Fifty Shades of Grit
Q&A with Grit author and psych professor Angela Duckworth Gr’06.
You Don’t Know Jack (Kerouac)
The long road to finding and translating Kerouac’s French writings.
Bedtime Stories for the Aging
Arlene Heyman M’73’s Scary Old Sex.
Digging Up Deuteronomy
Pre-Biblical quest. The Lost Book of Moses.
Briefly Noted
July|Aug 2016
When Harry Met Arthur
Lawrence Haas C’78 tells how Harry & Arthur created the Free World.
A People’s History of ENIAC
New book on ENIAC emphasizes machine’s operations—and operators.
Ghosts of Segregation
Barren campus. Without Regard to Sex, Race, or Color.
When the Answer Is C) None of the Above
“Middlesex meets Mean Girls” in YA novel None of the Above.
An Ethnographer Among the Hyenas
Q&A on sociologist David Grazian’s American Zoo.
Briefly Noted
March|April 2016
That Roosevelt
Penn Law professor, legal scholar, and novelist Kermit Roosevelt III is doing his best to live up to the family name—including, in his latest book, by tackling cousin Franklin’s executive order authorizing the confinement of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II.
Having It All and Keeping It Too
Lisa Green C’82’s legal guide for women, On Your Case.
Century of the Sphinx
A big book on the Penn Museum’s “Colossal Sphinx.”
Building Blocks
A talk with the authors of Becoming Penn, which traces the University’s development over the tumultuous half-century from the Cold War to the Millennium.
When the Going Gets Weird, Start Mixing Drinks
Novel take on Hunter S. Thompson. Gonzo Girl.
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Nov|Dec 2015
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Sept|Oct 2015
Crimes of Punishment
Q&A: Marie Gottschalk on America’s sky-high incarceration rate.
Politics and Poetry in Kashmir
English Professor Suvir Kaul on Kashmir’s rich poetry and tragic politics.
Healing Invisible Wounds
Yochi Dreazen had seen his share of death and combat trauma
as a military journalist in Iraq and Afghanistan. But it wasn’t until he
met an American general and his family that he learned how deep
that trauma can go, and what needs to be done to heal it.
Plastic Fantastic
Penn Medicine’s Frances E. Jensen is a leader in studying how the brain develops and what that means for learning, behavior, and the treatment of disease at different ages. For her book on the teenage brain, she drew on the latest neuroscience findings—and the experiment going on in her own home.
When the Light Goes Out
A poet’s memoir of life after death. The Light of the World.
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July|Aug 2015