Nicholas Russell

Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas. His work has been featured in The Believer, Gawker, The Point, Vulture, the Guardian, and Defector, among other publications.

By the Bomb’s Filmic Light

Nicholas Russell

December 27, 2022

How did the threat of nuclear war become little more than a footnote?

The classic Welcome to Las Vegas sign and a photo of hills in the desert are collaged together and arranged on a grid with some blocks missing and others replaced with opaque pink and orange blocks, and with green dots overlaying them in a seemingly random pattern.

Everything’s Great When You’re Downtown

Nicholas Russell

July 25, 2022

Issue no. 64

The short afterlife of Tony Hsieh’s Las Vegas.