Post- Magazine
Frost McBumfulsmith [post-pourri]
By Rchin Bari | March 1The universal mind is a metaphysical concept that claims all beings in the universe share a common consciousness. Though only speculation, it is an idea that is as fascinating as any other postulation about how our infinitely large and mysterious world truly operates. That implies everything from water ...
on equilibria [feature]
By Ellyse Givens | February 261. In game theory, players are assumed to be rational actors, meaning they make the “move” that best benefits them given the choices of other players. That’s why, in economics classes, you draw tree diagrams, starting at the very end and working backward, allowing players to evaluate every ...
this is our little while [A&C]
By Chelsea Long | February 26A table, a desk covered with magazines and loose sheets of paper, posters calling for revolution. These are the set pieces for Susan Glaspell’s one-act play The People, which tells the story of a “radical and poor” newspaper and its staff as they stumble toward a more hopeful future. It’s a ...
in the shadow of the city [A&C]
By Alyssa Sherry | February 26I’m running down the beach with a girl who’s never seen the Atlantic. The sky is blue and unrelenting. Our hands burn with ice from where we dipped them in the waves. When the January wind blows, it bites hard into the droplets crystallizing on our fingertips. It’s your first time on the East ...
i'm moving out [narrative]
By Benjamin Herdeg | February 26At the start of school, everyone said they had moved out of their homes to come to Rhode Island. I didn't move much. Two suitcases: a few sweaters, sheets, New Balances, a bottle of wine that was finished in a week. Toiletries. My home was in Connecticut. It was close, so close that I didn't bring much. ...
like glass [feature]
By Sydney Pearson | February 26In the glow of a mid-February twilight, as falling snow dusted the lining of my coat, I walked on water.
whispers of thread [lifestyle]
By Gabrielle Yuan | February 26I open one eye and peer down toward her hands. Her shaggy, black hair has grown longer, the uneven ends resting across the front of her shoulders. The patina white yarn is stretched across her lap. While her face is not in view, I know her mouth rests closed, lips pressed gently together. Her eyes are ...
making kombucha [lifestyle]
By Katherine Mao | February 26For the past two weeks, my roommate has been making kombucha at home. As I’ve observed the process and sampled the batches at each stage, I’ve gathered some notes about this particular art form.
the art of flower arranging [narrative]
By Sarah Frank | February 26I don’t believe in signs, but then again maybe I do.
finding aid [feature]
By Alissa Simon | February 19In Alumnae Hall, above the strange, too-empty passages and old couches, there is a small suite of rooms that you will almost certainly miss unless you are looking for it. It’s one of those tucked-away corners of campus where computers feel out of place, and you can still clearly visualize women in ...
paranoid in detroit [lifestyle]
By Elsa Eastwood | February 19In the beginning, Delta Airlines created a 10 a.m. flight to Los Angeles. And I arrived early at my gate, enveloped in a net of peace, anticipating a night in my childhood bed back home, and the sun rose over Providence. But then the intercom said, Let there be a $1,500 airline voucher for any travelers ...
this edit kills fascists [A&C]
By Indigo Mudbhary | February 19An American Werewolf in London is not a gay movie. The love story at the center of the movie is decidedly heterosexual, and the two male leads have no sexual or romantic chemistry whatsoever. Yet, if you watched my edit of the movie, set to “Ribs” by Lorde, you’d think it was the gayest, queerest ...
in defense of reguetón from pretentious music fans [A&C]
By Johan Beltre | February 19“It’s just the same pattern over and over again” is a phrase I have heard one too many times when talking about reguetón with music fans.