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A Conversation with the Editors
Ca: I think we need to have a talk. Cb: What about? Ca: I didn’t actually call you in here to take a shower. I called you in here for something else. Cb: What’s that? Ca: I called you in here because I think you have a drinking problem.
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The Anniversary
We need a number to plot our love, to propose a first THC, whiskey fake lust romp as love or it would be to us, also, the night a boy walked through a glass door like magic, with sound. When we eat and only talk to the waiter I roll through recorded dates, the first…
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Ode to a Faraway Maiden
“I turned into a constellation, fathomed into form / By your dispassionate gaze.”
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Spray It, Don’t Say It
The first graffiti I ever saw were unremarkable messages etched into my middle school’s peeling wooden desks: people’s initials conjoined inside hearts, a mysterious pointy S shape, and invitations to “put an x if youre bored.”
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Living On Prayer
Whenever i feel like I don’t know where my life is going, my father is there to console me. He tells me that his life—or at least the version of it that I know—only really began when he was 35. He reminds me that especially given his untraditional experiences, he and my mom have no…
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Stories Worth Telling: Sharon Lowe on Preserving the Nassau Weekly
Cleaning the subterranean Nass Room and reflecting on the magazine’s prehistory
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This Shall Be the Greatest NBA Finals of All Time
Rumor has it that at the Nass, there is a gap in the otherwise omniscient knowledge of the staff, and that that gap is called “sports.” Not so, ladies and gentlemen. Let me tell you a thing or two about layin’ up the three-pointer ball and slammin’ in the dunkin’. My first point is directed…
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The Art of American History
It is hidden in a back corner of the Princeton University Art Museum, past the Picasso and Warhol, almost unimaginable in a university art museum. It comes in seventy-seven parts and it comes with security guards.
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Heaven Only Knows
For most people of faith, the idea of heaven or Paradise or the afterlife is a pleasant one. Beliefs differ, but having a personal or cultural view of what happens (or what doesn’t) after the heart stops beating is pervasive in humankind, if not universal. Regarding my personal belief, consideration of the afterlife has little…
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Survival of the Fitness Myth
When I walked into the women’s locker room at Dillon gym earlier this week, I noticed a poster that made me bite my lip. Tacked up between weekly fitness schedules, the sign grabbed my attention with the headline: “The weight is over.” The line, I thought, could have been pulled from a diet product ad—Sensa,…
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On electromagnetism, bodies, and the nature of overthinking
“We sit together, our two bodies close, but not touching. They say that opposites attract, but there is a void between us, a siren.”