Category: Reflections

The Lakes: On Walden and Waldo, FL

A Nass writer ruminates on her yearly pilgrimage to a small Florida town.

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My First American Thanksgiving

The unspoken luxury of not debating politics with your relatives over dry turkey.

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A History of Silence: Elision and Destruction in the New Mexican Landscape

“There’s power in not having to care. As Inez Guzmán remarks, the film Oppenheimer can leave New Mexico just as its subject did: apparently without a second thought. But there’s also power—more ambivalent, yes, but also more lasting—that comes with needing to pick up the pieces.”

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Telescoping Memories II

“The Nass taught me to trivialize the serious, to take seriously the trivial.”

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Rethinking Princeton Traditions

On a strange back-to-school season and its unexpected potential for the Class of 2024.

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Elevators

“Someone said this to me the other day: People always seem to press the elevator button again even if someone else has already pressed it.”

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Vienna, Vienna

Meditations on a city of facades.

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Pillars of Society

Think of your immediate associations with Greece: beyond a few thoughts about party islands the visual symbols that arise in your mind are the classical pillars, democracy, and philosophy that serve as the foundations of your worldview.

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The House I Grew Up In

When I walk down Witherspoon Street away from the iconic FitzRandolph Gate that shelters Princeton University students from the town around them, my feet head toward the place that feels most like home. If it is a beautiful sunny day … Read More

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The Desperation of a 2010’s Star

Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber enter a new decade.

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A Case for Disgust

“And yet, God introduces Adam and Eve. Around them, creatures dance and indulge and huddle and purge. Birds shit humans. Dying men fart birds. He treats euphoria and terror with the same technical perfection, blurring the line between a familiar Earth and an alien world”.

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Attachments

“Honey, you’re so talented with computers,” my mom smiles. “Can you please help me attach this file?”

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