Whitney Who-Ston?

Greer Hanshaw

Mourning the passing of a stranger.

Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Boy

Judy Blume

Finding faith at Princeton.

Atlas Lugged

Rafael Abrahams

Making cartographic copies.

Snow Week

Mill Wantell

Typically a disorganized person, I’d planned my Fall Break to a tee.

Girl Meets Pig

Will Pinke

One of my primary goals on my family trip to China just before school started this year was to get some cool art for my room. Walking down the aisles of the antique market in Beijing, I had a feeling I was going to find what I was looking for ...

Cerebral Flatulence

Rafael Abrahams

William Shakespeare once wrote, “A fart by any other name would smell as stanky.” And it does: See toot, or passed gas, or broken wind, or cut cheese. Each euphemism refers to the same thing, and that thing is the expulsion of intestinal gas through the anus, often bearing an ...

Premature Celebration

Zack Sobel

While sitting in my common room Sunday night, I checked my phone to see a missed call from a buddy of mine at the Naval Academy. I didn’t think anything of it at the time. Deciding that I would call him back the next day, I opened my laptop and saw the same friend had just posted a status. It was simple, but shocking: “Osama is DEAD!!!!!”

Imagery and Anxiety

Greer Hanshaw

Casually, if cautiously, a throng of men encircles the scarred metal of an American fighter jet, the US F-15. A few, more daring men climb the torched cockpit, and children observe with rapt interest. This first American lapse in the ongoing Libyan crisis saw a malfunctioning jet crashed and mangled ...

PG Teen Rebellion

Giri Nathan

"We have a report of three men running out of the forest and chasing a vehicle, one of whom was wearing a trench coat and a hat.”

The New Jersey Dream

Zack Newick

In Philip Roth’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1998 novel American Pastoral, his protagonist, a Jew named Seymour Levov who goes by the nickname “the Swede,” sees his life turned upside down when his daughter turns terrorist and blows up a post office. Before that, the Swede was living the American Dream ...

The House I Grew Up In

Lianna Kissenger-Virizlay

When I walk down Witherspoon Street away from the iconic FitzRandolph Gate that shelters Princeton University students from the town around them, my feet head toward the place that feels most like home. If it is a beautiful sunny day such as this one, my steps are slow and purposeful ...