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This piece is so good, really worth reading if you care at all about jazz, new york, or police violence
n+1@nplusonemag.com · last mo.“‘It was a who’s who on Rikers Island,’ Jackie McLean said. While Elmo Hope was in the band, he was joined by a young saxophone player named Sonny Rollins.” New online: an excerpt from Colin Asher's THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, out now from @wwnorton.com. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/... Thinking about fandom and loathing after the World Cup for @nplusonemag.com
The Fan Zone | Corley Miller
The fan doesn’t stop at liking their object, they co-create it in both social and artisanal modes. In soccer we might say: You don’t become a fan when you think “soy hincha de la seleccíon,” but when ...
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“For all his gifts, Rollins’s defining feature as a musician and a man was his attitude. A liberating feeling of ‘I don’t give a fuck’ charged everything he did.” New online: Nate Wooley on Sonny Rollins. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Let Everything Change | Nate Wooley
I became a Sonny Rollins fan on my 13th birthday, when my dad took me for the first time to his favorite record store in Portland, Oregon. He gave me $50, which in 1987, netted me twelve LPs. One was ...
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A really thoughtful reflection from S. Priya in @nplusonemag.com: "What if, in the time we had spent measuring ourselves individually, we had instead asked what it meant to the movement as a whole to have people take risks?"
Weapons of the Meek | S. Priya
We could not have imagined the reality that was coming. Forget escalating: In a few months, even the little our crew had done before falling apart — the cold emails and messages to weapons workers; th...
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The most strategic thing I’ve ever read about the Palestinian solidarity movement since October 7. And a terrific contemporary history of something many of us were part of in one small way or another www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/pol...
Weapons of the Meek | S. Priya
We could not have imagined the reality that was coming. Forget escalating: In a few months, even the little our crew had done before falling apart — the cold emails and messages to weapons workers; th...
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All in on this one: Greg Afinogenov is brilliant. “Academia is political today because everything is political—even (or especially) claims that someone or something else is too political.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
In the Grip of Politics | Greg Afinogenov
All of us, from academics to fishermen, have now internalized a practice of reading the social world as a field of political or latently political signs. TV watching habits, food choices, clothing, in...
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Ask, and I shall receive! www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Getting Off with the Luddites | Sarah Thankam Mathews
They see Big Tech as having eroded commonality: the common good, the social fabric, the institutions of collective interest. Luddism, as they conceive of it, is a communal, spiritual, and political pr...
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Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 3w agoAre there any good write-ups of the Summer of Ludd events?
"They were interested, each of them, in doing something beyond analysis & handwringing. That included creating a cultural front against the great replacement of public space, play, & common life with quantification, dashboards, glowing screens, and endless feeds." www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Getting Off with the Luddites | Sarah Thankam Mathews
They see Big Tech as having eroded commonality: the common good, the social fabric, the institutions of collective interest. Luddism, as they conceive of it, is a communal, spiritual, and political pr...
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This is a very enjoyable essay from David Wingrave for @nplusonemag.com, about hope. Featuring England men's football, pregnancy, and Burnham. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Great Expectations | David Wingrave
Oh well, my girlfriend says. My girlfriend is Canadian and it is quite difficult to explain to her that if you have any real fascination with English football, you cannot just walk away from a loss in...
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“I’m from Ecuador and I used to be good at soccer, so at some point I began telling myself that I was good at soccer *because* I was from Ecuador. I believed this despite the fact that I hadn’t played soccer while living in Ecuador.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Watching Soccer | Dushko Petrovich-Córdova
Arriving at the hotel in Kansas City, I realized I had never been in a hotel full of Ecuadorians because in Ecuador, the hotels are full of tourists. It was a sea of bright yellow soccer jerseys. Vamo...
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I rarely enjoy a get-off-the-damn-phone piece, but this essay, funny and big-hearted, is a new favorite. @nplusonemag.com (I feel the irony of posting this on social media) www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Getting Off with the Luddites | Sarah Thankam Mathews
They see Big Tech as having eroded commonality: the common good, the social fabric, the institutions of collective interest. Luddism, as they conceive of it, is a communal, spiritual, and political pr...
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Digital Rocks | Will Tavlin
Eventually DCI scrubbed celluloid film almost entirely from the film industry, ushering in the most significant technological shift since the introduction of sound. The digital revolution transformed ...
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Nina Metz@ninametz.bsky.social · 2w agoWhy Aren’t There More Imax 70mm Screens for ‘The Odyssey’? variety.com/2026/film/ne...
“The Luddites see Big Tech as having eroded commonality: the common good, the social fabric, the institutions of collective interest. Luddism, as they conceive of it, is a communal, spiritual, and political project.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Getting Off with the Luddites | Sarah Thankam Mathews
They see Big Tech as having eroded commonality: the common good, the social fabric, the institutions of collective interest. Luddism, as they conceive of it, is a communal, spiritual, and political pr...
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newwwwwww ting out <3
n+1@nplusonemag.com · 2w 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 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/...
Getting Off With the Luddites
They see Big Tech as having eroded commonality: the common good, the social fabric, the institutions of collective interest. Luddism, as they conceive of it, is a communal, spiritual, and political pr...
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Far behind on my @nplusonemag.com reading (like a year) and holy shit this Dawn Lundy Martin essay is a banger. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...
Dancing Inside the Box | Dawn Lundy Martin
George Floyd’s murder made being black at the university significantly worse. When I try to understand how, I can’t help but look back on the chancellor’s words, ostensibly full of hope that the “nati...
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Wrote about the pleasures of being saved from burning planes for @nplusonemag.com, co-published here with @chicagoreader.com: chicagoreader.com/city-life/di....
n+1@nplusonemag.com · 3w ago“At 7 AM on a Saturday, I participated in a mass-casualty simulation drill held in the firefighter training area of O’Hare International Airport.” New: Morley Musick participates in a fake plane crash. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
“While the plane wasn’t really on fire, it nonetheless felt apocalyptic, the way many harmless things now do.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Disaster Rehearsal | Morley Musick
At 7 AM on a Saturday in September 2025, I participated in a mass-casualty simulation drill held in the firefighter training area of O’Hare International Airport.
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“‘I don’t think that’s very realistic,’ said the artist, who was serving as a volunteer from an Irish American service society. ‘This was a jet engine, not a propeller plane.’ ‘I’d like them anyway,’ the woman said. ‘Just do what you can.’”
n+1@nplusonemag.com · 3w ago“At 7 AM on a Saturday, I participated in a mass-casualty simulation drill held in the firefighter training area of O’Hare International Airport.” New: Morley Musick participates in a fake plane crash. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
“At 7 AM on a Saturday, I participated in a mass-casualty simulation drill held in the firefighter training area of O’Hare International Airport.” New: Morley Musick participates in a fake plane crash. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Disaster Rehearsal | Morley Musick
At 7 AM on a Saturday in September 2025, I participated in a mass-casualty simulation drill held in the firefighter training area of O’Hare International Airport.
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This week's Staff Picks are all about #magazines, spotlighting @newyorker.com, @harpers.bsky.social, @satevepost.bsky.social, @theonion.com, and @nplusonemag.com.
Top 5 Print Magazines You Shouldn't Miss in 2026
Explore 5 must-read magazines that offer print (and online) editions, celebrating the charm of tangible media in a digital world.
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That’s just this intensely diasporic and migratory sport’s beautiful confusion of dialects and accents, yeah? On language and the World Cup, for @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
World Cupcophony | Aaron Timms
On the field, every World Cup is a contest of idioms: between the Spanish-influenced juego de posición and post-German Gegenpressing, between philosophies that rely on holding the ball and those that ...
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On the field, every World Cup is a contest of idioms. At an official level, however, the World Cup’s cacophony of styles cedes to a party-pooper monolingualism. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
World Cupcophony | Aaron Timms
On the field, every World Cup is a contest of idioms: between the Spanish-influenced juego de posición and post-German Gegenpressing, between philosophies that rely on holding the ball and those that ...
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“I didn’t hate those girls. I didn’t think they were sluts either. I just didn’t like how it felt to sit there, watching from afar.” New online: fiction by Aurora Huiza. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Camping | Aurora Huiza
Everybody started undressing but it wasn’t scary. In the dark, nobody could really see anybody else, like we didn’t have bodies. Without a body, in the presence of boys, I felt like a girl, like my ug...
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Re-upping this for the FIFA discourse. There's a possible analog in the way VAR (surveillance) has opened up juridical space for blithering idiots to go around telling you what they "saw with their own eyes" www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...
Stupidology | William Davies
The challenge posed by this political crisis is how to take the stupidity seriously without reducing it to a wholly mental or psychiatric, let alone genetic, phenomenon. Stupidity can be understood as...
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Taught this essay to a grad nonfiction class the year it was in BAE ( @alexanderchee.bsky.social, ed.) & we had a blast discussing it, listening to the song in class to hear what So heard, & then doing an exercise where they each picked a song of their own to listen to a billion times & write about
n+1@nplusonemag.com · last mo.“Pavement captured the chaotic feelings of being jaded yet big-hearted, doubtful yet sentimental—feelings my friend and I thought were missing from literature, culture, perhaps even the world.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-39/ess...
“Pavement captured the chaotic feelings of being jaded yet big-hearted, doubtful yet sentimental—feelings my friend and I thought were missing from literature, culture, perhaps even the world.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-39/ess...
Baby Yeah | Anthony Veasna So
We turned up the volume and played it again
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“The New York Police Department’s focus on drug arrests, and its control over cabaret cards, gave it, arguably, more influence over the development of the city’s jazz scene than any other institution.” Important piece on the great Elmo Hope! www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Sounds from Rikers Island | Colin Asher
A bit more than three years into his exile from New York City, St. Elmo Sylvester Hope sat for an interview with Down Beat magazine in Los Angeles. He was a diminutive, softspoken man who looked like ...
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