Denial

October 4, 2025

Juicy Stuff

Tales from the Princeton University Farmer’s Market, a place ruled by juices and jams

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Denial: Full Design

Pick up a copy on campus, or check out the full design below!

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LOST DOG.

“She imagined the dalmatian loved humans more than he loved dogs. She imagined him to be obsessed with fetch, to be the sort of dog who’d pause dinnertime to pick up a tennis ball. She imagined him to be sweet, to love scratches behind the ear and to snore when he slept.”

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Pecan Pie Latte

Students review Sakrid Coffee Roaster’s curious Pecan Pie Latte: Delectable or disgusting?

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Threefold Repetition Doesn’t Hold, Not Even A Stalemate

“The longest recorded chess match was two hundred and sixty-nine moves, over twenty hours. Mine has drawn on for three fraught years now, and it still persists.”

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Sitting in Awkwardness: Translating Olga Ravn’s “De Ansatte”

Aboard the Six Thousand Ship, employee testimonies put the question of humanity on the forefront, disguising this philosophical inquiry within the mundane bureaucracy of workplace testimonials.

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She is such a sad girl I don’t know what to do with her

In my dream I was making you pasta & nothing bad had happened to us yet you smiled and told me you would take these multivitamins & forget me.   In my dream I booked a flight to wherever you … Read More

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True Vision

“Their next destination, they believe, will uncover something staggering: a single place where the tides have converged the bulk of humanity’s discarded waste. They are determined to expose the truth.”

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Yellow Bike

Going everywhere on that little yellow bike. To the base of mountains and looking up at the boundary where snow becomes rain. Retreat just below treeline on account of distant thunder. On the downhill a pebble could mean disaster, but … Read More

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Letter from the Editor

Dear reader, For the sake of self-preservation we often seek ways to evade burdensome truths. We paint over prickly facts and banish their stubborn consequences from view. What more effective place to encourage denial than a university, where to advance … Read More

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Verbatim

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Overheard after a philosophy precept

Tech bro: Well, uh, my moral compass is ChatGPT, so I'm not sure I'm on board with that.

Overheard on Firestone B-floor.

Frazzled student: Sorry for being late, I just had the most wonderful conversation with a Kazakh woman.

Overheard in Addy Hall.

Crazed chick: I'm literally going to convert to Judaism.

Enabler: You called down rains from Adonai.

Overheard at a 2D Dinner.

Student telling a story: …so I never ate anything bad in my childhood…

Another student interrupting: Like paint?

Overheard at Terrace.

Member of the LGBTQ+ Community: I think a gay man and a straight woman can have sex and be in a normal marriage.

Overheard in Coffee Club.

Barista: Large false dichotomy on the bar.

Overheard in the middle of nowhere.

Bored 20-something dude: Wanna cop a ludicrous felony and attack the electrical grid?

Overheard on Nassau Street.

Guy on coffee date: I think SOC is really easy.

Girl on coffee date: *nods*

Guy on coffee date: I don't even know what SOC is.

Overheard at Small World.

Stereotypical SPIA major: I interned at McKinsey this summer.

Her coffee date: Oh, does one of your parents work there?

SPIA major: No, my dad's a client.

Coffee date: A big client?

SPIA major: Yeah, like a really big client.