Category: Reviews

Nass Recommends The Tsar of Love and Techno

“This novel-in-stories traces the lives of multiple generations of characters from the early days of the Soviet Union up into the near-future, all interconnected by an obscure nineteenth-century painting.”

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Nass Recommends (Pete Recommends?) “Bodys” by Car Seat Headrest

“Wherever you are, it’s no longer about the words but now about an ineffable energy that paradoxically grounds you and makes you feel weightless.”

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Lyssna: A Review

The performance was viscerally compelling. Immersed in evolving harmonies and asymmetrical rhythms, I found myself transported to a space outside the predictable and rigid schedules of junior spring, of deadlines and word counts, into a rustic, sunlit world where patterns existed to be deconstructed and reformed.

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The Bourne Escalation

Hollywood retconning just got personal.

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How to Write a Pitchfork Album Review

Listen to two or three of the songs off of the album. Pick them from different sections, so it seems like you listened to the whole thing. Also, don’t call them songs. Call them “tracks” or (even better) “cuts” instead.

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The Setlist (2)

A review of Brokeback’s “Illinois River Valley Blues” and Hand Habits’s “Wildly Idle (Humble Before the Void)”

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When Your B1tch Becomes Human: A Review of My Dog Tulip

“If Ackerley perceives his dependent, female dog as essentially human, this is a strong statement regarding Ackerley’s beliefs about women in general. In fact, many of his statements regarding Tulip, throughout the film, feel steeped in misogyny, given that they are not statements generally associated with dogs.”

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Nass Recommends: Impetigore

A review of Joko Anwar’s psychological horror film.

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Of Matt(yboys) & Moon(thels)

Is it Matt or Matthew?”

Nearly all my life, I have faced this question. More than a courtesy, it is a challenge, a demand: “Identify yourself.”

In my childhood, I was lost and unsure. Who am I? Am I that guy who carelessly shortens his name, soiling the greatest gift, after life, his parents have given him? Or am I that guy who insists on being called by his proper name, like some pompous Alexander or Maximilian?

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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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Nass Recommends: A Guide to the Conscious Consumption of Content

Need a new book, show, or album? Look no further.

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Naomi Klein On How the Climate Crisis and the Political Crisis are One

“A key part of her message is to underscore the ability of citizens to act collectively by developing a robust public sphere capable of addressing all of these issues simultaneously.”

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