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...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/whose-leash/
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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. ...
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 fli...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/shibboleth-gold/
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 i...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/not-writing/
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 t...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-university-of-the-future/
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 ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/nicolas-medina-mora-and-mark-krotov-in-conversation/
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, whi...
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 Politica...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/hannah-proctor-and-tess-edmonson-in-conversation/
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 a...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/auto-show-dispatch/
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...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/politics/no-human-being-can-exist-2/
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...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/the-intellectual-situation/who-sees-gaza/
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 c...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/essays/an-age-of-hyperabundance/
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 ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/fiction-drama/arnie-robles-jr/
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 ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/politics/inventing-the-crisis/
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 ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/reviews/super-cute-please-like/
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...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/essays/death-in-the-luberon/
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/
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.
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 tim...
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 ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-nudge-or-a-nuzzle/
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 hou...
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 w...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/essays/traces-of-enayat/
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, whethe...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/fiction-drama/no-mans-land/
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...
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 h...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/book-review/the-dam-and-the-bomb/
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 co...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/out-of-the-fog/
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 f...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/aid-wars/
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 d...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/ross-perlin-and-charles-petersen-in-conversation/
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 award...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/announcements/announcing-the-2024-n1-writers-awards-winners/
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...
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 celebratin...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/announcements/n1-is-20/
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 ta...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/descent-to-the-lower-depths/
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 wi...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/burnt-offerings/
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 w...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-people-on-buses-and-trains/
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 co...
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 sma...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/film-review/heritage-2000/
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 ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/fragile-juggernaut/
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...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-forest-and-its-partisans/
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 paintin...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/this-this-this-and-this/
Join n+1, Deep Vellum, Dorothy, Mizna, and The Yale Review!
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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 c...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/acts-harmful-to-the-enemy/
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 ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/living-inside-a-psyop/
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/
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 again...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/book-review/little-women/
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 oth...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/why-get-arrested/
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 compar...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/comparison-is-the-way-we-know-the-world/
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...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/how-am-i/
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 “complic...
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 ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/n1-presents-holiday-market/
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? W...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/physical-destruction-in-whole-or-in-part/
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 existenc...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/can-you-tell-us-why-this-is-happening/
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, t...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/molly-and-peou/
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. Ak...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/issue-46-reading-and-launch-celebration/
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 activ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/gimlet-on-the-rocks/
“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’...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-poet-of-sewer-rats/
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...
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-Z...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-dangerous-conflation/
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 disc...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/dan-sinykin-and-mark-krotov-in-conversation/
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...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-tradition-of-defiance/
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 ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/elena-kostyuchenko-at-the-n1-office/
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 unde...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/letters/the-call-is-coming-from-inside-the-bar-grill/
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, ...
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/
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 f...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/politics/justice-from-below/
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,...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/reviews/the-new-era-is-a-fact/
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. ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/the-intellectual-situation/acts-of-human-will/
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 ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/no-human-being-can-exist/
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 recog...
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 restrain...
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 an...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/freedom-for-the-one-who-thinks-differently/
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: t...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-cafe-and-the-colony/
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 ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-surge-in-suppression/
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 ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/jocelyn-simonson-and-james-forman-jr-in-conversation/
There’s a pervasive censoriousness right now—conservatives denouncing liberals, liberals denouncing leftists, leftists denouncing other leftists—that’s immediately familiar from the days ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/have-we-learned-nothing/
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...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-hole-in-the-limits-of-the-world/
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 Abd...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/politics/prelude-to-a-coup/
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 a...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/fiction-drama/the-angel-and-the-dust/
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/
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/
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 th...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-46/fiction-drama/the-gobbler-iii-all-chopped-up/
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 ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/winter-editions-launch-party/
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...
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 nam...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/ford-food/
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 em...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-the-thai-elections/
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 ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/toward-pop-literature/
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...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/screamed-like-a-girl/
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, cr...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/paper-monument/what-should-art-criticism-do/
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 award...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/announcements/announcing-the-2023-n1-writers-awards-winners/
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. Phi...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-adam-phillips/
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 ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/how-they-tried-to-kill-me/
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. Th...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-1999-moment/
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...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/how-to-touch-grass/
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 ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/going-live/
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 hav...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/these-are-women-on-my-tv/
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 del...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/who-was-barbie/
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...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/launch-event-track-changes/
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 res...
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 holine...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/end-of-the-tour/
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 fedor...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-legends/
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...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/ordinary-street-cars-at-high-speeds/
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...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/jordan-neely-and-daniel-penny/
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 ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/book-review/overload-vertigo-dizziness-trance/
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...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/landing/
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-...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/little-privatized-suns/
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...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-daniel-ellsberg/
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...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/summer-party/
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 ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/book-review/mother-sauce/
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 c...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/smoke-week/
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...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/brother/
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 image...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-assignment/
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...
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)....
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/ari-m-brostoff-and-emily-segal-in-conversation/
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 b...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-third-alice/
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 malfeasanc...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-grubhub-of-human-affliction/
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 ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/im-fucking-agitated-are-you-going-to-murder-me/
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, Laur...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/issue-45-reading-and-launch-celebration/
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 histor...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/politics/j-d-vance-changes-the-subject-2/
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...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/in-gaziantep/
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 cultu...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/paper-monument/what-are-you/
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, fo...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/fiction-drama/little-miss-bigmouth-2/
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 lat...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/letters/the-cheapo-stuff-wins/
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 noti...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/the-intellectual-situation/the-new-new-reading-environment-1/
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...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/politics/the-catastrophe-in-turkey/
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 dist...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/fiction-drama/quarantine/
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 Jaco...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/fiction-drama/the-ellipse-maker/
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 vocatio...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/reviews/outside-the-museum-of-literature-1/
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. Wr...
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 ...
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 wi...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/essays/cowboy-in-sweden-1/
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 (sometime...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/reviews/joanna-hoggs-women/
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 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 t...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/essays/love-and-wizkid/
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 histor...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/j-d-vance-changes-the-subject/
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 a...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/florida-in-philadelphia/
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/
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 sm...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/il-castello-dei-mann/
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 e...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-road-to-auto-debt/
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...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/highway-star/
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...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/constructing-fate/
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 dee...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/finding-form/
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 busi...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/it-is-happening-again/
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...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-tom-verlaine/
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...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/five-poems/
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...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-dearth-of-the-myth/
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 ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/corky-lee-and-the-work-of-seeing/
To celebrate a year since the publication of Ari M. Brostoff’s essay collection, Missing Time, join n+1 for an evening with Brostoff and contributor Blair McClendon. They’ll discuss the book,...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/ari-m-brostoff-and-blair-mcclendon-in-conversation/
Join n+1 for a discussion between the poets Eugene Ostashevsky and Genya Turovskaya. They’ll be discussing ghost languages, host languages, translation, and Ostashevsky’s new collection The ...
She is cutting, wary, funny, and wise. Her style is what I wish I had instead of the chipper inner voice I’m stuck with. Nothing in Malcolm’s writing is dull or amiss unless she’s quoting s...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/book-review/malcolm-on-the-stand/
That Panahi was arrested shortly after completing the film—and that he is now serving out the six-year prison sentence originally handed down in 2010 in Tehran’s infamous Ervin Prison—is an...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/film-review/an-entire-society-exists-within-me/
“You should see my kids,” Issam continued. At his home in La Capelette, a neighborhood in the tenth arrondissement, one child had been wearing face paint in the colors of the French flag, the...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/couscous-and-chicken/
Then the parents threatened a class-action lawsuit. The students occupied a university building. The full-time faculty began rumbles about a vote of no confidence against the president. They had ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-strike-diary/
The show affords epistemological priority to Emily by focusing on her enchanting romantic dramas, sure, but it also lingers on sequences where French people berate her for being corny and basic, ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/lisa-in-emily-in-little-paris/
If Iñárritu longs to have his masochism and refute it, too, Bardo can be seen as an overfull-length elaboration on the theme, an entire movie about a man desperate to get the last, measuredly s...
I had arrived at the all too probably named Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute past its ostensible heyday. Founded in 1974 by Waldman and her “spiritual husband�...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/there-is-a-life-here/
Join n+1, and our friends at the great new magazine Parapraxis, for drinks and dancing to celebrate Parapraxis’s inaugural issue as well as the new Winter issue of n+1. Admission is free, with ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/n1-parapraxis-holiday-party/
n+1’s heroes (despite occasional attempts to diversify things) were often drawn from this Carveresque ethos — which seems to have also doomed the magazine to repeat the false binary of se...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/letters/gen-x-weighs-in/
Join n+1 and the Brooklyn Public Library for a discussion between n+1 coeditor and publisher Mark Krotov and contributor Elif Batuman. They’ll be discussing Batuman’s bestselling new novel, E...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/elif-batuman-and-mark-krotov-in-conversation/
Godard always seemed to be asking What is a movie? What can it do? knowing that he would never find a satisfying answer, forever in pursuit of what was still beyond the grasp of his own prodigiou...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/dead-people-rule/our-godard-2/
For better or worse, dead people do rule. They rule because we love them, and they rule because, like many people over 65 today, they were late to retire and reluctant to surrender their reign.
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/dead-people-rule/dead-people-rule/
Yesterday’s Pleats are in tomorrow’s seafood (microplastics, it seems, tend to concentrate in mollusks like scallops, mussels, and oysters, fancy girl food and treif alike). Of all the myriad...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/dead-people-rule/miyakes-layers-2/
By 1967 public nakedness is not uncommon. In fact, it’s hard to turn around without coming face-to-nipple with an unclothed body.
Ehrenreich’s work has always acknowledged that power operates at the intimate level, which is part of what makes it difficult to resist. To engage in political struggle is not only frightening,...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/dead-people-rule/you-dont-want-to-know-this/
The last time the HarperCollins union went on strike was in the 1970s, bolstered, like today, by a moment of broader political unrest and collective action. At that time, the strike lasted for se...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/harpercollins-strike-dispatch/
Dodging huge grilles we walk on, pulled by ugliness toward a gentrified retail strip. Here the violence of the new ugliness comes more fully into focus. The ruling class seized cities and chose t...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/the-intellectual-situation/why-is-everything-so-ugly/
He designed a fridge-magnet poem-kit (which, I believe, has now had a software program based on it). He wrote a skeptical book about Europe in 1987, before Europe was really a subject (Ach Europa...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-hans-magnus-enzensberger/
When I hear the calls to “cancel” Russian culture, I think: Go ahead and kill me, too. I have no other path, no other identity besides being an artist. I can’t change my blood, and you’ll...
I can’t give you what you need. Look around you. Everything around us shouts your fertility. Points toward it. The whole palace is waiting on your womb. It’s the organizing principle of this ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/fiction-drama/the-suitors-of-helen/
This concept of a rotation in power was crucial to Furman. It was the ultimate test of a democracy. Many countries in the post-Soviet space had managed to do it—to hold an election in which the...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/spiral-motion/
As I plunged into the squall of messages, the landmarks of my own world receded. I was no longer a person but a great, universal ear receiving the worries and doubts of those in search of housing...
So much of life is spent not having sex. Put the kitchen in order, clean the bathroom, print the report, return the call, keep the dental appointment, get the car out of the shop. But this isn’...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/fiction-drama/area-of-isolation/
One was OK: a mistake. But two was a pattern. I knew at an early age that I never wanted to have kids but I didn’t think I was the type of girl who would have an abortion, certainly not more th...
The US working class was forged, for Davis, through its compounded historical defeat, which gave it a distinctive contradictory, battered, and lumpy form that could not be evened out through appe...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/daviss-specificities/
The fact that most doctors like me—my colleagues in obstetrics and gynecology very much included—don't know how to perform abortions is one of the greatest scandals of contemporary medicine i...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/politics/learning-and-not-learning-abortion-2/
1. Isolation I was born in a closed, totalitarian country. One would think that as long as a child didn’t know any other reality, they could be happy. Here I am flipping through the pages of a ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/five-steps/
Join us in our Greenpoint office for readings from two new poetry books in translation from the Russian: Leonid Schwab’s Everburning Pilot (translated by Anton Tenser, Alex Spektor, Sibelan Fo...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/readings-by-leonid-schwab-and-anna-glazova/
When things were slow on the floor, I liked to duck into the locker room and study the clipboard. To me it was like poetry, this ever-changing list of all the girls on that night. Angelina, Kitty...
Facts, in Latour’s view, don’t exist “out there,” waiting to be discovered or understood. They are the hard-won products of scientific work, the result of a long and often contentious pro...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-bruno-latour-1947-2022/
I’m interested in how words with particular identities and backgrounds—“spirit,” “God,” “thought,” “tranquility”—take part, without comment, and perhaps without full knowled...
Join n+1 and Astra House for a Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends event in our Greenpoint office. n+1 contributor Vanessa A. Bee will discuss her new memoir, Home Bound, with author Jeanna Kadlec (w...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/vanessa-a-bee-in-conversation/
Yesterday’s Pleats are in tomorrow’s seafood (microplastics, it seems, tend to proliferate in mollusks like scallops, mussels and oysters, fancy girl food and treif alike). Of all the myriad ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/fashion-supplement/miyakes-layers/
“Art today is Jean-Luc Godard,” the French poet Louis Aragon wrote in 1965. “Godard is not satisfied with the world as it is, he remakes it in his own manner . . . in Pierrot le fou red sin...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/our-godard/
Ehrenreich’s work has always acknowledged that power operates at the intimate level, and that this is part of what makes it difficult to resist. To engage in political struggle is not just frig...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-barbara-ehrenreich/
“Volkisch Currents in Early Live Electronics,” said Tommy. “National Socialism and the Darmstädter Ferienkurse,” said Scott. “Sonic Armaments of the Waffenamt?!” Tommy shrieked.
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/bodies-with-no-surprises/
Gerontocracy is a relative concept. At his death in 1984 Yuri Andropov was only 69, decades younger than Chuck Grassley and Dianne Feinstein and the other ancients currently presiding over the US...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/kids-those-days/
One of the most interesting parts of my research was that I came to see the official indifference to the public's health as not a bug but a feature of this society. You see the elites routinely r...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-sick-society/
Marguerite Young spent eighteen years of her life writing Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, the amount of time it requires to raise a child. She began the novel in 1945, in the shadow of Hiroshima, and...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/more-is-more/
Join n+1 in Chicago for the 2022 Socialism Conference! From September 2–5, the conference gathers thousands of leftwing activists and authors in Chicago to share lessons from history, learn abo...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/n1-at-socialism-2022/
We hadn’t spent time together in a while. I was already away at college and no longer had much contact with him, and suddenly I realized that I didn’t know him very well—or was that just a ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-last-winter/
At its base, the abortion fight has always been a struggle over the work, risk, and expense of bearing and raising children. Since the the birth rate has dropped, capital has understood this fact...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/abortion-after-the-baby-boom/
After Zahedi called himself the reincarnation of Kafka, an audience member yelled, “This is bullshit! You’re wasting my fucking time!” and stormed out. After the outburst, Zahedi stood sile...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-43/letters/youre-wasting-my-time-i-love-you/
A slender, right-wing majority on the Supreme Court (the vote was 5–4) overturned Roe v. Wade in the waning days of the Supreme Court’s term. It is a mistake, however, to render the ideologic...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/jettisoned/
The scars of war don’t go away. They stay in our souls and our memory. They remain alive in the memory of all those who have experienced war and suffered its destruction, those who have lost th...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-43/essays/what-happened-wasnt-fate-at-all/
Recent years have seen the museum, and especially the art museum, highlighted as a key site for protest and a critical space for political struggle. Actors within and beyond the art world have ch...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-43/reviews/museum-pessimism/
Carver was still going, stylishly and bravely. Her unusual combination of tenacity and clear talent made me curious. (Also, I am always on the lookout for aspirational Lisas.) What did it look li...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-43/reviews/live-free-or-die/
It felt insane leaving our comrades in the ditch like that. In the hands of the police. In the dry and desecrated earth, under the anger and irritation of the police and the workers and hecklers....
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-43/essays/migizi-will-fly/
Russian flags fly above the abandoned Security Service building and police headquarters. Curfew is between 8 PM and 6 AM. The lines for ATMs are two hours long. The trolleybuses operate for free...
On paper, legislators passed the Prison Litigation Reform Act to halt what congresspeople erroneously called an epidemic of “meritless” prisoner-initiated lawsuits clogging court dockets. But...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-43/politics/fighting-from-inside/
He spent his formative years as a worker in Tijuana’s maquiladoras, light-industry sweatshops that bloomed like poisonous mushrooms in the Mexican borderlands after the passage of NAFTA. This i...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-43/essays/in-praise-of-the-terrorist/
If it was too cold you called on Satan. Satan also had pre-rolled cigarettes; no one had tobacco in Europe yet for like 400 years, but Satan did