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Ovaries look like oysters, but they taste like halibut

That’s what I used to tell my interns, anyway. It was such a hoot to watch the queasy dubious looks on their faces as they glanced sideways at each other, speechless. They’d grin at each other, sometimes giggle; other times they just looked sick, or nervous, like I’d taken a piss on the preacher Sunday morning at church—Is he serious?

by Taylor Beck on May 1, 2007March 17, 2013

Comics

Some comics for your Sunday pleasure.

by Hannah Mittleman on October 31, 2021October 31, 2021

Firewalk

Hi, this is Danny Aiello, I was the guy talking to your sister this afternoon around 4:30, the Elvis? Listen, I just wanted to ask you if you could tell her to give me a call because well, as you … Read More

by Chris Arp on April 24, 2008March 17, 2013

FUSE

It is an afternoon in early October and the grass on the south lawn of Frist is thick and soft as moss.

by Rachel Stone on February 7, 2015July 20, 2017

Going Away

I remember the most beautiful party I have ever attended. It was held in a loft up-town. It was night-time, when the streets are brighter than the buildings and the eye is drawn slowly down, and I could see the Columbia University Observatory…

by Chris Arp on December 1, 2004March 17, 2013

A Day at the Met

A walk through history in New York’s most famous museum

by Tamar Willis on March 5, 2017March 12, 2017

Untitled

At 10:16 yesterday morning, I received an e-mail from my mother. The message was three sentences long, and only the first four words were in English: Bác Hai is dying.

by Thu-Huong Ha Ha on March 27, 2008March 17, 2013

Costumed Tragedy

Reenaction.

by David Drew on October 12, 2012March 17, 2013

Fleshed Out

Warm Up Drawing – ten minutes “Ten minutes on the egg-timer…and…go!” I barked softly. The carpeted block staged the model’s gangly flesh, her nakedness roosting on fuzzy gray institutional carpeting. Her back was slightly arched, and her breasts quivered over … Read More

by Jocelyn Miller on February 28, 2007March 17, 2013

Stephens Fitness Center

So it is cozy. You might say small. Or even absurdly tiny.
And it is busy. Teeming, if you prefer. Perhaps you stand a greater chance of being struck by lightning while clutching a winning lottery ticket and barebacking flying swine than eyeing an open elliptical machine during peak hours.

by David Stopher on May 5, 2004March 17, 2013

Sylvia

Sylvia
By Audrey Zhang
Pen and Marker on Paper, 11” x 14”, 2018

by Audrey Zhang on February 27, 2022February 27, 2022

Envisioning a New Museum for Princeton

Where a Nass writer considers how a new art museum might reconsider values of equity and inclusion.

by Anika Khakoo on February 14, 2021February 14, 2021


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