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
High Noon in the ‘hood
Penn sociologist Elijah Anderson writes about life at "ground zero," in the inner city's most blighted areas. In this excerpt from his new book, a reformed drug-dealer turned small-businessman attempts to take back a neighborhood corner from his successor in the drug trade.
Raise your bottom line
Raise your bottom line. Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People.
The Dirty Little Secret About Bathing
Dr. Barney Kenet CGS’84
Great Expectations
Rebecca Crane Matthias CW’75
Off the Shelf
Briefly Noted | Recent books by alumni and faculty.
New Chapter in Alumni Education
The Writers House Virtual Book Groups
In the Valley of the Shadow of Death 101
Two instructors and 14 students took a literary tour of duty through our bloody century.
Freshmen to Visit Copenhagen
Freshmen will read the play Copenhagen this summer