Jeffrey Yang

Mar 28, 2024 | nybooks.com | Jeffrey Yang |Bei Dao

about Hong Kong I know nothing carrying an underground book for the trip land at Kai Tak Airport coral reef shimmers strangers look for the coordinates of lights the skyline’s narrative pushes toward climax frogs hop inside the gut ferryboat “Transition in Transition” Poetry Festival no audience poets listen to each other in rapt attention Shang Qin and I eat a late-night meal together draw little figures on the fogged windows midnight breathes beneath our feet from a small town in Northern...

Nov 14, 2023 | theparisreview.org | Jeffrey Yang

By Jeffrey Yang November 14, 2023 Our new Fall issue includes an excerpt from Bei Dao’s book-length poem Sidetracks, translated from the Chinese by Jeffrey Yang. In Sidetracks, Bei reflects on his turn to making ink-dot paintings like the one here. In April 2012, while with his family on a beach in Hong Kong, Bei Dao suffered a stroke that severely affected his language abilities.

Sep 12, 2023 | theparisreview.org | Bei Dao |Jeffrey Yang

James Baldwin in Hyde Park, London. Photograph by Allan Warren, The Paris Review No. 129.  This interview was conducted in the two places dearest to James Baldwin’s struggle as a writer. We met first in Paris, where he spent the first nine years of a burgeoning career and wrote his first two novels, Go Tell It on the Mountain and Giovanni’s Room, along with his best-known collection of essays, Notes of a Native Son.

Mar 23, 2023 | thecrimson.com | Jeffrey Yang

For one night each semester, one of Harvard’s most famous courses, Computer Science 50: “Introduction to Computer Science,” throws a school-sanctioned all-nighter: the Hackathon. From 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., students stay up at the Science and Engineering Complex working on their final projects, fueled by Felipe’s burritos, Otto’s pizza, and absurd quantities of candy and coffee. “Those still awake at 5 a.m. will be treated to breakfast at IHOP,” the CS50 website advertises.

Feb 13, 2023 | thecrimson.com | Jeffrey Yang

Harvard public health experts discussed the effect of climate change on health care, as well as health care’s carbon footprint, in a panel at Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center on Friday. The event was moderated by Alicia Ely Yamin, a Law School lecturer and the senior fellow on global health and rights at the Petrie-Flom Center, a program that researches biotechnology, bioethics, and health law policy.