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Wijbe’s War

Wijbe nurses a beer and burns through the tenth cigarette of the day, cursing himself for not having the courage to approach the topless Czech girl two beach chairs over. It’s almost noon, and Wijbe is straining to relax at a Turkish resort near Antalya. He mostly succeeds until the evening fireworks boom across the cove and he starts flinching, as if he’s still in war.

by Ben Taub on October 3, 2013August 25, 2014

You Look Healthy: The Veiled and Wounding Culture of Body Shame in Urban South Asia

How cultural ideals of thin, fair, and lovely are wounding South Asian women.

by Yaashree Himatsingka on November 11, 2023

“If You’re in a Hole, Stop Digging!”: Dr. Phil Gone Wrong and The Monopoly of Pop Psychology

A Nass writer digs into the emptiness of personality tests as a substitute for mental healthcare.

by Allie Matthias on September 19, 2021September 18, 2021

Arts and Crafts after Katrina

If there is a God, and a moral order to the world, making a 100 million dollar donation to Princeton earmarked for the arts will not get you into heaven. Wandering through Princeton’s art museum the other night for the … Read More

by Elliot Ratzman on March 29, 2006March 17, 2013

Experimental History

As _Avatar_ gradually accrued its second billion dollars in the last few weeks, coverage of the film itself (rather than its receipts) sank from complacent praise to idle speculation. Was the film racist? Well, accidentally. Is there going to be … Read More

by Conor Gannon on February 3, 2010March 17, 2013

The Outsider

Undernourished Diversions [Perspectives on The Hunger Games ]: Part 1.

by Rafael Abrahams on April 11, 2012March 22, 2013

Honor Killings

There is a stain on our wall in Wilson and we haven’t spoken about it for a few days, my roommate and I. Streaked and coarse, a stain ground into the whitewash like graphite. It’s not visible if you don’t look for it, not something Building Services would fine us for. A stain, the length of two bobby pins held end to end. The diameter of a champagne grape. It doesn’t come out with Windex or Seventh Generation dish soap or OxiClean, left instead as a perpetual effigy of my fury and my guilt.

by Rachel Stone on November 7, 2013July 21, 2017

Political Allergies

Spring semester means cheap beer, class treachery, and primary elections.

by Joshua Leifer on February 28, 2016March 2, 2016

On Screens & Esteem

One day this summer, sitting in a blank white apartment that was not mine, I felt a strange weariness. This apartment was full of more books than I will probably ever read and I had fellowships to apply to and emails to write and the whole Internet in front of me and all of New York City clamoring outside.

by Emily Lever on October 18, 2014November 9, 2014

Hey, Big Vape! Make These Flavors Next

New Vape Flavors Vagina Ice Sweaty Ballsack Gelato Razzmatazz Orgy Rush Strawberry Strap-on Delight American Spirit Blue Ice Milk Tyra Banks Better Than Sex Hard Boiled Egg Ice Carbonara Lemonade Black Mold Blue Cheese Smoke Chromium Alloy Poop Charisma Uniqueness … Read More

by Ellie Diamond on October 12, 2023

Monkey Business

This is not the first time I’ve written about Arctic Monkeys. There’s a good chance that this will not be the last time I write about Arctic Monkeys. And there’s good reason for that.

by Tom Markham on November 7, 2013November 10, 2013

Eugene

“I don’t think he would have been a loving father. He didn’t have it in him. I think he would have been too scared.”

by Alex Jacobson on March 10, 2019March 9, 2019


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