Briefly Noted
Nov|Dec 2021
My First Salmon
Casting back.
Briefly Noted
Sep|Oct 2021
Doing What’s Right—and Being Smart About It
G. Richard Shell’s The Conscience Code.
Voice Control
Joseph Turow on what your voice tells marketers.
Briefly Noted
Jul|Aug 2021
Writing Lives
Middle school memories. Meditations on motherhood. A prismatic accounting of the self. A long life well and furiously lived: on new memoirs by Jordan Sonnenblick C’91, Courtney Zoffness C’00, Beth Kephart C’82, and Nick Lyons W’53.
The Building Is the Product
Brick and mortar marketing in Building Brands.
Samaritans and Charlatans
Two views on how to make good.
Briefly Noted
May|Jun 2021
Swipeout
Dating lessons from the pandemic.
Her Architect
Harriet Pattison GLA’67 looks back at herself and Lou Kahn.
His Architect
Effort under way to reprint a 1962 collection of Kahn art.
The Discard Pile
Sourdough secrets from Hannah Dela Cruz C’12.
Parties of One
Q&A on Noreena Hertz WG’91’s The Lonely Century.
The Humanist Is In
In a new book, Jason Karlawish GM’99, codirector of the Penn Memory Center, unravels the tapestry of Alzheimer’s science and history, and outlines the medical, social, and ethical challenges that lie ahead.
Black Education Before Brown
Andrew Feiler W’84 documents the Rosenwald schools, which educated hundreds of thousands of African Americans in the Jim Crow South.
No Permanent Conflict?
Tracing America and Iran’s 300-year history.
Briefly Noted
Mar|Apr 2021
After the Storm
In the pandemic, pondering its impact.
Briefly Noted
Jan|Feb 2021
Briefly Noted
Nov|Dec 2020
Clique Bait
Jessica Goodman C’12 on her YA debut, They Wish They Were Us.
Press Forward
Big changes at the Penn Press.