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To See Something And Say Something

“To ask people to tell what’s suspicious and unusual is to expose innocent individuals to a system that constantly profiles and projects fear, to always assume the worst.”

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Something Real Fishy: Friendship, Twitter, and the Limits of the Dictionary

A personal take on the dialect of NBA internet fandom.

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Things So Obvious They Almost Make No Sense: Defamiliarization and the Default in Megan Hunter’s The End We Start From

“I couldn’t discern an agenda, political, spiritual, or otherwise, and yet the novel felt anything but aimless. Primarily, it read and resonated like poetry.”

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Ex Post Facto

“…I’ve become a spy for mankind.”

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If a Princeton Student Transferred Schools but Kept the Princeton Ego

Speculative fiction with a dash of entitlement.

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Cartoons, Caption Contest, & Art

Some cartoons for your Sunday pleasure.

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Dreams of Ghosts

“Below, the sea was moonlight, bright as commercial breakfast milk. The tide pulled forward and back, morse code telling me all the ways to escape the sleepy town.”

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Midterm Mishaps: Full Design

This week the Nass delves into the world of international fandom, reflects on the bonds between body and earth, and strikes matches to make wishes come true.

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Translating an International Sensation: Norway’s SKAM and the Fan Translators Who Made It Happen

An interview with the Québécois translator behind a francophone fan-base.

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Mud

“There is no membrane between my body and the earth; it’s the kinship of mud on mud.”

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To cleanse

“I consider cleaning it / But a marble pattern of the last remnants of you is reassuring to stare down at ”

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Through the Haze of My Mind

One writer searches for clarity and finds mindfulness.

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