In the Temporality of Chalk
“Through my chalk drawing, I wanted to engage with the concept of fluidity and a flexible present. What if the priority was not permanence, but the process?”
The JUUL-ian Street Library: Full Design
In the final issue of our forty-third volume, the Nass looks for a lost bike, watches chalk disappear, and gets jazzy in the chapel.
Comics
Some cartoons for your Sunday pleasure.
Nass Recommends: Jazz Vespers
Wherein a Nass writer visits a unique service at the Princeton chapel.
Resolves
“The last time my dad broke in, he took a key to the bathroom screen. It still flaps in heavy wind.”
Persistence Hunting
A chronicle of one student’s misplaced bicycle.
White Doll, Asian Woman
“But was my femininity forced on me, the only feasible result of a life grown around dolls and children’s books?”
The Spirit of Curling: Vignettes
Reflections on an author-athlete’s relationship to her sport.
Thinking About Conversations
Wherein the author reflects on what constitutes a meaningful exchange.
90 Princeton Courses that Were Never Taught
All the courses you always wanted to take—if the university ever let you.
The N is Not Silent
“My name commands the full tongue, the breath of a whole lung”
At the Expense of the Invisible: the White Male Perspective of Cartoon
“Perhaps children of the early 2000s should be grateful for tamer coming-of-age protagonists who dealt with school bullies, boogers, and cursed slices of cheese within the vacuum of endless middle school.”