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Masthead Recommends

In week 3 of the Nass gone digital, our masthead is here to offer you a variety of TV, books, movies, and music we think you should check out.

by Abigail Glickman, Andrew White, Drew Pugliese, Elliott Weil, Isabelle Casimir, Meera Sastry, Melina Huang, Pat Macdonald, Peter Taylor, Tara Shirazi, Tess Solomon on April 12, 2020April 12, 2020

Revisiting Lady Day: Nass Recommends the Billie Holiday Catalogue

“That subtlety doesn’t just reside in her vocal technique, though. It’s an emotional subtlety that permeates the very essence of any of her recordings.”

by Peter Taylor on March 8, 2020March 7, 2020

Rub-A-Dub-Dub, Two Men in a Tub: Ruminations on Male Nudity

In which the author travels, bathes, and contemplates.

by Peter Taylor on March 1, 2020February 29, 2020

In the Glow of this Candle

“It does not matter that Claire in real life, though a remarkably talented singer, is not a songwriter. This Claire is not that Claire, even though they are inextricably linked by more than their names and the name of their current partners.”

by Peter Taylor on February 16, 2020February 18, 2020

Notebook of a Departure from an Adopted Home

“For two years I’ve liked to think that my Bolivian ID is more than just a conversation starter, that it grounds my daily life in my relationship to a country I for a time called my home.”

by Peter Taylor on December 8, 2019December 8, 2019

Nass Recommends

Praise for Islands by Bear’s Den.

by Peter Taylor on November 24, 2019

Pete Recommends: A Critical Reappraisal of Stairway to Heaven

“But both in spite and because of this ubiquity, “Stairway to Heaven” gets a little slept on, relegated to the status of “rock classic” and thought of as a song more to be heard than to be enjoyed.”

by Peter Taylor on October 20, 2019October 19, 2019

Solutions of the Spirit: Art Under Climate Threat

Advocating for art and creativity despite despair about the environment.

by Peter Taylor on October 13, 2019October 12, 2019

Moments of Dreams: Dawes in Six Albums and Seven Stories

“In my moments of dogged hope, I would play “Moon in the Water,” an acoustic ballad where Goldsmith proclaims that ‘Love is for the fighter / Born to lose but never quit / Swinging for the moon in the water.’”

by Peter Taylor on October 6, 2019October 9, 2019

Nass Recommends (Pete Recommends?) “Bodys” by Car Seat Headrest

“Wherever you are, it’s no longer about the words but now about an ineffable energy that paradoxically grounds you and makes you feel weightless.”

by Peter Taylor on July 31, 2019July 30, 2019

Listening In: Book Fight and Auditory Voyeurism

“How wonderful it is to be alive—to know that we are all here, occupying the same moments as everyone else, breathing, blinking, living.”

by Peter Taylor on April 28, 2019

Nass Recommends The Tsar of Love and Techno

“This novel-in-stories traces the lives of multiple generations of characters from the early days of the Soviet Union up into the near-future, all interconnected by an obscure nineteenth-century painting.”

by Peter Taylor on April 21, 2019April 20, 2019


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