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
“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”