Guest Essay

‘For me these calls are heartfelt,’ writes Michael Pepper ’71

In 1996, William W. Warner ’43 penned the story of alumni who dug fossils and forged friendships in the summer of 1941

Jay Paris ’71 explains how a student job at Princeton’s art museum turned into an irresistible opportunity to prank Pablo Picasso

‘Rising fast can be painful. … But the condition is rarely fatal, and the pain disappears with time’

Before he met White, Benjamin Bernard *22 knew him as the writer and Princeton professor who ‘brought gay experience out of the closet and into literature’

‘My Princeton nostalgia has unexpectedly refocused on my children,’ writes Sean Rubin ’09

A Gatsby expert reflects on the misconceptions around depictions of race in the novel 

Elyse Graham ’07 says dirty tricks surrounding library access go back centuries

Silence speaks loudly for Darren Joe ’02 during a three-week trip down the Croatian coast 

“Princeton wants alumni to think they have a voice, but the Board of Trustees is an opaque, largely undemocratic ladder”

“I did not feel any fear, just discomfort and deep disappointment at the portrayal of a historic and complicated conflict in a simplistic, ‘us or them’ fashion”