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Le Cirque, C’est Chic
One pearly-teethed, outdoors adverse Princeton debutant examines the thrilling liberation of circus arts.
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A Toast Well-Browned
For one woman, perpetually disheartened by dining hall desserts, a new discovery prompts renewed enthusiasm, and, dare we say, rekindled emotion.
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The Bust of Sokrates
“But then the Romans didn’t want paunchy, lumpy bodies in their villas (aside from their own), so they decapitated Sokrates, already green and moldy from the hemlock, and shoved his face alone in their alcoves, dressing him up in pure white marble.”
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The Character in Woody Allen Films Who is Clearly Just Woody Allen Played by Someone Else
“the Universe is Expanding!”
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Meditations from the Dishwashing Room
“Two weeks ago, after a summer spent clearing plates at a restaurant in Seoul, I donned an orange apron and began my next stint as a food industry worker at the Rocky-Mathey dining hall.”
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A Requiem for Rowing
“I miss the bonding that can only result from that mutual suffering, the singing in the shower, the conversations in the ballroom while we stretched our exhausted limbs, the sprint up the hill to dinner before our hair froze into icicles.”
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Found in Translation
Migrants in Greece find much-needed work as translators for aid organizations. Translation work represents a rare bright spot amid gloomy employment prospects for recently arrived migrants.
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Schrödinger’s Lottery
“Maybe it was the cheap thrill of furiously scratching them with a quarter, and seeing all those shimmery silver shavings pile up.”
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Edison by Train Window
“Bread lying open face on the lightly dented plastic, white table, the one you always see at bake sales.”
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