Briefly Noted
July|Aug 2022
Arts Calendar
July|Aug 2022
Marble Dignity, Hollow Soul
Allen Guelzo’s biography of Robert E. Lee depicts the Confederate general as a “complicated rather than complex person.”
Fraternal Twins
West Philadelphia’s unmatched pairs.
Tales of Havoc
Sara Manning Peskin takes readers on a harrowing journey through the “hijacked brain.”
Inspiration Rock
Asian American filmmaker Jon Chu on finding his way in Hollywood.
Arts Calendar
May | Jun 2022
Crime on the Half Shell
Killing and comfort in Barbara Ross CW’75’s “cozy” mysteries.
Reconstructing America’s Story
Kermit Roosevelt launches a provocative interpretation of the Declaration of Independence.
Arts Calendar
Mar|Apr 2022
The Painted Hyphen
The Arthur Ross Gallery’s No Ocean Between Us exhibition explores Asian diasporas in Latin America.
Harlan and Harlan
A Gilded Age Supreme Court justice and his Black half-brother.
Briefly Noted
Mar|Apr 2022
Constitution, Revised
Thomas Jefferson thought every generation should change the nation’s fundamental law. A new book imagines how that might have played out.
Arts Calendar
Jan|Feb 2022
Thread Heads
The Stories We Wear at the Penn Museum.