Byline: Lara Norgaard

Telling Lives

Roads, public libraries, and a respectful and helpful police force are all key, helpful features of a healthy state–and this is generally how the middle class experiences things. The government, however, has a more invasive, regulatory presence in the lives of people who lack power.

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Crime and Composition

On the detective fiction of Ricardo Lísias and the electronic novel

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Arcosanti

Three years ago, I stared up at the stars in the northern Arizona desert. I felt the smooth concrete of stargazing steps against my back.

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Princeton Lives, Princeton Wives

I decided to figure out what it is about Princeton that made so many couples want to get married here.

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What a Picture Isn’t Worth

Abroad in Ghana this summer, I worried my friends and relatives when I removed myself from social media.

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Stare, Glance, Stare

Eight years ago street artist Banksy disguised himself, entered the British Museum, and put a piece of his own work up on a wall. It was a slab of concrete, on which he had painted a cave figure drawing of a man with a shopping cart. Banksy even added an object label reading that this cave drawing pictured “early man venturing towards the out-of-town hunting grounds,” and was created by artist “Banksymus Maximus.”

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Replacing the Irreplacable

Earlier this week, America met its replacement for the (some would say) irreplaceable Jon Stewart.

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The New Kid on the Block

Trenton hasn’t entirely forgotten the Roebling Factory; something new is happening on this block.

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Growing Up Chomsky

Childhood as linguistics lab.

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