Valentine’s Day brings with it candlelit dinners for some and hot dates with Ben and Jerry for others. Regardless, in light of the upcoming holiday spirit, the Herald sat down with a couple who have managed to work together and stay together: Robert Stepto, a professor of English, African American Studies and American Studies, and …

It has been a good year for the Yale men’s basketball team. So far, the Bulldogs have won 15 games and lost only five. Last Saturday, the team beat Princeton, 58-54. The day before, the Bulldogs also won, 60-53, against Penn. By contrast, on Jan. 27 the team was  defeated by Harvard 65-35.
“To go from …

Kate Bengtson, MC ’13, née Reynolds, never imagined that she’d get married—and certainly not in college. When, as a ninth-grader, she met the boy who would later become her husband, she had a different future in mind: “I was planning on being a lawyer with no friends and 40 cats.”
But by a series of unexpected …

It is a truth almost universally acknowledged that a modern reader with a literary bent must be enamored with Jeffrey Eugenides. In the past two decades he has published three novels, each one lauded as a work of genius, and each abjectly distinct from the others. The Virgin Suicides, published in 1993, is Eugenides’ lyrical …