Category: Culture

Inside Princeton’s Underground Student-Run Restaurant

A prix-fixe, a poached pear, and a labor of love.

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To See Something And Say Something

“To ask people to tell what’s suspicious and unusual is to expose innocent individuals to a system that constantly profiles and projects fear, to always assume the worst.”

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Something Real Fishy: Friendship, Twitter, and the Limits of the Dictionary

A personal take on the dialect of NBA internet fandom.

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Translating an International Sensation: Norway’s SKAM and the Fan Translators Who Made It Happen

An interview with the Québécois translator behind a francophone fan-base.

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Only In Name: The Myth of Model Minority Assimilation

“There is a sad symbolism to this game of catch-up, a sense of sprinting after an ideal that is perpetually out of reach.”

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Don’t Skip Dessert: Adrian Rogers ‘23 Is Making Mousse

“[I’m] trying to translate these moments, these kinds of stories that I want to tell, onto a plate.”

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At the Expense of the Invisible: the White Male Perspective of Cartoon

“Perhaps children of the early 2000s should be grateful for tamer coming-of-age protagonists who dealt with school bullies, boogers, and cursed slices of cheese within the vacuum of endless middle school.”

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Brooklyn Nine-Nine and the Limits of the Liberal Imagination

Wherein a Nass writer looks at the popular sitcom from a more radical angle.

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Tiger Tarot

A Tarot reading for the Princeton community.

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Milk from a Stranger

Wherein a Nass writer ruminates on an experience with an alternative dairy product.

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Tiger Tarot

“There is something glorious waiting for you on the other side. Keep moving, and try not to look back.”

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My Korean Medicine

“Just sit back and surround yourself with the stories I have to share about acupuncture, cupping, and pricking.”

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