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Death Grips “Hot Head” Track Review

Feb 10, 2016

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Samuel Bollen

in Culture, Music

“Hot Head” is not only an assertion of power but also an investigation into how power works.
No SWUGs

Dec 12, 2015

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Isabel Henderson

in Campus, Essays, The Street

A senior woman deconstructs a controversial epithet: Senior Washed-Up Girl.
Natural Histories

Dec 12, 2015

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Veronica Nicholson

in Photography
Mission to Cuba

Dec 12, 2015

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Tamar Willis

in Essays

Experiencing a Communist nation as an American tourist.
My Men: Privileged Little Gay Boy

Dec 12, 2015

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Mitchell Hammer

in Column

A tale for those who love not wisely but (not) too well.
What Shirley Wrought

Dec 12, 2015

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Olivia Lloyd

in Bicker, Campus, The Street

The ban on freshman rush didn’t democratize Princeton’s social scene. Instead, it sparked a troubling set of sexual politics around passes.
A Star is not Born but Constructed

Dec 12, 2015

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Zach Cohen

in Culture

“The Stars— they’re just like us!” Or are they? An analysis of the fabrication behind Adele’s relatable success, the Jennifer Lawrence effect, and the uncanny valley.
Leaving Nassau Hall

Dec 12, 2015

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Alexandria Robinson

in Campus, Essays

There is a part of me that wishes I could say I walked into Eisgruber’s office boldly, that there were no hesitations.
145 Very Specific Anxieties

Dec 6, 2015

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staff

in Humor, List

Things you didn’t even know you should be worried about.
Country Shit with Granddad

Dec 6, 2015

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Samuel Bollen

in Essays

When I was seventeen I went duck hunting on a lake in the backwoods of Tennessee with my grandfather and uncle.
Speed Dating

Dec 6, 2015

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Lara Norgaard

in Campus

What makes a successful first date?
Fable

Dec 6, 2015

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Shakthi Shrima

in Poetry

You wake up and the woman is gone. You wake up and the woman is on her hands and knees, keening Do you know where my eyes are? I can’t find them. You look and look. The expanse above her nose naked, fig-purple. You wake up and take your hands off one by one. Every…
Seashell with a Void in the Middle

Dec 6, 2015

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Rachel Stone

in Poetry

Shall hold a life like a cupped palm, lash in the ocean. It knows the best exoskeletons protect the glass self sleeping inside. How to define oneself as a self that is only itself without the self it contained; the shell is itself because it holds, because it has not held, because…
11/13

Dec 6, 2015

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Nathan Leach

in Poetry

bangs and pops, in videos on screens a number says something’s wrong black writing: they had guns you wince a repeated trope: men in black stand before yellow tape in a bath, red and blue supine bodies float on frames guided somewhere, not here as lights play pass in the street you’ve seen this performance…
Pursuing the Pourover

Dec 6, 2015

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Leila Clark

in Essays

Hipsterism is just as absurd in Hong Kong as it is in Princeton.

Just got ghosted on Hinge: It doesn’t matter, the life is ruined already.