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Nass Recommends

Praise for Islands by Bear’s Den.

by Peter Taylor on November 24, 2019

Let’s Be People

A Rubblebucket concert review

by David Exumé on February 26, 2017March 5, 2017

Nass Recommends Dining Hall Snack Hacks

A member of the Nass gets creative with Princeton’s Covid-era dining hall food.

by Theo Lawrence on February 28, 2021March 1, 2021

11 Fall Break Movie Reviews

Yooo, fall break was a movie…

by Ellie Diamond on November 11, 2023

Nass Recommends: Ten “NYRB Classics” Titles

Not one but ten recommendations from the NYRB archives

by Narges Anzali on September 26, 2024October 6, 2024

The Personal Politics of the Draft: Nass Recommends Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory

What we can learn from a literary giant’s process of creation.

by David Chmielewski on April 2, 2023

Weezer’s Summery Return

Having traded their 90s-style distortion and macho guitar riffs for piano and sad-boy vulnerability, Weezer is certainly stepping in a new direction.

by Christian Bischoff, Kat Kulke on May 16, 2016

When Your B1tch Becomes Human: A Review of My Dog Tulip

“If Ackerley perceives his dependent, female dog as essentially human, this is a strong statement regarding Ackerley’s beliefs about women in general. In fact, many of his statements regarding Tulip, throughout the film, feel steeped in misogyny, given that they are not statements generally associated with dogs.”

by Lara Katz on November 11, 2023

Lyssna: A Review

The performance was viscerally compelling. Immersed in evolving harmonies and asymmetrical rhythms, I found myself transported to a space outside the predictable and rigid schedules of junior spring, of deadlines and word counts, into a rustic, sunlit world where patterns existed to be deconstructed and reformed.

by Kat Kulke on April 14, 2016

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

Revisiting Lady Day: Nass Recommends the Billie Holiday Catalogue

“That subtlety doesn’t just reside in her vocal technique, though. It’s an emotional subtlety that permeates the very essence of any of her recordings.”

by Peter Taylor on March 8, 2020March 7, 2020

Eight Feet

“Has a dude ever peed in your vag?” This is the provocative question posed at the beginning of Eight Feet. In this engaging drama-comedy written by Rafi Abrahams ’13 and directed by Rachel Alter ’14, four college students trapped in a basement bedroom during a snowstorm find themselves reconciling this urine-related trauma.

by Lily Offit on April 4, 2013April 6, 2013


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