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A History of Silence: Elision and Destruction in the New Mexican Landscape
“There’s power in not having to care. As Inez Guzmán remarks, the film Oppenheimer can leave New Mexico just as its subject did: apparently without a second thought. But there’s also power—more ambivalent, yes, but also more lasting—that comes with needing to pick up the pieces.”
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A Case for Disgust
“And yet, God introduces Adam and Eve. Around them, creatures dance and indulge and huddle and purge. Birds shit humans. Dying men fart birds. He treats euphoria and terror with the same technical perfection, blurring the line between a familiar Earth and an alien world”.
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The Children’s Book That Hurt Me Most: Three Experts Discuss
A Nass writer seeks closure for Each Kindness, a children’s book without a resolution.
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The Meaning of Life According to My Inbox
Recently, my email account has doubled as my journal. I can’t stop writing emails. Not the usual, 10-liner, meeting set-up emails, but lengthy, rambling, floods of words in which I entirely reveal my personal vulnerabilities to recipients I have never met before. My subject line: “Advice for a Graduate.” My goal: to gather the instructions…
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The Construction of Concealment: Princeton’s Geo-Exchange System and Why We Can’t See It
What do we miss when we complain about construction?
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Take a Leave of Absence: It’s Easier Than You Think
A Nass writer investigates why and how students take leaves—and what it’s like to be gone.
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Orange Juice 1989
“Orange-wet fingers and the acid is on her eyes, on her cheeks, running down with the tears and cheap makeup. My father reaches toward her—she is wearing a black silk headband, and he tries to pull it from her hair to wipe her eyes. She yells at him in Greek and he retracts.”
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Imperfect Spaces: The Function of Closeness in Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love and on Princeton’s Campus
How space cultivates affection, or quells it.
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Do You Know Him?
“The college world of connections, in my experience, warrants a different type of hassle though. You don’t lick cafeteria floors or have to humiliate yourself to get what you want. It’s more of making the effort of putting yourself out there, of making friends, meeting people, joining clubs.”