Category: Reflections

The Children’s Book That Hurt Me Most: Three Experts Discuss

A Nass writer seeks closure for Each Kindness, a children’s book without a resolution.

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The CD Case of Alexandria

Wherein a Nass writer reflects on lost DVDs as artifacts of a past life.

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Honesty

[I] food [A] star_luvr : spicy fries at terrace fourth course are so obviously made by students they are so overspiced star_luvr : when i cook i put a shit ton of spices on it to test the limits of … Read More

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Whitney Who-Ston?

Mourning the passing of a stranger.

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Peer Review

Since the beginning of time, editors at The Nassau Weekly have taken their pens to each other’s Common Application essays…

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My Life is All I Have

A fable for sons.

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Left Turn

“One thing I’m sorry for is if I compressed you into that night.”

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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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Pilgrimage to Mitsuwa

“Nostalgia is a luxury that I’m willing to pay any price for, and these grocery stores sell it all.”

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An Invisible Minority

I spent this past fall break on a Pace Center Breakout trip in our nation’s capital, visiting congressional lobbies, vocational employment centers, and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where I saw, firsthand, those who had experienced the casualties of war. Eating in the hospital cafeteria, I sat among masses of amputees, the people who actually comprise the looming, abstract statistics we hear always on the news.

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Visualizing God

There is a debate among medieval Jewish philosophers about the permissibility of conceiving of God in physical form. Maimonides, heavily influenced by Aristotelian philosophy, lists the non-corporeality of God as one of the thirteen core principles of faith, and writes in his legal code that anyone who says that God has a body is a heretic with no position in the World to Come.

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Now and Then, Here and There

My grandfather bore a striking resemblance to Benito Mussolini in physique and temperament.

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