Category: Reflections

The Risk of Growing Old

What is the rush and rationale we feel to advance in our age?

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A Cacophony of Swallows in Flight

A flight to the Caribbean to escape the confines of Princeton.

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An Unparalleled Catastrophe, Ancestral Wisdom Made Flesh

The human brain coevolved with the emergent faculties of language and storytelling. Memory and narrative are not merely byproducts of cognition; they are fundamental to how we organize experience across time.  For humans, the physical body does not precede the … Read More

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Los Angeles As I’ve Known It

The Palisades Fire and a home that will never be the same.

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The Art of Complaining

There’s a time and place for complaining for Ev Wellmon, and The Nassau Weekly is it.

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On the Prowl for Some Geriarchs

Until The Nassau Weekly’s expiration date, Mia Mann-Shafir needs an octogenarian.

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Bringing Out the Dead

Reconstructing the fragments of a life: documents, memory, and the weight of the past.

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Letting It All Hang Out

If there’s one thing The Nassau Weekly has learned from Ellie Diamond, it’s that a good cry is worth the wait.

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Teeth

Meditations on Didion, Rooney, Shakespeare, and tooth extraction

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“It’s Just a Sex Thing”: Hookup Culture and the Death of Movement Feminism

This Nass writer assembles anecdotes from six Princeton women to answer the question: Where do we go from here?

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I Got with an Alum, and I Liked It: A True Story

“‘We both have husbands,’ replied the other man, and they leaned in for a passionate kiss.”

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Reigning Friendship

Another Nass writer challenges the supremacy of romance and chats about her friends

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