Nassau Weekly

  • Recalled

    Recalled

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    The increasing frequency and surprising breadth of product recalls in recent memory—spanning decapitating child seats, exploding laptop batteries, self-strangling cribs, fecal spinach, undeclared peanut butter cup candies in “Homestyle” ice cream, lead-laden Chinese Barbies, and “My First Kenmore” Play Stoves with “tip-over hazard”—makes it easy to forget or overlook the actual societal machinery that whirs…

  • The Apotheosis of Washington

    The Apotheosis of Washington

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    his brush-stroked / countenance / and plaster-backed / powder blue / dress coat / dragged down / into the crypt

  • Greek Life

    Greek Life

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    In the past month I’ve read loads of Greek classics. It was a really depressing month filled with people killing their kids, kids killing their parents, people marrying their parents, people stabbing other people in their eyes or at least stabbing themselves in their eyes. It seems like these things were so common in ancient…

  • Nature’s Favorite Hue

    Nature’s Favorite Hue

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    “When are you going to honor the body that grips your soul, and bask in being whole?”

  • Forget Me Not

    Forget Me Not

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    It was my freshman year of high school, and I was at my first Model UN conference, walking out of the dining room of the Hilton hotel where the conference was being held. I had just finished lunch with my friends and was heading back to my committee room, when I saw a face I…

  • On Going Away

    On Going Away

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    Just as I started to really enjoy Princeton, I’m going away—for a long time. When I arrived in September, I was a freshman, but not particularly fresh. I’d returned from a gap year that had me doing almost nothing, and certainly nothing that benefited other people particularly (unless you count the two hundred forty Chinese…

  • Crossword #2

    Crossword #2

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    Round 2 of the Nass’s weekly crossword puzzle.

  • Beginning the Year Properly

    Beginning the Year Properly

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    Instead of the usual how-do-you-do, we’d like to tell a story. There once were two bears. Both were young and happy; both led pleasant and fulfilling lives. Or so they thought.

  • Solving for Why?

    Solving for Why?

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    I noticed that Stefan talked quite a bit about balancing things. Before you find an optimal outcome, you must first find if your equation is balanced (or something like that). I pictured Stefan looking into his closet that morning. He selects a pair of jeans and then couples it with a chambray shirt. He knows…

  • highs and lows

    highs and lows

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    “i swallowed your lies / and they came back up as tears”

  • What Does a Good Girl Look Like

    What Does a Good Girl Look Like

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    Women, more than men, feel compelled to meet superhuman standards.

  • Digesting Digest

    Digesting Digest

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    Bradford Cox has always reminded me of Bean, that tiny, brainy kid from Orson Scott Card’s _Ender’s Game_ book series. For the non-nerds among you, Bean is the smartest, and smallest, of a group of preadolescents who are trying to take over a futuristic version of our universe. Somewhere in the series, he discovers that…