Off the Shelf
Briefly Noted | Recent books by alumni and faculty.
New Chapter in Alumni Education
The Writers House Virtual Book Groups
A Reel Artist
Ellen McCaleb C’91
Freshmen to Visit Copenhagen
Freshmen will read the play Copenhagen this summer
Sophisticated Kid Stuff
Theater for kids at Annenberg Center.
An Angler’s Autobiography
Simple pleasures, minor tragedies, lessons for living.
A Surprise Musical Prize
Melinda Wagner Gr’86
Paris is for Pooches
Michael Malyszko C’73 and Judith Hughes CW’73
Penn & Ink
A reading series at Kelly Writers House is bringing in a stream of alumni poets, fiction writers, journalists, screenwriters, editors, and literary agents back to campus—many for their first time since graduation.
Travels with Tarzan: A Documentary Odyssey
Two filmmakers went on the road with a family-owned circus and found enough human drama outside the ring to rival the snarling tigers, horse-riding bears, and aerial acrobatics within.
Landmark Studies
Lewis Mumford's 1930s New Yorker "Sky Line" columns.
Quiet on the Set! And No Vacuuming, Please
Christopher Heisen C'91
Feasts Fit for a Writer
Craig Boreth C'91
Collection Reveals Richness of Puerto Rican Culture
Teodoro Vidal W'43
Back to the Future
What's in a Web? Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace.
Mysteries of the Deep
Sunken treasures. Imagining Atlantis and The Search for the Giant Squid.
Land of Light and Art
Dr. Barbara Freed, CW'63, Gr'78
At Home with History
Celebrating the city's residential riches. Historic Houses of Philadelphia; A new translation. The Book of Job. Plus: Briefly Noted
Making Good Books Possible
Remembering Jerre Mangione
The Scent of Art
A tale of two brothers—and their museums.
Posters from the Edge
A show of Spanish Civil War posters
Talking Around Love
A poetry collection examines the emotion from multiple angles.
Rediscovering Troy
Academic turned museum-director Tom Carroll is hoping that a greater awareness of its rich past will help Troy, New York -- an industrial powerhouse of the last century that has fallen on hard times in this one -- rise again in the next.
The Best on the Greatest
The greatest of our time. The Muhammad Ali Reader.
Side effects. Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs.