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Nass Recommends

Nass contributors recommending your next books, albums, and meals at Whitman.

by Aaryan Jagtap, Aliya Kraybill, Amelia Carneiro Zhu, Clara Docherty, Danny Flaherty, Lucia Brown, Lucy McWeeney, Lucy Peck, Ryan Choe, Teo Grosu, Vivian Clayton, Wendy Wang on October 10, 2024October 12, 2024

Fear and Loathing on Cable

This summer I have taken it upon myself to tackle John Steinbeck’s American epic East of Eden, a modern retelling of the biblical Cain and Abel story set to the backdrop of post-Gold Rush era Northern California—that is, Steinbeck’s own backyard. Summer is, for students at least, that blessed time of intellectual freedom during which schoolwork means almost nothing to you and you are free to read, write, study, and contemplate whatever you wish.

by Tom Markham on September 28, 2013September 28, 2013

Isle of Dogs review

“In any case, it is left up to the viewer to not get too lost in the dazzling visual spectacle of the film, and be sure to consider that despite the immaculate attention to detail, some details might still have been rendered invisible.”

by Katie Duggan on April 15, 2018April 14, 2018

How to Write a Pitchfork Album Review

Listen to two or three of the songs off of the album. Pick them from different sections, so it seems like you listened to the whole thing. Also, don’t call them songs. Call them “tracks” or (even better) “cuts” instead.

by Samuel Bollen on September 26, 2016October 2, 2016

Amazing Thai in Princeton NJ Needs to be on Your Radar

A team of two sisters offers up authentic Thai cuisine for the chilly spring weather

by Dana Serea on April 11, 2024April 11, 2024

Spring Breakers

Spring Breakers arrived in theaters last Friday only to confuse audiences around the country. The film begins practically pornographically, bare breasts splashed with beer and tan rears occupying the entire movie screen, accompanied by the aggressive sounds of Skrillex. It then flashes forward to the mundane and fictitious Kentucky College where four girls find they don’t have enough money to fund a spring break getaway to Florida.

by Veronica Nicholson on April 4, 2013April 13, 2013

Nass Recommends

Praise for Islands by Bear’s Den.

by Peter Taylor on November 24, 2019

High Life: Claire Denis’ Sinister Space Sexcapade

“this is more of a sex movie in space than a space movie with sex.”

by Max Feldman on May 3, 2019July 30, 2019

Too Soon

A review of Bon Iver’s 22, A Million.

by Tom Hoopes on October 24, 2016October 24, 2016

Falling in Space

Hopefully this means we didn’t fake the moon landing.

by Dylan Fox on November 11, 2018November 10, 2018

Nass Recommends (Pete Recommends?) “Bodys” by Car Seat Headrest

“Wherever you are, it’s no longer about the words but now about an ineffable energy that paradoxically grounds you and makes you feel weightless.”

by Peter Taylor on July 31, 2019July 30, 2019

Triumphant Melancholy

When the Antlers released Hospice in 2009 on Frenchkiss Records, the band established itself as a project of personal catharsis for its frontman, Peter Silberman. Designated a concept album, Hospice channeled Silberman’s past romantic failures into a story of two individuals confined to a cancer ward: a hospice worker and the terminally ill patient he gradually falls in love with.

by Kevin Cheng on October 11, 2014October 15, 2014


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