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Letter from the Editor
This week, the Nass reflects on movement and the conditions that govern it. We like to imagine written words dancing on the page: in flux, unrestricted, and active, a magazine whose words destabilize but don’t displace. As demonstrated in this issue, the unfettered mobility of words is a fiction – regulations inhibit the movement of…
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Letter from the Editors
Dear Reader, We’ll keep this quick. This week, we explore ways of caring – for loved ones, for music, for you, the reader. Our writers investigate the modern dilemma of “chalance” and caring too much, grapple with loss and the distance that comes with it, and share stories of people who are denied care when…
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Letter from the Editors
Reading these pages, know that the dividing-line between reader and writer is increasingly thin. Maybe this year your resolution can be stepping over.
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Letter from the Editors
Dear all, Did you miss us? We certainly missed you. For the past three years, this magazine has brought us close community and constant inspiration. Now, we are thrilled to inaugurate Volume 49 of the Nassau Weekly. At its core, the Nass is a magazine for everyone, one based on experimentation, creativity, and a healthy…
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Letter from the Editors
This week, the Nass sheds its navel-gazing literary skin and reveals a journalistic underbelly. We are thrilled to present to you the launch issue of Second Look, the Nassau Weekly’s latest venture. The Second Look section brings the Nass longform, journalistic pieces focused on investigating power: the forms it takes, the ideas it harnesses,…
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Q&A: Eliza Griswold on Journalism in a New Trump Era
A Pulitzer-Prize-winning professor talks electoral reporting and the journalistic horizon
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Nass Recommends: Chuquimamani Condori’s DJ E
A cathartic, eardrum-exploding record from Bolivian “epic collage” artist Chuquimamani Condori
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I’m Judging You: Gogol’s Defense of Art Critique
“Gogol advocated that we do not need to reject value-judgements, but rather understand all art as part of a grander movement; great art is the product of labor and reflection, vision and passion, building off the works that precede it.”
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Chimp Kid
“I had an itinerary for running away, and I was behind schedule. The sun was catching up.”
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Take a Leave of Absence: It’s Easier Than You Think
A Nass writer investigates why and how students take leaves—and what it’s like to be gone.
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All My Dreams Wrapped Up in a Little Ball
Chaos reigns alongside Homer Simpson in this writer’s Notes app dream journal.