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Weezer’s Summery Return

Having traded their 90s-style distortion and macho guitar riffs for piano and sad-boy vulnerability, Weezer is certainly stepping in a new direction.

by Christian Bischoff, Kat Kulke on May 16, 2016

Pills

Those pills, those—what were they?—those pills we ate are going crazy. My limbs are, like, exploding off me. I feel great. You look very pretty now. I mean, I feel great! How do you, how do you feel? Not going … Read More

by Josh Hirshfeld on May 11, 2006March 17, 2013

Witness Theater

Art, trauma, and the Holocaust

by Serena Alagappan on November 13, 2016

An Orientalist Fantasy

But the more I thought about this movie, the more I realized it simply gives an illusion of depth. A movie filmed with somewhat unconventional techniques, or featuring naturalistic dialogue and little plot, is automatically assumed to be “artsy” and thus philosophical, by association with the style of the French New Wave.

by Emily Lever on December 6, 2012March 22, 2013

Four Photographs

Look at me when I’m talkin’ to you!

by Crystal Liu on February 26, 2017February 26, 2017

The Myth of the Reclusive Writer

In Rich Homie Quan’s 2013 classic, “Type of Way,” he joins a three thousand-year tradition of literary recluses in a single rhyming couplet: “I got a hide away, and I go there sometimes, to give my mind a break/ I find a way, to still get through the struggle, what I’m tryna say.”

by Samuel Bollen on November 14, 2015November 16, 2015

Letters

Characters U S Scene 1 Lights come up on a sitcom-style living/dining room/kitchen set. It is reminiscent of I Love Lucy. U, a large foam letter is sitting on the couch nursing a cup of coffee. S, another large foam … Read More

by Colin Pfeiffer on October 3, 2007March 17, 2013

Costumed Tragedy

Reenaction.

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

Syncopation

Two days before, I was alone, thinking about what it must feel like to have a heart that beats when it wants, attune to no one and free to roam around the range of time like a novice drummer. Thinking … Read More

by Halcyon Person on February 20, 2008March 17, 2013

Statue Heads

by Juliette Carbonnier on February 19, 2023

The Greatest Debate

Two art history majors argue the most crucial issue of our time: Which Princeton plastic water bottle is better?

by Eliza Mott, Hadley Newton on February 14, 2016February 14, 2016

Cold War Theory

I was wearing a woman’s bathrobe and galoshes, and had tied a scarf around my waist. I was too conscious of touch, by then, to wear regular clothing. But I needed to talk to Professor Litvak again, so I had … Read More

by Tessa Brown on May 1, 2008March 17, 2013


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