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Every Friday, we choose an alum who has been making headlines—for better or for worse.

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  • Margaret Farley ’73PhD: A scholar and nun tangles with the Vatican.

    Last week, Margaret Farley’s book Just Love had racked up sales in the four figures—in six years. This week... Read on
    the staff | June 7 2012 12:51pm

  • Reed Whittemore ’41: A poet of the prosaic passes.

    A famous poet you may have never heard of died last week. Reed Whittemore ’41—twice poet laureate of the United States—passed away on... Read on
    the staff | April 12 2012 09:35am

  • Nicholas Rastenis ’08Dra: Poster child for a work-starved generation.

    Nearly four years after leaving the Yale School of Drama, Nick Rastenis is working in pictures. But not the Hollywood kind, or even the indie... Read on
    the staff | February 23 2012 12:17pm

  • Thomas Hobson ’04: A song-and-dance man for the preschool set.

    One band member is named Twist, another is Shout, and they’re nearly as popular as the Beatles—among preschoolers. That’s... Read on
    the staff | February 2 2012 01:22pm

  • 9/23/11: Namwali Serpell ’01

    Born and partly raised in Zambia, Namwali Serpell ’01 will travel there to research a novel—with help from a chic Manhattanite.... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 01:41pm

  • 8/12/11: Amor Towles ’87

    Amor Towles ’87 “arrived in New York in 1989 with diplomas from Yale and Stanford and dreams of becoming a writer,” we learn... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 01:24pm

  • 7/29/11: Kamala Lopez ’85

    Nancy Pelosi. Former secretary of labor Alexis Herman. Pakistani women’s rights activist Rubina Bhatti. Kamala Lopez ’85 joins their... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 01:18pm

  • 7/1/11: Mary Bly ’95PhD

    “A well-bred lady never ogles a man from behind her black veil, especially during her husband’s burial.” If the widow in question were... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 01:00pm

  • 6/10/11: John T. Downey ’51

    John T. Downey ’51 missed his first four Yale reunions for a dreadful and remarkable reason: he was a prisoner in China, shot... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 12:49pm

  • Emily Jenda ’10

    “There’s no greater rush for a critic,” writes Erik Haagensen, “than encountering a blazing new talent.” He speaks of none other... Read on
    the staff | January 7 2011 10:54am

  • 10/29/10: Mark Gorton ’88

    Long before there was Mark Zuckerberg, there was Mark Gorton ’88. And long before there was Facebook, there was... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 10:20am

  • 10/22/10: Sara Gilbert ’97

    When Archimedes stepped into his bathtub, he figured out how to measure an object’s volume by the amount of water it displaces. When Sara Gilbert... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 10:16am

  • 9/24/10: Natasha Zupan ’87

    It sounds like the plot of an Almodovar film: a house painter (in Spain, of course) confesses to his artist client that he has been having an affair... Read on
    the staff | January 3 2012 09:56am

  • Alex Gibney ’77

    This week finds documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney ’77 with three—count ’em—three movies in the Tribeca Film Festival, prompting a... Read on
    the staff | April 30 2010 04:48pm

  • Duncan Stroik ’87MArch

    Catholic children are sometimes taught that the important part of their church is not the building, but the people. That doesn’t mean the building has... Read on
    the staff | March 19 2010 04:29pm

  • Zoe Kazan ’05

    If you haven’t heard of Zoe Kazan ’05 yet, get ready. It’s not just her Hollywood-famous last name (grandpa Elia Kazan directed On the... Read on
    the staff | February 12 2012 03:27pm

  • Ahmed Alsoudani ’08MFA

    Just months after Ahmed Alsoudani ’08MFA picked up his Yale diploma last year, Art + Auction profiled him as an... Read on
    the staff | December 18 2009 02:56pm

  • Gabe Polsky ’02

    It’s kind of a Hollywood story line—minus the adversity. After five years in the film biz, Gabe Polsky ’02 and his brother Alan... Read on
    the staff | November 27 2009 02:51pm

  • Michael Apuzzo ’05

    You might have seen Michael Apuzzo ’05 in the New York Times the other day. In his underwear. Apuzzo’s not in a Calvin Klein ad... Read on
    the staff | November 13 2009 11:28am