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We Added 200 Strangers on BeReal, and We’re Never Opening the App Again
“Hypothesis: people our age around the world are alone during a significant portion of their waking hours. And hypothetically, BeReal is the perfect observational device.”
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Freshman Fall Break in 10 Movies
Ten films, lots of hot takes — join one writer on a cinematic romp.
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The Brooklyn Art Salad: Mold, Tulips, and Kale
“The multi-media nature of the work invites viewers to do more than just reflect on what they see: to engage with it through their own experimentation.”
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Perfect Places
“What is it about Eastern Europe that makes underage, emotionally vulnerable people think those harmful, dangerous thoughts? What is it about Eastern Europe that I still, despite all of this, miss so very much?”
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Inside Princeton’s Underground Student-Run Restaurant
A prix-fixe, a poached pear, and a labor of love.
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To See Something And Say Something
“To ask people to tell what’s suspicious and unusual is to expose innocent individuals to a system that constantly profiles and projects fear, to always assume the worst.”
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Something Real Fishy: Friendship, Twitter, and the Limits of the Dictionary
A personal take on the dialect of NBA internet fandom.
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Translating an International Sensation: Norway’s SKAM and the Fan Translators Who Made It Happen
An interview with the Québécois translator behind a francophone fan-base.
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Only In Name: The Myth of Model Minority Assimilation
“There is a sad symbolism to this game of catch-up, a sense of sprinting after an ideal that is perpetually out of reach.”
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Don’t Skip Dessert: Adrian Rogers ‘23 Is Making Mousse
“[I’m] trying to translate these moments, these kinds of stories that I want to tell, onto a plate.”
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At the Expense of the Invisible: the White Male Perspective of Cartoon
“Perhaps children of the early 2000s should be grateful for tamer coming-of-age protagonists who dealt with school bullies, boogers, and cursed slices of cheese within the vacuum of endless middle school.”
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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.