Julia Glass Breaks Rules

2003 Issue 2March 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Julia Glass Breaks Rules

As an avid reader of fiction by new authors, I was intrigued by the title of Julia Glass’s debut novel, Three Junes, when I first saw it displayed in the local bookstore last summer. I assumed it might be about three women with the same name whose lives intersected in some mysterious way. I bought t…

2003 Issue 2March 4, 2003May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: SUMMER SCHOOL CLOSED DUE TO SNOW

This summer, the Graduate Liberal Studies Program celebrates its 50th anniversary. The first program of its kind, it opened in the summer of 1953 as the Graduate Summer School for Teachers (GSS). Despite the later additi…

2003 Issue 2March 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Concern Over Violations

A university task force appointed by President Bennet is recommending the adoption of new measures to reinvigorate the Honor Code, which the report says has “been dying a slow death due to neglect for a number of years.”…

2003 Issue 1January 30, 2003March 23, 2015

PICK OF THE SYLLABUS: Embers

Andrew Szegedy–Maszak, Professor of Classical Studies, selects Embers by Sandor Marai If one looks only at the outlines of its plot and setting, Embers, by Hungarian writer Sandor Marai, seems to be just another old–fas…

2003 Issue 1January 30, 2003March 23, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

Our roundup of noteworthy publications by Wesleyan alumni, faculty members, and parents. CARLO ROTELLA ’86 Good with Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen and Other Characters from the Rust Belt (University of California Pr…

2003 Issue 1January 30, 2003March 23, 2015

AUTHOR ESSAY: Ellison Straight, No Chaser

The New York Times Book Review called Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius by Lawrence Jackson ’90 (John Wiley & Sons, 2002) a “rich, meticulous biography.” Jackson talks about writing the first book devoted to the ea…

2003 Issue 1January 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Dance Celebrates its 36th

“Dancing Legacies” celebrated 35 years of dance at Wesleyan with a gathering of many of Wesleyan’s most noted dance graduates during Homecoming/Family weekend this fall. The event featured a host of performances, exhibit…

2003 Issue 1January 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Publishers and Editors

Wesleyan graduates are prolific authors, as the books section of this magazine attests, but they are also very active as publishers and editors. Johnny Temple ’89, for example, runs an award-winning, independent…

2003 Issue 1January 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Celebrated Philosopher Norman O. Brown Dies

Norman O. Brown, the former Jane A. Seney Professor of Greek, died Oct. 2, 2002, in Santa Cruz, Calif. He was 89. His obituary in the New York Times described him as an “erudite and spectacularly playful philoso…

2003 Issue 1January 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Leading Musician T. Viswanathan Dies

Tanjore Viswanathan, South Indian flutist and adjunct professor of music, died Sept. 10 at Hartford Hospital after suffering a heart attack. He was 75. Professor T. Viswanathan, or Viswa, as he was known to all,…