This week, the Nass tests your wits, criticizes Christopher Nolan’s flat New Mexico, and puts you onto some new shit.
True and False: Bacon Transgressions
Let’s play a game.
Man Hunt: Full Design
Read the full design version of our latest issue here!
Nass Recommends
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Hunter
“The truth is that in every annoying, badly done Facebook meme, there is a grain of truth hidden somewhere. Because even the hunter puts down the rifle when the rabbit is served to him on a silver platter by strangers he’s never going to see again.”
Death of a Novel
A Nass writer reflects on the grief of losing her first novel.
Lemonade // Drain
“Neither you nor your soul is waiting for me at the end of this,” — Nick Flynn, “Cathedral of Salt” All I ever wanted was a kitchen and you standing in the tile-white light. Me, on the floor, drinking pink lemonade & watching the minutes blink 30 In all my years I’ve […]
On Wizardly Humane Justice
Ditch Harry Potter for a different, more just classic.
A History of Silence: Elision and Destruction in the New Mexican Landscape
“There’s power in not having to care. As Inez Guzmán remarks, the film Oppenheimer can leave New Mexico just as its subject did: apparently without a second thought. But there’s also power—more ambivalent, yes, but also more lasting—that comes with needing to pick up the pieces.”