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Mommy Issue: Full Design

This week, the Nass tries new hobbies, new words, and new noises.

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A dream of mending

Our skies sink further into dust and while we wait for cloud-made seams, the earth tears limb from limb, and trusts that we will mend her — so it seems.   As fires rage through forests deep, we find ourselves … Read More

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Sounding Off: John Bischoff’s Music is Just Noise

A writer searches for meaning in John Bischoff and James Fei’s recent sound performance.

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Failing With Flying Colors

“While an expert knows what is coming next, a beginner tangoes, babbles and belays into the unknown, giddy and relishing in the awkwardness and delight of the unfamiliar. The experience of trying something new and risking failure is both titillating and terrifying. It’s a lot like getting lost.”

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The Definitive List of Who (or What [or Even Where]) is Mother

Chloë Sevigny Liza Minelli Parker Posey Email Charles Grodin My actual mom’s instagram Red shoes Pirating movies Saugerties, NY  Arby’s  Laura Palmer Tim Heidecker This one shirt I have  Ampersands  The number 28  Apple music (you heard me)  Philip Roth … Read More

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Bicker Ivy: You Just Might Like It

On the transformational psychology of bicker.

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Comics

“Senior Sale” by Hazel Flaherty “Gone Fishing” by Hannah Mittleman

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Letter from the Editors

Dear all,   Since we came to Princeton in the fall of 2020, this little paper has remained a constant source of inspiration, camaraderie, and much mirth. We’re honored to usher in the 46th volume of the Nassau Weekly.   … Read More

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Unrequited Love: Full Design

This week, the Nass investigates the future of art, probes at prosopagnosia, and contemplates a cure for heartsickness.

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Sally Rooney and the New Amorous World

“In part, the devastation of Conversations with Friends lies in its ability to pinpoint the impurities that taint how we care for one another, without offering a clear or optimistic way out.”

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All the Things You and I Sea

“You look Right into the mirror and recognize what you’d drawn, part by part. Then you blink and completely forget what you’d seen, where you’d been –– or rather, you can’t really tell whether you had ever seen anything in the first place.”

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A Beginner’s Guide to Unrequited Love

A writer’s encounter with the tantalizing, bewildering phenomenon of the Princeton Partner.

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