https://www.nplusonemag.com n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics. Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:34:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.nplusonemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/cropped-n1_web_favicon-32x32.png https://www.nplusonemag.com 32 32 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-renters-republic/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-renters-republic/#respond Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:46:14 +0000 <![CDATA[Charlie Dulik]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> <![CDATA[Urban Planning]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54849 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[In a majority-homeowner nation, the rental crisis alone cannot explain Harris’s defeat, especially since the concentration of renters in cities means that as a group they likely still tilted toward her. But the demographic overlap between tenants and those who moved away from Harris cannot be ignored. Moreover, the failure to adequately address the housing crisis exemplifies the fecklessness that doomed Harris’s campaign. Any effort to challenge Trump and the reactionary forces he spearheads must not make the same mistake.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-renters-republic/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/as-good-as-it-gets/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/as-good-as-it-gets/#respond Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:24:21 +0000 <![CDATA[Joel Suarez]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> <![CDATA[Race and Racism]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54845 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[By themselves, strong growth and low unemployment cannot wash away social divisions, any more than they can empower labor enough to substantively increase wages, to say nothing of raising the labor share of national income. The left must not be cowed into a narrow politics of income inequality and redistribution; it must look further, toward democratic control of capital itself.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/as-good-as-it-gets/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/an-evening-with-the-european-review-of-books/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/an-evening-with-the-european-review-of-books/#respond Wed, 13 Nov 2024 18:26:05 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54843 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[George Blaustein, Sander Pleij, and Wiegertje Postma in New York]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/an-evening-with-the-european-review-of-books/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/milestones/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/milestones/#respond Wed, 06 Nov 2024 22:28:28 +0000 <![CDATA[Mark Krotov]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54834 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Some of Trump’s voters—namely the rich and the superrich—will get exactly what they wanted out of the deal. Most will not.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/milestones/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/a-celebration-of-the-intellectual-situation/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/a-celebration-of-the-intellectual-situation/#respond Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:57:06 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54832 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Join McNally Jackson and n+1 to celebrate n+1’s new anthology, The Intellectual Situation: The Best of n+1’s Second Decade! We’ll toast the new book, and contributors Tony Tulathimutte, Andrea Long Chu, Sarah Resnick, Jesse McCarthy, Dayna Tortorici, and Ari M. Brostoff will read. RSVP via McNally Jackson. Thursday, November 14 7 PM McNally Jacskon Williamsburg (76 North […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/a-celebration-of-the-intellectual-situation/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/outside-thoughts/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/outside-thoughts/#respond Tue, 29 Oct 2024 15:09:14 +0000 <![CDATA[Stephen Squibb]]> <![CDATA[In Memoriam]]> <![CDATA[The Academy]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54822 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[As with any object under scientific investigation, theorizing philosophy scientifically requires locating its borders, which can only be accomplished by recognizing what is beyond and outside it—that is, what is non-philosophy.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/outside-thoughts/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-art-of-the-rent-gap/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-art-of-the-rent-gap/#respond Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:27:45 +0000 <![CDATA[Samuel Stein]]> <![CDATA[Film]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> <![CDATA[Urban Planning]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54814 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The Grand Hyatt may have been achieved through blackmail, but once Trump and his enablers set the precedent, it became the paradigm still practiced in this city and many others. In the 1970s cities needed money, and rather than pursuing revenue by taxing the rich, many mayors—sometimes grudgingly, sometimes enthusiastically—embraced the idea that it would be better not to tax them outright, and instead inaugurate a race to the bottom between cities for who could create the climate most friendly to the rich (and, almost by definition, most hostile to the poor).]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-art-of-the-rent-gap/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/the-outfit-at-metrograph/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/the-outfit-at-metrograph/#respond Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:20:32 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54812 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Join n+1, and film critic A. S. Hamrah, for a rare screening of John Flynn’s The Outfit (1973) in 35mm! In collaboration with Metrograph, Hamrah—author of The Earth Dies Streaming (n+1 Books, 2018)—will introduce the film’s first screening in New York in at least 15 years. Tickets are $17. 4:50 PM Sunday, November 3 Metrograph 7 […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/the-outfit-at-metrograph/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-white-kids-are-alright/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-white-kids-are-alright/#respond Wed, 23 Oct 2024 15:52:19 +0000 <![CDATA[Charlotte Rosen]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> <![CDATA[Race and Racism]]> <![CDATA[The Law]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54784 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[In the end, it was this coalition of suburban centrists, rather than the more openly villainous Anita Bryant types, who paved the way for the drug war’s worst racialized harms. By killing federal marijuana decriminalization and pushing Carter toward a “zero-tolerance” approach, networks of affluent white parents sponsored the patterns of disproportionate arrest, prosecution, and incapacitation of Black and brown youth on marijuana charges that would come to a head under Reagan and Clinton.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-white-kids-are-alright/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/design-authority/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/design-authority/#respond Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:16:14 +0000 <![CDATA[Thomas de Monchaux]]> <![CDATA[Art and Architecture]]> <![CDATA[Ecology]]> <![CDATA[Film]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54807 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[There are no dentists in Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, much of which takes place at a lofty and ethereal architecture studio in the Chrysler Building’s tip.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/design-authority/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/survivor-mission/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/survivor-mission/#respond Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:28:07 +0000 <![CDATA[Elias Altman]]> <![CDATA[My Life and Times]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> <![CDATA[Urban Planning]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54794 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The dual messages felt scrambled by that dialectic of trauma—the pain of remembering, the need to move on; the need to have it remembered, the pain of others forgetting. And what about the name? Memorials typically commemorate the dead for something they did heroically or that tragically befell them. This one played with time. Dedicated to the memory of all survivors—by definition alive—in the past, present, and future.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/survivor-mission/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/issue-48-reading-and-launch-celebration/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/issue-48-reading-and-launch-celebration/#respond Fri, 11 Oct 2024 18:15:26 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54788 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[n+1 at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/issue-48-reading-and-launch-celebration/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/eroticize-the-hood/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/eroticize-the-hood/#respond Tue, 08 Oct 2024 15:04:24 +0000 <![CDATA[José Sanchez]]> <![CDATA[Love and Sex]]> <![CDATA[My Life and Times]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> <![CDATA[Urban Planning]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54777 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[In media and popular culture, Newark has long appeared as irredeemably unsexy, violent, destitute. “Queer Newark reclaims Newark,” Strub declares defiantly, “as a place of desire, love, eroticism, community, and resistance.” The book snuffs out the dominant view of the city, one ethnography and endnote at a time.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/eroticize-the-hood/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-last-days-of-mankind/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-last-days-of-mankind/#respond Sat, 28 Sep 2024 17:14:06 +0000 <![CDATA[Pankaj Mishra]]> <![CDATA[Race and Racism]]> <![CDATA[Reading, Writing, and Publishing]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54772 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Today, the war on terror is widely accepted as a military and geopolitical failure. But it is still not fully understood as a massive intellectual and moral fiasco: an attempt by the Western media as well as the political class to forge reality itself, which failed catastrophically, but not without embedding cruelty and mendacity deep and enduringly in public life. And partly because this disaster was unacknowledged—editors and writers pushing false narratives, and cheerleading large-scale violence, remained entrenched, and even received promotions—it is being reenacted today in the Western media’s coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza: another war that has ignited a bonfire of international legal and moral norms and deadened and perverted consciences.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-last-days-of-mankind/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/as-long-as-you-continue-to-resist/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/as-long-as-you-continue-to-resist/#respond Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:04:42 +0000 <![CDATA[Bassem Saad]]> <![CDATA[Colonialism]]> <![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> <![CDATA[Theory and Philosophy]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54765 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The concrete dilemmas which Amel faced and the answers he tried to articulate continue to provide models for a unity of revolutionary thought and action. Like his other formulations, Amel’s "colonial mode of production" is an artifact of struggle, developed at a time of worsening defeat, from the 1967 Naksa to the expulsion of the Palestinian resistance and the left during the Lebanese Civil War. It is an ambitious but practical theoretical apparatus, meant to link the battles of far-flung societies and their toiling classes, in and after the crucible of national independence.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/as-long-as-you-continue-to-resist/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/if-its-free-ill-take-it/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/if-its-free-ill-take-it/#respond Wed, 25 Sep 2024 15:44:53 +0000 <![CDATA[Morley Musick]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[City Mouse]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54756 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[In the weeks before the convention, I felt as if I wanted to break into my television, to shake history—like the phantom accelerator reaction one makes with incompetent drivers, I mouthed words for the president during the June debate, trying to influence him from afar.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/if-its-free-ill-take-it/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/summers-over/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/summers-over/#respond Mon, 23 Sep 2024 15:07:36 +0000 <![CDATA[The Bad Side]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54747 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The tableau was sickening and, of course, telling. On one side, a congressional representative and mouth-frothing agent of the religious right. On the other, a liberal cosmopolitan and leader of an Ivy League, and in this case, an Egyptian baroness and former VP at the World Bank. Two distinct and supposedly clashing cultural expressions of elite power, speaking in vastly discrepant registers—each one smirking or even scowling at the other. But they converged on a vital point: The time had come to smash the campus Palestine movement.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/summers-over/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/why-is-everything-so-ugly-a-discussion/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/why-is-everything-so-ugly-a-discussion/#respond Fri, 20 Sep 2024 16:58:08 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54745 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Ugliness in architecture and beyond]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/why-is-everything-so-ugly-a-discussion/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/walter-scott-reads-from-the-wendy-award/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/walter-scott-reads-from-the-wendy-award/#respond Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:46:59 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54738 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[On Tuesday, October 1, join n+1 in celebrating the release of Walter Scott‘s new book, The Wendy Award (Drawn & Quarterly). Scott will read from The Wendy Award, followed by a conversation with n+1 managing editor Tess Edmonson. The book is available for purchase from the n+1 bookstore. The event is free and open to the public, […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/walter-scott-reads-from-the-wendy-award/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/whos-afraid-of-free-trade/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/whos-afraid-of-free-trade/#respond Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:52:16 +0000 <![CDATA[Marc-William Palen, Colin Vanderburg]]> <![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54727 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[I increasingly wonder how often we've labeled protesters as “anti-globalization” who were, in fact, advocating for alter-globalization, and were critiquing the lack of labor or environmental protections in major international trade agreements, or in WTO decision-making processes, and so forth, but were not necessarily opposed to economic interdependence. So on top of the critiques of the decolonizing world and the Global South, we also see this reinvestment of grassroots energy from the left.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/whos-afraid-of-free-trade/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/vacuum-studies/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/vacuum-studies/#respond Fri, 13 Sep 2024 21:02:59 +0000 <![CDATA[A. S. Hamrah]]> <![CDATA[Film]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54730 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Let me be the first and only critic to point out that Reagan, a three-year-old biopic on the life of the fortieth president of the United States that’s just getting released now—a film directed by a man whose other movies include Casper Meets Wendy, Bratz, and Field of Lost Shoes—is a better movie than Deadpool & Wolverine.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/vacuum-studies/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-jane-mcalevey/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-jane-mcalevey/#respond Mon, 09 Sep 2024 15:42:59 +0000 <![CDATA[Luis Feliz Leon, Elizabeth Oh, Deepak Pateriya, Maria Svart, Cea Weaver]]> <![CDATA[In Memoriam]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54716 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[When Jane McAlevey died on July 7, aged 59, the left lost a brilliant organizer, author, teacher, and comrade. After early experience in environmental justice and anti-apartheid activism, McAlevey found her calling in the labor movement, starting in the 1990s. As a staffer with the AFL-CIO and later SEIU, McAlevey helped organize new shops and […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-jane-mcalevey/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/against-the-people/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/against-the-people/#respond Thu, 05 Sep 2024 15:59:15 +0000 <![CDATA[Melinda Cooper, Malcolm Harris]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54718 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[These conflicts tend to recur every ten years or so, with a different cast of characters, but always involving the idea that taxpayer money is being spent on a public institution that undermines the private authority of parents—abortion clinics, child care centers, public libraries, public schools.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/against-the-people/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/fear-and-favor-in-chicago/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/fear-and-favor-in-chicago/#respond Wed, 04 Sep 2024 16:59:17 +0000 <![CDATA[Ari M. Brostoff, Alex Colston, Ismail Ibrahim, Lakshmi Padmanabhan, Nolan Perla-Ward, Dylan Saba]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54711 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The way I’ve begun to think about this is that it’s just not possible to have a US imperial fortress state with Rainbow Coalition characteristics—the most multiracial genocidal coalition in the history of the world. It’s a strange fact, and it can’t be resolved.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/fear-and-favor-in-chicago/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/emily-witt-and-tony-tulathimutte-in-conversation/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/emily-witt-and-tony-tulathimutte-in-conversation/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:47:39 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54673 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[On Wednesday, September 25, join n+1 contributors Emily Witt and Tony Tulathimutte for a discussion of their new books, Health and Safety (Pantheon) and Rejection (William Morrow). Both books are available for preorder from the n+1 bookstore and will be published in September. The event is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/emily-witt-and-tony-tulathimutte-in-conversation/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/richard-beck-and-nikil-saval-in-conversation/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/richard-beck-and-nikil-saval-in-conversation/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:18:32 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54671 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[On Monday, September 9, join n+1 senior writer Richard Beck in conversation with former n+1 coeditor Nikil Saval at McNally Jackson’s South Street Seaport location in Manhattan. They’ll be discussing Beck’s new book, Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life, which is out in September from Crown and available for preorder from the n+1 […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/richard-beck-and-nikil-saval-in-conversation/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/politics/crow-jane-makes-a-modest-proposal/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/politics/crow-jane-makes-a-modest-proposal/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:05:34 +0000 <![CDATA[Saidiya Hartman]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Race and Racism]]> <![CDATA[The Academy]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54615 <![CDATA[]]><![CDATA[It feels good to be a role model, she reflects. Young people need examples they can emulate, otherwise they risk nihilism. Melancholy historicism, as has been documented by several big-data projects on the counterintuitive ratio between happiness and hunger in the Global South, is an obstacle to upward mobility and success. The morality tale about her crackhead sister, her cousin Pookie, and her death-dealing nephew Bar-b-que goes over well with the conservatives. On special occasions, at a Juneteenth celebration or a mass funeral, she might even hum a few bars from “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” or sing off-key “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” in homage to her community.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/politics/crow-jane-makes-a-modest-proposal/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/reviews/auto-show-dispatch-2/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/reviews/auto-show-dispatch-2/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:05:30 +0000 <![CDATA[Mark Krotov]]> <![CDATA[Reviews]]> <![CDATA[Cars]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54644 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Whenever a child walking along a four-lane exurban road is killed by a driver who swerves into the shoulder, whenever someone can get away with driving 98 miles per hour in a 55 zone, whenever a family of seven in an ostensibly safe minivan is killed despite the self-evident technological ability to limit speeds, redesign roads, and enforce existing regulations, it seems reasonable to infer that car culture isn’t really about sexy concept cars or futuristic taillights. Car culture is really about death.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/reviews/auto-show-dispatch-2/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/fiction-drama/trying-to-establish-myself-as-a-young-man/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/fiction-drama/trying-to-establish-myself-as-a-young-man/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:05:25 +0000 <![CDATA[Angelo Hernandez Sias]]> <![CDATA[Fiction and Drama]]> <![CDATA[Love and Sex]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54663 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Out last night with Deja for a drink at a new bar near campus. The bar is nice but cannot decide who it is for. Drinks too sweet. After two my head was heavy. Hers too perhaps. I feel so grateful to have met you, she said. It’s when she says things like that.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/fiction-drama/trying-to-establish-myself-as-a-young-man/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/letters/one-persons-bag-of-dog-hair-is-another-persons-treasure/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/letters/one-persons-bag-of-dog-hair-is-another-persons-treasure/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:05:21 +0000 <![CDATA[The Editors]]> <![CDATA[Letters]]> <![CDATA[Angry Letters]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54650 <![CDATA[]]><![CDATA[How is my going to Goodwill and coming out with a garbage bag full of clothes any different, really, from ordering several $2.99 items from a company like SHEIN? Because I drove there in my electric car?]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/letters/one-persons-bag-of-dog-hair-is-another-persons-treasure/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/poetry/two-poems-2/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/poetry/two-poems-2/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:05:16 +0000 <![CDATA[Laura Kolbe]]> <![CDATA[Poetry]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54654 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[I am the roof of my mouth And more: meshed complex of various Hardbound moistures whose syncing concert, Fires and contractions, writ sixty-four inches large, Wins bread. How strange. How hinged on organs Clacking along, on thought’s mostly lost Steam, and this is how the barn stays raised?]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/poetry/two-poems-2/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/essays/the-contingency-contingent/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/essays/the-contingency-contingent/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:04:58 +0000 <![CDATA[Leigh Claire La Berge]]> <![CDATA[Essays]]> <![CDATA[My Life and Times]]> <![CDATA[Science and Technology]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54624 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[By December 1999, the feeling at the Conglomerate’s Y2K office was that nothing more could really be done. This is a common enough cliché on the approach of any moment of finality, but was particularly apt in our case, since nothing really had been done.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/essays/the-contingency-contingent/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/the-intellectual-situation/hollow-man-2/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/the-intellectual-situation/hollow-man-2/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:04:56 +0000 <![CDATA[The Editors]]> <![CDATA[The Intellectual Situation]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54636 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[It’s not surprising that Biden — longtime member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, interlocutor with world leaders, international legacy burnisher — would leave his biggest mark in foreign rather than domestic policy. His greatest impact will be felt not in Afghanistan or in Ukraine, however, but in Gaza. Any assessment of Biden’s presidency is stained by Gaza, where for almost a year he has supported, defended, armed, and funded Israel’s genocide.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/the-intellectual-situation/hollow-man-2/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/essays/eat-poop-you-cat/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/essays/eat-poop-you-cat/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:04:54 +0000 <![CDATA[Rachel Ossip]]> <![CDATA[Essays]]> <![CDATA[Science and Technology]]> <![CDATA[The Internet]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54625 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[But to say that “if this technology is left unchecked, it will radically reshape the field of journalism” is to paint a rather rosy picture of the field. The dystopian future Mazria Katz and Crabapple fear will come to pass if GenAI is left unchecked — the one in which “only a tiny elite of artists can remain in business, their work selling as a kind of luxury status symbol” — is, unfortunately, already here.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/essays/eat-poop-you-cat/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/fiction-drama/girls-and-institutions/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/fiction-drama/girls-and-institutions/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:04:52 +0000 <![CDATA[Daria Serenko]]> <![CDATA[Fiction and Drama]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54651 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The girls accepted me as one of their own. We often turned into a single many-armed, many-legged creature, jubilant, all-powerful, devastating. In those moments, I no longer felt my own powerlessness or the weakness in my knees.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/fiction-drama/girls-and-institutions/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/essays/death-of-the-party/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/essays/death-of-the-party/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:04:29 +0000 <![CDATA[Raven Leilani]]> <![CDATA[Essays]]> <![CDATA[My Life and Times]]> <![CDATA[Reading, Writing, and Publishing]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54631 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[I was embarrassed. To be grieving incorrectly, to be doing it publicly, to be preoccupied with whether I was doing it well. Dissonance was everywhere. The blunted, abject language of bereavement, and the responsibility I had, which I had worked for and wanted, to speak clearly about my own sentences.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/essays/death-of-the-party/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/reviews/the-fifty-year-revolt/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/reviews/the-fifty-year-revolt/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:04:27 +0000 <![CDATA[Dan Berger]]> <![CDATA[Reviews]]> <![CDATA[Race and Racism]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54633 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The carceral system is vastly larger and more pervasive now than it was a half century ago. When the revolt began, the United States incarcerated approximately two hundred thousand people; today it imprisons almost two million. This expansion in turn presents contemporary abolitionists with different challenges.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/reviews/the-fifty-year-revolt/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/fiction-drama/the-resurrection-appearance-at-parque-litico-la-movediza/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/fiction-drama/the-resurrection-appearance-at-parque-litico-la-movediza/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:04:23 +0000 <![CDATA[Tom Bubul]]> <![CDATA[Fiction and Drama]]> <![CDATA[Religion]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54639 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The pope consumes three grams of psychedelic mushrooms, and as he does not speak, the therapist also remains quiet. Two hours into the session the therapist plays Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka’s 2012 recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations at a low volume, causing the pope to weep and wonder why he didn’t listen to music more often during the many years prior to the visitor’s arrival.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/fiction-drama/the-resurrection-appearance-at-parque-litico-la-movediza/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/reviews/good-boys/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/reviews/good-boys/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:04:19 +0000 <![CDATA[Reed McConnell]]> <![CDATA[Reviews]]> <![CDATA[Education/Schooling]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54623 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Pinocchio turns into a real boy at the story’s end not because he has absorbed some Kantian sense of duty, but because his slow-growing love for the blue-haired fairy and Geppetto compels him to care for them in their sickness and old age. In other words, he learns to obey them because his love for them singles them out as people worth listening to. This is Collodi’s answer to an inescapably human dilemma: to whom do you listen when you are surrounded by warring factions and have not yet developed a will of your own?]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/reviews/good-boys/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/politics/do-border/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/politics/do-border/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:03:57 +0000 <![CDATA[Daniel Denvir]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Nationalism]]> <![CDATA[Race and Racism]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54616 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[This is the state of American immigration politics: a destructive competition over who can do border better. But, as the unholy linking of foreign military aid to domestic border defense attests, this gross spectacle distracts from a far wider web of issues. Who has a right to migrate to the US and make their home here? Who gets to drop US-made bombs, and who is expected to silently suffer them? Because a Democratic President is punishing refugees at the US-Mexico border while also sponsoring the genocide of refugees in Gaza, these are not unrelated questions. ]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/politics/do-border/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/hollow-man/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/hollow-man/#respond Mon, 19 Aug 2024 15:51:39 +0000 <![CDATA[The Editors]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54607 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Even for a nation obsessed with presidential politics, the past summer has furnished a shocking density of spectacle. The calamitous debate; the torpor over Biden’s decision-making and the internecine drama in the Democratic Party; the surreal assassination attempt against Donald Trump; the Republican National Convention that began two days later, where the hateful and punitive conservative project put itself on full display and coronated its new geriatric-millennial standard-bearer, J. D. Vance; Trump’s endless, soul-sucking RNC acceptance speech; Biden’s unassuming announcement-via-PDF of his decision to withdraw; the impossibly rapid rise of Kamala Harris in his place.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/hollow-man/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/foules-gold/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/foules-gold/#respond Sun, 18 Aug 2024 14:41:42 +0000 <![CDATA[Miles Osgood]]> <![CDATA[Sports]]> <![CDATA[Urban Planning]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54604 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Snoop Dogg was our everyman everywhere all at once. One day he was taking a dunk with Michael Phelps, joking about his lung power; the next he was with Martha Stewart at Versailles, teaching us the difference between “piaffe” and “passage.” For an amateur among experts, his commentary ended up as some of the best of the stretch, with his freestyle riffs voiced over BMX highlights (“you mean he’s two-wheelin’ and dealin’ and gold-medal fulfillin’?”) and out at the Stade de France for the steeplechase (“we’re about to get to dippin’, rippin’, ride and slippin’”).]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/foules-gold/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/mouse-magazine-premiere/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/mouse-magazine-premiere/#respond Mon, 15 Jul 2024 17:30:30 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54581 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[In print at last!]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/mouse-magazine-premiere/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/psychozionism/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/psychozionism/#respond Wed, 03 Jul 2024 18:10:23 +0000 <![CDATA[Adrian Daub]]> <![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54542 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[These are the characteristic language games of the German right: and now politicians across the spectrum make these seemingly baffling connections, and a much larger swath of voters and journalists than before seem to accept them as logical and plausible. When white, non-Jewish Germans try to imagine the fear felt by their Jewish neighbors and friends, they instead paint a vivid picture of their own; that they themselves might figure in their Jewish compatriots’ fears is not a possibility they find worth contemplating.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/psychozionism/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/tomorrow-will-be-a-good-day/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/tomorrow-will-be-a-good-day/#respond Tue, 02 Jul 2024 19:42:03 +0000 <![CDATA[David Wingrave]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54554 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The country is battered and exhausted. Under almost every conceivable metric, people are worse off than they were in 2010. Food bank use has increased fifty-fold. The number of people on NHS waiting lists has more than doubled. Child poverty is up and average child height is down. Every single river in England is polluted with untreated sewage run-off. That isn’t hyperbole. Every single river in England, and most of its coastal waters, are full of shit.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/tomorrow-will-be-a-good-day/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/we-bought-the-certain-dog/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/we-bought-the-certain-dog/#respond Fri, 28 Jun 2024 21:33:34 +0000 <![CDATA[Mark Krotov]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[TV]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54547 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The debate’s enforced vacuity made little room for sustained discussions of policy—much less for the relationship between policy and daily life. Biden tried where he could, but he didn’t mention his transformative NLRB or FTC appointments, and he was in no position to force a conversation about the child care tax credit or reshoring manufacturing jobs on anything like his own terms, whatever those might have been.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/we-bought-the-certain-dog/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/grief-guides/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/grief-guides/#respond Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:33:43 +0000 <![CDATA[Meg Bernhard]]> <![CDATA[My Life and Times]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54533 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Three months after the training, I traveled to my hometown in southern California. Officially, I was there with my parents and sister for my grandmother’s 88th birthday. Unofficially, I was there to ask her how she wanted to die. I’d looked into death doulas in the area because I was curious, but I had a feeling my grandmother wouldn’t want to hire one, mostly for financial reasons. If she had a definite death plan in mind, she’d never told us. Sometimes she’d say she wants to be buried in the plot next to her parents in Texas; other times she’d say she wants to be cremated, because cremation is cheaper. My family wanted to figure out her wishes, but we rarely discuss things like this together, and broaching the subject had so far felt overwhelming. I offered to try.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/grief-guides/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/all-aboard-the-moral-panic/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/all-aboard-the-moral-panic/#respond Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:34:09 +0000 <![CDATA[Youbin Kang]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[New York]]> <![CDATA[Race and Racism]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54526 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[With each horror story from the city’s winding tunnels, increasingly documented in spectacular photos and videos, a collective fear resurfaces and takes hold in the media, typically helping to consolidate support for law-and-order ideologies. Violent crime, whether real or perceived, is seen by default as a crisis of public safety; but on trains and buses it is equally a matter of workplace safety.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/all-aboard-the-moral-panic/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/interiority-burger/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/interiority-burger/#respond Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:55:45 +0000 <![CDATA[Morley Musick]]> <![CDATA[City Mouse]]> <![CDATA[New York]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54521 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[I turned to my friend and said, “This is pretty good, but not that good.” He agreed, “It’s fine. It gives me some ideas for other sandwiches.” “I was expecting something to blow my mind.” “Yeah," he said. “I thought I would eat this sandwich and declare: ‘You must change your life!’”]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/interiority-burger/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/do-much-more-to-meet-this-moment/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/do-much-more-to-meet-this-moment/#respond Tue, 11 Jun 2024 22:01:03 +0000 <![CDATA[Rotua Lumbantobing, Gabriel Winant, Todd Wolfson]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> <![CDATA[The Academy]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54513 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[As the ascendant far right attempts to assert its hegemony, it has identified universities and academics as important obstacles to its success. In this, the enemies of academic freedom and scholarly inquiry are correct. But it is not enough only to defend the institution from the intensifying siege: our divisions are magnified in defensive struggles, and the terms of debate, such as they are, are set by those who’d burn the libraries down if they could. It is only by going on the attack, and laying out a vision for a democratic university serving the common good, that we can unite the disparate and fractious forces of academic labor, along with the broader sectors of society to which they’re connected—students, first of all.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/do-much-more-to-meet-this-moment/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/superlatives/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/superlatives/#respond Thu, 30 May 2024 15:44:01 +0000 <![CDATA[Rozina Ali]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> <![CDATA[Reading, Writing, and Publishing]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54507 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Over the following weeks, and then months, as Israel’s onslaught continued, I noticed a growing number of experts, humanitarian workers, and investigators turning to superlatives to describe what is taking place in Gaza. What they narrate is a conflict that has surpassed their records, expectations, and imagination, and a scale of destruction in the face of which comparisons break down. If there are limits to war, they have yet to be defined.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/superlatives/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/renegade-faction-of-the-tassled-loafer-class/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/renegade-faction-of-the-tassled-loafer-class/#respond Tue, 21 May 2024 16:05:11 +0000 <![CDATA[Daniel Schlozman]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54489 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[That our political institutions make big change difficult, that public opinion is often fragmentary and contradictory, that politics is a battle of competing social interests over the distribution of resources and prestige, with winners and losers who then reshape the landscape—none of this is exactly a revelation, yet none of it seems to have occurred to the authors of Common Sense.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/renegade-faction-of-the-tassled-loafer-class/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/last-month-at-columbia/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/last-month-at-columbia/#respond Mon, 13 May 2024 19:37:35 +0000 <![CDATA[Deeva Gupta]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[New York]]> <![CDATA[The Academy]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54471 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The architecture of Columbia University enhances spectacle, a fact that historically has been both useful and not for protestors. Since 1968, the campus has been bolstered with riot-proof architecture: large gathering space is limited to the center of the campus, which makes visual performance, and the suppression of it, easy. The peculiar American fetish for the Ivy League turns this campus into a tourist attraction in the summer months, when it is impossible to avoid large groups of visitors posing for selfies. The day before CUAD began their sit-in, the lawns were filled with Spikeball trampolines and buff boys playing with the wicked sense that the world was watching their enjoyment. Since then, wide-lens cameras positioned between the metal gates on 116th have turned the semi-privacy of college life into a live-action broadcast.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/last-month-at-columbia/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/daniel-schlozman-and-sam-rosenfeld-in-conversation-with-mark-krotov/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/daniel-schlozman-and-sam-rosenfeld-in-conversation-with-mark-krotov/#respond Mon, 06 May 2024 15:31:06 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54461 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[A discussion of The Hollow Parties]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/daniel-schlozman-and-sam-rosenfeld-in-conversation-with-mark-krotov/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/whose-leash/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/whose-leash/#respond Fri, 26 Apr 2024 21:31:29 +0000 <![CDATA[A. C. Corey]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> <![CDATA[Race and Racism]]> <![CDATA[The Academy]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54442 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Many anarchists hate cops because cops are part of “the state.” True enough, from one angle. But seen from another, it might be more useful to think of them as a political bloc with their own interests, maybe even a “class fraction” or a Weberian status-group. As Stuart Schrader has argued, this is especially true now, after several rounds of neoliberal “police reform” efforts that entrenched police identity and their sense of group interest through “professionalization” and the emergence of entrepreneurialized competition between municipalities for limited state funding. As they became more autonomous, police started looking less like agents of the state and more like a gang or racket.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/whose-leash/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/issue-47-reading-and-launch-celebration/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/issue-47-reading-and-launch-celebration/#respond Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:53:26 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54436 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Join n+1 in Greenpoint]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/issue-47-reading-and-launch-celebration/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/announcements/free-to-download-the-stop-cop-city-and-the-struggles-to-come-zine/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/announcements/free-to-download-the-stop-cop-city-and-the-struggles-to-come-zine/#respond Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:00:50 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54432 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[In January 2024, n+1 published Stop Cop City and the Struggles to Come, a zine that collects two essays about the movement to stop the construction of a new police training center in Atlanta. First published in the Fall 2023 issue of n+1, “Not One Tree”—by Grace Glass with Sasha Tycko—provides an emotional and inner history of the forest defenders’ life […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/announcements/free-to-download-the-stop-cop-city-and-the-struggles-to-come-zine/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/shibboleth-gold/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/shibboleth-gold/#respond Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:16:33 +0000 <![CDATA[Justin Taylor]]> <![CDATA[Fiction and Drama]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54421 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[A world of muffled noise and muted color, personal space that speaks in inches, bland food served cool. It’s an apt time for reflection. Retrospection, I guess you’d say. On a long enough flight you could screen the whole movie of your life, director’s cut and all the bonus features. But the Portland–LA flight was barely two hours, and I wasn’t looking to root around in the archives of my memory palace. I was mulling and brooding, yes, but not over ancient history.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/shibboleth-gold/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/not-writing/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/not-writing/#respond Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:42:39 +0000 <![CDATA[Danielle Dutton]]> <![CDATA[Reading, Writing, and Publishing]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54412 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Is it wrong to want to write toward what isn’t intended to be read? What I want is a story that’s an object that can turn itself inside out. So perhaps what I’m thinking of as inspiration is something else instead. Not to be writing like Martin but to be not writing like her.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/not-writing/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-university-of-the-future/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-university-of-the-future/#respond Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:51:25 +0000 <![CDATA[Jorge Coronado, Bethany Letiecq, Gabriel Winant]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> <![CDATA[The Academy]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54417 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[It is now crystal clear to me that we must pivot our strategy and get on offense. We need to articulate and fight for what we want the university to be, and we need to create targeted campaigns to achieve it.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-university-of-the-future/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/nicolas-medina-mora-and-mark-krotov-in-conversation/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/nicolas-medina-mora-and-mark-krotov-in-conversation/#respond Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:50:01 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54411 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[On Sunday, May 19, join n+1 contributor Nicolás Medina Mora in conversation with coeditor Mark Krotov at Unnameable Books in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. They’ll be discussing Medina Mora’s new novel, América del Norte, which is out this May from Soho Press and available for preorder from the n+1 bookstore. Sunday, May 19 7 PM Unnameable Books […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/nicolas-medina-mora-and-mark-krotov-in-conversation/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/nicolas-medina-mora-and-elias-rodriques-in-conversation/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/nicolas-medina-mora-and-elias-rodriques-in-conversation/#respond Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:54:08 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54409 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[On Tuesday, May 7, join n+1 contributor Nicolás Medina Mora in conversation with associate editor Elias Rodriques for the launch of Medina Mora’s new novel, América del Norte! The book, which began its life in the pages of n+1, is out this May from Soho Press and available for preorder from the n+1 bookstore. The event is […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/nicolas-medina-mora-and-elias-rodriques-in-conversation/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/hannah-proctor-and-tess-edmonson-in-conversation/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/hannah-proctor-and-tess-edmonson-in-conversation/#respond Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:29:36 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54404 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[On Wednesday, May 1, join writer Hannah Proctor in conversation with n+1 managing editor Tess Edmonson. They’ll be discussing Proctor’s new book, Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat, out this month from Verso. The event is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are strongly encouraged. Beer and wine will be available for […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/hannah-proctor-and-tess-edmonson-in-conversation/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/auto-show-dispatch/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/auto-show-dispatch/#respond Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:25:49 +0000 <![CDATA[Mark Krotov]]> <![CDATA[Cars]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54398 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The US’s biggest infrastructure project—bigger than the New Deal–era dams and the Erie Canal—was the highway system, which destroyed the American city and, arguably but I think not that arguably, American society itself. The country’s midcentury racist spatial self-destruction is a crime that will never be sufficiently atoned for. Whenever a child walking along a four-lane exurban road is killed by a driver who swerves into the shoulder, whenever someone is simply able to drive 98 miles per hour in a 55 zone, whenever a family of seven in an ostensibly safe minivan is killed despite the self-evident technological ability to limit speeds, redesign roads, and enforce existing regulations, it seems reasonable to infer that what car culture is really about aren’t sexy concept cars or futuristic taillights. What car culture is really about is death.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/auto-show-dispatch/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/politics/no-human-being-can-exist-2/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/politics/no-human-being-can-exist-2/#respond Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:45:44 +0000 <![CDATA[Saree Makdisi]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> <![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54313 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Nine hundred, 1,000, 1,500, 1,800, 2,600, 3,500, 4,600, 5,000, 5,900, 6,500. The fatality figures, with which no one can keep up, are augmented every few hours with another twenty here and thirty there as this building or that is brought down in a cataclysmic burst of fire, smoke, and rubble. Three or four hundred people — or more — are being killed every day.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/politics/no-human-being-can-exist-2/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/the-intellectual-situation/who-sees-gaza/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/the-intellectual-situation/who-sees-gaza/#respond Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:43:18 +0000 <![CDATA[The Editors]]> <![CDATA[The Intellectual Situation]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54295 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[There is something uniquely disturbing about this type of cultural production, which feels like it should be satire but is not. It reveals a stunning disregard for life — a perverse, almost gleeful nihilism. One would like to think that pop culture could not so comfortably house calls for genocide, or that respect for human dignity would restrain a person from glibly expressing murderous intent through forms whose content is supposed to be touching, inspiring, or at the very least benign. Kids should not be singing about annihilation on YouTube.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/the-intellectual-situation/who-sees-gaza/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/essays/an-age-of-hyperabundance/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/essays/an-age-of-hyperabundance/#respond Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:43:08 +0000 <![CDATA[Laura Preston]]> <![CDATA[Essays]]> <![CDATA[My Life and Times]]> <![CDATA[The Internet]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54298 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Everyone at this conference kept invoking loneliness and claiming the antidote was conversation. That didn’t track with my own experience. My most desperate moments of loneliness have been in conversation: on a Hinge date, doomed but persisting as a form of protocol. At a publishing party, surrounded by people who look and talk like me, all of us a little drunk but maintaining our nervous, manic professionalism.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/essays/an-age-of-hyperabundance/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/fiction-drama/arnie-robles-jr/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/fiction-drama/arnie-robles-jr/#respond Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:42:55 +0000 <![CDATA[Paul Soto]]> <![CDATA[Fiction and Drama]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54281 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Cold hard truth: you never know what the fuck someone’s gone through, and that’s why you can never take shit personal — dude actually cares, just shows it in his own way; every warrior has his strength, and when shit gets tense, find common ground.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/fiction-drama/arnie-robles-jr/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/politics/inventing-the-crisis/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/politics/inventing-the-crisis/#respond Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:42:51 +0000 <![CDATA[Kay Gabriel]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Education/Schooling]]> <![CDATA[The Law]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54316 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Those of us opposed to the vision of Rufo and Walsh ought to ask why the right wing is so scared of the political power of organized teachers — scared to the point that they have organized their movement leaders into blaming teachers unions for kids coming out as trans.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/politics/inventing-the-crisis/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/reviews/super-cute-please-like/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/reviews/super-cute-please-like/#respond Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:42:40 +0000 <![CDATA[Nicole Lipman]]> <![CDATA[Reviews]]> <![CDATA[Fashion]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54332 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Deep in the product reviews for a pair of $15 gray sweatpants, one commenter writes, bafflingly: “I love these grey sweatpants ever since i received them out of the shein package. They go with almost everything and nice and baggy on my body. The color is easy to wash and can go with coloreds and whites which is very helpful in laundry.” Below, three photos are attached. They show three different women in three different pairs of pants, none of which match the product listing.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/reviews/super-cute-please-like/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/essays/death-in-the-luberon/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/essays/death-in-the-luberon/#respond Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:42:31 +0000 <![CDATA[Nausicaa Renner]]> <![CDATA[Essays]]> <![CDATA[Ecology]]> <![CDATA[My Life and Times]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54321 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[In the late morning we drove to Pont du Gard, an old Roman aqueduct. The drive was an hour and a half. The riverbeds we passed on the way there were almost completely dry, and we wondered whether the water level would be high enough to swim. But I had looked up Instagram photos tagged there and saw people swimming just a few days before.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/essays/death-in-the-luberon/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/letters/not-only-not-only-but-also-but-also/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/letters/not-only-not-only-but-also-but-also/#respond Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:42:26 +0000 <![CDATA[The Editors]]> <![CDATA[Letters]]> <![CDATA[Angry Letters]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54337 <![CDATA[]]><![CDATA[I remember learning NOBA in the eighth grade, where it was always the perfectly empty, emphatic solution for a sentence in a too-short paragraph.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/letters/not-only-not-only-but-also-but-also/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/reviews/success/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/reviews/success/#respond Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:41:12 +0000 <![CDATA[David Wingrave]]> <![CDATA[Reviews]]> <![CDATA[In Memoriam]]> <![CDATA[Reading, Writing, and Publishing]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54324 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[I came to him late — I was a 26-year-old MFA student by the time I opened a copy of 1978’s Success. By the end of page one, I was text-my-friends-level stunned.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/reviews/success/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/reviews/acid-rhythms/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/reviews/acid-rhythms/#respond Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:40:09 +0000 <![CDATA[William Harris]]> <![CDATA[Reviews]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> <![CDATA[Music]]> <![CDATA[Race and Racism]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54345 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[To uncover Detroit’s acid communist past, you have to tell its left-political history alongside its cultural history, to see how organizers and artists worked in divergent ways, at the same time and place, toward something of a shared horizon.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/reviews/acid-rhythms/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-nudge-or-a-nuzzle/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-nudge-or-a-nuzzle/#respond Tue, 09 Apr 2024 13:13:58 +0000 <![CDATA[Gillian Linden]]> <![CDATA[Fiction and Drama]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54334 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[There wasn’t time for the students to read their work, which disappointed no one. “Finish these tonight,” I said. “Bring them in tomorrow.” “I’m done,” Eloise said. “Can I hand it in now?” “Give it a once-over tonight,” I said. “It’s really done.” But she closed her laptop. Henri turned his laptop to show me […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-nudge-or-a-nuzzle/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/tree-chair-cone-dog-bishop-piano-vineyard-door-or-penny/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/tree-chair-cone-dog-bishop-piano-vineyard-door-or-penny/#respond Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:51:35 +0000 <![CDATA[Colin Vanderburg]]> <![CDATA[In Memoriam]]> <![CDATA[Reading, Writing, and Publishing]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54325 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Hejinian recalled that in Language’s early years, “official academia . . . had very little respect for us”; the feeling was reportedly mutual. Today, with avant-garde poetics more often housed inside academia than arrayed against it, My Life and her de-facto manifesto “The Rejection of Closure” appear on syllabi everywhere; Hejinian is taken seriously, and should be. But seriousness comes at a cost; academic anointment has neglected the wit and fun, the weird charm of Hejinian’s po-faced obliquities.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/tree-chair-cone-dog-bishop-piano-vineyard-door-or-penny/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/essays/traces-of-enayat/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/essays/traces-of-enayat/#respond Thu, 04 Apr 2024 16:34:52 +0000 <![CDATA[Iman Mersal]]> <![CDATA[Essays]]> <![CDATA[Reading, Writing, and Publishing]]> <![CDATA[Translation]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54312 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[There’s a kind of intense curiosity that possesses us when we encounter an author who is truly unknown — a branch cut from the tree with no date of birth or death in evidence — or when their writing offers no clues to the wider life of their generation, to their close friends or literary influences.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/essays/traces-of-enayat/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/fiction-drama/no-mans-land/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/fiction-drama/no-mans-land/#respond Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:48:20 +0000 <![CDATA[Nicholas Hamburger]]> <![CDATA[Fiction and Drama]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54307 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[There was a chance the train would stop. But in all likelihood it would arrive at an intermediate pace, neither fast nor slow, demanding that each individual gauge, in a matter of seconds, whether they were capable of climbing on.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/fiction-drama/no-mans-land/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/essays/on-delivery/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/essays/on-delivery/#respond Wed, 03 Apr 2024 16:30:03 +0000 <![CDATA[Mitchell Morgan Johnson]]> <![CDATA[Essays]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Coronavirus]]> <![CDATA[My Life and Times]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54273 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The people we’re supposed to meet aren’t at the CVS parking lot, even though traffic made us ten minutes late. It’s a sunny summer evening, and we’re over in the fancy neighborhood by the lakes. Thunder­clouds are piling up on the horizon. When they do show up — a young couple, man and woman — I like them instantly. They came here from North Dakota for a couple weeks, a year, who knows. They’re visibly in love, giggling the whole time and glancing at each other.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/essays/on-delivery/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/book-review/the-dam-and-the-bomb/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/book-review/the-dam-and-the-bomb/#respond Wed, 03 Apr 2024 14:52:54 +0000 <![CDATA[Walker Mimms]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Reading, Writing, and Publishing]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54265 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Speaking as another son of a Tennessee industry lawyer—a country music lawyer; it was TVA power that helped turn Nashville into a radio and recording mecca—I think the prime darkness at the heart of Cormac McCarthy’s fiction, always precariously perched over oblivion, began with his father, a fixer behind the laboratory that powered the possibility of human extinction.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/book-review/the-dam-and-the-bomb/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/out-of-the-fog/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/out-of-the-fog/#respond Mon, 01 Apr 2024 15:48:49 +0000 <![CDATA[Morley Musick]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[City Mouse]]> <![CDATA[New York]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54179 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[We had told the man he would have a warm place to stay the night, and had emphasized the city’s right to shelter. Every five minutes or so my teammate called to see whether the transport was coming, and soon fifteen minutes passed, and then twenty, then thirty, then forty.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/out-of-the-fog/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/aid-wars/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/aid-wars/#respond Fri, 29 Mar 2024 14:37:08 +0000 <![CDATA[Dylan Saba]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=54116 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[As Israel’s ground operation in Gaza nears its close, the next major struggle is coming into view. The battle over the provision of essential humanitarian aid, already so brutal over the past few months, will become increasingly central to the conflict. But for all the pacifying rhetoric from US, there is no reason to think […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/aid-wars/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/ross-perlin-and-charles-petersen-in-conversation/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/ross-perlin-and-charles-petersen-in-conversation/#respond Mon, 11 Mar 2024 18:19:30 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=53367 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[On Sunday, March 17, join n+1 contributor, linguist, and co-director of the non-profit Endangered Language Alliance Ross Perlin in conversation with senior editor Charles Petersen. They’ll be discussing Perlin’s new book, Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York, out now from Grove. Language City presents a portrait of contemporary New […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/ross-perlin-and-charles-petersen-in-conversation/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/announcements/announcing-the-2024-n1-writers-awards-winners/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/announcements/announcing-the-2024-n1-writers-awards-winners/#respond Mon, 11 Mar 2024 15:09:10 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=53358 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[n+1 is honored to announce the 2024 recipients of its annual writing prizes, awarded yearly to two outstanding contributors to the magazine. This year, the n+1 Writers’ Fellowship will be awarded to Andrea Long Chu, and the Anthony Veasna So Fiction Prize will be awarded to Siddhartha Deb. About the Awards The n+1 Writers’ Fellowship […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/announcements/announcing-the-2024-n1-writers-awards-winners/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/this-glass-this-drink-this-countertop-our-bodies/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/this-glass-this-drink-this-countertop-our-bodies/#respond Thu, 07 Mar 2024 14:35:36 +0000 <![CDATA[A. S. Hamrah]]> <![CDATA[Film]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=53222 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[I’m troubled by writers who never ask themselves, “What if I didn’t do this?” Some things should be passed over in silence. I felt that way last fall when Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour came out in theaters. When I noticed aging male film critics rushing to see this nearly three-hour concert film so they could write about it, I was embarrassed for them.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/this-glass-this-drink-this-countertop-our-bodies/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/announcements/n1-is-20/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/announcements/n1-is-20/#respond Wed, 06 Mar 2024 20:15:05 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=53183 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[In the summer of 2004, in reaction and opposition to the very worst of the Bush era, n+1 published its first issue—which means that this year, the magazine turns twenty! We’ll be celebrating two decades of ambitious, career-launching, era-defining publishing over the course of 2024, so watch out for all kinds of twentieth-anniversary programming, merch, and more throughout […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/announcements/n1-is-20/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/descent-to-the-lower-depths/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/descent-to-the-lower-depths/#respond Mon, 04 Mar 2024 16:08:49 +0000 <![CDATA[Sergio González Rodríguez, Will Noah]]> <![CDATA[Translation]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=52774 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[In the mid-’60s, a new kind of place emerged in centers of foreign tourism: practical interiors decorated with Roman, Mediterranean, or high-tech futurist themes; a dance floor surrounded by tables on platforms of different heights, directed toward the center; ultrasophisticated lighting and sound; plenty of mirrors, which along with the trick of enlarging small spaces reflected the stars of the show: the customers themselves.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/descent-to-the-lower-depths/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/burnt-offerings/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/burnt-offerings/#respond Thu, 29 Feb 2024 16:10:02 +0000 <![CDATA[Erik Baker]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=52991 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Since Aaron Bushnell’s death by self-immolation this week in protest of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, his detractors have warned about the risk of “contagion,” suggesting that his protest will encourage imitators (who, they imply, share his alleged mental instability). There may or may not be additional self-immolators before the slaughter comes to an end, just as Bushnell was preceded by a woman, yet to be identified publicly, who burned herself to death outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta in December. But the purpose of lighting yourself on fire is not to encourage other people to light themselves on fire. It is to scream to the world that you could find no alternative, and in that respect it is a challenge to the rest of us to prove with our own freedom that there are other ways to meaningfully resist a society whose cruelty has become intolerable.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/burnt-offerings/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-people-on-buses-and-trains/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-people-on-buses-and-trains/#respond Tue, 06 Feb 2024 14:48:07 +0000 <![CDATA[Morley Musick]]> <![CDATA[City Mouse]]> <![CDATA[New York]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=52195 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[And I don’t know how you people think the train can move if someone is wedged half inside and half outside of it, how I’m supposed to lose my job, how I’m supposed to kill you because you wedged yourself in like that—because you decided, even if you didn’t say it, to say ‘I’m number one, and everyone else on this train is a zero’ and ‘I get to hold people up because I can’t wait another five minutes,’ or ‘Everybody has to wait for me, everybody has to be late to their job, their doctor’s appointment, their date, their inspection, their life—for me,’ just counting on us to say, OK we’ll wait, because I can’t kill you, with your body stuck halfway in the train, Mr. or Mrs. Important, stuck half in outside the door, one leg in, one leg out, one arm in, one arm out, half a woman, half a man, a half-woman half-man, cut in half.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-people-on-buses-and-trains/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/film-review/ouf/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/film-review/ouf/#respond Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:45:46 +0000 <![CDATA[Marion Leclair, Edward Lee-Six]]> <![CDATA[Film]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=52074 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Ridley Scott’s new film confronts viewers with an unfamiliar paradox: it is both wildly unreliable and resolutely demystifying, simultaneously implausible and deliberately underwhelming. The costumes are exquisite, the sets magnificent, the cavalry charges thunderous. The execution of Marie-Antoinette (Catherine Walker) is spectacular. It is also set in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with Napoleon in the audience, which he wasn’t.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/film-review/ouf/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/film-review/heritage-2000/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/film-review/heritage-2000/#respond Fri, 26 Jan 2024 16:20:09 +0000 <![CDATA[Dan Piepenbring]]> <![CDATA[Film]]> <![CDATA[The Internet]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=51743 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[I feel at times that I still live in the never-ending 20th century, that I’m stuck here, that maybe everyone is stuck here, even people born too late to have seen it happen. True, there are smartphones now, and new types of ugly buildings. Images are sharper, even when you zoom in. You can tell that time has passed because unremarkable things like Sweetheart Jazz cups have acquired the status of fetish objects.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/film-review/heritage-2000/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/fragile-juggernaut/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/fragile-juggernaut/#respond Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:18:50 +0000 <![CDATA[Andrew Elrod]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=51619 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[These questions of labor and democracy are pertinent in 2024. They are questions about which there has been too-little serious investigation in over a generation, over which interval the stories of labor in the New Deal have tended to congeal into celebratory hagiographies. But in light of the challenges we confront in the present, we think it an appropriate opportunity to invite public participation in the ongoing process of rethinking and rediscovery that gives permanent life to the study of the past. “The depository of historical knowledge,” as the philosopher Walter Benjamin once observed, is “the struggling, oppressed class itself.”]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/fragile-juggernaut/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-forest-and-its-partisans/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-forest-and-its-partisans/#respond Tue, 23 Jan 2024 17:25:59 +0000 <![CDATA[A. C. Corey]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Ecology]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> <![CDATA[Race and Racism]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=51543 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The movement in Atlanta is not exceptional for either its militancy or its broad-based community organizing. It is exceptional for fusing these elements in the midst of a relatively depoliticized period of “restoration,” and for doing so in a durable way.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-forest-and-its-partisans/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/this-this-this-and-this/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/this-this-this-and-this/#respond Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:24:07 +0000 <![CDATA[Thomas de Monchaux, Mark Krotov]]> <![CDATA[Art and Architecture]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=51513 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The tagline of the magazine in question, Popular Western, was “Complete Quick-Trigger Stories,” which could apply to Ruscha’s photographs but not to his paintings. Even his silliest paintings are stately and brooding, often to a fault. The character of the brooding evolved over time. If the later paintings are—often but not always to their detriment—more explicit about our world on fire, the ’60s work prioritizes pleasure: the laid-back loops of the gas pump hoses, the blocky, confident reds, the crisp fluorescents, and the light and shadow on the glass façade provide little indication of the crises to come.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/this-this-this-and-this/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/awp-party-in-kansas-city/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/awp-party-in-kansas-city/#respond Mon, 22 Jan 2024 15:59:33 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=51524 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Join n+1, Deep Vellum, Dorothy, Mizna, and The Yale Review!]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/awp-party-in-kansas-city/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/acts-harmful-to-the-enemy/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/acts-harmful-to-the-enemy/#respond Fri, 12 Jan 2024 16:38:31 +0000 <![CDATA[Jake Romm, Dylan Saba]]> <![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]> <![CDATA[The Law]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=51055 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Civilians are innocent, they have done nothing to make themselves liable to be killed. That war entails their killing, in vastly greater proportion to the killing of combatants, often under the color of law, means that our primary concern should always be on evaluating the justness of the cause of war—whether a given war can be justified at all in the face of the manifest immorality of civilian death—not the legality of the inevitable slaughter that follows.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/acts-harmful-to-the-enemy/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/living-inside-a-psyop/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/living-inside-a-psyop/#respond Wed, 10 Jan 2024 15:32:44 +0000 <![CDATA[Walter Johnson]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Education/Schooling]]> <![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=50989 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The university’s initial statements had acknowledged that there was in fact a war happening in the Middle East and that members of our community had families and friends who had been killed or were living in extreme danger. This latest statement, on the other hand, sought to ban the chanting of words in a time of war without mentioning the war itself.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/living-inside-a-psyop/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-context-dependent-decision/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-context-dependent-decision/#respond Fri, 22 Dec 2023 15:57:46 +0000 <![CDATA[Saree Makdisi]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Jews and Jewishness]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=50252 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[I am far less concerned for the status of university presidents than I am for the safety and welfare of university faculty and, above all, students; there is more than academic freedom at stake.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-context-dependent-decision/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/book-review/little-women/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/book-review/little-women/#respond Thu, 21 Dec 2023 19:00:11 +0000 <![CDATA[Marianela D'Aprile]]> <![CDATA[Feminism]]> <![CDATA[Reading, Writing, and Publishing]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=50209 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Let me try my hand at one of those conditionals: If Alcott has always been interested in how people bargain with forces bigger than them, then Emergency is about what happens when women bet against themselves; when women use their own autonomy as a bargaining chip in a wager that might gain them some power within a system inherently built against them.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/book-review/little-women/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/why-get-arrested/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/why-get-arrested/#respond Thu, 21 Dec 2023 16:40:23 +0000 <![CDATA[Avi Steinberg]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Jews and Jewishness]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=50205 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[At some point, my number, 38, was called. I stood before the law, which in this case was a heavy but translucent prison cell door, where you needed to shout to be heard by a rookie cop on the other side.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/why-get-arrested/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/comparison-is-the-way-we-know-the-world/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/comparison-is-the-way-we-know-the-world/#respond Tue, 19 Dec 2023 22:41:19 +0000 <![CDATA[Masha Gessen]]> <![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=50157 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[I’m not arguing that because other people have made the same comparison I have, I am right. What I am trying to do is add a time dimension to this conversation. What struck me about this comparison is that King made it three years before Israel imposed the siege regime on Gaza. And it was the time dimension that was also absent from the challenges that the reporter offered yesterday, when she talked about population density and the smuggling of weapons. The population of the ghettos changed over time (and weapons were indeed smuggled in). ]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/comparison-is-the-way-we-know-the-world/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/how-am-i/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/how-am-i/#respond Mon, 18 Dec 2023 16:47:33 +0000 <![CDATA[An Anonymous Graduate Student]]> <![CDATA[Education/Schooling]]> <![CDATA[The Academy]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=50099 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[I am an Arab woman who studies the Middle East. My students know what I believe and what I am grieving every day. It is on my face, in my posture. Even as my field of study comes under attack, as those who research the Middle East are criminalized and subject to harassment, my friends and I continue doing what little we can to live with ourselves. We organize teach-ins and edit statements and donate money and go to protests and vigils and scream for people’s right to live while our university endowment helps fund the missiles killing Palestinian children.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/how-am-i/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-more-of-us-there-are-the-more-of-us-there-are/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-more-of-us-there-are-the-more-of-us-there-are/#respond Fri, 08 Dec 2023 20:37:46 +0000 <![CDATA[Nan Goldin, Harron Walker]]> <![CDATA[Jews and Jewishness]]> <![CDATA[New York]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=49738 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Harron Walker: Hi, Nan. Let’s begin with your decision, this past November, to pull out of a cover shooting for the New York Times Magazine. On Instagram, you cited the newspaper’s “complicity with Israel” and its anti-Palestinian bias, “how they question the veracity of anything Palestinians say.” What prompted you to make that decision?  Nan […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-more-of-us-there-are-the-more-of-us-there-are/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/n1-presents-holiday-market/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/n1-presents-holiday-market/#respond Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:55:17 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=49655 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Join n+1 in our Greenpoint office for a day-long fair of books, magazines, records, art, and many other beautiful objects and holiday gifts, sold by an array of comradely publishers and cultural institutions! Browse offerings from nearly two dozen vendors from noon to 5 PM on Saturday, December 15. We’ll also be selling hot chocolate, […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/n1-presents-holiday-market/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/physical-destruction-in-whole-or-in-part/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/physical-destruction-in-whole-or-in-part/#respond Tue, 14 Nov 2023 17:07:42 +0000 <![CDATA[Saree Makdisi]]> <![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=48727 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[All these imaginary plans are premised on an Israeli victory. And what if Israel fails to dislodge Hamas but nevertheless runs out of energy and momentum for its campaign of genocidal violence? What if even the British and American governments feel at some point that the damage being inflicted on Gaza is causing too much harm to their own interests, their own domestic standing? What happens then?]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/physical-destruction-in-whole-or-in-part/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/can-you-tell-us-why-this-is-happening/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/can-you-tell-us-why-this-is-happening/#respond Mon, 13 Nov 2023 18:07:08 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> <![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=48677 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[That night alone we lost over 400 people. The rockets that were fired and the bombs that were thrown were strong enough to destroy whole residential buildings. Families were wiped out of existence completely. Every morning we would try to get an internet connection to reach our loved ones and confirm they were alive, and every morning we would get news that we lost one more person. Every day. That is the situation we are living in.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/can-you-tell-us-why-this-is-happening/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/molly-and-peou/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/molly-and-peou/#respond Thu, 09 Nov 2023 04:58:15 +0000 <![CDATA[Anthony Veasna So]]> <![CDATA[Fiction and Drama]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=48521 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Then she was on the ground, crying. It was the first time she had cried since the day of Peou’s death. Trying desperately to recall some long-lost detail, she felt the gaps of her own memory, the lingering shadows of the past that had stretched into her family’s present, into Cambotown, these shadows she recognized but didn’t quite understand, even as they were beginning to fade, to diminish, along with her memory of Peou herself.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/molly-and-peou/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/issue-46-reading-and-launch-celebration/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/issue-46-reading-and-launch-celebration/#respond Wed, 08 Nov 2023 21:20:50 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=48501 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Please join n+1 at our office in Greenpoint for reading and drinks in celebration of Issue 46: AGITATION! Featuring readings by Thomas de Monchaux, Brian Robert Moore, Bela Shayevich, Amna A. Akbar, Joshua Craze, Alan Dean, and Lisa Borst. Entry is free; drinks and copies of the new issue for sale. Friday, November 17 7 PM […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/issue-46-reading-and-launch-celebration/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/gimlet-on-the-rocks/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/gimlet-on-the-rocks/#respond Wed, 08 Nov 2023 16:21:19 +0000 <![CDATA[Piers Gelly]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> <![CDATA[Reading, Writing, and Publishing]]> <![CDATA[The Internet]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=48473 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The “podcast bubble,” as it’s now being called, was a period of extraordinary productivity for Gimlet in particular, which produced forty-five different shows during its nine years of activity, including limited series like The Habitat; weekly chat shows like The Cut on Tuesdays; recurring documentary series like Crimetown; kids’ shows like Story Pirates and Chompers; scripted dramas like Homecoming and Sandra that starred big-name actors like Oscar Isaac and Kristen Wiig; and branded podcasts for companies including eBay, Tinder, and Gatorade. And with all those shows came a sudden abundance of podcast-related jobs.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/gimlet-on-the-rocks/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-poet-of-sewer-rats/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-poet-of-sewer-rats/#respond Tue, 07 Nov 2023 17:19:29 +0000 <![CDATA[Matteo Ciambella]]> <![CDATA[Poetry]]> <![CDATA[Reading, Writing, and Publishing]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=48463 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[“A poet who is not also a heretic,” Aldo tells me as I lean forward to catch his words, “is not a poet.” As for the miller Menocchio and for Pasolini, heresy was connatured to Federico’s persona—not a mere intellectual exercise. For Pasolini and Federico, furthermore, it was no longer only about the Catholic Church. It had to do, instead, with their inability and unwillingness to participate in the reigning ideologies of their time: petty bourgeois propriety, at first, and the hedonism that crept behind the countercultural movements of the ’60s and ’70s, later, when capitalist power needed “a new kind of subject,” in the words of Pasolini.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-poet-of-sewer-rats/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/nicholas-dames-and-christine-smallwood-in-conversation/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/nicholas-dames-and-christine-smallwood-in-conversation/#respond Mon, 06 Nov 2023 21:46:53 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=48445 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[On Wednesday, November 15, join critics and n+1 contributors Nicholas Dames and Christine Smallwood for a conversation about Dames’s new book, The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century, out this month from Princeton University Press. The book illuminates the ways in which book chapters became a universally recognized component of narrative […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/nicholas-dames-and-christine-smallwood-in-conversation/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-dangerous-conflation/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-dangerous-conflation/#respond Thu, 02 Nov 2023 16:25:07 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> <![CDATA[Jews and Jewishness]]> <![CDATA[Letters]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=48250 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[We reject antisemitism in all its forms, including when it masquerades as criticism of Zionism or Israel’s policies. We also recognize that, as journalist Peter Beinart wrote in 2019, “Anti-Zionism is not inherently antisemitic—and claiming it is uses Jewish suffering to erase Palestinian experience.” ]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-dangerous-conflation/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/dan-sinykin-and-mark-krotov-in-conversation/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/dan-sinykin-and-mark-krotov-in-conversation/#respond Thu, 02 Nov 2023 15:28:04 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=48245 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[On Monday, November 13, join n+1 and writer Dan Sinykin for a discussion of his new book Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature. He’ll be discussing the book with n+1 coeditor and publisher Mark Krotov. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store’s 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/dan-sinykin-and-mark-krotov-in-conversation/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-tradition-of-defiance/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-tradition-of-defiance/#respond Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:05:28 +0000 <![CDATA[Hadeel Assali, Siddhartha Deb, Jaskiran Dhillon, Nadine Fattaleh, Bruce Robbins, Andrew Ross]]> <![CDATA[Education/Schooling]]> <![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=48128 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[No atrocity is decisive, though the quantity of atrocities may be. What is decisive is the context in which atrocities are committed. Context is of course what mainstream commentators rule out of bounds when they begin history on October 7. But what happened before October 7 does count. What I’m talking about here is Israel’s longstanding campaign to drive out the Palestinians and take over their land.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-tradition-of-defiance/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/elena-kostyuchenko-at-the-n1-office/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/elena-kostyuchenko-at-the-n1-office/#respond Thu, 26 Oct 2023 18:15:46 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=47744 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Join n+1 contributor Elena Kostyuchenko—on a rare visit to New York—for a reading from her new book I Love Russia, followed by a conversation with n+1 coeditor Mark Krotov. The event is free and open to the public. Beer and wine will be available for sale, as will copies of I Love Russia. Wednesday, November […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/elena-kostyuchenko-at-the-n1-office/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/letters/the-call-is-coming-from-inside-the-bar-grill/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/letters/the-call-is-coming-from-inside-the-bar-grill/#respond Thu, 26 Oct 2023 14:37:24 +0000 <![CDATA[The Editors]]> <![CDATA[Letters]]> <![CDATA[Angry Letters]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=47236 <![CDATA[]]><![CDATA[Capitalism is blasting a fire hose of visual sewage at the world while the best visual thinkers are busy trying to impress the painfully shrunken circle of cognoscenti, carefully avoiding or underplaying questions of beauty, craft, and design in their work, lest they be labeled insufficiently intellectual.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/letters/the-call-is-coming-from-inside-the-bar-grill/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/essays/not-one-tree/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/essays/not-one-tree/#respond Thu, 26 Oct 2023 14:37:15 +0000 <![CDATA[Grace Glass, Sasha Tycko]]> <![CDATA[Essays]]> <![CDATA[Ecology]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> <![CDATA[Race and Racism]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=47296 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Neon-vested workers appear through the trees, drilling into the ground—taking soil samples? Suddenly there’s shouting at the front, a line of masked people surrounding the workers, and then, from nowhere, cops surrounding the march, a warning on a megaphone—a kettle in the trees!]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/essays/not-one-tree/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/reviews/speaking-in-tongues/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/reviews/speaking-in-tongues/#respond Thu, 26 Oct 2023 14:36:08 +0000 <![CDATA[Frank Guan]]> <![CDATA[Reviews]]> <![CDATA[Reading, Writing, and Publishing]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=47127 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The artists of the Eighties acted fast. They had to: there would be no future otherwise. But in battling the retrograde Reaganite look of the System, they knew they were its bastards nonetheless.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/reviews/speaking-in-tongues/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/politics/justice-from-below/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/politics/justice-from-below/#respond Thu, 26 Oct 2023 14:35:58 +0000 <![CDATA[Amna A. Akbar]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Race and Racism]]> <![CDATA[The Law]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=47242 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Taken together, the protests happening within and against the courts today seem connected as strategic flash points, part of a rising struggle over the value of legal process and legal equality for ordinary people—or even a rejection of the rule of law within this bourgeois democracy.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/politics/justice-from-below/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/reviews/the-new-era-is-a-fact/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/reviews/the-new-era-is-a-fact/#respond Thu, 26 Oct 2023 14:34:53 +0000 <![CDATA[Thomas de Monchaux]]> <![CDATA[Reviews]]> <![CDATA[Art and Architecture]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=47662 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Glass instantiates a perpetual newness and eternal currency. Unlike seemingly more solid materials like steel-reinforced concrete, which unmaintained will rust away to ruin in five hundred years, glass is stable, unless it’s shattered. Perhaps because glass shows no patina, no material evidence of its past, it is the closest thing we have to a material from the future.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/reviews/the-new-era-is-a-fact/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/the-intellectual-situation/acts-of-human-will/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/the-intellectual-situation/acts-of-human-will/#respond Wed, 25 Oct 2023 20:06:20 +0000 <![CDATA[The Editors]]> <![CDATA[The Intellectual Situation]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> <![CDATA[Russia]]> <![CDATA[Ukraine]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=47716 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[A synchronous account of the war in Ukraine, then, would begin on February 24, 2022, with the invasion, and in 2014, with Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its intervention in eastern Ukraine. It would take in Ukraine’s tumultuous post-Soviet transition, the Maidan protests, and the 2008 NATO summit in Romania, when George W. Bush pressed for NATO expansion in Ukraine and Georgia — and also NATO’s earlier absorption of the Visegrád Group and intervention in Yugoslavia.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/the-intellectual-situation/acts-of-human-will/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/no-human-being-can-exist/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/no-human-being-can-exist/#respond Wed, 25 Oct 2023 18:34:53 +0000 <![CDATA[Saree Makdisi]]> <![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=47706 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[What we are not allowed to say, as Palestinians speaking to the Western media, is that all life is equally valuable. That no event takes place in a vacuum. That history didn’t start on October 7, 2023, and if you place what’s happening in the wider historical context of colonialism and anticolonial resistance, what’s most remarkable is that anyone in 2023 should be still surprised that conditions of absolute violence, domination, suffocation, and control produce appalling violence in turn.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/no-human-being-can-exist/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-anti-trans-panic-and-the-crusade-against-teachers/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-anti-trans-panic-and-the-crusade-against-teachers/#respond Wed, 25 Oct 2023 14:14:00 +0000 <![CDATA[Kay Gabriel]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Education/Schooling]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> <![CDATA[The Law]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=47696 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[An organic crisis collided with a conjunctural crisis, and only the political right had both the sense and the power to take advantage of it. Now the conspiracist structure of feeling—the recognition of one’s own relative disfranchisement, combined with a resentment toward the tremendous power and resources that a small class wields exclusively over everyone else—textures our political reality thoroughly, and not just for the right’s ideological foot soldiers.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-anti-trans-panic-and-the-crusade-against-teachers/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/fiction-drama/baby-2/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/fiction-drama/baby-2/#respond Tue, 24 Oct 2023 21:14:41 +0000 <![CDATA[Bela Shayevich]]> <![CDATA[Fiction and Drama]]> <![CDATA[Love and Sex]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=47678 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[We’d known about one another for years but had never met. Only a handful of people like us in this world, we matched on Tinder. One of our mutual friends told me that his ex-wife had a restraining order against him. I said, “Sounds passionate.”]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/fiction-drama/baby-2/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/freedom-for-the-one-who-thinks-differently/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/freedom-for-the-one-who-thinks-differently/#respond Mon, 23 Oct 2023 15:59:28 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> <![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]> <![CDATA[Jews and Jewishness]]> <![CDATA[Letters]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=47625 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[What frightens us is the prevailing atmosphere of racism and xenophobia in Germany, hand in hand with a constraining and paternalistic philo-Semitism. We reject in particular the conflation of anti-Semitism and any criticism of the state of Israel.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/freedom-for-the-one-who-thinks-differently/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-cafe-and-the-colony/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-cafe-and-the-colony/#respond Fri, 20 Oct 2023 14:26:32 +0000 <![CDATA[Timothy DeMay]]> <![CDATA[Colonialism]]> <![CDATA[Film]]> <![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=47475 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[One of the basic truths of the Israel-Palestine conflict is that there are no acts within it that can accord with universal human rights: the conflict itself is the trespass. Let me be clearer: the colonization, itself, is the trespass. It is the original sin against human rights. It is the disease.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-cafe-and-the-colony/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-surge-in-suppression/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-surge-in-suppression/#respond Thu, 19 Oct 2023 21:02:51 +0000 <![CDATA[Dylan Saba]]> <![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]> <![CDATA[Race and Racism]]> <![CDATA[Reading, Writing, and Publishing]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=47480 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[At a time when the United States is backing Israel’s wanton destruction of the besieged Gaza Strip, in what some scholars have called a “textbook case of genocide,” principled dissent is of paramount importance. ]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-surge-in-suppression/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/jocelyn-simonson-and-james-forman-jr-in-conversation/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/jocelyn-simonson-and-james-forman-jr-in-conversation/#respond Mon, 16 Oct 2023 15:23:51 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=47397 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Across the country, ordinary people are challenging the ideas that prosecutions and prisons make us safer; that public officials charged with maintaining “law and order” are carrying out the will of the people; and that justice requires putting people in cages. In her book Radical Acts of Justice, Jocelyn Simonson (Brooklyn Law School) demonstrates the power of collective […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/jocelyn-simonson-and-james-forman-jr-in-conversation/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/have-we-learned-nothing/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/have-we-learned-nothing/#respond Wed, 11 Oct 2023 21:30:52 +0000 <![CDATA[David Klion]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=47191 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[There’s a pervasive censoriousness right now—conservatives denouncing liberals, liberals denouncing leftists, leftists denouncing other leftists—that’s immediately familiar from the days and weeks after 9/11.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/have-we-learned-nothing/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-hole-in-the-limits-of-the-world/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-hole-in-the-limits-of-the-world/#respond Tue, 10 Oct 2023 15:58:40 +0000 <![CDATA[Ismail Ibrahim]]> <![CDATA[My Life and Times]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=47114 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[I talked to a man wearing a sweatsuit with the Palestinian flag on it. He told me that his father came here in 1976. It’s ethnic cleansing, it’s an illegal occupation of Palestinian land, and what you’re seeing is people fighting after they’ve been backed into a corner, he said. He likened the struggle to South Africa and Algeria. It’s the same old imperialism and colonialism, he said.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-hole-in-the-limits-of-the-world/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/politics/prelude-to-a-coup/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/politics/prelude-to-a-coup/#respond Mon, 09 Oct 2023 19:00:32 +0000 <![CDATA[Joshua Craze]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> <![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=47089 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Now, two years on, the transition was ailing. The economy was in free fall, partly due to austerity measures imposed at the IMF’s behest. Street protests were calling for the resignation of Abdalla Hamdok, the soft-spoken former UN economist who was serving as the prime minister in the transitional government, and a number of political parties had withdrawn from the FFC.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/politics/prelude-to-a-coup/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/fiction-drama/the-angel-and-the-dust/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/fiction-drama/the-angel-and-the-dust/#respond Thu, 05 Oct 2023 16:17:43 +0000 <![CDATA[Walter Siti]]> <![CDATA[Fiction and Drama]]> <![CDATA[Love and Sex]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=46933 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[At every meeting I raise the amount, first one hundred and fifty, then two hundred, then two hundred and fifty—to erase his apathy, to wrest from him a jolt of interest or at least greed; but after just a few days he gets comfortable with the new state of affairs (which is destroying me economically, and much more quickly than I had foreseen), he mentally registers that he’ll make more from me and he takes it for granted from that moment on.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/fiction-drama/the-angel-and-the-dust/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/essays/leaving-ellsworth/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/essays/leaving-ellsworth/#respond Tue, 03 Oct 2023 18:13:09 +0000 <![CDATA[Nausicaa Renner]]> <![CDATA[Essays]]> <![CDATA[My Life and Times]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=46715 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[When Joseph was two months old, we packed up our Maine apartment to drive back to Maryland, to a house we had barely lived in. Joseph’s age became a proxy for how long my mother had been dead.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/essays/leaving-ellsworth/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/fiction-drama/lisa-freifrau-von-plochingen/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/fiction-drama/lisa-freifrau-von-plochingen/#respond Thu, 28 Sep 2023 16:21:24 +0000 <![CDATA[Nell Zink]]> <![CDATA[Fiction and Drama]]> <![CDATA[Love and Sex]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=46709 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[I was still shaking. “I never felt so angry,” I said. “Never ever. I want to club him to death like a baby seal. Just take a lead pipe or a baseball bat and smash him all over.”]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/fiction-drama/lisa-freifrau-von-plochingen/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/fiction-drama/the-gobbler-iii-all-chopped-up/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/fiction-drama/the-gobbler-iii-all-chopped-up/#respond Tue, 26 Sep 2023 19:03:24 +0000 <![CDATA[Paul Soto]]> <![CDATA[Fiction and Drama]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=46695 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Through the blinds, the sun began to soften. Santi did not know how the room could be so still now, so quiet, when the scorpion had just been here, lashing like a flame. He held Ma’s hand in the dimming light, eyes on the cracks above the tile, keeping watch.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/fiction-drama/the-gobbler-iii-all-chopped-up/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/winter-editions-launch-party/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/winter-editions-launch-party/#respond Mon, 18 Sep 2023 15:57:40 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=46365 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Please join us for a celebration of the first publications from Winter Editions, a new small press recently founded by Matvei Yankelevich. Richard Hell, Garth Graeper, Marina Tëmkina, and Emily Simon will read from their recent Winter Editions books, and Lydia Cortes and Peter Bushyeager will read from Lewis Warsh’s translation of Robert Desnos. Readings […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/winter-editions-launch-party/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/francesco-pacifico-and-jesse-mccarthy-in-conversation/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/francesco-pacifico-and-jesse-mccarthy-in-conversation/#respond Mon, 18 Sep 2023 13:07:13 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=46329 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[NOTE: Due to flooding in Brooklyn, this event has been canceled!  Join two n+1 contributors—novelist and translator Francesco Pacifico, and critic and novelist Jesse McCarthy—as they discuss fiction, translation, and criticism. Both writers will also read from their work. n+1 coeditor Mark Krotov will moderate. The event is free and open to the public, and […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/francesco-pacifico-and-jesse-mccarthy-in-conversation/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/ford-food/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/ford-food/#respond Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:34:36 +0000 <![CDATA[Patrick Ellis]]> <![CDATA[Cars]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=46118 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Affable volunteers, retirees of the model-railroad-enthusiast type, deliver their best chestnuts when you approach one of the transplanted structures that make up the village. Some of the big names of American business and technology are represented: there is a Wright Brothers bicycle shop, an Edison lab, a Heinz ketchup house.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/ford-food/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-the-thai-elections/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-the-thai-elections/#respond Fri, 01 Sep 2023 18:17:35 +0000 <![CDATA[Pavin Chachavalpongpun]]> <![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=45811 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The last years of Bhumibol coincided with the emergence of a new generation in Thailand, which grew up during a time in which the royal propaganda started to subside. Around this time too, the emergence of social media served to expand political horizons, showing young Thais how people fought for democracy in other parts of the world.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-the-thai-elections/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/toward-pop-literature/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/toward-pop-literature/#respond Thu, 31 Aug 2023 14:00:24 +0000 <![CDATA[Olivia Kan-Sperling]]> <![CDATA[Art and Architecture]]> <![CDATA[Reading, Writing, and Publishing]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=45748 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Due to copyright laws that prevent its monetization (and in contrast to the careerism unsubtly promoted by MFA programs), fanfiction cannot technically be other than a labor of love—though Y/N demonstrates how easily legible thinly-veiled references to sufficiently famous celebrities can be. The real problem with fanfiction, from a mainstream literary perspective, is precisely that its authors not only love reading (movies, music, other books) too much, they also love writing too much. And it shows!]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/toward-pop-literature/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/screamed-like-a-girl/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/screamed-like-a-girl/#respond Tue, 29 Aug 2023 16:11:33 +0000 <![CDATA[Kathryn Winner]]> <![CDATA[Sports]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=45696 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Confidence FOX Sports has donated considerable advertising time during the 2023 Women’s World Cup to something called The Foundation for a Better Life, a nonprofit organization that makes video public service announcements promoting positive values. At first these look like an ad for a congressional candidate or Xfinity, but at the end of each one, […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/screamed-like-a-girl/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/paper-monument/what-should-art-criticism-do/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/paper-monument/what-should-art-criticism-do/#respond Mon, 28 Aug 2023 14:01:21 +0000 <![CDATA[Kemi Adeyemi, Tausif Noor, Monica Uszerowicz]]> <![CDATA[Art and Architecture]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=45659 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Pitching with Collaborative Solidarity—Toward the Artist, with Wonder Writing is a solitary practice; writing about art, lonelier still. I might spend days deliberating over the right words, crawling toward what feels right and exploring something that might’ve been better untouched by my perspective. But I am never truly alone when I write. The writers I […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/paper-monument/what-should-art-criticism-do/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/announcements/announcing-the-2023-n1-writers-awards-winners/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/announcements/announcing-the-2023-n1-writers-awards-winners/#respond Fri, 25 Aug 2023 15:29:57 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=45574 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[n+1 is honored to announce the 2023 recipients of its annual writing prizes, awarded yearly to two outstanding contributors to the magazine. This year, the n+1 Writers’ Fellowship will be awarded to Nicolás Medina Mora, and the Anthony Veasna So Fiction Prize will be awarded to Christine Smallwood. About the Awards The n+1 Writers’ Fellowship […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/announcements/announcing-the-2023-n1-writers-awards-winners/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-adam-phillips/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-adam-phillips/#respond Fri, 18 Aug 2023 14:57:11 +0000 <![CDATA[Ben Parker]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> <![CDATA[Reading, Writing, and Publishing]]> <![CDATA[Theory and Philosophy]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=45354 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[It is significant that conversion, in its extremist form, comes on the scene when frustration is no longer bearable, as a failure of tolerance—the preeminent virtue of political liberalism. Phillips’s other watchwords are the familiar liberal ones of sympathy, negotiation, compromise, and collaboration. “Liberals,” he says in On Wanting to Change, “prefer conversation to rote learning, multiple perspectives to exclusive explanation, [and] dissent to conformity.” For those reasons, “Liberalism is by definition not something one is converted to.”]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-adam-phillips/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/how-they-tried-to-kill-me/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/how-they-tried-to-kill-me/#respond Tue, 15 Aug 2023 18:54:46 +0000 <![CDATA[Elena Kostyuchenko]]> <![CDATA[Russia]]> <![CDATA[Ukraine]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=45234 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[I didn’t want to write this for a long time. I feel disgusted, afraid, ashamed. I can’t write about everything I know because I have to protect the people who’ve saved my life. On February 24, 2022, my country attacked Ukraine. On February 24, I went to Ukraine on assignment from Novaya Gazeta, where I […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/how-they-tried-to-kill-me/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-1999-moment/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-1999-moment/#respond Tue, 15 Aug 2023 17:53:56 +0000 <![CDATA[Kathryn Winner]]> <![CDATA[Sports]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=45232 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The cheapest way a goalie can regulate cortisol levels is by screaming—at the midfield to get up, at the defense to get it together, at the other team’s peevy striker to fuck the fuck off. They can also be observed for precious seconds lying on their tummies with the ball snuggled tightly under their chest, practicing gratitude.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-1999-moment/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/how-to-touch-grass/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/how-to-touch-grass/#respond Mon, 14 Aug 2023 14:34:44 +0000 <![CDATA[Ramsey McGlazer]]> <![CDATA[Education/Schooling]]> <![CDATA[Reading, Writing, and Publishing]]> <![CDATA[Reviews]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=45187 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[There will still be addictions, relapses, traumas, betrayals, interpersonal dramas, and sudden deaths the day after the revolution. Comrades will still let us down, and we’ll still hold grudges and harbor resentments. Parents will still be uncomprehending or oppressive or worse, and we’ll still wish that we’d never said that to her or walked away that night or gone home with him again or fought with them or failed.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/how-to-touch-grass/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/going-live/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/going-live/#respond Wed, 09 Aug 2023 14:59:13 +0000 <![CDATA[Mitch Therieau]]> <![CDATA[Music]]> <![CDATA[The Internet]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=45070 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[There were times when the drama in the lives of certain streamers conquered our interest in the show. One curator, after skipping from feed to feed, found a streamer who would go on to broadcast heroically for nearly the remainder of the night, and we stuck with her, too. She had brought her young child. At one point, the child asked: “Why are you crying?” “Because I’m having the best time with you.”]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/going-live/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/these-are-women-on-my-tv/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/these-are-women-on-my-tv/#respond Tue, 08 Aug 2023 14:58:17 +0000 <![CDATA[Kathryn Winner]]> <![CDATA[Sports]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=45034 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Men are good in a runny, underdetermined way: their value to society is clear by the way they are watched, worshiped, and paid, but there’s insufficient evidence that they deserve what they have. (Lionel Messi recently transcended sport by turning down a $1.3 billion contract offer from Saudi Arabia to play for some more reasonable but still unjustifiably large sum from Miami.) Women are also good, but in a responsible, wet-cement way, where “any action, big or small, has an impact on the elevation of women’s sports.”]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/these-are-women-on-my-tv/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/who-was-barbie/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/who-was-barbie/#respond Fri, 04 Aug 2023 15:17:34 +0000 <![CDATA[Lisa Borst, Ari M. Brostoff, Cecilia Corrigan, Jon Dieringer, A. S. Hamrah, Arielle Isack, Mark Krotov, Jasmine Sanders, Christine Smallwood]]> <![CDATA[Feminism]]> <![CDATA[Film]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=44923 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[My mind was racing with questions like, Why is there a transfemme Barbie but no transmasc Ken? Did I just pay $17.50 to witness the spectacle of capital subsuming dissent? Have the filmmakers deliberately cast “Weird Barbie” with an actress who dated Bari Weiss and played “Hallelujah” on the piano while dressed as Hillary Clinton after the 2016 election in order to politically center “weirdness”? Why is there no mention of doll materials designer Jack Ryan and his past employment engineering missiles for Raytheon?]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/who-was-barbie/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/launch-event-track-changes/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/launch-event-track-changes/#respond Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:23:17 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=44702 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Please join n+1 and Paper Monument for a book launch event on August 14, from 7–10 PM. We’ll be celebrating the forthcoming book Track changes: a handbook for art criticism, edited by Mira Dayal and Josephine Heston! Track changes is a collection of case studies, conversations, manifestos, and reflections by twenty-five contributors that dives into technical and ethical […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/launch-event-track-changes/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/robert-moses-jane-jacobs-robert-moses-jane-jacobs/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/robert-moses-jane-jacobs-robert-moses-jane-jacobs/#respond Fri, 21 Jul 2023 15:13:04 +0000 <![CDATA[Samuel Stein]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Theater]]> <![CDATA[Urban Planning]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=44512 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Pinning the blame on Moses, or celebrating Jacobs, or vice versa is a way out of a big question that neither the political left or right in the United States has many clear answers to: how to resolve the tension between the benefits and pitfalls of large-scale planning and local control.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/robert-moses-jane-jacobs-robert-moses-jane-jacobs/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/end-of-the-tour/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/end-of-the-tour/#respond Thu, 20 Jul 2023 15:14:56 +0000 <![CDATA[Lisa Borst, Mark Greif, Emily Shen, Anna Wiener]]> <![CDATA[Music]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=44527 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[But hearing the originator in person, with all that is missing as well as the new qualities of continuity, age, rust, wear, and wearing away—it’s moving, almost to the point of awe, or holiness. All the more so the better you know the recorded originals. The compensations or losses are the point. Plus the fact of the continuity of the person—that they are still here, performing for you.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/end-of-the-tour/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-legends/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-legends/#respond Wed, 19 Jul 2023 14:27:35 +0000 <![CDATA[Jessie Kindig]]> <![CDATA[Feminism]]> <![CDATA[Music]]> <![CDATA[My Life and Times]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=44477 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The vibe was very West Coast: everyone looked like someone I’d played in a Seattle band with a decade ago. Cowboy boots and fleece, a lot of craft beer and sleeve tattoos, #vanlifers with fedoras and rainbow Pendleton blankets, earth-toned knitwear and dusty Chacos (the “pretty” kind with the toe loop), big Indigo Girls energy. I’ve been in New York too long; I don’t own clothes like this anymore.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-legends/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/ordinary-street-cars-at-high-speeds/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/ordinary-street-cars-at-high-speeds/#respond Fri, 14 Jul 2023 14:34:04 +0000 <![CDATA[Jason de Stefano]]> <![CDATA[Cars]]> <![CDATA[My Life and Times]]> <![CDATA[Urban Planning]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=44250 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Though we were in a braking zone, which meant we would get to see the cars for an extra second as they slowed into the turn, my view of their approach was mostly obstructed by bleachers draped in a Jack Daniels ad. Still, I found myself waiting with anticipation for the cars to scream by in a blur every minute and a half. A group of twentysomethings looking for the concert stage where the Chainsmokers were playing postrace ended up staying to watch. A couple of cops nodded along to P.O.D.’s “Boom” blasting from speakers nearby.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/ordinary-street-cars-at-high-speeds/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/jordan-neely-and-daniel-penny/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/jordan-neely-and-daniel-penny/#respond Thu, 13 Jul 2023 12:51:47 +0000 <![CDATA[The Bad Side]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> <![CDATA[Race and Racism]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=44202 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[We want to say a few true things about the event and its immediate aftermath because Neely’s death posed vicious, revealing questions about what’s happening in New York, now. A homeless Black man cries out in anguish, then for fifteen minutes has the life squeezed out of him in public—and the response from the mayor, from the governor, and from a significant slice of the mainstream media is instant (if regretful) justification for the killing.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/jordan-neely-and-daniel-penny/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/book-review/overload-vertigo-dizziness-trance/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/book-review/overload-vertigo-dizziness-trance/#respond Mon, 10 Jul 2023 14:36:32 +0000 <![CDATA[Stephen Piccarella]]> <![CDATA[Coronavirus]]> <![CDATA[Reading, Writing, and Publishing]]> <![CDATA[Reviews]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=44061 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[I was just becoming accustomed enough to the symptoms to be able to manage them when my neurologist finally referred me to a vestibular therapist. The next day, I received a publicity email from New Directions about a forthcoming translation of Mild Vertigo, a cult novel by the Japanese writer Mieko Kanai, about “the dizzying reality of being unable to locate oneself in the endless stream of minutiae that forms a lonely life.”]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/book-review/overload-vertigo-dizziness-trance/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/landing/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/landing/#respond Fri, 30 Jun 2023 16:32:30 +0000 <![CDATA[Maen Hammad]]> <![CDATA[Art and Architecture]]> <![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]> <![CDATA[Sports]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=43843 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The ramp they skated on was in the back corner of the city’s zoo, which hosts more than 150 animals. There is also an entire exhibition of taxidermy mounts, paying tribute to the animals killed by the Israel army during the Second Intifada. Zoo-goers would pause to watch Eihab and Abdullah skate, as if they too were part of the exhibit.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/landing/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/little-privatized-suns/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/little-privatized-suns/#respond Wed, 28 Jun 2023 14:54:16 +0000 <![CDATA[Elizabeth Schambelan]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> <![CDATA[Science and Technology]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=43750 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Joan Didion would have known what to say about Richard Stockton Rush III. I’m almost surprised she never wrote about him. He was a pure effusion of California plutocracy, someone in whom amour-propre had been sublimed over generations, each forebear transforming a bit more of the dross of ordinariness into something insipid yet undeniably compelling, […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/little-privatized-suns/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-daniel-ellsberg/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-daniel-ellsberg/#respond Thu, 22 Jun 2023 18:44:39 +0000 <![CDATA[Nikil Saval]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[In Memoriam]]> <![CDATA[War]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=43566 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The drama of Ellsberg’s life, however unique his circumstances, isn’t alien or inaccessible, because it is also the drama of a political life as such: the steady, growing awareness of one’s participation in a system that one understands to be intolerable, and the eventual action that breaks with it. On this path, he was helped along not just by the antiwar movement, but by a number of others who were somewhere along the same path, even if they didn’t end up where he did.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-daniel-ellsberg/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/summer-party/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/summer-party/#respond Wed, 21 Jun 2023 16:23:19 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=43531 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Celebrate new issues of n+1, BOMB Magazine, and Gagosian Quarterly! Join us at Public Records on June 28 for signature drinks by Brooklyn Gin and Other Half Brewing and music by a live DJ. The party starts at 8 PM. This is a 21+ event. Tickets are free, but space is limited so RSVPs are required. RSVP here. […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/summer-party/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/book-review/mother-sauce/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/book-review/mother-sauce/#respond Thu, 15 Jun 2023 14:58:55 +0000 <![CDATA[Marian Bull]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=43322 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Johnson has inverted this form by writing a memoir of a recipe, rather than a “memoir with recipes.” If Reichl’s development as a person can be traced from her aunt’s potato salad to her first taste of foie gras, Johnson’s development flourishes under a narrower lens—a single red sauce.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/book-review/mother-sauce/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/smoke-week/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/smoke-week/#respond Wed, 14 Jun 2023 17:27:51 +0000 <![CDATA[Thomas de Monchaux, Ismail Ibrahim, Elizabeth Schambelan, Dayna Tortorici]]> <![CDATA[Ecology]]> <![CDATA[New York]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=43282 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[On the weather map on my phone, as I stood and consulted it at 81st and Central Park West, the color-coded diagram of the plumes scorching and stretching south from Ottawa looked exactly like a circa-2004 televised aerial heat map visualization of some especially deadly nighttime moment in a town somewhere in Basra. The colors populating my Instagram feed when I swiped over from the weather map—filtered, balanced, enhanced—were similarly vivid and lively, the colors of harvests and autumn leaves. In real life at midday, the chromatic effects on Central Park West were more like sepia, paprika, piss.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/smoke-week/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/brother/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/brother/#respond Fri, 09 Jun 2023 14:13:26 +0000 <![CDATA[Xu Zechen]]> <![CDATA[Fiction and Drama]]> <![CDATA[Translation]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=43102 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[For years the person he feared most was not his mother or father, not his teacher, not the bad kids in class who smoked and brawled, not Ah Fei the local street tough, but that other self in that photograph. It was a fear verging on hatred. ]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/brother/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-assignment/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-assignment/#respond Fri, 26 May 2023 14:24:21 +0000 <![CDATA[Siddhartha Deb]]> <![CDATA[Fiction and Drama]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=42179 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The approach to the farmhouse is not meant for walking, and Bibi feels that she is barely making any progress. The haze blankets her surroundings, giving her approach a dreamlike quality as images come into focus like memories and dissolve like dreams. Slashes of moss-green lawn, the sharp, blue inhalation of what is perhaps a swimming pool. Bibi wonders why swimming pool floors are always painted blue and if this has anything to do with the sky and the ocean. She wonders what it would be like to swim in the ocean and look up at a blue sky.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-assignment/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/mating/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/mating/#respond Thu, 25 May 2023 14:26:25 +0000 <![CDATA[Alex Ransom]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Ecology]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=42253 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The birds unveiled themselves slowly, first by sound and then by sight. Despite what you might expect from the term, the “booming” call of the greater prairie chicken sounds, in reality, more like a mournful coo. When several chickens let out the call at once, they meld together into a swirling, plaintive chant.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/mating/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/ari-m-brostoff-and-emily-segal-in-conversation/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/ari-m-brostoff-and-emily-segal-in-conversation/#respond Sat, 20 May 2023 13:01:41 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=41755 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Join n+1 and Deluge for a conversation between Ari M. Brostoff, n+1 contributor and author of Missing Time (n+1 Books, 2022), and Emily Segal, author of Mercury Retrograde (Deluge Books, 2020). The event is free and open to the public. Monday, June 12 7PM PST Human Resources 410 Cottage Home Street Los Angeles Praise for Missing Time “In […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/ari-m-brostoff-and-emily-segal-in-conversation/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-third-alice/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-third-alice/#respond Fri, 19 May 2023 14:59:03 +0000 <![CDATA[James Chrisman]]> <![CDATA[Fiction and Drama]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=41687 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[After the wine guy was gone from her life forever, Mary lit a fourth cigarette, a brand you can’t get here. She couldn’t explain exactly what was so upsetting to her. And then from the blah bar emerged Alice—a small, brilliant, self-contained, comely brunette with a conversational knowledge of the mother of Alexander the Great—Alice, of whom Mary had taken so little notice in the past, who without saying a word, because she had no secrets, at this very moment rested her head upon Mary’s shoulder.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-third-alice/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-grubhub-of-human-affliction/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-grubhub-of-human-affliction/#respond Wed, 10 May 2023 14:08:06 +0000 <![CDATA[Morley Musick]]> <![CDATA[Fiction and Drama]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=41348 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[We had a color-coded system for managing the hierarchy of suffering: green was for welfare snafus, lead paint violations, legal procedural errors, fertilizer-related illness, corporate malfeasance and minor environmental damage; yellow was for assault in jail, wrongful conviction, citywide poisoning, retaliatory solitary confinement, grievous and preventable workplace injuries, strikebreaking at the national scale, anti-labor espionage of any kind; red was for police murders, police or military torture, counter-radical operations involving violence or murder, war crimes (many of these last categories pertaining to refugees who had lost their homes or family members to American military campaigns).]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-grubhub-of-human-affliction/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/im-fucking-agitated-are-you-going-to-murder-me/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/im-fucking-agitated-are-you-going-to-murder-me/#respond Tue, 09 May 2023 14:42:59 +0000 <![CDATA[Arielle Isack]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[New York]]> <![CDATA[Race and Racism]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=41289 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Real estate greed, the glutted police budget, ceaseless gentrification, racist journalists, Eric Adams, Kathy Hochul, white people—we cycled through the injustices, against them, resuscitating despair into focused rage.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/im-fucking-agitated-are-you-going-to-murder-me/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/issue-45-reading-and-launch-celebration/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/issue-45-reading-and-launch-celebration/#respond Mon, 01 May 2023 18:49:39 +0000 <![CDATA[]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=40909 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Please join n+1 at our office in Greenpoint for reading and drinks in celebration of Issue 45: Attachment Issue! Featuring readings by Victoria Uren, Jared Jackson, Caleb Crain, Mark Krotov, Laura Preston, and Ken Chen. Entry is free; drinks and copies of the new issue for sale. Tuesday, May 16 7 PM n+1 office: 37 […]]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/issue-45-reading-and-launch-celebration/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/politics/j-d-vance-changes-the-subject-2/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/politics/j-d-vance-changes-the-subject-2/#respond Mon, 01 May 2023 18:37:47 +0000 <![CDATA[Gabriel Winant]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=40928 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Vance’s form of far-right politics is so ominous because it responds in a primal, perverted way to something actual. We are caught under a heap of wreckage, an accumulation of social and historical trauma that we are largely without means of getting out of. Millions are dead, and millions more permanently sick, from a pandemic that everyone now pretends didn’t happen, and even more vigorously pretends is not still happening.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/politics/j-d-vance-changes-the-subject-2/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/in-gaziantep/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/in-gaziantep/#respond Mon, 01 May 2023 18:04:56 +0000 <![CDATA[Naomi Cohen]]> <![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=40907 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[I notice Islahiye’s clatter when a hundred bystanders are told to go quiet so the volunteers can listen. You can tell who is tearing a wrapper or ruffling their puffy coat and where the caution tape flaps. The ambulance that recovers one life interferes with the search for another.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/in-gaziantep/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/paper-monument/what-are-you/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/paper-monument/what-are-you/#respond Fri, 28 Apr 2023 14:45:57 +0000 <![CDATA[Josh Kline]]> <![CDATA[Art and Architecture]]> <![CDATA[Race and Racism]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=40777 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Like many mixed-race/mixed-culture peoples who have emerged, are emerging, or perhaps yearn to emerge from a colonial legacy, most Filipinos see no contradiction in this racial, ethnic, and cultural mix. It is not a problem or a source of confusion to the people in that mix.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/paper-monument/what-are-you/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/fiction-drama/little-miss-bigmouth-2/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/fiction-drama/little-miss-bigmouth-2/#respond Thu, 27 Apr 2023 16:57:58 +0000 <![CDATA[Veronica Raimo]]> <![CDATA[Fiction and Drama]]> <![CDATA[Translation]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=40768 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[When she’s in a state of panic, my mother bargains with the Lord and imposes fioretti on herself: no eating sweets, no going to the movies, no reading magazines, no listening to Rai Radio 3, for weeks, months, years. These days she can’t go to the hairdresser’s or watch TV. Sometimes the combination is no Radio 3 and no sweets. Or no coffee and no new shoes. She mixes them, matches them — it depends.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/fiction-drama/little-miss-bigmouth-2/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/letters/the-cheapo-stuff-wins/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/letters/the-cheapo-stuff-wins/#respond Wed, 26 Apr 2023 22:13:45 +0000 <![CDATA[The Editors]]> <![CDATA[Letters]]> <![CDATA[Angry Letters]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=40720 <![CDATA[]]><![CDATA[In the late ’90s there was this trend toward blob cars that was probably seen as very ugly at the time, but now represents an infinitely more beautiful path lost to the auto industry by the late ’00s. Now all we have are cars that are soft and hard at the same time, like the swole AF backend coders we all apparently want to be.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/letters/the-cheapo-stuff-wins/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/the-intellectual-situation/the-new-new-reading-environment-1/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/the-intellectual-situation/the-new-new-reading-environment-1/#respond Tue, 25 Apr 2023 19:02:23 +0000 <![CDATA[The Editors]]> <![CDATA[The Intellectual Situation]]> <![CDATA[Reading, Writing, and Publishing]]> <![CDATA[The Internet]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=40646 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[For larger publications, the upside of newsletters is obvious. Email-bound readers can seamlessly swipe over from their Zocdoc appointment notification to their health insurance bill payment notification to their student loan payment notification to their local mass shooting notification to a Washington Post opinion newsletter about the biggest threat facing the nation (still, somehow, cancel culture). Of course, no one has pursued newsletters as zealously as the legaciest legacy-media operation of them all: the New York Times.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/the-intellectual-situation/the-new-new-reading-environment-1/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/politics/the-catastrophe-in-turkey/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/politics/the-catastrophe-in-turkey/#respond Tue, 25 Apr 2023 18:24:31 +0000 <![CDATA[Justus Links]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> <![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]> <![CDATA[Religion]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=40644 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[One way of reading the AKP’s progress is as a two-step process of privatization. In its first two terms, the AKP government privatized a large portion of Turkey’s state assets; since then, it has moved to make the state itself the private property of one man and his friends. The first phase — standard neoliberalism — won the AKP applause from the Western establishment, which is now aghast at the second phase, which looks more like Putin than Thatcher. ]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/politics/the-catastrophe-in-turkey/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/fiction-drama/quarantine/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/fiction-drama/quarantine/#respond Tue, 25 Apr 2023 17:58:45 +0000 <![CDATA[Dorothy Tse]]> <![CDATA[Fiction and Drama]]> <![CDATA[Translation]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=40639 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[I would see all her bright colors and form a very hazy idea of the whole. She seemed to be repainting the same picture over and over again, and every time I walked by my impression grew more distinct. I also began to feel uncontrollably jealous, half convinced her painting was one I had conceived of long ago and simply hadn’t had a chance to paint yet.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/fiction-drama/quarantine/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/fiction-drama/the-ellipse-maker/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/fiction-drama/the-ellipse-maker/#respond Tue, 25 Apr 2023 16:06:39 +0000 <![CDATA[Caleb Crain]]> <![CDATA[Fiction and Drama]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=40629 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[It was disappointing that these devices didn’t operate on different principles. The sameness suggested that the mystery in them was limited, that the idea behind them was a known form that Jacob hadn’t encountered before only because he didn’t know very much about the world.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/fiction-drama/the-ellipse-maker/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/reviews/outside-the-museum-of-literature-1/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/reviews/outside-the-museum-of-literature-1/#respond Mon, 24 Apr 2023 16:00:07 +0000 <![CDATA[Nicholas Dames]]> <![CDATA[Reviews]]> <![CDATA[Reading, Writing, and Publishing]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=40494 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Solenoid’s parasites take us well over the horizon marked out by any kind of realism. In one of Cărtărescu’s odder fantasias, his narrator comes to know a librarian with a messianic vocation: to find a way to communicate with the subject of his obsession, the world of mites, on whose astonishing variety, beauty, and omnipresence at the edges of our attention he soliloquizes at length.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/reviews/outside-the-museum-of-literature-1/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/reviews/careworn/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/reviews/careworn/#respond Fri, 21 Apr 2023 20:15:55 +0000 <![CDATA[Kate Wolf]]> <![CDATA[Reviews]]> <![CDATA[Feminism]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=40372 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Writing by adult children about the aging parents they care for — a genre likely to expand in the coming decades as the old exceed the young — is marked by a twinned consciousness. Written out of the exigencies of the present as much as those of the past, it strains to acknowledge one’s parents as people yet wants to remain true to one’s own experience of those people as parents.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/reviews/careworn/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/fiction-drama/ace/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/fiction-drama/ace/#respond Fri, 21 Apr 2023 19:48:02 +0000 <![CDATA[Jared Jackson]]> <![CDATA[Fiction and Drama]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=40375 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[We transformed the living room into an arena. Hauled the coffee table from the center of the room and carried it into the dining room. Removed objects that could cause a freak accident — a statue sitting on a low mantle that my parents picked up on their honeymoon, the fireplace poker we never used. We took the cushions and pillows from the couch and spread them across the floor, covered sharp edges with throw blankets and with my bedroom comforter.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/fiction-drama/ace/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/essays/cowboy-in-sweden-1/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/essays/cowboy-in-sweden-1/#respond Fri, 21 Apr 2023 17:39:32 +0000 <![CDATA[Sander Pleij]]> <![CDATA[Essays]]> <![CDATA[Art and Architecture]]> <![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]> <![CDATA[My Life and Times]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=40364 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[For the first time in my life I would be an official roadie. I wasn’t merely in charge of the driving: I would also help build and dismantle, lift and position, carry and fetch — armed with duct tape and a Swiss Army knife. My writing would be full of self-mockery and rich with funny observations about my wife. Moreover, having experienced the splendor of the gig, my dispatch would be transformed, alchemically, into an essay that contained a series of pointed, even revolutionary, observations about art.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/essays/cowboy-in-sweden-1/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/reviews/joanna-hoggs-women/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/reviews/joanna-hoggs-women/#respond Fri, 21 Apr 2023 16:27:57 +0000 <![CDATA[Victoria Uren]]> <![CDATA[Reviews]]> <![CDATA[Feminism]]> <![CDATA[Film]]> <![CDATA[Love and Sex]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=40357 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Female silence animates many of Hogg’s dramas, which follow women whose problems manifest as failures of expression: women with suppressed desires, thwarted ambitions, or a reluctance (sometimes approaching inability) to say what they mean. Hogg’s own biography featured a long period of what might be thought of as creative silence: after graduating from film school in the mid-’80s, she spent nearly two decades directing music videos and television episodes.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/reviews/joanna-hoggs-women/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/fiction-drama/kairos-the-lucky-moment-and-the-long-time-that-follows/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/fiction-drama/kairos-the-lucky-moment-and-the-long-time-that-follows/#respond Thu, 20 Apr 2023 19:45:30 +0000 <![CDATA[Jenny Erpenbeck]]> <![CDATA[Fiction and Drama]]> <![CDATA[Love and Sex]]> <![CDATA[Translation]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=40319 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Kairos, the god of fortunate moments, is supposed to have a lock of hair on his forehead, which is the only way of grasping hold of him. Because once the god has slipped past on his winged feet, the back of his head is sleek and hairless, nowhere to grab hold of. Was it a fortunate moment, then, when she, just 19, first met Hans?]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/fiction-drama/kairos-the-lucky-moment-and-the-long-time-that-follows/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/essays/love-and-wizkid/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/essays/love-and-wizkid/#respond Thu, 20 Apr 2023 15:31:06 +0000 <![CDATA[Jessica Kariisa]]> <![CDATA[Essays]]> <![CDATA[Love and Sex]]> <![CDATA[Music]]> <![CDATA[My Life and Times]]> <![CDATA[Race and Racism]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=40309 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The album gives me space to imagine beautiful places and sappy romantic love. It gives me the space to imagine intentional rest that does not imply lockdown, to imagine interactions with people that don’t signal death, and to imagine a healthy, abundant sex life that I have yet to experience.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/essays/love-and-wizkid/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/j-d-vance-changes-the-subject/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/j-d-vance-changes-the-subject/#respond Thu, 20 Apr 2023 14:39:18 +0000 <![CDATA[Gabriel Winant]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=40271 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Vance’s form of far-right politics is so ominous because it responds in a primal, perverted way to something actual. We are caught under a heap of wreckage, an accumulation of social and historical trauma that we are largely without means of getting out of. Millions are dead, and millions more permanently sick, from a pandemic that everyone now pretends didn’t happen, and even more vigorously pretends is not still happening. This massive new collective burden was piled on a society already stumbling under the weight of organized abandonment, environmental racism, for-profit health care, and mass incarceration. Vance, in the end, cannot abide the idea that what he suffered has to do with any of that disabling stuff.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/j-d-vance-changes-the-subject/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/florida-in-philadelphia/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/florida-in-philadelphia/#respond Fri, 14 Apr 2023 15:29:58 +0000 <![CDATA[Mathias Fuelling, Josh Stern]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Education/Schooling]]> <![CDATA[Money and Power]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=40025 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The strike at Temple, therefore, was not just about material benefits for graduate workers: it was also about the long-term structural nature of what the contemporary university will be. It was about exposing the precarity of everyone—not just graduate workers but also adjuncts and even TT faculty—under academia’s current system.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/florida-in-philadelphia/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-emahoy-tsegue-maryam-guebrou/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-emahoy-tsegue-maryam-guebrou/#respond Wed, 12 Apr 2023 15:54:56 +0000 <![CDATA[J. Mamana]]> <![CDATA[In Memoriam]]> <![CDATA[Music]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=39975 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[In expressing the beauty and simplicity of everyday feeling in the context of religious music, Emahoy suffused the quotidian with sacred significance.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-emahoy-tsegue-maryam-guebrou/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/il-castello-dei-mann/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/il-castello-dei-mann/#respond Fri, 24 Mar 2023 14:22:12 +0000 <![CDATA[Molly Dektar]]> <![CDATA[Fiction and Drama]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=39346 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Didn’t he know that I was a servant, and how capable I was of managing humiliation and disgust? I felt he was even endearing, in his desire to escape his wife, his crowd of guests—and this smirk I felt now, and bubbling up laughter in the silence of my parked car, were the symptoms of power I’d never felt before.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/il-castello-dei-mann/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-road-to-auto-debt/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-road-to-auto-debt/#respond Wed, 15 Mar 2023 15:17:24 +0000 <![CDATA[Julie Livingston, Andrew Ross]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Cars]]> <![CDATA[Race and Racism]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=38989 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[For most of us, our cars, no matter how much we cherish them, hold us in social and economic custody. As more and more vehicles are financed, and with higher loans and interest rates, creditors exert a carceral pull over our ability to earn a sustainable livelihood. Perhaps the most telling evidence of this servitude is that, in times of financial stress, households will prioritize their monthly car payments over all others, including basic necessities. Surely it is the mark of our perverse civilization when food, medical care, and housing have to take a back seat to our need to keep wheels on the road.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-road-to-auto-debt/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/highway-star/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/highway-star/#respond Thu, 02 Mar 2023 19:41:38 +0000 <![CDATA[Meg Bernhard]]> <![CDATA[Cars]]> <![CDATA[My Life and Times]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=38468 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Trucking saved her, she said, but she still got lonely. Solitude became its own source of claustrophobia. “I have blue days,” Jess said. “If I slammed my truck into a mountain, would anyone notice? Does anyone know I’m out here?”]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/highway-star/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/constructing-fate/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/constructing-fate/#respond Tue, 21 Feb 2023 17:35:03 +0000 <![CDATA[Justus Links]]> <![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]> <![CDATA[Politics]]> <![CDATA[Religion]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=38128 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Taking a handful of men into custody does not constitute an acknowledgment of the party-state’s systemic refusal to enforce public safety requirements when its clientelist political economy was at stake. As a Turkish colleague put it to me in conversation, the culprits will not be held to account when the culprits and those holding to account are the same people.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/constructing-fate/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/finding-form/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/finding-form/#respond Mon, 20 Feb 2023 15:42:45 +0000 <![CDATA[Emmanuel Iduma]]> <![CDATA[Art and Architecture]]> <![CDATA[My Life and Times]]> <![CDATA[Reading, Writing, and Publishing]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=38063 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Writing fiction hadn’t been false, for nonfiction isn’t truer than fiction; but I’d seemed to row at the shallowest region of the narrative stream, where the water wouldn’t reveal its deepest enchantments. I needed to allow the subject to change the form as I progressed. Where I began with curiosity about my uncle’s fate, my travels made me aware of how little of the war had been monumentalized in the Nigerian landscape, ultimately making it necessary for me to define the shape of my work as a reconciliation with the fragmented nature of the past.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/finding-form/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/it-is-happening-again/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/it-is-happening-again/#respond Fri, 17 Feb 2023 16:01:11 +0000 <![CDATA[Erik Baker]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Ecology]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=37964 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[How many times have we seen this drama play out in the last several decades? Every presidential administration wants to fix America’s “crumbling infrastructure” until they discover the business interests profiting from disrepair.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/it-is-happening-again/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-tom-verlaine/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-tom-verlaine/#respond Thu, 09 Feb 2023 19:20:48 +0000 <![CDATA[Paul Grimstad]]> <![CDATA[In Memoriam]]> <![CDATA[Music]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=37715 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[The Ramones were great, but Television made their CBs confreres sound like Johnny one notes. Television had chops, tunes, and weren’t afraid to stretch out and solo—they even had arrangements for god’s sake.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-tom-verlaine/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/five-poems/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/five-poems/#respond Tue, 07 Feb 2023 14:46:15 +0000 <![CDATA[Maggie Millner]]> <![CDATA[Poetry]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=37552 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[Love found me twice, at once. If it never happens again I’ll still be luckier than the moon. Breathing, typing these lines, texting a friend, checking the time, thinking it wouldn’t always be like this, but still, sometimes, it was.    It is.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/five-poems/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-dearth-of-the-myth/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-dearth-of-the-myth/#respond Fri, 27 Jan 2023 15:39:25 +0000 <![CDATA[J.D. Daniels]]> <![CDATA[Ecology]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=37108 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[For thirteen years I had an interest in echolocation jamming, ever since I read Lynne Peeples reporting in Scientific American on Aaron Cochran’s doctoral research into how tiger moths click to blur bats’ acoustic vision. I mean, I talked with engineers who work on radar-absorbing polymer materials in stealth bombers, man. When I light out for the territory, I go over the mountain.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-dearth-of-the-myth/feed/ 0 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/corky-lee-and-the-work-of-seeing/ https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/corky-lee-and-the-work-of-seeing/#respond Wed, 25 Jan 2023 16:42:12 +0000 <![CDATA[Ken Chen]]> <![CDATA[American Politics]]> <![CDATA[Art and Architecture]]> <![CDATA[Coronavirus]]> <![CDATA[Race and Racism]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/?post_type=article&p=36994 <![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[There is a symmetry between Corky Lee’s passing and the rise of Stop Anti-Asian Hate: the departure of Asian America’s greatest documentarian and its most visible recent efflorescence. Years earlier, the brief window of postwar Asian American radicalism seemed to have already swung shut. Today, our most notable figures are corporate CEOs and conservative politicians, the eponymous Asians rich and crazy, so the artists, revolutionaries, and workers preserved in Lee’s prints can feel as elusive as their author. No matter how distant an Asian American poor people’s movement may seem, his prints still vibrate with radical temporality and potential.]]> https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/corky-lee-and-the-work-of-seeing/feed/ 0