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This Disorderly Campus

“Fuck Public Safety” and public space.

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Sophie’s Namesake

I was named in a fit of impatience. My brother Toby was six years old and frustrated that my parents referred to little unborn me only as “the baby.” Inspired by the book he was reading, one day he asked, “Can we just call her Sophie?” And so they did.

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Bubble Shtupping

Why Princeton’s so hung up on hook-ups

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Quad’s Comeback

With its low-key partying style and recruitment strategy, Quad will continue to appeal to the people who want something a little substantive, a little a bit-off-Steet

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The Military-Emotional Complex

“The French image of the typical soldier is highly unflattering: an aristocratic, lunkheaded Saint-Cyrien or an ultra-Catholic crypto-fascist.”

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An Orientalist Fantasy

But the more I thought about this movie, the more I realized it simply gives an illusion of depth. A movie filmed with somewhat unconventional techniques, or featuring naturalistic dialogue and little plot, is automatically assumed to be “artsy” and thus philosophical, by association with the style of the French New Wave.

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Sprinkles

The construction guys are wearing neon hoodies and eating grilled cheese sandwiches, Sprinkled across the lawn like lobster buoys — “Confetti thrown from heaven,” you’d call them When I was on the boat and couldn’t sleep. If I went back … Read More

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Pilgrimage to Mitsuwa

“Nostalgia is a luxury that I’m willing to pay any price for, and these grocery stores sell it all.”

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Notes from Home

Writers reflect on the miasma of quarantine.

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Lever Levre Lever

When I googled the meaning of my last name, I felt the same way I felt while visiting the museum at Gettysburg when a docent urged me to search the database and see if my ancestors had been involved in the battle.

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Zara Autumn-Winter 2017

“One writer explores the depth of her affection for Zara’s wholly original, totally inventive, brilliantly designed autumn-winter 2017 shoe collection.”

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Passage in Enchanted Land: an Irish Travel Diary

“Infinite hues of green. A single bird. The gloaming sky. This country, a land with such quiet confidence in its magic.”

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