Culture
A section dedicated to our culture works, ranging from book criticisms to essays on the current world.
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Essays about the Erie Canal
I got off the train at the Riverdale station, where I began to walk.I walked far into the woods, where the train tracks ran.A woman saw me, and she asked if I knew a placeI told her no, but then she told me a bit about her lifeI really didn’t care much, but I didn’t…
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Duality of Identity
Nowadays, there is something strangely performative about how people build themselves. I don’t mean this in the obvious sense of social media — though that is part of it — but more in the way that identity itself is starting to feel like something assembled with a subtle awareness of being watched. Identity is usually…
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Is Uncertainty that bad?
Four years of high school, years of undergrad, then four years of grad school. Society trains young minds to be ready for the corporate world, working a nine-to-five in an office cubicle on the 54th floor of a grey, gloomy building. You sit here at the beginning of two pathways: be sure of what you…
4–5 minutes
