Flashback
Recalling some forgotten performers of rock’s real “glory days.”
A Princess’s Diary
Dr. Cecilia Segawa Seigle Gr’71
Briefly Noted
Mar|Apr 2001
Sports Is the Story
Fred Bowen C’75
A Tangled Web, In More Ways Than One
Susan Lindee sheds light on “Darkness in El Dorado”
Gifts That Speak Volumes
A worldwide windfall of gift books.
“There Will be Cake!”
Ruth Branning Molloy Ed’30 invited friends to help her celebrate “90 years of uninterrupted living.”
Supermarket for Scandal
Whistle-blower's reward: jail time. Rats in the Grain. Penn and the prize. Prize Stories 2000: The O’Henry Awards.
The Color of Mummy
Dr. Zahi Hawass G’83 Gr’87
The Media, the Message and the Meaning
Unconventional wisdom from Annenberg's Jamieson.
Tracing Twain’s Travels
Following in the footsteps of a literary legend, 100 years later.
Craving Catfish in the Land of Cassoulet
Monique Wells C’81 V’85
They Wrote the Book
Undergraduates co-edit foreign policy book
On The Biology, and Bouquet, of Women
Natalie Angier on women and evolutionary psychology
The World For Sale (or Lease)
What price virtuality? The Age of Access.
Haunted by an Heiress
Ever since first reading her as an unhappy child at camp, Nina Auerbach has returned to the novels and stories of Daphne du Maurier. Now, in a new book from the University Pennsylvania Press, the Victorian scholar and Penn professor ponders her lifelong obsession with the writer best remembered—unjustly—for Rebecca.
Brotherly Love: How Bittersweet the Sound
New life for Hoffman's Brotherly Love
Everybody and The New Yorker
Department of Fact. About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made.
The way we live now. In the Gloaming.
High-Adrenaline Reading
Josh Piven C’93 and David Borgenicht C’90
Through the Lens
Across the U.S.A. with photographer Mary Ellen Mark. American Odyssey.
The Secret of Your Success —Civility
Peter Post C’72
Cross Leaves Grisham in the Dust—in Germany
Donna Woolfolk Cross CW’69
Taking the Long View
A masterly biography of a master of many disciplines.
Setting the Record Straight
An Interview with Elijah Anderson