Zoe Mercer-Golden
MERCER-GOLDEN: Iron ladies

Over break, I visited the National Portrait Gallery in London, which is full of paintings of England’s most famous citizens, including many women. I was […]

MERCER-GOLDEN: Remembering solitude

This past week, I stopped to read the inscriptions on the walls of Memorial Hall for the first time since I arrived at Yale. I […]

MERCER-GOLDEN: Gratitude this winter

My mother, who is a wise woman, sent me a column a week ago that she had cut out of the newspaper. The column had […]

MERCER-GOLDEN: The right questions

As I look at the recent headlines in national newspapers and in the News, two words come to mind: sex and responsibility. The two are, […]

MERCER-GOLDEN: Accounting for ourselves

To continue the theme of being the world’s worst meta English and history of art major, this column will be highly self-referential and will refer […]

MERCER-GOLDEN: Imagining Shakespearean authorship

At the beginning of Shakespeare at Yale (SaY), a semester-long program designed to showcase the Shakespearean riches we have at Yale (and oh, what riches!), […]

MERCER-GOLDEN: Opinions run amok

I prefer to read the News in print, always. Not just because the News goes well with breakfast — though it does — but also […]