Boy 1: Who is that blond girl in Cottage in your profile picture? She was in my Dostoevsky seminar.
Boy 2: She’s one of my best friends.
Boy 1: I feel like club sailing has some of the most diverse affiliations.
Overheard by elevator
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Loosening the Mother Tongue
“When I learned about the darker history of Zionism, I needed to reverse so much of what I thought to be true while undoing my deepest personal and communal language. Like leaving a cult, my whole world was turned upside down as I tried to gather the pieces of what was once a coherent story.”
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A dream of mending
Our skies sink further into dust and while we wait for cloud-made seams, the earth tears limb from limb, and trusts that we will mend her — so it seems. As fires rage through forests deep, we find ourselves in stubborn dreams in obstinate, unyielding sleep, awaiting savior to come, to beam like…
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Sounding Off: John Bischoff’s Music is Just Noise
A writer searches for meaning in John Bischoff and James Fei’s recent sound performance.
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Failing With Flying Colors
“While an expert knows what is coming next, a beginner tangoes, babbles and belays into the unknown, giddy and relishing in the awkwardness and delight of the unfamiliar. The experience of trying something new and risking failure is both titillating and terrifying. It’s a lot like getting lost.”
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The Definitive List of Who (or What [or Even Where]) is Mother
Chloë Sevigny Liza Minelli Parker Posey Email Charles Grodin My actual mom’s instagram Red shoes Pirating movies Saugerties, NY Arby’s Laura Palmer Tim Heidecker This one shirt I have Ampersands The number 28 Apple music (you heard me) Philip Roth CeraVe facial cleanser A ref at a lacrosse game I played in who looked exactly…
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Letter from the Editors
Dear all, Since we came to Princeton in the fall of 2020, this little paper has remained a constant source of inspiration, camaraderie, and much mirth. We’re honored to usher in the 46th volume of the Nassau Weekly. As the Nass celebrates its first year of full financial and editorial independence, we welcome…
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Unrequited Love: Full Design
This week, the Nass investigates the future of art, probes at prosopagnosia, and contemplates a cure for heartsickness.
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Sally Rooney and the New Amorous World
“In part, the devastation of Conversations with Friends lies in its ability to pinpoint the impurities that taint how we care for one another, without offering a clear or optimistic way out.”
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All the Things You and I Sea
“You look Right into the mirror and recognize what you’d drawn, part by part. Then you blink and completely forget what you’d seen, where you’d been –– or rather, you can’t really tell whether you had ever seen anything in the first place.”
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A Beginner’s Guide to Unrequited Love
A writer’s encounter with the tantalizing, bewildering phenomenon of the Princeton Partner.
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