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Licking Popes is Icky

Let me tell you a story—not too many months ago, a creative writing professor gave me some “truth hurts, kiddo,” criticism.

by Patrick Cunningham on March 31, 2004March 17, 2013

Minivan

tilted, perfectly   the globe sat undisturbed on its axis   the sound of stillness spoke to me   being young was being free?   Babi drove the minivan.   Babi said it was easy   un-split ends   curly … Read More

by Aina Marzia on November 7, 2024November 11, 2024

Future Veterans

I found this curious invitation nestled in a medium-sized cardboard box in Mudd Library. A middle-aged man with a likeness to Frank Zappa had wheeled a cart over with this box and three others just like it into the musty reading room where I was conducting my research after hearing that my grandfather, who graduated in 1937, was a part of this group.

by Veronica Nicholson on May 2, 2013September 7, 2013

NBC Scores a Touchdown

“Friday Night Lights” is remarkable, and my subsequent praise will not even begin to do it justice. It is quite simply not only the best thing I’ve laid eyes on in years, but maybe the best thing I’ve laid eyes … Read More

by Ali Sutherland-Brown on October 18, 2006March 17, 2013

Amo, Amas, Ahmed

When Ahmed was born those twenty or so years ago, the world was taking a piss. His mother screamed in agony as his overlarge head forced its way out of her vagina. His father, preferring oblivion to the messy, bloody process that is birth, smoked himself retarded outside the whelping chamber.

by Colin Pfeiffer on February 7, 2007March 17, 2013

Pilgrimage to Mitsuwa

“Nostalgia is a luxury that I’m willing to pay any price for, and these grocery stores sell it all.”

by Mina Quesen on November 14, 2021

The Mountain of Olives

Jerusalem’s ancestral rhythms.

by Joel Newberger on September 26, 2012March 22, 2013

The Wa, Revisited

Lamenting the loss of an architectural and cultural fixture.

by Margaret Spencer on February 7, 2015February 8, 2015

When You Find Yourself

Reach for a hardcover book with his name
sprawled across the top. It’s only natural,
you consider, to be drawn in by philosophers whose
names you once pronounced phonetically.

by Zach Cohen on October 9, 2016

Lessons on Greatness: Reflections On “A Conversation With Patti Smith”

“For Smith, poet and painter William Blake exemplified this approach to life. She remarked: ‘Despite the fact he had no proof from the world he was worth anything—he would have gotten 4 likes [on Instagram]—he did his work.’”

by Lauren Aung on October 12, 2023October 14, 2023

Roger Q. Mason Tells No Lies

Roger Q. Mason is controversy. Roger Q. Mason is change. Roger Q. Mason is revolution. “Every good revolution happens behind locked doors,” he proclaims, sealing the portals leading to Theatre Intime’s Charrier Room. He’s been directing rehearsals for seven weeks … Read More

by Max Kenneth on February 21, 2007March 17, 2013

PUP’s Into The Woods

Something about last week—Tuesday night, Wednesday noon—made me want to see the Princeton University Players’ production of Into the Woods.

by Jessica Woods on November 10, 2004March 17, 2013


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