Category: Reviews

A Review of Tall Girl

Considering the notorious Netflix drama.

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Eight Feet

“Has a dude ever peed in your vag?” This is the provocative question posed at the beginning of Eight Feet. In this engaging drama-comedy written by Rafi Abrahams ’13 and directed by Rachel Alter ’14, four college students trapped in a basement bedroom during a snowstorm find themselves reconciling this urine-related trauma.

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Fear and Loathing on Cable

This summer I have taken it upon myself to tackle John Steinbeck’s American epic East of Eden, a modern retelling of the biblical Cain and Abel story set to the backdrop of post-Gold Rush era Northern California—that is, Steinbeck’s own backyard. Summer is, for students at least, that blessed time of intellectual freedom during which schoolwork means almost nothing to you and you are free to read, write, study, and contemplate whatever you wish.

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Barbie Pink and Rani Pink: Crushed Under Corporate Feminism

“Adapting Marx on capitalism, a character in the film notes that ‘Kenland contains the seeds of its own destruction.’ Well, so does Barbie.”

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Spoilers Ahead: Riverdale Season 2 is a Soap Opera for a Younger Audience

In this new season, Riverdale’s soapy plot and neon-lit diner is su used with violence and vigilantism.

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Nass Recommends: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

A look at the Nobel laureate’s newest work.

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11 Fall Break Movie Reviews

Yooo, fall break was a movie…

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Letters to Self: The Nass interviews artist David Timm ‘22

An interview with a Princeton creator.

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Anatomy of A Single Girl

Not long ago, Random House sent a number of free books to the Nassau Weekly in the hopes that we would exercise our considerable influence on campus to publicize and review their products. One volume in particular (a bright pink thing called Anatomy of a Single Girl) caught my eye. It wasn’t just the garish cover or the titillating title, it was—actually, no, it was mostly those things.

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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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Orange Is the New Black

This summer, I went to prison. Well, not actually, but I did watch Netflix’s original series “Orange is the New Black,” and therefore feel as though I am something of an authority on the subject of federal penitentiary. Piper Chapman, the show’s WASPy, neurotic protagonist, has led me on a tour of prison life, providing a kind of personal “scared straight” program.

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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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