Grim and Grimmer
Terrible suffering, strikingly dissimilar. A Tale of Two Plantations.
Rediscovering the Impromptu Man
Jonathan Moreno on “J.L.,” his psychodrama-founding father.
Moving on from Marx
An emeritus professor of sociology recalls his political and intellectual evolution.
Briefly Noted
March|April 2015
On the Road to Nothing
How Warren Gefter M’74 inspired his daughter to write about nothing.
Briefly Noted
Jan|Feb 2015
Trust
Rottenberg on Greenfield.The Outsider.
Briefly Noted
Nov|Dec 2014
The Greatest
F. Scott Fitzgerald died a failure, but now The Great Gatsby sells a half-million copies a year (even when there’s not a movie). In So We Read On, alumna and Fresh Air book-critic Maureen Corrigan explains how this happened—and why it’s right that it did.
One Small Corner
SLIDESHOW | An uninhabited island in the East River.
Fade to Black and White
Places and things left behind. The Picture that Remains.
Stalking the Elusive Prion
Prusiner on his pursuit of the prion. Madness and Memory.
Briefly Noted
Sept|Oct 2014
Three Sisters at the Dawn of the New Republic
Diane Jacobs CW’70’s new book is about Abigail Adams and her sisters.
Satchmodernity
Thomas Brothers C’79 on “Master of Modernism” Louis Armstrong.
Briefly Noted
July|August 2014
How to Build a City of Light
Turning on the lights. How Paris Became Paris
Spoken Songs of the South
William Ferris G’67 Gr’69 on The Storied South.
Captains of Industry
City of the Sellers. Engineering Philadelphia.
Beaked Denizens of the Deep
Richard Ellis C’59 on the mysterious—and endangered—beaked whales.
Houses Shaped by Sea and Stone
Six striking coastal residences. Houses of Maine.
Briefly Noted
Mar|Apr 2014
Train Time
It was a stone gas, honey. Love, Peace, and Soul.
Briefly Noted
Jan|Feb 2014