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What Netflix’s ‘Indian Matchmaking’ gets right — and wrong

What Netflix’s ‘Indian Matchmaking’ gets right — and wrong

Aditi Desai

The tradition of arranged marriages, its toxic ideologies, and its regressive trends still exist in Indian society, putting pressure on women to compromise, instructing young adults to prioritize societal expectations, and preaching class divisions. These burdens are real and still unapologetically true, as depicted in “Indian Matchmaking.” However, they are certainly not representative of all of South Asian culture.

THE PROSPECT | 10/22/2020

Anti-Racist Reading Review | ‘Everything I Never Told You’: Finding understanding through grief

Anti-Racist Reading Review | ‘Everything I Never Told You’: Finding understanding through grief

John Fitzgibbons

By the time the last word comes and the story breathes its final breath, Ng’s characters feel so real and so tangible. In a profound sense, they are.

THE PROSPECT | 10/21/2020

The complex world of Twitter bots

The complex world of Twitter bots

Molly Cutler

It starts to feel crowded, with hundreds of takes rattling around in my head and hundreds of very human personalities flooding my timeline.

THE PROSPECT | 10/21/2020

College comfort food: Baked mac and cheese

Casey Beidel

If you’re anything like me, sweater weather and rainy days make you crave hearty, indulgent comfort food. I’m always yearning for some gooey macaroni and cheese.

THE PROSPECT | 10/20/2020

How Disney’s “Mulan” (2020) fell short of both Western and Eastern audiences’ expectations

How Disney’s “Mulan” (2020) fell short of both Western and Eastern audiences’ expectations

Rachel Hsu

The live-action remake of “Mulan” tries to incorporate many new elements with good intentions, but ultimately, the movie is poorly executed. It doesn’t work as a film that elicits nostalgia, it doesn’t work as a historical drama that explores Chinese culture, and it doesn’t even work well as a standalone film considered completely separate from the original.

THE PROSPECT | 10/20/2020

Our America: Reactions to the Pre-read

Our America: Reactions to the Pre-read

Paige Allen

We asked members of the Class of 2024 to react to Jill Lepore’s "This America: The Case for the Nation," this year’s Pre-read selection. Here are their reflections.

THE PROSPECT | 10/18/2020

USG Movie Review: The Harrowing Beauty of “If Beale Street Could Talk” (2018)

USG Movie Review: The Harrowing Beauty of “If Beale Street Could Talk” (2018)

Amy Ciceu

Based on the seminal James Baldwin novel of the same name, Barry Jenkins’ “If Beale Street Could Talk” (2018) mesmerizes viewers with Jenkins’ Academy Award-winning directing, the actors’ poignant performances, and composer Nicholas Britells’ rich, melancholy score.

THE PROSPECT | 10/18/2020

DISPATCH | Living near UChicago

Lois Wu

I had decided to sublet an apartment a mere five-minute walk away from the University of Chicago (UChicago) campus for the fall and live with a stranger, rather than stay at home in New York, a decision that often warranted some explaining. The short answer is that I wanted to spend time near my older sister, who’s currently living in Chicago.

THE PROSPECT | 10/18/2020

Reflections on Baldwin and Jamaica: ‘for sinners shall be bound in hell a thousand years’

Reflections on Baldwin and Jamaica: ‘for sinners shall be bound in hell a thousand years’

Kristal Grant

Jamaica always seems to call me home — despite the fact that I haven’t actually been home since I had to flee two years ago.

THE PROSPECT | 10/13/2020

USG Movie Review: Damien Chazelle’s La La Land and the Art of Making Art

Rebecca Cao

“La La Land” is more than just its plot — Chazelle tells Mia and Sebastian’s story, with its themes of dreams, reality, relationships, facades, and sacrifice, by manipulating colors, lighting, camera direction, and music.

THE PROSPECT | 10/13/2020

Innovative yet grounded, Nathan Meltzer performs at Dreamstage

Aster Zhang

As the music industry slowly moves toward re-opening, violinist Nathan Meltzer and pianist Jun Cho appeared at Dreamstage (an online concert-streaming venue) on Oct. 4, playing a program of Ludwig van Beethoven, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Johannes Brahms, and Maurice Ravel.

THE PROSPECT | 10/13/2020

Visual essay: What is the value of National Coming Out Day?

Visual essay: What is the value of National Coming Out Day?

Wendy Ho

Through illustration and prose, Wendy Ho reflects on the value of National Coming Out Day in 2020.

VISUAL ESSAY | 10/08/2020

Chinatown Diptych: The Origins of a Writer

Jeffrey Liao

Growing up, writing was my haven. My friends teased me for carrying a marble notebook wherever I went, pages brimming with mediocre poems my 12-year-old mind thought Shakespearean. Words, I discovered, have the power to forge rivers, oceans, mountains. They immortalize the rise and fall of civilizations, etch our names in rock and dust.

THE PROSPECT | 10/08/2020

USG Movie Review: BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Tiana Ruden

Thanks to Spike Lee’s masterful directing, a bold screenplay, and an all-star cast, “BlacKkKlansman” combines absurdity, dark humor, and horror into a nuanced commentary on social issues through the true story of a Black police officer leading an undercover mission to infiltrate the country’s most notorious white supremacist organization.

THE PROSPECT | 10/08/2020

DISPATCH | Getting used to the noise

DISPATCH | Getting used to the noise

Paige Cromley

It sounds strange when I explain it. Why Boston? Why these girls, who I barely knew before we signed the lease? I still have trouble picturing the series of events that led me here; the days after Princeton announced that fall semester would be online are a blur.

THE PROSPECT | 10/06/2020

Beauty tips and tricks in the era of Zoom

Megan Pan

Whether you’re a die-hard makeup enthusiast or just someone interested in experimenting with their look, Prospect senior writer Megan Pan shares her tips and tricks for makeup designed for Zoom.

THE PROSPECT | 10/04/2020

Making Princeton at home

José Pablo Fernández García

With all this rumbling in the back of my mind, throughout the past months I stumbled into a habit of trying to bring home the remaining things that make Princeton, well, Princeton.

THE PROSPECT | 10/01/2020

Growing up, everywhere: In photos, Princetonians share what mattered to them as kids

Sandeep Mangat

We asked students to submit a picture of a place or person that was significant to them as a child and share what the subject's memory continues to mean to them.

VISUAL ESSAY | 09/24/2020

What is ‘Princeton’ without Princeton?

Wendy Ho

Wendy Ho reflects on this unusual semester.

VISUAL ESSAY | 09/20/2020

Going home to ‘Trump’s America’

Going home to ‘Trump’s America’

Madison Mellinger

This summer I was fortunate to be supported by the John C. Bogle ’51 Fellowship in Civic Service to return home and assist Dr. Erika Kitzmiller with her research project, “Youth Inequality, Mobility, and Opportunity in Red and Blue America.” I took this valuable experience as an opportunity to explore the dissonance I felt while reading Vance’s memoir and reflect on my own experience growing up in Appalachia.

THE PROSPECT | 09/17/2020

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