These Months, Which Have Been Some of the Fastest of My Life

September 13, 2024

The Second Life of U.S. Steel

A Nass reporter ventures as far as Arkansas to document new developments in the green steel industry

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These Months, Which Have Been Some of the Fastest of My Life: Full Design

After a brief holiday, the Nass is back slinging steel, learning Russian, and falling in love. Find a copy around campus or read the full design online here!

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Trong, Lam, Trump, and Biden: A Vietnamese Student’s Thoughts on the Upcoming Election

A few things Americans might be missing about November’s general election

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Conversations in a Time Warp: Tribute to my Beloved Cafe

Vignettes on an enigmatic Polish woman and the Boston area cafe she runs.

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I agree, a little, sometimes

“I love truth — as I once wrote in my homework). I soon learned to compromise by articulating smaller truths when I couldn’t articulate bigger ones.”

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They could never make a Sofia Coppola robot

Thoughts on filmic solitude from a solitary Nass writer in Portugal

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Attempts to Exhaust Yourself

Exercises in wearing yourself out and–actually–getting some writing done

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Nass Recommends: Gay Romance Novels

Ten of our top picks (plus a couple honorable and dishonorable mentions)

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listen for green anemoia

twenty minutes from the center of the city once rice fields that my grandmother admired each morning whispering to dragonflies in the cup of her palm  squint at night and see cold stars tearing away the horizon motorcycles and black … Read More

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I’m So Painfully in Love with All of You

“This summer I’m remembering how real my flesh is. When I was a kid everything was tactile and I just wanted sugar and didn’t think abstractly.”

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Letter from the Editor

My summer vacation felt like a body. Mine felt like a river. It’s generally useful to build up a number of unreasonably applicable metaphors that seem to withdraw profundity from just about everything. It’s the only way you’ll produce what … Read More

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Verbatim

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Overheard in the office

Posh & prim boss: Hi there, how are you today Marco? 

Marco the Sweat-drenched Serb: Sweating like a whore in church, but I’m alright.

Overheard on move-in day

Saddened spirit coming off a summer 9-to-5: I am going to need you all to start saying very funny things very soon. 

Friend 1: Why?

Friend 2: What do you mean?

Friend 3: We’re not entertaining you enough? Is that really all we are to you…mere jesters? 

Overheard in cafe

Sorrowful romantic: Worst case scenario, do you think it’s better to stay single forever or revisit my past?

Sensible friend: By “revisit your past,” do you mean get back with your ex-boyfriend? 

Sorrowful romantic: I didn’t say that.

Overheard through iMessage

Boomer mother, texting son: Hi sweetie. How’s my brilliant, Mr. Rizz doing?

Overhead in France

Aging cousin, in distillery: I miss valium.

Overheard in newsroom

Health-conscious boss: If you’re gonna take risks with your life, take it with something more exciting than cereal.

Daredevil employee, chowing on Coco Puffs: There’s nothing more exciting than cereal.

Overheard in book store

Steamy, typo-ridden erotic novel: ‘I could hear her exhaling steam.’ 

Concerned reader: Why was she exhaling steam? That doesn’t sound very healthy. 

Overheard on a bus

A humanist, shackled by BSE: I don’t have time to read Proust. I’m searching for my own lost time.

Overheard while debating picky eating

Thinks Coke Zero is better: Zero coke people are notoriously very adamant.

Overheard at the RNC

J.D. Vance: The Greeks were so advanced because they embraced homosexuality. But then the women ruined everything.

Overheard at a gas station in Floyd County sitting in an idling truck with the AC turned to 0 degrees on August 2

Over-it intern: Everyday I listen to my coworker’s homeopathy TikToks aloud.

Overheard through Instagram

Obsessed stalker: Tell her I miss her.

Intermediary: What about her?

Obsessed stalker: Her jokes…her thirst for hot guys…that time she ate frozen pineapple.