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Cheap Bags, Cheap Words

Reflections on abrasive, racialized language on the Spanish coast

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Princeton’s Mediterranean Mosaic Hunt

In the 1930s, Princeton ran its own ‘grand’ colonial excavation in the Near East. What happened next?

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Lebensmittel

“Ha! You’ve done it! He’s clueless, blissfully unaware that you’re American, that you call the metro a Subway and practiced active-shooter drills in middle school.”

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It’s in Your Body

“Regardless of race, Americanness is still in your body. I can’t spot the distinction as well as, say, the Dominican-born jewelry vendor who could tell that my immigrant father was American. But I’ve seen some differences.”

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Bienvenidos (go home)

The pilot gave all of the instructions twice,  once in English and once in Spanish. I had never heard “amarre el cinturón de seguridad” from that crackling airplane speaker.   It was so much like just flying to a different … Read More

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Opera-Italian

“I speak a sort of poetic Italian and German,” I tell people. “I could tell you the word for ‘woman’ or ‘flower’ or ‘moon’ (the classic subjects of opera and art song) but not ask you for the check.”

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Nass Recommends: Turandot

“I wasn’t aware that an opera house had nosebleeds, but here was my introduction. My eye was trained on that little screen for longer than the stage.”

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Mom and Dad are Splitting Up: Full Design

The Nass goes to the opera, joins crew, and participates in other mildly psychosexual activities.

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I Sit, Soulless

“The East Coast rain—an element that had nourished my roots and sprung me into being—suddenly felt heavy. I was no longer wet behind the ears.”

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Rock Stacking and Doom Scrolling, On Repeat

A Nass contributor evades the limits of time, on a remote sandbar in Maine and on YouTube Shorts.

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Jennifer Weiner’s Roots in the Nass

A New York Times Bestselling author shares how the Nass’s spirit of journalistic curiosity accelerated her creative practice

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Dead Phone

People in the New Jersey Transit Newark Liberty International Airport Train Station bound for New York City:  A man with blood on his face drinking Starbucks and A woman asking Starbucks blood man which side goes to Penn Station, swinging … Read More

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