Category: Points of View

At the Nexus of Almost

Running out the clock on a life before 20.

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Dispatches from Immigration Court

From the frontlines of mass deportation.

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Am I The Asshole?

AITA for wanting my roommates to recycle?  By u/trashtalker This last summer I (20M) was living in Chicago with some randomly assigned roommates. They turned out to be chill. One was a foster kid, one was a wealthy Manhattanite, and … Read More

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Letter to my cat (human nature)

A Nass writer wonders: how to live, how to be, and how to eat?

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Sira

“I poured my back into the solid wood and floated. I let the water stain my face. Let a wave engulf me on this bitter board of wood, let my elbows sink into the ocean that you loved so much.”

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Seven-Second Infinity

On Clive Wearing and eternity in oblivion.

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Thoughts from my time sitting on the window sill of a castle in the Czech countryside

Is it better to not understand than to be misunderstood?

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Postcard of the Ritual

Who are rituals meant for, and why do we care so much about them?

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Partly Cloudy

A Nass writer confronts a riddle of imagining and searches for its solution.

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Je me uh regrette

Surviving a summer of France, and worse, adolescence.

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Pecan Pie Latte

Students review Sakrid Coffee Roaster’s curious Pecan Pie Latte: Delectable or disgusting?

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Bad Men, Suffering Women, and The Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain

“The more we view certain expressions of gendered being as untrue, the more we reinforce in ourselves and others that there is a ‘true’ way to be a woman or a man, trapping ourselves in the same conservative discourse we claim to abhor.”

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