Just got ghosted on Hinge: It doesn’t matter, the life is ruined already.
Overheard through Telegram
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Frat Boys, Feminism, and Vaginas
I heard this from someone who’d heard it from one of the directors of this year’s production of The Vagina Monologues here at Princeton. Intrigued by the pairing of frat boys and vaginas (in monologue form), I reached out to this year’s directors, Azza Cohen ’16 and Olivia Robbins ’16, to get the full story…
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Best Picture
They screened Oscar pictures in the smallest, oldest theater with its carved wooden balcony, velvet curtains, a stage pockmarked by dancers’ feet.
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Conclusion
Here’s to the rubble: starlight starts to grow quietly. The world comes to chaos so quietly. Gravity promised to give up for a minute if we told it the things we know, quietly, so we let foggy breath bleed into cold air and excuses ring frantic, though quietly. Today, a river we’ve…
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Genetic Drift
In Arkansas, five thousand blackbirds fall on New Year’s Eve, pepper kernels crunching up pavement. The street-sweeper parks and stares. Does not know who to call. The corpses are cleared but they keep missing spots, like when mother paid me to pluck out her grays—celestial casualties left for the neighbor boy to shovel away. I…
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Interview with Phil Klay
The author of Redeployment and former member of the Marine Corps talks with the Nassau Weekly about war, narrative, and questions of empathy.
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A Not-Sonnet
Chamomile tea gets me off More than getting me off does See also: girls laughing at my jokes & 90s video games Can we go back to your place? Sure, but only if you’re down To smoke dope & listen to every Weezer album Chronologically. We’re all just monkeys with habits But I’m…
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Political Allergies
Spring semester means cheap beer, class treachery, and primary elections.
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Telling Lives
Roads, public libraries, and a respectful and helpful police force are all key, helpful features of a healthy state–and this is generally how the middle class experiences things. The government, however, has a more invasive, regulatory presence in the lives of people who lack power.
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Telescoping Fear
We asked our stable of unstable writers to reflect on fear — personal, conceptual, metaphysical. They started with 300 words and narrowed focus and word count, by halves.
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That Precept Kid Reviews Recipes
This bark is not trying to be anything than what it really is, something that plagues so many holiday desserts.
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A Book Review of Ted Cruz’s Thesis
I was also intrigued by what a 21-year-old Cruz had to say about the Ninth and Tenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, the focus of his thesis and, to his credit, a rarely discussed topic in the academic literature. Because it’s clear that Ted Cruz is — and always has been — a pretty smart…
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No Filter
There’s no reason that competence and authenticity should be odds with one another. Yet many of the ways that we read authenticity—Bernie Sanders’ oversized suits, per say, or Trump’s disregard for political correctness—do defy the codes through which we usually measure a candidate’s fitness for office.