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Ziyi Yan

  • Beauty and Sadness

    Beauty and Sadness

    Jul 28, 2026

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    by

    Ziyi Yan
    in Essays

    On literature, illness, and the consequences of aesthetic meditation.

  • This Street, That Man, This Life: Full Design

    This Street, That Man, This Life: Full Design

    May 22, 2026

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    by

    nassauweekly
    in Full Designs

    Pick up a copy around campus, or view the full design here! 

  • Letter From The Editor

    Letter From The Editor

    May 22, 2026

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    by

    Sasha Rotko
    in Letter from Editor

    Dear friends, Change is in the air. All stones are unturned. Feeling a certain itching to explore. Fixtures seem like illusions now, walls seem eerily thin. Doors are deceptive, words are viscous. Oratory was invented for dubious matters, but we try our best not to lie in this magazine. This street holds its secrets like…

  • Where We Came From, Where We’re Headed

    Where We Came From, Where We’re Headed

    May 22, 2026

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    by

    Jonathan Dolce
    in Essays

    A brief history of our dearly beloved Nassau Weekly.

  • The Fugitive Bird

    The Fugitive Bird

    May 22, 2026

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    by

    Ellen Kramer
    in Fiction

    “I could see its lonely gray body clearly now; it was a heron. We stared at one another for a long time.”

  • THE FRAUD

    THE FRAUD

    May 22, 2026

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    by

    Sofia Cipriano
    in Second Look

    On May 13, 2026, Princeton alumnus Ford Graham ‘86 was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for orchestrating three investment schemes. His criminal charges only scratch the surface.

  • What I don’t understand is the beauty

    What I don’t understand is the beauty

    May 22, 2026

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    by

    Ziyi Yan
    in Poetry

    From here the mountain looks like moss, but there are worse things that could look like moss.   Bodies, for one. The first time passing most things, I did not know they could be looked at. God,   I was so proud. I thought I was pure movement.  Like I could prove the world’s ugliness…

  • GRANDMOTHER’S WISH

    GRANDMOTHER’S WISH

    May 22, 2026

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    by

    Jordan Angel
    in Fiction

    “Mira giggled without looking at Grandmother in the face. She looked like a child angel, her face haloed by the light that shone through the open front door.”

  • Ghazal for March

    Ghazal for March

    May 22, 2026

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    by

    Emma Cinocca
    in Poetry

    A fawn pauses from grazing infant grass. In the distance a train shouts, heralding not spring but its weaker twin. I am in love with beginnings but their bliss is not spring.   My friends see hips swing & call it funny how I dizzy & praise God after a breakup, cut free to silhouette…

  • Acquire and Read

    Acquire and Read

    May 22, 2026

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    by

    Michael Grasso
    in Essays

    On Princeton’s exhaustive and exhausting humanities sequence.

  • You Are Here: Full Design

    You Are Here: Full Design

    Apr 24, 2026

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    by

    nassauweekly
    in Full Designs

    Pick up a copy around campus, or view the full design here!

  • Letter From The Editor

    Letter From The Editor

    Apr 24, 2026

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    by

    Sasha Rotko
    in Letter from Editor

    Dear friends,   These days, which have been some of the sweetest of my life, have imbued in me a kind of fear I haven’t felt in a long time, one we certainly all feel when things are unknown and words are unsaid, when past conceptions of futures dissolve and it is as if the…

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