Category: Arts

All the Pretty Corpses

Cormac McCarthy has established himself as one of the great American authors of the 20th century. His magnificent Border Trilogy, comprised of All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities on the Plain, told the hardscrabble yet ethereal tale of … Read More

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Wondering What Makes the Sea Angry During a Storm

The frantic thrust against a worn beach front. The need to fling upwards and the sickening curling under of a mind changing suddenly.

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The Addict’s Special Need

She could take exactly six-and-a-half steps from one end of the room to the other, and that’s considering she has really short strides.

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Desert House

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Ding dong… hello?

“Go back to work, you miscreant.”

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Witness Theater

Art, trauma, and the Holocaust

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Remembering Charlie Chan

“I found myself at the opening night of Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery almost by chance.”

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Belh m’es quan vey camjar lo senhoratge

I am happy when lordships change again, when the old let their homes go to the young― men can leave behind so many children one must earn a name that may be sung; then I am happy, the world now … Read More

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On Trains

A Nass writer tackles trains, Monet, and a haunting feeling of passivity.

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Zoomorphoism

Five works made with oil paints and ink

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Dark Zeros, Dark Heros

The first time I saw Zero Dark Thirty left me shaken to my core, affected to an extent I rarely experience at the cinema. I was deeply moved by what I saw as a powerful meditation on obsession and revenge … Read More

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Extremely Literary and Incredibly Alumni

About ten days ago, the Nassau Weekly’s editor in chief Jacob Savage interviewed (via telephone) Princeton’s most recent wunderkind, Jonathan Safran Foer ’99, author of the critically acclaimed best-seller Everything is Illuminated, and the recently published Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

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