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A Short Imagined Monologue By A Guy Trying To Trick A Student To Prox Him In In Order To Break Into A Dorm And Has Prepared For This Moment By Hanging Around Frist A Few Days

“Listen, I just got in on the Dinkory…”

by Dan Abromowitz on November 28, 2012March 17, 2013

Sweet Strawberry Jam

Animal Collective doesn’t sound like a rock band. It sounds like a couple of shamans have sat down around a fire every once in a while with an acoustic guitar, a floor tom, and a delay pedal to effuse sixty … Read More

by Raymond Zhong on September 26, 2007March 17, 2013

Carbon’s Gotta Go

Nobody ever wants to wake up at 7 am, particularly not on a Sunday. But on September 21 after a few hours of sleep, I trooped out to buses in Lot 32 for the People’s Climate March at the behest of a particularly insistent friend.

by Gregory Smith on October 3, 2014October 5, 2014

Phantasmic Reproduction

On photographic reproduction, alienation, and celebrity canonization.

by Jonathan Dolce on November 16, 2025

Once Upon a Time Not Long Ago

First, there was the cinnamon challenge. Then, the Tide Pod challenge. And now, the Frist hoe.

by Caroline Castleman, Sarah Deneher on April 8, 2018October 9, 2019

Wondering What Makes the Sea Angry During a Storm

The frantic thrust against a worn beach front. The need to fling upwards and the sickening curling under of a mind changing suddenly.

by Cat Richardson on May 1, 2008March 17, 2013

I Was With Her

On Hillary Clinton, after the election.

by Caitlin Quinn on December 3, 2016

Spoilers Ahead: Riverdale Season 2 is a Soap Opera for a Younger Audience

In this new season, Riverdale’s soapy plot and neon-lit diner is su used with violence and vigilantism.

by Alex Jacobson on December 10, 2017December 10, 2017

Untying the Knots

Everyone seems to at least know of John Mangual, especially former residents of Mathey College and current members of Terrace. He has a way of striking up unique conversations, pointing out unusual details of situations, and smiling with a friendly glow.

by Elizabeth Landau on March 30, 2005March 17, 2013

New York

“We fall in love with the / strangers we pass / because they are whoever / we want them to be.”

by Hailey Colborn on February 24, 2019February 26, 2019

Replacing the Irreplacable

Earlier this week, America met its replacement for the (some would say) irreplaceable Jon Stewart.

by Lara Norgaard on April 12, 2015

The Myth of the Reclusive Writer

In Rich Homie Quan’s 2013 classic, “Type of Way,” he joins a three thousand-year tradition of literary recluses in a single rhyming couplet: “I got a hide away, and I go there sometimes, to give my mind a break/ I find a way, to still get through the struggle, what I’m tryna say.”

by Samuel Bollen on November 14, 2015November 16, 2015


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