I reviewed Emily Eakin’s “The Frenchmen” — a memoir / intellectual history / group biography of Althusser, Lacan, Foucault, Barthes, Deleuze, Guattari, Derrida, and De Man—for @newyorker.com
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 2mo agoFrench theory, as taught in American classrooms, has acquired a reputation of forbidding difficulty and hauteur. A new history seeks to surface its human side. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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n+1@nplusonemag.com · 3mo ago"I left feeling a pooling, connective happiness. I went home and realized that I hadn’t looked at my phone for six hours." Sarah Thankam Mathews hangs out with the Luddites, NYC's tech-critical cultural youth front: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
I wrote about America's 250th by way of America's 200th, exploring the ways Richard Pryor and Gil Scott-heron gave voice to some bicentennial dissent Excited to publish this essay with @nplusonemag.com and to have worked on it with the brilliant @dtortorici.bsky.social
n+1@nplusonemag.com · 3mo ago"The semiquincentennial has not been like the bicentennial, and not just because it doesn’t roll off the tongue as easily." Mychal Denzel Smith (@mychaldenzelsmith.bsky.social) on Richard Pryor, Gil Scott-Heron, the Freedom Train, and America's 250th: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
The “general response to Midway Blitz [was] an aggrieved, futile attempt to correct someone who has violently misinterpreted reality.” Over and over, Chicagoans pointed “to the normality of life as a defense against the menacing accusations” of ICE and CPB www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/pol...
ICE in Autumn | Morley Musick
Oscar Martinez’s remarks were emblematic of a more general response to Midway Blitz: an aggrieved, futile attempt to correct someone who has violently misinterpreted reality. Over and over, I heard Ch...
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n+1 is looking for an Audience Manager to help us grow our subscriber base! All who love to scheme about ways to keep little magazines alive are encouraged to apply by May 18: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
n+1 Seeks Audience Manager
n+1 is seeking a full-time Audience Manager to work in our Brooklyn office. Compensation will range from $60,000 to $64,000 and includes health and dental insurance. n+1 is a print magazine of literat...
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This essay by Emily Callaci on the complex history of the Wages for Housework Campaign in @nplusonemag.com is one of the most engaging texts I've read in a long while. Billions must-read. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/ess...
In the Wages for Housework Archives | Emily Callaci
The feminists got headaches and worked so relentlessly that they forgot to eat. They smoked too much and made half-hearted attempts to quit. They sent each other presents — articles of clothing, a cop...
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After a couple of weeks during which the Femonationalist French collective Nemesis has been making headlines, this review by @dtortorici.bsky.social of @reproutopia.bsky.social's new book 'Enemy Femnisms' in the lastest issue of @nplusonemag.com has been very enlightening. now on to the real thing.
n+1@nplusonemag.com · 9mo ago“Given the history of intrafeminist conflict, Lewis suggests, it’s time we gave up the comforting myth that feminism is always and everywhere a force for good.” In n+1’s Winter 2026 issue: coeditor @dtortorici.bsky.social on Sophie Lewis’s ENEMY FEMINISMS. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...
A brilliant analysis of how sanctions have transformed the Iranian government into a Chicago School regime of austerity that benefits those attached to the regime, creates precarious labour, and rolls back all the redistributive and social measures of the past: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
At n+1, Justin Taylor is typically excellent on the oeuvre of Katherine Dunn--which, with the inclusion of some posthumously published work, is much more than that one famous book www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
You Are Who Eats You | Justin Taylor
Dunn was quite possibly the last writer anyone would have expected to resurface, after nearly two decades of silence, with the 1989 bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award.
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In 2019, the late Asad Haider wrote about Martin Luther King, Jr. “In the declaration of solidarity across every border, he offered a vision of freedom that extends to all.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Meaning of Emancipation
As a theorist of inequality, King is our contemporary. But he was also a philosopher of equality, and thus of emancipation. At the core of his thought one finds the political subjectivity that the civ...
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"What are the red flags of enemy feminism? For starters, fear: an emphasis on danger over pleasure; a preoccupation with purity; technophobia; congealed opinion; resistance to surprise or novelty; and the desire for strong borders.... But by far the most common feature of enemy feminism is racism."
Dayna Tortorici@dtortorici.bsky.social · 9mo agoI wrote about @reproutopia.bsky.social's excellent book "Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" for the new @nplusonemag.com
Literally the dream review - not only does Dayna *get it*, she illuminates the stakes of what I was trying to do in ways I needed to have explained back to me / didn't totally grasp or know how to articulate. I'm so thrilled I could die
Dayna Tortorici@dtortorici.bsky.social · 9mo agoI wrote about @reproutopia.bsky.social's excellent book "Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" for the new @nplusonemag.com
I wrote about @reproutopia.bsky.social's excellent book "Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" for the new @nplusonemag.com
n+1@nplusonemag.com · 9mo ago“Given the history of intrafeminist conflict, Lewis suggests, it’s time we gave up the comforting myth that feminism is always and everywhere a force for good.” In n+1’s Winter 2026 issue: coeditor @dtortorici.bsky.social on Sophie Lewis’s ENEMY FEMINISMS. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...
Congratulations to Laurie Bertram Roberts, our 2025 Ann Snitow Prize winner! If you are interested in learning more about Roberts' work and the award, join us at the online awards ceremony on Tues Dec 9 at 6pm! annsnitowprize.com
Announcing the winner of the 2025 Ann Snitow Prize: Laurie Bertram Roberts - The Ann Snitow Prize
New York – November 27, 2025 The Organizing Committee of the Ann Snitow Prize is thrilled to name Laurie Bertram Roberts its sixth annual honoree. The $12,000 award recognizes a feminist of outstandin...
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Join us at 6 PM EST on Zoom tonight for a conversation with Ann Snitow Prize winner Laurie Bertram Roberts and Debbie Nathan about organizing for reproductive justice in the deep south. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Parochial when he needed to be, in victory Mamdani was borderless, gesturing to so many of the countries whose emigrants populated New York City. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Debs, Nehru, Mamdani | J. K. Mehta, José Sanchez, Nikil Saval, Colin Vanderburg
“I am a democratic socialist.” These words were really spoken by an American politician on live TV, just hours after being elected to govern a city with a population greater than that of all but twelv...
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🚨 Bookmatch is back! 🚨 From now until December 2, make a donation of any amount to n+1 and we’ll send you the Bookmatch quiz—a personality test that will generate a reading list tailored to your tastes and whims. Try the quiz here: secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...
The @nplusonemag.com book match quiz is funny--I even cackled--and then the book recommendations included 3 favorites. A good time for a good cause: secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...
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This essay bangs. It gets at a specific problem with how AI is being sold to us--or how the industry is getting us to sell it to ourselves-- that I haven't seen described this clearly anywhere. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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All the reasons not to give in to generative AI. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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“Within the experimental enclosure, you say things you didn’t think you could possibly say. Then you see others see you saying them, and then you do it again.” Now out from behind the paywall: @lilyscherlis.bsky.social on group relations. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...
Experiences in Groups | Lily Scherlis
The more experienced attendees explain that here, one’s individual experience is seen as a symptom of the group’s dynamics. If someone is physically ill, it is because the system needs to eject someon...
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“We will go on like this for two weeks, some of us losing our minds through sheer proximity to other people. The conversation eventually devolves into a kind of libidinal dodgeball.” @lilyscherlis.bsky.social tries to find out what Bion's group relations has to say about contemporary political life
Experiences in Groups | Lily Scherlis
The more experienced attendees explain that here, one’s individual experience is seen as a symptom of the group’s dynamics. If someone is physically ill, it is because the system needs to eject someon...
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Bless the @nplusonemag.com editors for coining the term "a single-use plastic of the mind" to describe AI www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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This is long, but worth it. Some choice quotes: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the... >>
thank you @nplusonemag.com for publishing this piece about the infrastructure of deportation in rural Kentucky and beyond www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...
ICE in Harlan County | Jack Norton and Judah Schept
More and bigger detention infrastructure follows a strict logic of “if you build it, they will fill it.” Larger county jails not only enable the incarceration of more people by local police; they also...
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"When we use generative AI, we stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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AUTHORITY, by the inimitable Andrea Long Chu, is out today from @fsgbooks.bsky.social! shop.nplusonemag.com/products/aut... Livestream tickets are still available for her launch tomorrow with Arielle Angel—(4/9) at The Center for Fiction, 7PM: centerforfiction.org/event/on-ame...
Authority, by Andrea Long Chu
A bold, provocative collection of essays on one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything?Since her canonical 2017 essay “On Liking Women,”...
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Read Tom’s O. Henry–prize winning short story “Inversion of Marcia” on our website, where we’ve taken all his stories out from behind the paywall: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-27/fic...
Inversion of Marcia | Thomas Bolt
My sister grabbed a sheet, tripped on it, ran out of the room naked. I stepped back, mouth open. Marcia’s bare feet pounded down the hall. A door slammed. Alicia was naked, too, but she didn’t move. “...
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