Middle of Nowhere, Zen New Jersey
It’s all alphabet soup
in 12-pt font,
bitter black bleeding into vegetable stock —
A poem or two or three, falling into one another like bodies in orbit
Flood: Full Design
The Nass is coming. Find a nice comfy ark and kick your feet up – it’s gonna be a while. Find an issue around campus, or look through the full design below.
Letter from the Editor
This week, the Nass reflects on movement and the conditions that govern it. We like to imagine written words dancing on the page: in flux, unrestricted, and active, a magazine whose words destabilize but don’t displace. As demonstrated in this issue, the unfettered mobility of words is a fiction – regulations inhibit the movement of […]
Betwixt and Between
Borders, mobility and friendship in Spain’s North African enclave.
No Other Land
Documenting dispossession in Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham’s latest film.
Pieta
Print. for Mickey a spluttering birth. matter and hope, all poison or ponzu – all recycled. polished clone. Crown, knoll. seasoned with milky weed. skin, ours. sin, Everyone is. Prrint. worm, the rat runs, vermin, all– cap it, for those who do not win. Saucy money […]
Ground Rules
A renowned Princeton developer wants to fight the housing crisis. But at what cost?
Signs of Damage
“He looked nice, shy. She didn’t say hello, or smile, because despite her costume—a lace trimmed slip and her grandmother’s pearl choker—she didn’t care much that day.”
Je me uh regrette
Surviving a summer of France, and worse, adolescence.
How Prophecy was Invented
“In another town, she was a storyteller, but the children had spit back her stories wrong, turning the characters into parodies of themselves.”
Será tu nombre
Vals peruano
Flood: Full Design
The Nass is coming. Find a nice comfy ark and kick your feet up—it’s gonna be a while.