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Guidance

Have you ever blindfolded yourself and ran head-on towards oncoming traffic? Or laid down in an empty road at night with Ryan Gosling? If Benjamin Franklin never flew that kite, you would never have even seen that seminal, dangerously romantic film.

by Lily Offit on April 12, 2014April 12, 2014

Porn for the Blind

In our modern age, technology has made it so that the visually impaired are able to partake in many of the same activities as anyone else. Text-to-speech programs, which narrate a website, make it easy to browse the web. There … Read More

by staff on April 24, 2008March 17, 2013

‘Wnna’ Do It?

Although some adults (my parents) don’t even know how to send text messages, it seems that the Finnish foreign minister, Ilkka Kanerva, has become quite the textpert.

by Russell O'Rourke O'Rourke on April 3, 2008March 17, 2013

Single and Desperate

Daring, bold 5’9″ Jewish M with extreme good looks has decided not to be daring and bold by placing an ad for a similarly attractive F, height < 5'8". Think Annie Hall for a better looking, more bold and daring Alvy Singer. If you don't know what I'm talking about, it might not work.

by Anonymous on December 6, 2006March 17, 2013

Photographs: Trimble County, 4 a.m

by Michael Glassman on February 23, 2013March 22, 2013

Freudian Encounters

Martha Levinson lived with her two small dogs in a Victorian house, high on a hill in the Berkshires. She was long-divorced from her ex-husband and had two grown children, Claire and Philip, who lived in New York and Los Angeles. In her old age her almond eyes had become watery and caked with eyeliner, and she had resigned her chestnut hair to an eternally frizzy nest.

by Cleo Patrick on April 26, 2014July 5, 2014

Rememory

When the sodium lamps evaporate their tired stock, I wonder if walking home at night in the rain will still be such an ageless pleasure, a simple joy to watch you stagger up cement sidewalks, ringed in a corona of … Read More

by Zach Cohen on April 16, 2016April 17, 2016

Drifting in the Bubble

Transition troubles.

by Shayla Reid on December 7, 2011March 17, 2013

The Thaw

I know you’re coming
because of late
handfuls of wholesome Catholics
appeared in crowds with ashes
slurred upon their brows.

by Nikki Muller on April 27, 2005March 17, 2013

Brief Interview with Hideous Man

Two years ago, I met AH, the prolific Daily Princetonian troll.

by Giri Nathan on November 14, 2012March 22, 2013

A Review of the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Marvelous Mrs. Maisel paints a picture of a vivid and choreographed 1950s New York and explores development of a personal feminism.

by Tess Solomon on February 18, 2018February 18, 2018

Spaces, Lost and Found

Rocky’s floors, or maybe the nostalgia they hold, as something to yearn for.

by Sinan Ozbay on November 11, 2018November 10, 2018


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