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.
Throwing the Book at Dangerous Art
Book lovers beware?
Deconstructing the Constitution In Support of the Arts
Garry Wills on support for the arts
Rising, Falling, Hanging On
Less in common than meets the eye. Tempest Rising and Pride.
Illuminating the Universe
All about everything. Empire of Light. Football fever in 1960s Dallas. Cotton Bowl Days.
View
Robert Slutzky's 50 years of painting.
Now On Stage at the Annenberg Center: Michael Rose
New Annenberg Center head named
News That’s Stayed News
A sampling, from Daniel Defoe to Norman Mailer and beyond.
Briefly Noted
Feb 1998 | A selection of recent books by alumni and faculty, or otherwise of interest to the University community.
Road Map for Relationships
All about Charles and Di's, Woody and Soon-Yi's ... and yours.
American Alchemy
Immigrants are the "yeast" whose rise renews U.S. cities.
The Fragrance of Ink
An exhibition at the Arthur Ross Gallery—part of the Gallery's year-long "Celebration of Asia"—highlights Korean "literati" paintings from the Choson Dynasty.
Disaster’s Aftermath
A plane crashed, and five lives are transformed.
A Cacophony of Voices
The plague of race in a fever-stricken city.