Becoming Nazi
Thomas Childers’ The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany.
Briefly Noted
Nov|Dec 2017
From 10th-Grade English to Trigger Warnings
Two new books by Penn faculty explore how free expression
on campus became so fraught and what to do about it.
Everybody Comes to Casablanca
In film scholar Noah Isenberg C’89’s engaging investigation of “Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie,” the lives of the émigré actors who made up most of the cast share the spotlight with the famous love triangle and wartime call to arms. Their stories also echo forward to our own era’s debates over the treatment of refugees and immigration policy.
Briefly Noted
Sept|Oct 2017
Lawmakers, Lawbreakers
A new book examines crime and pragmatic politics in India.
Capturing The Elephant Man
A producer tells the stories behind the story of a classic movie.
The Prehuman History of Cocktail Hour
Don't match drinks with the Malaysian pen-tailed tree shrew.
Fathoming Man’s Best Friend
Dog science gets an update.
Silk, Sweat, and Socialism
A new book examines a forgotten component of the labor movement.
Briefly Noted
July|Aug 2017
Ink Addict
Confessions of a book keeper.
A Life Entangled: Shedding new light on Louis Kahn
A life of Kahn. You Say to Brick.
Discovered—But Not Captured
Erica Armstrong Dunbar C’94 wrote about Ona Judge’s escape from slavery.
Taking Casualties
Charles Newhall III C’67 wrote about Vietnam and after in Fearful Odds.
Serial EarthQuakers
Alumni writers dig up their satiric LA-earthquake novel.
Down the Rabbit Hole and into Art
A graphic-memoir of healing through dementia in Aliceheimer’s.
A Brief History of Sitting Down
Take a chair.
From Disgusting Dough to Artful Cookbook
Eating words. The Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook.
Briefly Noted
Jan|Feb 2017
When Push Comes to Shove
Cultural historian Francesca Ammon deconstructs the bulldozer.
When Twenty Meets Forty
A Penn story (but not hers) by Allison Winn Scotch C’95.
Briefly Noted
Nov|Dec 2016
Eighteen Wheel Blues
Sociology’s Steve Viscelli on life as a long-haul trucker.