Yale Daily News

Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:35 p.m.

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McSweeney's latest is good, not astonishing

Most people stop reading horror stories after outgrowing the Goosebumps and Fear Street series in fifth grade. Instead, many Yalies prefer reading Joyce -- or at least, Woolf -- preferably in the fishbowl window at Koffee Too? for all passersby to see.

For this Dante scholar, CCL is not Hell enough

It should come as no surprise that Matthew Pearl LAW '01, the author of a new book based in part on Dante's gruesome visions of hell, enjoyed studying in the depths of Cross Campus Library. "I'm usually attracted to the underground, weird library,"...

Morgan's latest gets praise, sales

It was only supposed to be a short character sketch -- but Yale professor emeritus Edmund Morgan went a little too far. As chair of the administrative board that oversees Yale's ongoing project, The Benjamin Franklin Papers, Morgan planned to write a...