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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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Letter from the Editor
This week, something strange happened, and the only way to tell which way is right-side up is by blowing bubbles from our mouths and seeing which direction they float. How do we reorient? Per usual, we can turn towards the manifestotic. We want new forms that resist desedimentation. We want the close, the dark,…
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Letter from the Editor
It’s absolutely true that this is the first time we’ve ever run a Halloween issue, and for a magazine as historically elaborate and artifactual as the Nassau Weekly, it’s a sort of mystifying reality. We scoured the dread tomes that compose our archives–all except for one moldering lockbox situated between “Naked pictures of Michel Foucault…
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Letter from the Editor
I’m often reminded of the Nass EIC under whose honeyed and analgesic administration I worked as a staff writer my freshman year. This guy who studied comp lit and sat in the leather armchair that the Nass houses in the corner of Bloomberg basement beneath a Jesus yard ornament and a shelf of course books…
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Letter from the Editor
A list of things you can find under this rock: Anti-hegelians, anti-Deleuzians, negation, Gummo, cats, cryptids, the original Planet of the Apes sequels, psilocybin, Chestnut blight, dutch elm disease, emerald ash borer beetle, the Great American Tree, Jim Morrisons’s 1978 An American Prayer, rush, Bleeding Kansas, freedom, rewilding, degrowth, wildflowers, corvids, meadows, field recordings,…
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Letter from the Editor
One of the least nassholish ideas that I hold dear to myself is that, in the end, we will be delivered. Forces beyond our knowing care for us in ways that our slimy, underdeveloped sensory organs cannot appreciate so frequently. Call these forces Fatherormother, Older Brother, the North American arboreal superorganism. They are here amidst…
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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 we could call meaning from something as acrid and mercurial as summer. You can best…
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Letter from the Editor
One or several elephants: this final issue’s back cover, which looks like a full-page ad for PNC bank because it is. We’d ask that you hereafter refrain from calling The Nass anything other than PNC Bank Presents the Nassau Weekly. The following is an abridged version of the toast I planned on delivering at the…
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Letter from the Editor
One sad thing about the Letter From the Editor as form is that I never receive a reply. So I’ve begun constructing the image of a child-sized, glow-in-the-dark reader in my head. Importantly, this patient reader has a mouth, and sometimes, we buck this whole epistolary exchange and talk to each other like guys. Face…