Barista: Is whole milk fine with that?
Wife: Yes, please.
Husband: Skim.
Overheard at Sakrid.
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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 clouds. in our kitchen, my mother cuts her finger unwrapping three layers of stiff…
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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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Telescoping Melt
A much celebrated and reviled Nass tradition. To telescope, writers write a brief 300 word piece on a theme (this year, “melt”). Then, a 150 word piece. Then, 75 words. Then, 37 and a half. You’ll see.
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Pitching Ideas Over Boxed Wine: Former Nass Editor Harold Parker ‘08 Reminisces
A Nass alum on the late-night, wine-fueled energies that continue to power the magazine
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Jeff Nunokawa Has Nothing to Lose
A Second Look contributor profiles an English professor who really needs no introduction
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My Month on Meat
“Don’t you think that things can be made special by being indescribable? That there’s a certain divinity in that?”
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Nass Recommends: The Princeton French Film Festival
A Nass Contributor, who does not speak French, attends this year’s screenings