Making Good Books Possible
Remembering Jerre Mangione
Talking Around Love
A poetry collection examines the emotion from multiple angles.
The Best on the Greatest
The greatest of our time. The Muhammad Ali Reader.
Side effects. Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs.
Reflections of a Couple of Book Prize Judges
An insider's view of the passions, politics, and personalities involved in, well, singling out literary merit.
Rising, Falling, Hanging On
Less in common than meets the eye. Tempest Rising and Pride.
Have You Heard the One About the Traveling Book-Salesman?
Sample books cast light on 19th-century bookselling
News That’s Stayed News
A sampling, from Daniel Defoe to Norman Mailer and beyond.
The Other Side of Aesop
Robert and Olivia Temple
Officer Down
Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell comforts the families of two police officers shot in the line of duty. And excerpt from "A Prayer For the City," by Buzz Bissinger.
Briefly Noted
Feb 1998 | A selection of recent books by alumni and faculty, or otherwise of interest to the University community.
Road Map for Relationships
All about Charles and Di's, Woody and Soon-Yi's ... and yours.
American Alchemy
Immigrants are the "yeast" whose rise renews U.S. cities.
Disaster’s Aftermath
A plane crashed, and five lives are transformed.
A Cacophony of Voices
The plague of race in a fever-stricken city.
American Genius
The well-told story of a bad businessman and a gifted author.
A Truce in the Memory Wars?
Book recognizes true and "false memories" of abuse.
Assessing Assimilation
Have Jews given up too much to much to make it in America?