This week, the Nass spends its leave of absence filming movies in Greece, attending tone-deaf plays, and growing an extra hand.
Take a Leave of Absence: It’s Easier Than You Think
A Nass writer investigates why and how students take leaves—and what it’s like to be gone.
For Your Consideration: Full Design
This week, the Nass spends its leave of absence filming movies in Greece, attending tone-deaf plays, and growing an extra hand.
Orange Juice 1989
“Orange-wet fingers and the acid is on her eyes, on her cheeks, running down with the tears and cheap makeup. My father reaches toward her—she is wearing a black silk headband, and he tries to pull it from her hair to wipe her eyes. She yells at him in Greek and he retracts.”
Nass Recommends: Riverdale
When corny becomes profound.
Cardboard, White Tears, and the Inevitability of the British: The Jungle at St. Ann’s Warehouse
A play that claims to portray the authentic refugee experience . . . for fifty-two dollars.
Too Evolved
“Is purple the color of evolution?”
Stoked for Stokes
The subtle rhythms of the quietest library on campus.
River, river, I’m broken/sinking down
It’s 4 in the morning and you’re pulling at my bedsheets again. I’d like to think I’m the boulder willing river water into a million little Vs, the shapes of teeth on parted lip, buzzing. In my memory, you appear on my doorstep dripping, shoes tied up with seaweed and pockets weighed down with shells. […]
Letter to a Professor (From a Disgruntled Parent-Donor)
Dear Lecherous Lecturer Precious Professor, Happy winter. I heard you’re in Vail? Hope the slopes are not destroying your knees. I’m reeling from the news that you gave a D to my son Robert “Torie” George Junior (I abstain from putting pronouns, because obviously). I know that Torie always speaks his mind, his heartfelt opinions. […]