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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Midterm Mishaps: Full Design
This week the Nass delves into the world of international fandom, reflects on the bonds between body and earth, and strikes matches to make wishes come true.
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Translating an International Sensation: Norway’s SKAM and the Fan Translators Who Made It Happen
An interview with the Québécois translator behind a francophone fan-base.
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To cleanse
“I consider cleaning it / But a marble pattern of the last remnants of you is reassuring to stare down at ”
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Perfect Songs
“The dead linger after their passing in the memories of those who knew them; this poem, however, lingers only on my hard drive, contextless and adrift in the sea of my thoughts and memories.”
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Only In Name: The Myth of Model Minority Assimilation
“There is a sad symbolism to this game of catch-up, a sense of sprinting after an ideal that is perpetually out of reach.”
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Stuck in Purrgatory: Full Design
This week the Nass reflects on the meditative power of a cappuccino, challenges poetry publications, and envisions life as a human clone.
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On Orange Juice
“…poetry ploughshares tombstones and headstones and footstones and no-stones, makes suffering beautiful and tasty…”
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Escape of the Princetonian
“If I don’t stop and take moments like this for myself, they will never take shape.”
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On “On Orange Juice:” In, Around, and About Legacy Poetry Institutions
A reflection on Brittani Telfair’s (‘22) poem, “On Orange Juice.”