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In the Glow of this Candle
“It does not matter that Claire in real life, though a remarkably talented singer, is not a songwriter. This Claire is not that Claire, even though they are inextricably linked by more than their names and the name of their current partners.”
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Pete Recommends: A Critical Reappraisal of Stairway to Heaven
“But both in spite and because of this ubiquity, “Stairway to Heaven” gets a little slept on, relegated to the status of “rock classic” and thought of as a song more to be heard than to be enjoyed.”
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“Like we’re just as young as we used to be”: The Maturation of Taylor Goldsmith
A profile of the lead singer and songwriter of Dawes in anticipation of their album coming out October 2nd.
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Despite Everything
“I had resorted to music to help deal with the hopeless passivity I had subconsciously nurtured, so it was music that shook me awake.”
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Someday I’ll Come Back to Peter Taylor
“Remember how lovely / Your dreams once were, filled with sandcastles / made from stolen buckets on a beach / Long since nationalized.”
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What I Remember of Philadelphia: An Incomplete, Random List
“On those evenings, I fancied myself a tortured artist, sipping a Coors Light and stewing in the majesty of my ideas. I even wrote some of them down.”
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Will Toledo, Roberto Bolaño, and Some Notes on Growing Up
A senior looks back on his time at Princeton, as it comes to an end.
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Nass Recommends The Tsar of Love and Techno
“This novel-in-stories traces the lives of multiple generations of characters from the early days of the Soviet Union up into the near-future, all interconnected by an obscure nineteenth-century painting.”
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine and the Limits of the Liberal Imagination
Wherein a Nass writer looks at the popular sitcom from a more radical angle.
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“I Find Writing Very Painful”: An Interview with Nathan J. Robinson
A Nass writer sits down with Nathan J. Robinson, Editor of ‘Current Affairs’.
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Telescoping Space
To telescope, we begin with 300 words, then slice the word count in half for each successive section. We stop when the numbers stop dividing evenly. Looking around and beyond us, this week we telescope “space.”