Always on the Move
How do we live in a world where the ground beneath our feet is not fixed?
Tight Lips Sink Societies
Stifling criticism is no way to fight a war.
Briefly Noted
Jan|Feb 2005
Strange Labyrinth
Behind the gift to Penn’s library of a very rare 17th-century book lies the moving story of an alumna scholar’s groundbreaking research and untimely death.
Kulchur and Politics
Loving Ezra Pound
Briefly Noted
Nov|Dec 2004
Writing For Her Life
Stephanie Williams C’92 was determined to fulfill her ambition to write and publish a novel before cancer killed her. With some help from her friends, she succeeded.
Coming Home
Searching for the China of her childhood.
Can’t Buy Me Love
Manage your money before it manages you: Chatzky’s commandments.
Now Batting: Jim Crow
Negro League Baseball. The business of black baseball.
Thinking Outside the Box Score
The Numbers Game. Stat-boys of summer.
Putting the Lit in Chick Lit
Chick Lit, Quaker style.
Briefly Noted
Sept|Oct 2004
A Dark Task
The chaplain asked if I was the lieutenant who had killed a man the day before. I told him I was.
Art and Insult
Albert Barnes in all his brilliant, baffling complexity.
Briefly Noted
Jul|Aug 2004
Against All Enemies, Political and Otherwise
Richard A. Clarke C’72
Required Reading
Penn Reading Project picks The Tipping Point
The Replacements
Robots are people, too. Sort of.
Mailer: Why He Is Still At War
The swaggering pen of Norman Mailer
Banks on Writing: “Trust the Process”
Russell Banks: Truth trumps fact in fiction
Clarke’s Case
How the Bush White House is losing the War on Terror.
Award Winners
Three Penn faculty members—including one who is also an alumna—have been honored with major literary prizes this spring.
Briefly Noted
May|Jun 2004