Byline: Isabelle Clayton

Barbie Bubble: How Leaving Princeton For New York Took Me Off the Shelf

“Displays of public indecency jolted me more than I’d like to admit. Living in the city this summer, I felt I was experiencing patriarchy as I had as a little girl—as something new.”

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Putting People on Stage: Pursuing Equity Through the Choreographic Process

A senior thesis reimagines the relationship between choreographer and dancer.

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In Search of an American Original in Friday the 13th and Sleepaway Camp

A pair of Nass writers look for the Original across a pair of movies that have more than a dozen sequels between them

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Lullaby Loon

If you find yourself forgetting how to breathe, do not be afraid. Leave the stones in your throat and learn to rise with the croaking loons, drifting as they do and as they have since the  beginning of time. Or … Read More

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On electromagnetism, bodies, and the nature of overthinking

“We sit together, our two bodies close, but not touching. They say that opposites attract, but there is a void between us, a siren.”

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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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River, river, I’m broken/sinking down

It’s 4 in the morning and you’re pulling at my bedsheets again. I’d like to think I’m the boulder willing river water into a million little Vs, the shapes of teeth on parted lip, buzzing. In my memory, you appear … Read More

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