Jessica Marsden
Jessica Marsden
Recent Stories
‘Serendipity’ in novel form majorly sucks
“Beginner’s Greek,” the debut novel from journalist James Collins, has been compared — both in its jacket copy and in early press coverage — to the novels of Jane Austen.
Pollan’s food manifesto: Just ‘eat’
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
‘People of the Book’ still no ‘Da Vinci Code’
Readers may be most familiar with Geraldine Brooks for her Pulitzer Prize-winning 2005 novel “March,” which imagined the Civil War experience of Mr. March from “Little Women.” In her latest novel, “People of the Book,” Brooks tackles much less familiar territory, imagining the history of the (real) Sarajevo Haggadah, one of the earliest existing Jewish prayer books to use illuminated illustrations.
Break reading for credit (you wish)
We’re Yale students. We love to read. Don’t we?
Perrotta’s ‘Abstinence Teacher’ mounts tension, doesn’t climax
To fully appreciate Tom Perrotta’s ’83 latest novel, “The Abstinence Teacher,” it helps to imagine that it is October 2004 again, in the final weeks of the presidential election.
Catcher in the Writing Class
Deconstructing the Microcosm of Undergraduate Writing Classes at Yale
Each semester, the English Department is deluged with applications for its handful of creative writing classes, which span fiction, poetry, nonfiction, play and screenwriting. Residential college seminars on writing are similarly popular. Aspiring writers crave the intimacy and intense attention from a professor that the classes offer. But to keep the classes small — and therefore useful — many interested, talented Yalies must be turned away.
Univ. puts focus on LGBTQ
Despite recent developments, many maintain that Yale’s resources lag behind peers’
The vote is still out on whether Yale’s gay-friendly reputation truly matches campus reality.
Poll suggests grade inflation
Results show median GPA of 3.6-3.7
Yale may have escaped the scrutiny faced by its peer institutions regarding grade inflation, but a recent poll conducted by the News suggests University transcripts have not been immune to the phenomenon.
Dean returns from Beijing
Yale College Dean Peter Salovey returned Saturday from a trip to Beijing, where he attended the launch ceremony for the Peking University-Yale University Joint Undergraduate Program, which welcomed its first students from Yale this month.
GESO focuses on identifying new priorities
The 16-year-old Graduate Employees and Students Organization will focus on writing its first new platform since 2003 this semester, as the group tries to recruit new students to an effort that has already met many of its recent goals, but has failed to progress toward graduate student unionization, its stated purpose.