It’s the end of a long semester. I’ve now spent just about one full academic year as a Princeton student, the last three months of it here on campus, in the best old place of all, just south of Nassau Street. Princeton’s a strange, strange plac

The Founding Fish - John McPhee

Apr 17th, 2021 19m 48s

I play basketball in the park every morning –– I’m not any good at it. Standing five foot, eight inches tall, I don’t have the physical tools, and I’m not especially athletic. Skill does develop through practice, but slowly.Here’s the thing. Wh

The Footnote - Anthony Grafton

Apr 3rd, 2021 17m 4s

Before I record each episode of “Book-ish,” the script is fact-checked by The Daily Princetonian’s intrepid copy editors. While editing the last episode on Sarah Bakewell’s “How to Live,” they marked two of the passages from the book I quoted t

How to Live - Sarah Bakewell

Mar 20th, 2021 19m 44s

Few inventions can truly be attributed to one person. We say Edison made the lightbulb, and we say Bell made the telephone, but in reality both of them were just at the end of a long line of cumulative innovations. Michel de Montaigne, the Rena

American Primitive – Mary Oliver

Mar 6th, 2021 13m 51s

It’s the beginning of March in Princeton, New Jersey. Packed snow from a succession of February storms remains sturdy and tired on the ground. It doesn’t seem to want to leave, although the snowmen have long since collapsed into heaps of mush.T

A Mathematician's Apology – G.H. Hardy

Feb 20th, 2021 15m 45s

This podcast was written and recorded by Gabe Robare, and was produced under the 145th Managing Board of The Daily Princetonian. It was edited by Cammie Lee and produced by Francesca Block with copy-editing and production help from Isabel Rodri

Emma – Jane Austen

Feb 6th, 2021 11m 13s

In the summer before my senior year of high school, I read my first Jane Austen novel, Emma. And I hated it. But then, I read it again, this past winter, wanting to give it another chance. And I loved it. In this episode, I’ll tell you why.The

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