The Wyeths: A Family Portrait

“The Wyeth saga began with N.C.: a maverick unimpressed by his industrializing world who became infatuated instead with adventure, romance, and old America––back when the connection between humanity and nature was more immediate.”

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I’m (Not) Sorry for Your Loss

by on · Reflections

Mourning and moving forward at Princeton.

Nostalgia Architects

by on · Poetry

“With too much text to see or read, / I imagine the storm of a thousand paper cranes.”

Antibody

by on · Fiction

“Disconnecting from my warring fingers, I hang in a space that belongs to neither fingers nor eyes.”

Notebook of a Departure from an Adopted Home

by on · Reflections, Travel

“For two years I’ve liked to think that my Bolivian ID is more than just a conversation starter, that it grounds my daily life in my relationship to a country I for a time called my home.”

Lower East Side

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“In line with his nature, he broke up with me too politely.”

Crossword

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For Yan Pei-Ming, One Portrait Size Fits All

by on · Arts, Reflections

“As I sat on the bench in the center of the exhibition room, dwarfed by the mammoth panels of the tryptic, I considered my reaction.”

october

by on · Poetry

“I see the act of painting now, and / It is still too fast.”

How the Dark Howls

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“The same desperate anger which buried them there, / Lumbers over the horizon again”

Finsta: The Impossible Quest for the Unfiltered

by on · Campus, Culture

“Like young adults always have, we struggle to verbalize our anxieties and regulate our vulnerability. Finsta posts help in that they allow us to remain in control of ourselves.”

Nadia

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“The carefully applied lipstick drew the shape of lips over where they were supposed to be, where there was now nothing more than scarred skin.”

Music for the Internet Age

by on · Current Events, Music

How a new generation of musicians is confronting the digital landscape.

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Overheard in Cuyler

Woke white man: Elizabeth Warren sucks, but I’ll happily vote for her once Bernie Sanders dies.

Enthusiastic HUM Freshman

Leaving lecture hall: "this lecture low key changed my life."

Overheard in a COS class

COS professor while playing Gregorian chants before class: Well, I like it. My wife HATES Gregorian chants.

Overheard in Murray Dodge

I have not heard of the Nassau Weekly. What are verbatims?

Overheard in Forbes

Theater kid: So I went up to my room and put some peppermint essential oil on my nips…

Overheard in Joline Hall kitchen

Classics Major: Ever since Oedipus, I haven't looked at my mom the same.
Friend reevaluating this friendship: I feel like you should continue this conversation…without me.

Overheard in French seminar

Woman professor to woman student: Though I'm usually on your side, we must at least sometimes recognize that men are also human beings.

Overheard in a meeting

Jaded senior, discussing baby yoda: Like, you’re so cute, but you’re a product of a megacorporation.

Overheard at Cap

Gay man voting for Pete Buttigieg: I thought I got into Princeton because my mom was a legacy and I applied as a Classics Major, but I just learned about pretty privilege and it might be because of the symmetry of my face.

Overheard in J Street

Exasperated frosh: You know how to code but not how to split screen your windows?