Oh, the Humanities!

April 10, 2023

On The Road With Cinderella

The Tigers’ improbable March Madness run—from the perspective of a cheerleader.

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Oh, the Humanities!: Full Design

This week, the Nass gives into its worst impulses, partakes in regional delicacies, and watches carriages turn to pumpkins.

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Imperfect Spaces: The Function of Closeness in Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love and on Princeton’s Campus

How space cultivates affection, or quells it.

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Bedwaters

“He knew that feeling, his lungs filling up with the glycerin-like fluid of a new day, and himself gargling and grasping for regular air, the air in his bed, the air with the windows closed. He felt small, and had tried imagining other people’s windows, but felt weird because he couldn’t comprehend the number of windows in the world.”

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Consider the Cuy

“Unlike the classic chicken breast, however, the cuy goes from farmhouse to fridge to spit to butcher block to plate in a way that is probably more humane, yet also more graphic, and thus more disturbing. Guinea pigs are cute; cuy, as it turns out, is tasty.”

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Paradise Burning, from Two Points of View

About cutting trees, in theory and in practice.

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Spring March 24

I   Now daffodils bloom in watercolor spirit Skies of tender pastel blend into the lingering warmth of caramel breaths in the air. A girl sighs in the distance, going somewhere, smiling occasionally, scowling sometimes at the cherry blossoms or … Read More

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Nass Lists: Primal Urges During My Seminar

We all know the feeling: you’re sitting in your seminar when suddenly you’re overcome by an all-consuming desire to… Crack open my ballpoint pen and drink the ink like it’s a flask Drink a bottle of water like it’s filled … Read More

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