Graphic by Carolyn Chen/The Choate News Following the reveal of this year’s novel for the One Book, One Wallingford program in early January – Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi – members of the local community have participated in a series of events planned by the Wallingford Public Library. The mainRead More

Graphic Courtesy of Compassionate Home, Action Together Founded in 2019 at Yale University, Compassionate Home, Action Together (CHATogether) is a program dedicated to the mental well-being of Asian-Americans and to fostering better communication between Asian-American children and parents. Knowing that it can be a challenge for children to bring upRead More

Photo by Garrett Curtis ’24/The Choate News In December of 2021, Ava Gizzie ’23 created her own podcast called anthroposcreen extinctions where she speaks with peers on topics that matter to them in a thoughtful, introspective way. As of now, a few months into the project, Gizzie has put outRead More

Photo courtesy of the Choate Archives One weekday in 1988, students’ cheers started in Memorial House, then Library, then spread further. The radio show they’d been tuning into had been interrupted: tomorrow was President’s Day. The announcement didn’t come over email, Instagram, or even the phone — instead, the fastestRead More

Photo Courtesy of the Choate Archives Ask not what mischief you can concoct for April Fools, but what mischief April Fools can concoct for you. Those were the words not-quite-spoken by John F. Kennedy ’35, the famed 35th president of the United States and, of course, founder of the School’sRead More

Photo by Toffy Prakittiphoom ’24/The Choate News On the second floor of the Paul Mellon Arts Center (PMAC), easels are scattered on the concrete floors, canvases line the walls, and still-life setups are laid out on tables. In this studio, artists in the Life Drawing class diligently work on theirRead More

Photo Courtesy of AbeBooks Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata is a love tale drenched in a beautifully depressing tone that can be condensed into one word: futility. The novel won Kawabata the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986. Snow Country allows readers to dip their toes into the vast worldRead More

Photo by Toffy Prakittiphoom ’24/The Choate News I.M. Pei’s Paul Mellon Arts Center (PMAC) stands proudly on the Choate campus as the budding home to inspiration and creativity. In this year’s annual Spring Dance Concert, the PMAC itself became a source of inspiration. Reflecting a remarkable variety in student andRead More

Graphic by William Gao ’24/The Choate News If you’re anything like the average American, you’ve been watching mainstream Western media and seeing every political commentator set up the same rigid dichotomy on the subject of Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine is said to be the virtuous, brave, and resilient little guyRead More