In an effort to open a public discussion of the New York Public Library’s Central Library Plan, an open meeting will be held at the New School on May 22. More…
Hello from the n+1 office, where we’re hard at work on Issue 14, otherwise known as “Ten Under 30.” The issue, coming in June, features pieces from some of our best young writers. More…
We’re pleased to announce that you can party with us on both coasts this weekend, at Paper Chase Press in LA on Saturday and PS1 in Queens on Sunday. More…
The New York Times is asking readers to try out assignments from Draw It With Your Eyes Closed. At the office, we took them up on the challenge. More…
In a truly dark time for Italy, the death of one of its great writers is a particularly unusual cruelty. More…
The weekend of April 21, we’ll be in LA for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. The weekend of May 4, we’ll be in New York, in two places at once. More…
Join us March 17 for a conference on abortion and the past forty years of feminist action. More…
Dana Goldstein and Astra Taylor debate the meaning of progressive education. More…
If you’re in Chicago on Sunday, March 4, come say hello to Paper Monument editors Dushko Petrovich and Roger White at their opening at the Suburban. More…
Launch party for n+1 Issue 13 (“Machine Politics”). 8 PM—12 AM, Thursday, March 15. The Brooklyn Brewery, 79 North 11th Street, Brooklyn. As always, subscribers get in free, and everyone gets free drinks. More…
At 7 PM on Tuesday, March 6, join us for a panel discussion, “Singles Going Steady,” at Powerhouse Arena in Dumbo, featuring Eric Klinenberg, Kate Bolick, and Daniel Smith. More…
If you had one of the first free posters, if you’ve admired the efflorescence of poster art around OWS, if you’ve ever wished someone would hand you an Occupy poster, now is the time to give back and make it happen. More…
Our friends at Paper Monument just shared the following information about their new book, Draw it With Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment. Pre-order it now: it will be a classic. More…
Astra Taylor will read from her essay on the unschooling movement, and editors and contributors will read a scene from Benjamin Kunkel’s new play. More…
Pilar Donoso wrote, “One should not know the intimate thoughts of anyone. Least of all those of one’s own parents.” I wonder what thoughts I may need to hide from her so that she will be able to expand out into the world and not fold up into a void. I hope I will be able to do so. More…
Please join us at Bluestockings bookstore tomorrow, Wednesday the 18th, to celebrate the n+1 radical feminist research team’s collaboration with Soapbox, Inc. to revive their notoriously provocative—and powerful—“I Had An Abortion” campaign. More…
We’re pleased to announce that lucky Issue 13, “Machine Politics,” made it to the printer last week and will be released on Thursday, January 26. More…
National Women’s Liberation has put together a protest and speak-out in New York today, January 12th, to demand that Health and Human Services reverse its block on the FDA’s recommendation. More…
A 7 PM this Tuesday, January 7, Emily Carter, author of Glory Goes and Gets Some, will make a rare New York appearance, in conversation with her cousin, n+1 editor Marco Roth. More…
Announcing a daylong OWS-inspired conference on policy, money, history, and strategy with thinkers and activists. Noon, Sunday, December 18. Theresa Lang Auditorium, 55 W. 13th St., New York. Free and open to the public. Presented by n+1, Occupy!, and Verso. More…
The venerable radical publisher Verso has turned our gazette into a book, with a fair amount of added material, and we’re having a party at Verso’s office to celebrate. More…
n+1 and Occupy! Gazette editors will be joining an Occupy Our Homes action at 1 PM on Tuesday, December 6. If you’re definitely coming and want to make sure to meet us, please write to gazette [at] nplusonemag.com, and we’ll stay in touch. More…
Please join us for a reading of Benjamin Kunkel’s play Buzz, presented by Cherry Lane Theatre and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and directed by Adam Rapp. More…
The interns are pleased—OK, more than a little pleased—to announce that the New York Review of Books has proposed a weekly swap of classifieds between their own site and n+personals. More…
New York readers, Please join us this Tuesday for an evening of readings by Issue 12 contributors at the Kitchen, hosted by founding co-editor Chad Harbach. More…
Our friends at Dissent are co-hosting a panel on the future of Occupy Wall Street at 7:30 PM tonight, Monday, November 28, at Columbia. Panelists include Associate Editor Nikil Saval. More information below. More…
Yesterday morning, November 17, many of us from magazines here in New York went as demonstrators to join the call in support of Zuccotti Park and for political and economic change. More…
Tomorrow, November 17, we march! In anticipation of this day of action—chosen to mark the two-month anniversary of the Occupy Movement—we want to share ways to participate. More…
Marco Roth and Nikil Saval will be participating tonight in a panel entitled “The Crisis of the Left.” The panel runs from 7 to 9:30 PM at NYU’s Silver Center, Room 207, 31 Washington Place. More…
The second issue arrives at the office today, with new dispatches from Oakland, questions about relations with the police, arguments about the role of the homeless, and more. More…
Writers and activists will discuss the situation at Zuccotti Park—what it means, how it’s going, and where to go from here. Panelists will include Meaghan Linick, Sarah Resnick, and Astra Taylor, and the conversation will be moderated by Keith Gessen. More…
N1FR editor Jonathon Kyle Sturgeon will be part of a conversation this Saturday, November 5 about the influence of Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City. The talk will be held at UnionDocs, at 322 Union Avenue in Brooklyn. More…
UPDATE (12:44 AM): Crisis averted: tonight at the General Assembly, the working group of drummers, Pulse, in a spirit of conciliation and generosity, brought forward a proposal to limit their drumming from 12 to 2 and 4 to 6 PM only. More…
With the help of Astra Taylor (Examined Life; Zizek!) and Sarah Leonard of Dissent, we’ve put together a history, both personal and documentary, and the beginning of an analysis of the first month of the occupation. More…
At 7 PM next Wednesday, October 26 at Fordham, n+1 contributors J. D. Daniels and Helen DeWitt talk frankly about regrets they have (or don’t have) about college-—what they wish they had read or not read, listened to or not listened to, thought or not thought, been or not been. More…
We’ve been watching the growing Occupy movements, first in New York City, then across the country and the world with awe, excitement, a dose of skepticism, and then once more with awe. n+1 and several talented associates have put together a quick history, analysis, and documentation of OWS. Now we just need to publish it. More…
Over at National Review Online, my friend Reihan Salam has a post up critiquing my recent piece on Occupy Wall Street. In it, Reihan suggests that the Occupation is a familiar caricature of an American left-wing movement. More…
SPREAD THE WORD: (Substantiated call) ALL CALL FOR #OWS EVICTION DEFENSE SUPPORT FRIDAY 6AM. City is coming with sanitation crew to clean the park, requiring us to leave. We can come back provided we abide by the (public) park “owner’s” rules. More…
We’re pleased to announce that Chad Harbach has readings and events for his novel, The Art of Fielding, across the country this month, and more to come in November. More…
Join our contingent as part of the march against corporate greed and the big banks organized by the Transit Workers Union in support of Occupy Wall Street. More…
New York readers, please join us this Tuesday for a conversation with Stéphane Hessel, author of Indignez-vouz!, or Time for Outrage, moderated by Associate Editor Nikil Saval and sponsored by the Columbia University French House. More…
We look forward to attending the Brooklyn Book Festival at Cadman Plaza in downtown Brooklyn this Sunday. Please come visit us at Table 66! More…
My reference to Zizek’s “predictable” Hegelianism wasn’t an attack on Zizek, let alone Hegel. My point was that referencing Hegel in that paragraph in the London Review of Books was unnecessary. More…
I was taken aback by the dismissive allusion to Zizek and his supposedly slightly predictable Hegelianism. Whether one likes Zizek’s writings or not, this sort of jibe strikes me as profoundly unhelpful. More…
We’re looking forward to several events in the coming weeks for Issue 12 and Chad Harbach’s novel, The Art of Fielding. Details are as follows. More…
Bang out a few details about yourself and what you’re looking for and send them to personals@nplusonemag.com. The posts will be kept anonymous. More…
New York readers, join us to celebrate the launch of Issue 12 at 8 PM on Friday, August 26th at 160 Water Street in Brooklyn. As always, it’s free for subscribers at the door. More…
This Thursday, August 11, Elizabeth Gumport and Dayna Tortorici left Brooklyn and returned approximately twelve hours later with many thousands of issues—and the most extensive report on the trip to and from Sheridan, Pennsylvania that we have ever received. More…
We sent Issue 12, “Conversion Experience,” to the printer last week, and it returns in its corporeal form on Thursday, August 11. Subscribe now to receive a copy just as soon as we have them. If you would like to write about the issue or any of its contents and need materials in advance, please let us know. More…
Good news: the n+1 podcast is now available on iTunes for your listening pleasure. Subscribe and stay tuned for conversations with novelists Sam Lipsyte and Jo Ann Beard, a jam-packed Issue 12 episode, and much more to come. More…
Three weeks ago, we removed Issue 10 from our online store at the request of one of the issue’s featured authors, Siddhartha Deb. The subject of Deb’s article “Gatsby in New Delhi,” Arindam Chaudhuri, had filed suit for defamation after a version of the article was reprinted in the Indian monthly The Caravan. More…
We’re pleased to announce that after months of being sold out, our small book What Was the Hipster? is back at the office and ready to ship. Order a copy with a subscription today, just in time for Issue 12, coming in August. More…
We’ve been reading commentary online (most notably by Paul Krugman) comparing Greece’s possible default to Argentina’s default in 2001. For anyone interested in a debt crisis and its possible aftermath, Benjamin Kunkel’s article on post-crisis Argentina is worth revisiting. More…
A letter from Jesse Ruddock in response to our Stanley Cup coverage: “The Allaire pedagogy is not The Nothing—devourer of the collective goaltending imagination. There is no such thing as a certified butterfly goaltending instructor. This isn’t Bikram Yoga.” More…
We congratulate editor Marco Roth on winning the 2011 Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism. New York area readers are invited to join us and fellow prize-winner Lila Azam Zanganeh at 7 PM on Wednesday, June 22nd at the Center for Fiction (17 E. 47th St.) for a discussion of the future of criticism, to be followed by drinks. More…
A letter from Alexander Cockburn and reply by Wes Enzinna. “We have here the utterly conventional reduction of a left-wing writer.” “Would that it weren’t the case, but John was as marginal as they come.” More…
Dear Online Readers, Editor Chad Harbach recently came to the office with what we believe is the last unclaimed classic black-and-white n+1 tote bag. Subscribe by 1 PM EST on Friday, and we will place a piece of paper with your name on it inside this tote bag and conduct a raffle in which you could win the tote bag itself. More…
Summer has arrived at the n+1 office. Our spring interns have been joined by a new summer crop; the battle for the @nplusinterns Twitter starts now. More…
We’re proud to announce the launch of our new store, designed by Durable Goods (also the creators of our beloved website). In addition to being much better-looking than the old one, the new store offers a lot of great new ways to read the magazine. More…
We proudly released Issue 11: Dual Power last month. But there would be no “Horseshit” to share with you if we hadn’t given away a few pieces online. More…
It’s an exciting time at the n+1 office. We’re starting work on Issue 12, and we’re also about to make our first ten issues much more accessible to new readers. More…
We’re pleased to announce that our friends at the Villa Gillet have returned for the second season of Walls and Bridges, starting with a panel on “What is Engagement Today?” More…
An n+1 delegation was present at the AFL-CIO rally on Wall Street yesterday. Afterward, Astra Taylor sent the group the following quotation from Rebecca Solnit’s “Acts of Hope.” More…
“History will have to record,” Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote, “that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition is not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.” More…
New York readers, the Issue 11 launch party is on for this Saturday, at the Recess Activities downtown storefront gallery space. More…
Advanced interns Cory Merrill and Ian Epstein set off this morning from a Brooklyn U-Haul rental for Hanover, Pennsylvania, where 7,500 issues await them. More…
The new issue is arriving from Sheridan, PA next Wednesday, and we’re celebrating with a reading at McNally Jackson in Soho the following night. More…
New York readers, we have a great series of n+1-related events coming up this weekend and early next week, and hope you can join us for at least one of them. And please stay tuned for announcements about our Issue 11 reading and launch party. More…
The issue features debut fiction by an astoundingly good young writer, Yelena Akhtiorskaya, and Emily Witt’s investigation into the cult of Cambridge poet J. H. Prynne, the best piece on academic life we’ve published since Elif Batuman’s “Babel in California.” More…
Next in our line-up of February events, at 7 PM on Wednesday, February 16, Keith Gessen and Anya Ulinich will be hosting an evening in Symphony Space’s Selected Shorts series. “Russian Tales, Old and New” features actors reading the stories of Babel, Chekhov, and Ludmilla Petrushevskaya. More…
For those of you tired of hearing about unattendable events taking place in distant, gray, slush-bound New York, we have good news: Keith Gessen and Mark Greif are making a brief and rare trip to California next week to give a talk at Stanford. More…
n+1, in partnership with French cultural institute La Villa Gillet, presents “Catastrophe Practice,” a symposium moderated by editors Marco Roth and Mark Greif at the New School on February 2nd. More…
In 2005, Jeff Chang’s Can’t Stop Won’t Stop did for hip-hop scholarship what Hercules did for the Augean stables: flushed out all the bullshit by redirecting the flow. Throughout the previous decade, most hip-hop writers had not so much stood as crouched on the shoulders of their predecessors. More…
Paper Monument’s first small book, I Like Your Work: Art and Etiquette, has just gone into its third printing. We’re impressed, but then again, the book itself is pretty impressive, featuring contributions from thirty-eight artists, critics, curators, and dealers on the sometimes serious, sometimes ridiculous subject of manners in the art world. More…
Copenhagen began the year hungover with guilt after the failure of the COP15 climate summit. But little fazes the Danes, and a little brunch made everyone feel better. The climate wasn’t so forgiving, inflicting the coldest winter in decades on the city. More…
We were excited to be on the radio not once but twice last week! Chad Harbach, author of the blockbuster Issue 10 piece “MFA vs. NYC,” was interviewed on “All Things Considered,” and in the ongoing drama of our new book What Was the Hipster?, Mark Greif appeared on WBAI. More…
Here are our completely objective suggestions for gifts this holiday season, for artists, art collectors, social critics, Tolstoy apologists, early adopters, cats, and absolutely everyone else. More…
The secrets remain the problem—they convert even honest public servants, newly enthralled with what they’re able to occlude, into sycophants and liars. But having secrets out in the open doesn’t automatically give us politics. More…
Dear New York readers, please join on us at 7 PM on Friday, December 10 at BookCourt, at 163 Court Street, Brooklyn, for a gigantic reading from and celebration of all ten issues. More…
“We stood next to each other in the epic line for the bathroom for what seemed like hours, but didn’t talk much except about how long it was taking; someone came up to you at one point and told you they’d “enjoyed your piece” but I didn’t catch any other details.” More…
A good time was had by all at the Issue 10 launch party at beautiful Secret Project Robot last Friday night. A good time was also had by all at the Barthes event at the Kitchen, where Richard Howard told Marco Roth about Barthes’s mother. More…
Dear online readers, we’re pleased to announce that we now offer a three-issue digital subscription. More…
Regular readers of the site will recall the “missed connections” interlude after the Issue 9 party. Due to overwhelming popular demand, we hereby bring back the feature for the Issue 10 party. More…
The new @nplusonemag is very good on the NYC/MFA split. I’ve also been worried that poetry’s economic present presages lit-fiction’s future 1:01 AM Nov 12th via Twitter for iPad More…
We’ve made a PDF edition of Issue 10 available in the n+1 store, good for those of you who prefer digital editions and international readers (and anyone else) who want to avoid shipping costs. More…
A young journalist named Oleg Kashin was savagely beaten outside his apartment building in the center of Moscow last Friday night. Two men followed him into his courtyard, one in front of him (with flowers), another behind, then knocked him to the ground and beat his legs, hands, and head with a metal rod of some sort. More…
Mark Greif was on the Brian Lehrer Show this morning to discuss What Was the Hipster? It was an exciting segment: Brian Lehrer suggested that Mark is a hipster. More…
“n+1: Where were you when nplusonemag went down?” An oral history of November 4, 2010. More…
We’ve managed to get the book into some of the better independent bookstores, but there are fewer and fewer of these, and larger distributors have declined to take us on. So we need your help! More…
We’re proud to announce that Elif Batuman, along with nine other writers, has won a Whiting Award. More…
It’s an exciting time at n+1—we just launched our third small book, What Was the Hipster?, we’re about to release our tenth issue, on November 12—and we have a lot of great events coming up on our calendar. So you don’t miss anything (or at least not everything) here’s the rundown. More…
Anything calling itself the International Necronautical Society has to be a joke, right? This question was, in a sense, the premise behind the interrogation of INS co-founders Tom McCarthy and Simon Critchley by the editors of Triple Canopy and their friends at their performance space at 177 Livingston in Brooklyn a few weeks ago. More…
Our third small book, What Was the Hipster?, became available for pre-order last week, inspiring a rapid series of articles and announcements and hundreds of comments. London–based fortnightly Snipe was one of the first to the scene. More…
The UCLA Student Union’s panel on hipsters last night was “kind of a shitstorm,” according to moderator Christian Lorentzen, a contributor to n+1’s book What Was the Hipster? We caught up with Lorentzen and assistant editor Christopher Glazek, who participated as a panelist, over the phone from LAX. More…
Preview the What Was the Hipster? table of contents, then see the contributors in person at “Look at this F*cking Panel: A Sociological Discussion on the Hipster” being held this Monday, October 11 on the UCLA campus. More…
Dear New York readers, we’re pleased to tell you that free copies of the N1FR print edition will be available at local movie theaters this (Thursday) evening. We’re dropping off copies with our friends at Anthology, BAM,and Film Forum around 7 PM. Come pick one up while you still can! More…
The print edition of N1FR has landed at the office. We think it looks fantastic. Order your copy for $3 by Friday and enter to win an Anthology Film Archives dual membership. More…
A special print edition of N1FR is now available for pre-order. Order your copy by Friday and automatically enter to win an Anthology Film Archives dual membership! More…
Dear New York readers, we’ll be at table 20 at the Brooklyn Book Festival tomorrow. Come say hi and check out our extensive merchandise selection. More…
On the heels of the first issue of N1FR, we’re about to publish the eighth issue of N1BR, our online book review supplement. More…
