To Our Readers

A letter from the editors.

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In the Glow of this Candle

by on · Fiction

“It does not matter that Claire in real life, though a remarkably talented singer, is not a songwriter. This Claire is not that Claire, even though they are inextricably linked by more than their names and the name of their current partners.”

Full Send

by on · Campus, Reflections

“They know something real about the surface of things. I would say that they defy the abstractions, statistics, and agendas of public policy, the academic event of the structure in whose shadow they roughly glide, jump, and fall.”

Verbal Knockout

by on · Culture, Reflections

“This was never going to be a simple game with a clear winner. From the start, this boxing match was set up to be a rivalry. It would last nineteen years and counting.”

A Summer of Luddism

by on · Campus, Reflections, Technology

“I didn’t even think about my phone at all, didn’t start at a phantom buzz in my pocket or stop what I was doing to look over at the device when I thought I saw its screen light up.”

Nass Recommends: Impetigore

by on · Nass Recomends, Reviews, The Nass Recommends

A review of Joko Anwar’s psychological horror film.

Crossword

by on · Crossword

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acute renal failure

by on · Poetry

“i wish with awful ignorance / that death always came from the outside instead”

The Wyeths: A Family Portrait

by on · Arts, Culture

“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.”

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.”

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Overheard in the solarium

Tankie Terrace Bros:
"I get nihilistic when I'm sleepy"
"Really, dude, I get totalitarian”

Overheard in Whitman Common

Girl looking at the time on two iPhones: Wow, they both say 9:30.

Overheard Outside of Tower

Tired bickerer: The amount of times I heard the word “vibes” at Cap bicker is way too high

Overheard on Nassau

“I’ve never met a coke-head who weighs over 130 pounds.”
“Clearly you’ve never been to Cannon.”

Overheard on Dean’s Date Eve

Leftist Mathey RCA, eating French toast: Everyone needs to be triggered sometimes.

Overheard at Mathey Dining Hall

Frosh: I'm not a trust fund kid! I'm a hedge fund kid! There's a difference!

Overheard at a pregame

One jewish female to another: you do look jewish, but you pull it off

Overheard at USG Little Women

Laurie, to Jo: Can we still be friends?
Emotionally ruined Princeton student: Bitch, as if!

Overheard on Nassau St:

Joshua Judd Porter: I’m world weary. I’m Leonard Cohen.

Overheard on iMessage

Boyfriend, to girlfriend: What if we had a foursome and ended up just having gay sex side by side?