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The Second Life of U.S. Steel

A Nass reporter ventures as far as Arkansas to document new developments in the green steel industry

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These Months, Which Have Been Some of the Fastest of My Life: Full Design

After a brief holiday, the Nass is back slinging steel, learning Russian, and falling in love. Find a copy around campus or read the full design online here!

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Trong, Lam, Trump, and Biden: A Vietnamese Student’s Thoughts on the Upcoming Election

A few things Americans might be missing about November’s general election

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Conversations in a Time Warp: Tribute to my Beloved Cafe

Vignettes on an enigmatic Polish woman and the Boston area cafe she runs.

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I agree, a little, sometimes

“I love truth — as I once wrote in my homework). I soon learned to compromise by articulating smaller truths when I couldn’t articulate bigger ones.”

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They could never make a Sofia Coppola robot

Thoughts on filmic solitude from a solitary Nass writer in Portugal

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Attempts to Exhaust Yourself

Exercises in wearing yourself out and–actually–getting some writing done

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Nass Recommends: Gay Romance Novels

Ten of our top picks (plus a couple honorable and dishonorable mentions)

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listen for green anemoia

twenty minutes from the center of the city once rice fields that my grandmother admired each morning whispering to dragonflies in the cup of her palm  squint at night and see cold stars tearing away the horizon motorcycles and black … Read More

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I’m So Painfully in Love with All of You

“This summer I’m remembering how real my flesh is. When I was a kid everything was tactile and I just wanted sugar and didn’t think abstractly.”

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Letter from the Editor

My summer vacation felt like a body. Mine felt like a river. It’s generally useful to build up a number of unreasonably applicable metaphors that seem to withdraw profundity from just about everything. It’s the only way you’ll produce what … Read More

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Telescoping Melt

A much celebrated and reviled Nass tradition. To telescope, writers write a brief 300 word piece on a theme (this year, “melt”). Then, a 150 word piece. Then, 75 words. Then, 37 and a half. You’ll see.

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