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Nass Recommends: Riverdale

When corny becomes profound.

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Cardboard, White Tears, and the Inevitability of the British: The Jungle at St. Ann’s Warehouse

A play that claims to portray the authentic refugee experience . . . for fifty-two dollars.

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Too Evolved

“Is purple the color of evolution?”

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Stoked for Stokes

The subtle rhythms of the quietest library on campus.

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River, river, I’m broken/sinking down

It’s 4 in the morning and you’re pulling at my bedsheets again. I’d like to think I’m the boulder willing river water into a million little Vs, the shapes of teeth on parted lip, buzzing. In my memory, you appear … Read More

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Letter to a Professor (From a Disgruntled Parent-Donor)

Dear Lecherous Lecturer Precious Professor, Happy winter. I heard you’re in Vail? Hope the slopes are not destroying your knees. I’m reeling from the news that you gave a D to my son Robert “Torie” George Junior (I abstain from … Read More

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On The Road With Cinderella

The Tigers’ improbable March Madness run—from the perspective of a cheerleader.

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Oh, the Humanities!: Full Design

This week, the Nass gives into its worst impulses, partakes in regional delicacies, and watches carriages turn to pumpkins.

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Imperfect Spaces: The Function of Closeness in Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love and on Princeton’s Campus

How space cultivates affection, or quells it.

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Bedwaters

“He knew that feeling, his lungs filling up with the glycerin-like fluid of a new day, and himself gargling and grasping for regular air, the air in his bed, the air with the windows closed. He felt small, and had tried imagining other people’s windows, but felt weird because he couldn’t comprehend the number of windows in the world.”

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Consider the Cuy

“Unlike the classic chicken breast, however, the cuy goes from farmhouse to fridge to spit to butcher block to plate in a way that is probably more humane, yet also more graphic, and thus more disturbing. Guinea pigs are cute; cuy, as it turns out, is tasty.”

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Paradise Burning, from Two Points of View

About cutting trees, in theory and in practice.

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