Post-Post-Modernism

April 28, 2025

Nass List: Forgive me Father, for I have…

worn my heart on my sleeve turned around so fast my butt made a clapping noise  fallen off gooned  Been a freak Matched your freak Ordered a bride on doordash Been a mail order bride Been a weirdo. I don’t … Read More

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It Was Not a Conversation With Naftali Bennett

Thick clouds choke the sky above McCosh Hall. A few students emerge from behind the large wooden double doors. They stop in front of the door and gaze out at the crowd of protestors gathering behind a large white fence. … Read More

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A Gentle Thing

“The couple on the sidewalk embrace, face to face, covered in dusk. They stand so close together that the falling sun leaves the shadow of just one person on the concrete.”

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Drumthwacket: The People’s House

Nicknamed “The Peoples House,” the New Jersey governor’s mansion is located not in the capital city of Trenton but in Princeton — what are the implications of its geographic dislocation from the state’s citizens?”

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On the Steelers and making this place beautiful

The last time the Steelers won a playoff game was the first Trump Administration. Nothing’s changed. Everything has.

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It’s More than that Damn Phone

If the discontent people online have is due to some sense of displacement, then maybe this is what the Modernists were talking about.

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Dear Dad, Are You Flying?

How an actress found catharsis in a play to grieve and love her dad.

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Symphysis

At midnight I woke membered to the night with violent blood and pale gashes swimming wild courses through the dark. Some blast from my dream rang shrilly over my ears like frantic veils.

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The Immigrant Daughter Speaks

I’m not going to force your name–– Mother → Mommy → Eomoni → 어머니 → Eomma →  엄마–– because I never called you that. I never called you anything. For all your shifts    you were the same, twisting every … Read More

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Letter from the Editors

It’s the last issue of the semester, and we’re mixing metaphors like water and oil: the Nass’s regular season is over but the playoffs have just begun; it’s high-noon and we’re taking a little siesta, but we’ll be back soon; … Read More

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Post-Post-Modernism: Full Design

Check out a copy around campus, or view the full design here!

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Overheard in 1967 Hall

Self-proclaimed “girl’s girl”: Ugly people have to exist for there to be pretty people.

Overheard Walking up the Frist Hill

Walker: I think that I'm like, lowkey a Sisyphus kinnie.

Overheard in a kitchen

Cooking: Ooh, I like the hum of the pepper! Do you think some coconut milk might help contextualize it?

Cooked: This is really beyond me, I must say.

Overheard at Forbes Dinner (Meatball Day)

Some guy: I took her to a ramen place because she’s Wasian

Overheard at CJL.

Disappointed advice-seeker, flipping through the Torah: Oh. It's not about love, it's just about Lebanon.

Overheard at Murray Dodge.

Tired History major: I made up trans in Wuhan, that’s where they invented it.

Overheard on Nassau St.

12 year-old to his 10 year-old brother: You gotta live life a little.

Overheard at Terrace.

Born in the wrong generation: When dick didn’t mean dick and gay didn’t mean gay the world was a better place.

Overheard in East Pyne 010.

Tired SLA Professor: Go read the Church Fathers, please, I beg you.

Overheard at RoMa.

A mean nerd: You should post that on r/mildlyinteresting.

Overheard on C floor.

An thesiser in his cubicle: I’m going to take off my shoes.

Overheard outside McCosh Hall.

A fledgling scholar: Bro, I just learned the Ming dynasty was real thing .