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The Character in Woody Allen Films Who is Clearly Just Woody Allen Played by Someone Else
“the Universe is Expanding!”
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Meditations from the Dishwashing Room
“Two weeks ago, after a summer spent clearing plates at a restaurant in Seoul, I donned an orange apron and began my next stint as a food industry worker at the Rocky-Mathey dining hall.”
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A Requiem for Rowing
“I miss the bonding that can only result from that mutual suffering, the singing in the shower, the conversations in the ballroom while we stretched our exhausted limbs, the sprint up the hill to dinner before our hair froze into icicles.”
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Found in Translation
Migrants in Greece find much-needed work as translators for aid organizations. Translation work represents a rare bright spot amid gloomy employment prospects for recently arrived migrants.
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Schrödinger’s Lottery
“Maybe it was the cheap thrill of furiously scratching them with a quarter, and seeing all those shimmery silver shavings pile up.”
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Edison by Train Window
“Bread lying open face on the lightly dented plastic, white table, the one you always see at bake sales.”
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The Birth of a Language: An Interview with Judy Kegl
“On September 20, 2017, Kegl delivered two lectures at Princeton on language instincts and sign language. I was able to interview her in East Pyne before her second talk. The interview has been edited for clarity and length.”
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Princeton on Crutches
“There are so many random steps on campus that you don’t notice until they become a barrier. It’s hard to explain the dread that washes over you when you’re trying to crutch from Schultz to Friend in ten minutes and encounter a flight of stairs.”
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Head & Shoulders
“We agree about everything; our dependence on Nyquil, the tragedy of internalized misogyny, and the exact punctuation to use when texting fuckboys.”
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The Parapsychologists
“From the driveway, Professor Jahn was visible standing behind the screen door. He did not motion or wave as we drove off. He just watched us leave.”
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The Dead Guys
“We always did the same things every day: we went into the toy store and rearranged all the Rubik’s Cubes. We went into the library and looked at the medical encyclopedias or biographies of old ugly white guys in wigs.”
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September Re-readings of an August Letter Never Sent Toward Jericho in the Shadows of the Fading Sun
“Four Italians and an Israeli sitting in a blue Chevrolet. It could be the start of a joke.”
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