Byline: Lara Katz

“Sweaty, Loud, and Not a Little Tipsy”

Four underclass students reflect on beginning and continuing college.

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The Spirit of Curling: Vignettes

Reflections on an author-athlete’s relationship to her sport.

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Terrariums, Tolstoy, and Tasty Burgers: What Our Profs Really Think About Us

The candid opinions and hot takes of Princeton faculty members.

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On My Way to You

“Are you there yet? Hello, dear. I’m on / my way, lost myself at the intersection /
between the bottomless sea and the swan / that wanders between the traffic lanes.”

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When Your B1tch Becomes Human: A Review of My Dog Tulip

“If Ackerley perceives his dependent, female dog as essentially human, this is a strong statement regarding Ackerley’s beliefs about women in general. In fact, many of his statements regarding Tulip, throughout the film, feel steeped in misogyny, given that they are not statements generally associated with dogs.”

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Proud, Lifeless, And Very Much Clean

“He is desperate for his dinner, too hungry to say hello, … he laments his work, his employer, his cold-footed commute, … he grinds his teeth at our rationed mutton and yet—the frugal bastard—gives me nothing, nothing, not a penny to spare.”

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First, Nothing

“Let yourself age. Let time press through your skeleton like water, dribbling through your pores, let it sing right through your bones…”

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The Story about a War and Some Other Things

“Anyway, I’ve heard stories are supposed to have morals. I don’t know if this is much of a story, really, but I’ll give it a moral anyhow.”

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Things So Obvious They Almost Make No Sense: Defamiliarization and the Default in Megan Hunter’s The End We Start From

“I couldn’t discern an agenda, political, spiritual, or otherwise, and yet the novel felt anything but aimless. Primarily, it read and resonated like poetry.”

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Godzilla on the Page

“i am timeless! un- /
stoppable! godzilla /
on the page.”

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Giving, Going; Living, Loving

“Everyday she grew older. This obvious fact had never seemed obvious before.”

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Eating Clubs, A’s, and AI: What Profs Really Think About Us

Princeton, from our professors’ point of view.

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