“Flesh and Blood” Founder
Q&A With Franklin biographer Walter Isaacson
Sarah Kagan’s “Genius Idea”
The 2004 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and nursing professor calls on clinicians to listen to patients“talk about what hurts, where the itch is, how tired they are, what they’ve done about it, and how illness has changed the way they live.”
Briefly Noted
Mar|Apr 2004
In the Genes
An engaging, accessible guide to genomics and you.
A Gift
Poems “dense with real living” from C.K. Williams.
Neither Rain Nor Sleet Nor a Touch of Madness
Novelist J. Robert Lennon delivers Mailman
What Happens to the Mail
“A reader of other people’s mail wants a challenge”
An Architect of Words and Illusions
Norton Juster Ar’52
The University as Discourse Community
In this essay from the book, Public Discourse in America, Penn’s president lays out a vision of universities as “exemplars of a new kind of thoughtful civic engagement and robust public discourse.”
Shadowing History
Recreating the journey of a World War II airman in France.
Good Companions
Celebrating the art of Joseph Cornell in all its “playfulness and remarkable spiritual resonance.”
Dead, Doomed, or Shaky
For the world’s marine life, it’s a jungle out there.
Briefly Noted
Briefly Noted: Nov|Dec 2003
The Quiet(ly Reading) Student
The Quiet American chosen for Penn Reading Project
The Lure of Uniformity
What clothes reveal.
Mothers and Daughters
A—funny—novel of marriage, career, and ethnic identity.
Himself/Myself
Writing someone else’s autobiography.
Briefly Noted
Sep|Oct 2003
First Fictions
First time novelists Robert Cort, Caren Lissner, and Lisa Tucker talk about themselves and their writing, accompanied by excerpts from their work.
A Moveable Feast for the Eyes
Rare books from Library’s collection to be shown in Belgium.
Author Earns City Honor
Lorene Cary honored with The Philadelphia Award for her work “to advance the best and largest interest of the community.”
Off The Shelf
Authentic Happiness. How to feel; The Perfect House. Where to live.
Sheldon Hackney’s “Spring-From-Hell”
Penn’s former president recalls the “water buffalo incident” and its role in his stormy confirmation as chair of the NEH.
Rushdie: Out of Hiding, Yearning for Anonymity
Salman Rushdie on books, life, and the “hoo-hah” surrounding The Satanic Verses