Millay Hyatt

An American in Berlin

Millay Hyatt
I arrived in Berlin two weeks before September 11, embarking on a year of philosophy studies and re-connection with the country I grew up in, but haven’t lived in for eight years. In those first weeks I tore around my new home on various borrowed bikes, electrified by this unbeautiful......
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Crazy

Millay Hyatt
Written at the heady age of 16, Crazy is German writer Benjamin Lebert’s autobiographical account of a year at a Bavarian boarding school for problem rich kids. Benjamin’s specific problem is his partial paralysis — his left arm and leg are lame — and his miserable performances in math and......

Foreign Trade

Millay Hyatt
Amy Vangsgard These days, things are a little more complicated than when we traded a cow for a patch of land, a dozen eggs for some kindling, or a handful of jewelry for Manhattan. As our needs and wants became more complex, our system of exchange moved from the literal......