Coming Out to Christ
I am sixteen years old and sitting in a church pew and I am committing an act of defiance.
Portraits of Exploitation
Their faces were painted in hurried brushstrokes, slightly off-color, and without many identifying characteristics.
Jon Stewart
Five years ago, my father stopped reading and started watching MSNBC, whose keening pundits now bestow constant background radiation unto our crowded living room.
Tongues And Roses
When, on February 9, the New York Post announced that Miley Cyrus had submitted a short film to the first-ever New York Porn Festival, countless gossip blogs rushed to report on Cyrus’ final descent into vulgarity.
Forefather
The morning after my brother climbs in my bed & spends the whole night with his face in his hands, I go to the art museum.
A Game of Destruction
Last week the Sprengel Museum in Hanover announced that Pierre Huyghe had won the 2015 Kurt Schwitters prize.
Our Relationship With Chocolate
My past several months on Princeton’s campus have been defined by chocolate. During the week leading up to Dean’s Date I may have personally made the C-Store run out of chocolate covered peanuts.
Yeezus Fever
Is Kanye West Jesus, a genius, or just a jackass? The rapper-turned-fashion designer-turned entrepreneur has a singular talent for polarizing popular opinion, which seems incapable of finding any sort of middle ground between idolatry and loathing.