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For Love of the Game

Last November, Josh Blaine was traveling down the coast of California, with the vague intention of reaching Mexico, when he stopped in Santa Barbara. Outside the city’s art museum, he caught sight of a man sitting next to a bike … Read More

by Eleanor Barkhorn on March 2, 2005March 17, 2013

Untangling “Tanged Up in Blue”

“Tangled Up in Blue” is not Bob Dylan’s most convoluted song; “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” with its references to eleven-dollar bills and hanging around in ink wells, probably wins that title. It is not even the most confusing ballad on Blood on the Tracks; Wendy Lesser is right on in her analysis of “Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts”: “There are these huge gaps…what [Dylan] leaves out is more interesting in some ways than what he puts in.”

by Eleanor Barkhorn on April 13, 2005March 17, 2013

Is Orange the New Brown?

A few weeks ago, I was plugging away at my JP in the Mendel Music Library when I heard the unusual sound of shouting and pounding feet. I looked out the window and saw a small, male redhead running past Prospect House naked, yelling into a bullhorn.

by Eleanor Barkhorn on May 4, 2005March 17, 2013

Why I Am Here

My students keep asking me why I am here. It is a good question. I am an anomaly at Greenville-Weston High School. I am white in a school where most teachers, and nearly all students, are black. My race fascinated my tenth graders for the first few days of school. One student asked if I found the term “white” offensive, and if I would prefer that he refer to me as “Caucasian.” Several students asked to touch my hair.

by Eleanor Barkhorn on September 27, 2006March 17, 2013

Aloft and Not a Little Aloof

Chang-rae Lee’s third novel, Aloft, released earlier this month, is a book of firsts.

by Eleanor Barkhorn on March 24, 2004March 17, 2013

The Lonely Conservative

Evan Baehr feels oppressed. This alleged marginalization has nothing to do with race; he’s white.

by Eleanor Barkhorn on October 13, 2004March 17, 2013

The Transatlantic Professor

“It’s hard to know what the Booker means in America. Americans aren’t eligible. Does that make them lose interest, or does it give the prize a mystique?” Alan Hollinghurst wondered aloud during an interview last week in his office at 185 Nassau.

by Eleanor Barkhorn on December 1, 2004March 17, 2013

Desperately Seeking Franny

The first two times I read Franny and Zooey, I was going through, to borrow a phrase from Salinger, a “blue period.” I have come to identify these low times with the term “melancholy,” a gloomy Victorian adjective that has … Read More

by Eleanor Barkhorn on December 14, 2005March 17, 2013

The English Major and the Policy Speech: An Encounter

The morning of the Colin Powell lecture, I stood in line outside of Richardson Auditorium with my friend Beth. Beth takes Arabic. Last summer, she worked for a senator in Washington. She just applied to Woody Woo. She knows her … Read More

by Eleanor Barkhorn on February 25, 2004March 17, 2013

Dispatches from the Delta III

Every Princeton senior experiences the same dilemma when searching for a post-graduation: to go to Wall Street or not to go to Wall Street. The lure of a New York finance job is difficult to resist, with its high salary … Read More

by Eleanor Barkhorn on January 11, 2007March 17, 2013

Dispatches from the Delta

For the last six months, people have been warning me about October. A few weeks after I received my acceptance e-mail from Teach for America, a man from the staff called me to discuss the school where I would teach in the fall.

by Eleanor Barkhorn on October 18, 2006March 17, 2013

Nobel Nerds

Early one morning in mid-October, while most of his classmates were sleeping off hangovers or late night study sessions, Zack Woolfe sat in front of his computer, eagerly pressing his internet browser’s “Refresh” button. The Princeton University senior was up … Read More

by Eleanor Barkhorn on November 9, 2005March 17, 2013


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