woke up I remembered all of it but now I only remember...
The Real Jack Smith
Jack Smith learned he was a cheater when he read it on his Google alerts. “JACK SMITH: CHEATER,” it read. It was the first Jack Smith had heard of his alleged affair, but Jack...
The Givers
The Givers is about an abortion provider and her devoutly pro-life hairdresser. The respectful dialogue about abortion that it aims to open up feels particularly important this year which marks the 40th anniversary of...
Freshman screw: actually fun?
Hey, I didn’t expect freshman screw to be genuinely fun either. But it was. Real fun. A shocking amount of fun. It took me a little while to get over the ambiguous “theme.” Why...
DEAR HAROLD: How do I survive embarrassing sexual situations?
Dear Harold, I keep finding myself in horribly embarrassing sexual and romantic situations. How do I survive them and—more importantly—recover from them? Sincerely, An Awkward Turtle Dear Turtle, Some people have brought to my...
DEAR HAROLD: How can I keep my long-distance relationship sexy?
Dear Harold, How can I keep my long-distance relationship sexy? Yours, Wrong-Distance Relationship Dear Wrong-Distance, We have all been there. At some point or another each of us has been separated from our significant...
