Category: Culture

Kissing Covens: The Gilda Stories as a Manifesto of Radical Black Love

“The horizontal, chosen family works outside of the law — in The Gilda Stories, love is never codified by a wedding, same sex and interracial relationships play out beyond the reach of history, and one can have limitless mothers.”

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Ellie Goulding Stuns in New Interview

Never meet your heroes.

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Barbie Bubble: How Leaving Princeton For New York Took Me Off the Shelf

“Displays of public indecency jolted me more than I’d like to admit. Living in the city this summer, I felt I was experiencing patriarchy as I had as a little girl—as something new.”

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Barbie Pink and Rani Pink: Crushed Under Corporate Feminism

“Adapting Marx on capitalism, a character in the film notes that ‘Kenland contains the seeds of its own destruction.’ Well, so does Barbie.”

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Double Features to Do Instead of Barbie/Oppenheimer

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Nass Recommends: Riverdale

When corny becomes profound.

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Consider the Cuy

“Unlike the classic chicken breast, however, the cuy goes from farmhouse to fridge to spit to butcher block to plate in a way that is probably more humane, yet also more graphic, and thus more disturbing. Guinea pigs are cute; cuy, as it turns out, is tasty.”

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On Lemons

The lemon was precious, as was every morsel of food that entered one’s house. I was raised to shudder at the mere thought of throwing away anything on my plate, encouraged to catch all the stray grains of kasha and watching my dad soak up every last bit of soup in his plate with the bread my mum baked like clockwork every few days.

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Steep a Pot of Chinese Philosophy: This Princeton Business Owner is Selling Natural Balance

Health, harmony, and history with Paul Shu, owner of Holsome Teas and Herbs.

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Nass Recommends: 100% Twilight Princess Speedrun (with Commentary) by YouTuber bewildebeast.

In cheerful defense of shortcuts.

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We Added 200 Strangers on BeReal, and We’re Never Opening the App Again

“Hypothesis: people our age around the world are alone during a significant portion of their waking hours. And hypothetically, BeReal is the perfect observational device.”

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Freshman Fall Break in 10 Movies

Ten films, lots of hot takes — join one writer on a cinematic romp.

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