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Postcard of the Ritual

Who are rituals meant for, and why do we care so much about them?

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My Other Half With That Thy Gentle Hand Seized Mine I Yielded

“I lay back in the heap of cords, which spawned and propagated from a bud, a navel, the hub of the Mimir, which still ran hot and loud a few minutes into the cooldown protocol.”

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Letter from the Editor

Dear Reader,   Certain scholars have said that we need new literary forms to accurately reflect the anxieties of this generation. If you’ll indulge us in a navel-glance, this week the Nassau Weekly searches for a physical form that better … Read More

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Post-Post Modernism: Full Design

The Nass is ready to strip off all of this irony. We’re getting down to business.

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After Federal Cuts, Ph.D. student Trajan Hammonds stares down an uncertain future

At 1 a.m. in a hotel room, Trajan Hammonds, a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Princeton’s math department, lay in bed, bathed in his laptop’s spectral glow. An email banner swiped across his screen with the subject line: “Opportunity Deleted.”   … Read More

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Nass List: Forgive me Father, for I have…

worn my heart on my sleeve turned around so fast my butt made a clapping noise  fallen off gooned  Been a freak Matched your freak Ordered a bride on doordash Been a mail order bride Been a weirdo. I don’t … Read More

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It Was Not a Conversation With Naftali Bennett

Thick clouds choke the sky above McCosh Hall. A few students emerge from behind the large wooden double doors. They stop in front of the door and gaze out at the crowd of protestors gathering behind a large white fence. … Read More

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A Gentle Thing

“The couple on the sidewalk embrace, face to face, covered in dusk. They stand so close together that the falling sun leaves the shadow of just one person on the concrete.”

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Drumthwacket: The People’s House

Nicknamed “The Peoples House,” the New Jersey governor’s mansion is located not in the capital city of Trenton but in Princeton — what are the implications of its geographic dislocation from the state’s citizens?”

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On the Steelers and making this place beautiful

The last time the Steelers won a playoff game was the first Trump Administration. Nothing’s changed. Everything has.

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It’s More than that Damn Phone

If the discontent people online have is due to some sense of displacement, then maybe this is what the Modernists were talking about.

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Dear Dad, Are You Flying?

How an actress found catharsis in a play to grieve and love her dad.

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