a collage of smiles [post-pourri]

some observations

still bi non-practicing [feature]

Trad-wives, looksmaxxing men: A lot has changed since I wrote my article on bi non-practicing people at Brown exactly a year ago.

dialects & drifts [feature]

My memories of the years my family spent in the Midwest are blurry. What I do remember is a sense of sameness: the childish assurance that the wet, slippery snow that fell in December to block our front door in dense heaps was the same snow everyone else on Earth was wading through. That the tongue ...

in a language i can't call home [narrative]

Do you know that feeling when you hear a good song and want to write one too? And then you realise you can only write lyrics half as good as those, and not even in the language that you want to. I was born into a nation that teaches its mother tongue as a second language. My mouth is an instruction ...

twenty-six years of post- [feature]

The Beginning 

pockets of providence [lifestyle]

After arriving at Brown last August, I have slowly become acquainted with the surrounding Providence area. The city has charmed me with its tree-lined neighborhoods, downtown area dotted with shops and restaurants and weekend markets, dispersed parks with their outlooks and benches and fleeting greenery, ...

find a penny, pick it up [post-pourri]

Yesterday, I was on a game show. I had gone through several rounds of fierce challenges throughout the past week; all I had to do was spin the wheel. It was a 50/50 chance: Half the wheel had a golden $1 million, and on the other half, comically large and stamped in red ink, was the word “NOTHING.” ...

dancing in a world alone [A&C]

It is September 2025, and I am having a spiritual experience at TD Garden of all places. Almost 20,000 people surround me, jumping up and down, screaming, “In your car, the radio up / In your car, the radio up.” I feel beads of sweat form on my face, and I’m probably bumping into the person next ...

editor's note [s26] [6]

Dear Readers,

all of us at once [lifestyle]

You sit in a carpeted row, knee clanking against knee, elbow sharing armrest with elbow, like a curious line of bony wind chimes. You sit in the soft disquiet of a room full of people trying to make their little noises as noiseless as they can be. But breaths become louder when you pay attention to ...

music for a revolution! [A&C]

One Battle After Another, an action-thriller released last year, is the movie of the decade. And with the upcoming Oscars, this movie might have accolades upon accolades piled on its shoulders. Paul Thomas Anderson’s direction is phenomenal. Leonardo DiCaprio is a great lead actor. Teyana Taylor is ...

pro tips, life hacks, and didacticism [narrative]

Renata Litvinova, a famous Russian actress, once called gossip an underrated genre. The novelty of this saying isn’t just about playing devil’s advocate for talking behind people’s backs—it’s also about considering a seamless act of everyday communication as a distinct medium. Categorizing ...

my emily [narrative]

Growing Pains: Take Tylenol.

first light [crossword]