Paradise Now
Lessons for the good life in Everyday Utopia.
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Jan|Feb 2024
Bringing Back The Brownies’ Book
Karida L. Brown G’11’s New Brownies’ Book is a “Love Letter to Black Families.”
Another Realm
New photographs by Arthur Drooker C’76 explore the elusive moments before dusk when “vivid colors paint the sky with magic and mystery.”
Character Over Cognition
Q&A with Adam Grant on his latest, Hidden Potential.
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Nov|Dec 2023
The PZ Project
From picture books to The Poet X, Penn Libraries are expanding and diversifying their holdings of books for young readers.
Radical Passage
Radical in her youth: Drew Faust G’71 Gr’75 Hon’08’s Necessary Trouble.
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Sep|Oct 2023
Small Town Dream
Ken Jaworowski CGS’00 is a first-time novelist at 55.
The Corrupt, the Brave, and the Foolish
Fiction | Martin Cruz Smith C’64 on his 10th novel featuring Arkady Renko.
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July|August 2023
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May|June 2023
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Mar|Apr 2023
Safe Harbor, Fitful Prospects
How Philadelphia has repelled, attracted, and been reinvigorated by refugees.
The Lambs of War
Buzz Bissinger explores World War II through a group of football players pushed into the ultimate sacrifice. Daniel Akst probes the legacy of pacifist resisters.
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Jan|Feb 2023
Head Trip
A Penn Libraries exhibit melds Arthur Tress’s surreal photography with his voracious appetite for Japanese illustration.
Enablers
A business school professor examines the many flavors of complicity.
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Nov|Dec 2022
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Sep|Oct 2022
Crossing Borders
For Efrén Olivares, whose childhood was split between Texas and Mexico, the push to reform US immigration policies and practices is both a marathon and a sprint. He shares his story of legal battles and personal struggles in an emotional new memoir, My Boy Will Die of Sorrow.
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July|Aug 2022
Marble Dignity, Hollow Soul
Allen Guelzo’s biography of Robert E. Lee depicts the Confederate general as a “complicated rather than complex person.”