Category: Reflections

Pete Buttigieg’s Gayness is Anachronistic

In which Pete Buttigieg and Twitter users face off.

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Beautifully, Golden: Marigold by Pinegrove

In which Pinegrove’s new album softens the New Jersey winter.

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And Love of Unseen Things

A profile of a gardener on Princeton’s campus.

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The Desperation of a 2010’s Star

Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber enter a new decade.

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Full Send

“They know something real about the surface of things. I would say that they defy the abstractions, statistics, and agendas of public policy, the academic event of the structure in whose shadow they roughly glide, jump, and fall.”

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Verbal Knockout

“This was never going to be a simple game with a clear winner. From the start, this boxing match was set up to be a rivalry. It would last nineteen years and counting.”

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A Summer of Luddism

“I didn’t even think about my phone at all, didn’t start at a phantom buzz in my pocket or stop what I was doing to look over at the device when I thought I saw its screen light up.”

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I’m (Not) Sorry for Your Loss

Mourning and moving forward at Princeton.

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Notebook of a Departure from an Adopted Home

“For two years I’ve liked to think that my Bolivian ID is more than just a conversation starter, that it grounds my daily life in my relationship to a country I for a time called my home.”

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For Yan Pei-Ming, One Portrait Size Fits All

“As I sat on the bench in the center of the exhibition room, dwarfed by the mammoth panels of the tryptic, I considered my reaction.”

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Reflecting on Leaving Meaning

A review of the most recent Swans album.

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Lover of Mine

“I always loved her. I just didn’t always think highly enough of myself to justify this love.”

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