Mother Tongue
A power imbalance mediated by language, a relationship done and undone in the webs of translation.
Encounters With Concussion Culture
“In my desperate search for a ‘cure’ for my concussion, I experimented with the outermost fringes of the medical world: the truly punk-rock subculture of medical science.”
The Frist Iced Coffee
Princeton’s hottest new club.
The Poster
Sometimes the world has a way of telling you when you have a calling.
The Man Who Does Everything
The tale of a runner in the city of Princeton.
Vigil
“I watch what hovers like genie smoke – the grief –/near ancient tombs of white marble with grey veins,/or gravestones on a desert hill,/images that filter vaguely out of the words we use to mourn./Are you awake?”
Tadao Ando, ma and Me
“Walking through French Baroque palaces-turned-museums and pushing through crowds at the New York Met is a traditional, storied cultural method of viewing Great Masters hanging in gilded frames on the walls. Walking into the Monet room at the Chichu Art Museum in Naoshima, Japan, however, is more like visiting a shrine.”