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What’s Your Professor Listening To?

In their own words, straight from their CD players to your ears, here are some Princeton professors’ current favorite artists and albums: SEAN WILENTZ, Grammy-nominee, Bob Dylan’s butt-buddy, AMS & HIS Departments The rough mix to Shannon McNalley’s new album, … Read More

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Keeping Faith: Hugh Manist

An interview with an atheist.

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On Hurt

“Out of hurt comes new matter, a brilliant and bracing kind of wholeness.”

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Ars Poetica

“Brought back to the smooth oil, our skin so platonic in the bathroom light. / Enough secrecy for love, enough ugliness for comfort.”

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Southampton

Finding a home in a haunted ghost town

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Scandalous Studying Abroad

Yeah, I was abroad in London last semester, though I traveled quite a bit, left town most weekends—got around. Amazing. Best semester of my life. And I figured I’d tell a bunch of my stories at once so I don’t … Read More

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Print is Real – Full Design

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David and David

David Foster Wallace is not here. In the absence of a physical body there is an idea, that of two Davids. It’s brought to life by biographer D.T. Max and author Jeffrey Eugenides, sitting in front of a rapt audience in the James Stewart Theater. The concept of two Davids—the sincere, troubled one and the manipulative, self-aggrandizing one—is one that the real men onstage constantly return to.

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The Marvels of Creative Writing

A week ago, I sat down with famed Princeton creative writing instructor Gabe Hudson. Aside from being loved by his students, he is an Editor-At-Large at McSweeney’s and the author of Dear Mr. President. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, and The Village Voice, among other national publications.

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The Casual Vacancy

The disappointments of J.K. Rowling’s newest.

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Sontag and Ancient Egypt

Upon a visit to the Met, a Nass writer considers the notion of experiencing art without analyzing it.

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Mother Tongue

A power imbalance mediated by language, a relationship done and undone in the webs of translation.

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