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Frank Furness. A biography of the Fisher Fine Arts Library’s architect.
Plus: An interview with the author; Briefly Noted.
Uncommon Reader
Larry Dark C’81
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A Matter of Degrees. Taking temperature’s measure.
Can’t Be Satisfied. A life of Muddy Waters.
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Confederacy of Silence. Memories and murder.
Celebrating Cities
Nathaniel Popkin C’91 GCP’95
Briefly Noted
Darkening Water. New poems from Daniel Hoffman.
The Ornament of the World. When Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived in peace.
Vampires, Romance, and Deadlines
Leslie Esdaile W’80
Coming to Terms
During the High Holidays, a beloved rabbi nearing retirement and an author chronicling the search for his replacement mourn and remember their fathers.
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Why I’m Like This. Life is sometimes funny, and sometimes not.
The Man Who Made Wall Street. A biography of Anthony Drexel.
Plus: Briefly Noted
Youthland and Everything After
A cultural historian discusses the changing image of childhood in an interview and a new book.
A Labor of Literacy
Ian Bennett CGS’89 GM’01
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Think of England. Family secrets.
The Future of Ideas. Who will own the Internet?
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Hoop Roots. “The game’s as portable as a belief.”
Cancer: A Spouse’s Candid View
Kirsten Shank C’90 and Brendan Halpin C’90
First Visit, Last Farewell
In this excerpt from her new memoir about her “multicultural marriage,” the author writes of her son’s first trip to his father’s country of El Salvador and the death of a family patriarch.
Making the Most of the Material Past
A stint as a “trainee mortician” set Penn English Professor Peter Stallybrass on the path to scholarship. These days, he prowls old bookstores and library stacks in search of the objects that make the past come to life.
A Tragedy of Democracy
By Order of the President. Dissecting a tragedy of democracy.
Shadow Selves
Look at Me. A novel of dangerous depths.
Nazi Terror. Evil’s work-a-day world.
The Last Album: Lives in Memory
A new book of photographs recovered from Auschwitz—family portraits, birthday parties, wedding pictures, days at the beach—recalls the lives shattered by the Holocaust.
What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?
In Therapy We Trust. Self-fulfillment as the American religion.
Sick Culture
Raw Material. What the Victorians thought about disease
Sprawl and the City
In a new book, Penn-affiliated experts provide a crash course on what went wrong with America's cities—and offer some ideas on how to fix them.
Wolfe on Silicon Valley’s “Pelicans” and “Beachcombers”
Tom Wolfe on how to spot a Silicon Valley billionaire
Candide, Pangloss, and Cunegonde Join Class of 2005
Candide best of all possible choices for Penn Reading Project