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“Fact-Heavy and Exceedingly Vapid”: A Visit to the Bill Clinton Presidential Library

A shrine to Slick Willie and his presidential T-rex.

by Julia Stern on November 30, 2023

Kissing Covens: The Gilda Stories as a Manifesto of Radical Black Love

“The horizontal, chosen family works outside of the law — in The Gilda Stories, love is never codified by a wedding, same sex and interracial relationships play out beyond the reach of history, and one can have limitless mothers.”

by Sierra Stern on November 16, 2023

A People’s History of the Sex Issue

Celebrating 35 years of journalistic perversion.

by Julia Stern on November 16, 2023

Dylan is the New Dante

“More than anything, Dylan and Dante share an unbroken sense of pity for the ‘ill-begotten souls’ of hell. Both in the position of outsiders looking-in, this subversion of time, space, and reality is what makes hell so mystical, and this carnival of characters is what makes hell so unsettling.”

by Julia Stern on April 2, 2023

Loosening the Mother Tongue

“When I learned about the darker history of Zionism, I needed to reverse so much of what I thought to be true while undoing my deepest personal and communal language. Like leaving a cult, my whole world was turned upside down as I tried to gather the pieces of what was once a coherent story.”

by Zev Mishell on February 26, 2023

From the Nass Past

What were Princeton students writing about thirty years ago? We’re jumping back in time to February, 1993 for some woeful poetry, questionable health advice, and dining hall commentary from our forefathers at the Nass.   Some wisdom for your post-Valentine’s … Read More

by Julia Stern, Matthew Robb, Sean L. McCarthy, W.T. Patterson on February 19, 2023

THE PHILOSOPHICAL FIVE (my very objective opinion on the best and worst philosophers of all time)

“Also known as the father of all philosophy (daddy?) Socrates is the original playboy. Everyone, and I mean everyone, fangirls over him.”

by Lumepa-Rose Young on November 20, 2022November 20, 2022

Remembrance, not Recollection

A writer reflects on history as a collective pursuit in his Jewish tradition.

by Adam Hoffman on October 30, 2022October 30, 2022

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.”

by Sierra Stern on February 20, 2022February 22, 2022

Ghosts of Berggasse 19

“You are buzzed in after a moment, as if you are entering a doctor’s office, as if you are a patient, as if the Freud, whose eyes stare out from the tiers of brochures in the museum’s front room, will tell you in due time what your dreams mean.”

by Tess Solomon on July 31, 2018July 29, 2018

Monumento Mori

“Commemorating those who died in the American Civil War, and the consequences of a selective memory.”

by Nicolette D’Angelo on December 10, 2017December 10, 2017

The Bust of Sokrates

“But then the Romans didn’t want paunchy, lumpy bodies in their villas (aside from their own), so they decapitated Sokrates, already green and moldy from the hemlock, and shoved his face alone in their alcoves, dressing him up in pure white marble.”

by A C Gray on October 15, 2017October 14, 2017


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