The Dangerous Frontier
Pre-Revolutionary War stories. Frontier Rebels.
Briefly Noted
Jan|Feb 2019
Staying a Fatal Course
Perfect storm, deeply flawed system. Into the Raging Sea.
Strong Language
Writer-in-Residence Carmen Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties.
Briefly Noted
Nov|Dec 2018
Fried on Rush and Rush
Gazette editor John Prendergast and author Stephen Fried talked about Fried’s new book.
Scaling Walls and Dodging Roadblocks
Anne Klein W’64 ASC’65 tells classmates’ stories—and her own.
Briefly Noted
Sept|Oct 2018
Survival Skills
Jennifer Clair C’94’s cooking class is available for take-out (as a book).
Rags to Riches to Ruin
Fantastic, flawed, forgotten Mr. Fox. The Man Who Made the Movies.
Briefly Noted
July|August 2018
Plumbing the Depths with Art
New worlds on ravaged ground. Surviving Genocide.
Briefly Noted
May|June 2018
Why Chaucer and Why Now?
David Wallace on Chaucer, his world, and ours.
When William James Got Hungry
In an excerpt from his new autobiography, Penn psychology professor Martin Seligman tells the little-known story of the American Psychological Association’s annual meeting in 1904, held at Penn. Its reverberations were profound—for Penn psychology professor Edwin Twitmyer and for American psychology.
Un-limiting Understanding
How to know? Understanding Understanding.
Briefly Noted
Mar|Apr 2018
Standing Athwart History
Annenberg’s Al Felzenberg on his William F. Buckley bio.
An Odyssey for Our Time
Emily Wilson’s translation of Homer’s epic has become a surprise sensation, a once-in-a-generation transformation of how English readers encounter one of the most iconic characters in all of literature. Fellow classics professor (and Odyssey aficionado) Peter Struck has some questions for her.
Dangerous Crossing
Q&A with The Border author Steven Schafer G’00 WG’00.
Briefly Noted
Jan|Feb 2018
The Underground Railroad, Reimagined
Novelist Colson Whitehead on The Underground Railroad.
The Other Postpartum
Lauren Smith Brody C’99 has advice for moms returning to work.
A Marriage Primer
Jo Piazza C’02 is figuring out this whole marriage thing.