Across the Great Divide
Hiking over the hump of the continent, and something else.
A Legend Brings Soul to Seoul
Checking in with John Legend C’99.
Defending the Superheroes
Michael Lovitz C’86 is a copyright-lawyer for superheroes.
Farm Therapy
Kathleen Fields GNu’87 teaches kids farm-work, and more.
Coming to America
Curtis Macnguyen W’90’s life “has been beyond my imagination.”
A Safari with a Purpose
Marjorie Margolies CW’63 is at home in the world.
Jewelry Like Grandma Might Have Made
Jessica Bohrer C’98 and Becca Richards C’99 make jewelry like Grandma’s.
Alumni Notes
July|Aug 2011
Obituaries
July|Aug 2011
The Debunker Debunked
Samuel Morton (Class of 1820) is vindicated.
Suggested Summer Reading from Alumni Authors
Summer reading, 2011.
Days from the Tonys
a conversation with musical-theatre historian Larry Stemple Gr'79.
Barbie Zelizer on the missing bin Laden photo, and the public record
Why the photo’s absence from the record is a cause for concern.
Shooting Big Changes
Photographer Tara Todras-Whitehill C’00 EAS’00 has captured some astonishing images of the uprisings in Egypt and Libya. Who knows where her next ones will be from?
Journalism, Jews, and Jeffrey Goldberg
College alumnus Jeffrey Goldberg’s reporting from the Middle East has garnered a slew of awards and an invitation to come and chat with Fidel Castro. Just don’t tell his kids he dropped out of Penn.
Among the Asylum Seekers
“Refugees arrive at our offices early. Often a line starts forming by 5:30 a.m.”
Galway Girl
“I longed to lose myself in the waitressing world again.”
Serious Satire
The satiric science fiction of James Morrow C’69.
Technology and Art Converge in Storyville
Alumni create online home for fiction in Storyville.
Shredding the Classics on a Roman Holiday
DJ, guitarist—and classics-scholar—Corey Brennan C’81.
Tracing the Class of 1811
The Class of 1811 in profile.
She’s Got Guests and a Show, Too—Pretty Cool
SNL’s newest star, Miley mimic Vanessa Bayer C’04.
Endorsements, Inc.
Endorsement deal-maker Michael Balser C’90.
Alumni Notes
May|June 2011