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"Threatened simultaneously by external war and internal crisis, the state chooses to wage economic war on its own populations rather than purchase domestic peace through welfare." New online: Iman Ganji and Bahar Noorizadeh on the protests in Iran. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Iran’s Three-Body Problem | Iman Ganji and Bahar Noorizadeh
The ongoing uprising is rooted in the political economy of structural adjustment, which forms the unstable medium through which revolt becomes contagious.
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January 17, 2026 at 1:26 AM
"Threatened simultaneously by external war and internal crisis, the state chooses to wage economic war on its own populations rather than purchase domestic peace through welfare." New online: Iman Ganji and Bahar Noorizadeh on the protests in Iran. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
For all his personal flaws and professional failings, perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the Eric Adams mayoralty is that, for better and for worse, the status remained quo. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/pol...
City of Meh | Samuel Stein
Adams will be remembered for his petty corruption, his self-mythologizing, and his ignominious dealmaking with the Trump White House; but he should also be remembered as the mayor who got New Yorkers ...
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January 16, 2026 at 4:37 PM
For all his personal flaws and professional failings, perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the Eric Adams mayoralty is that, for better and for worse, the status remained quo. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/pol...
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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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January 16, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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/...
“Dunn’s interest in eros, filth, queerness, and misanthropy suggest her as an unlikely fellow traveler of Kathy Acker, who was roughly her age and started publishing around the same time.” 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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January 15, 2026 at 6:45 PM
“Dunn’s interest in eros, filth, queerness, and misanthropy suggest her as an unlikely fellow traveler of Kathy Acker, who was roughly her age and started publishing around the same time.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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i liked this book review, and i think sophie lewis grasps a good insight of what feminism has been and is
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Not All Women | Dayna Tortorici
The point of all this cataloging — which is less schematic in Lewis’s presentation than my summary suggests — is to help us recognize traces of enemy feminism when we encounter them in the present. An...
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January 15, 2026 at 12:59 AM
i liked this book review, and i think sophie lewis grasps a good insight of what feminism has been and is
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For the new @nplusonemag.com issue, I wrote about Jia Zhangke’s latest feature and my growing up in a disappearing China. (Featuring nervous chickens in my grandparents’ yard and a vice premier who failed to keep our appointment.) tinyurl.com/33bd6rn9
Before the Flood | Han Zhang
I always got moody on Sunday afternoons when I woke up from a long nap and it was already dark outside, as if I had wasted the only Sunday of my life. I had a hunch that six years of elementary school...
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January 15, 2026 at 2:02 PM
For the new @nplusonemag.com issue, I wrote about Jia Zhangke’s latest feature and my growing up in a disappearing China. (Featuring nervous chickens in my grandparents’ yard and a vice premier who failed to keep our appointment.) tinyurl.com/33bd6rn9
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Walter Siti wrote about one of the strangest encounters concerning that strange figure who was Pier Paolo Pasolini—from just days before his death 50 years ago.
Proud to have a translation of this haunting story in the new @nplusonemag.com, with an intro of mine! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/fic...
Proud to have a translation of this haunting story in the new @nplusonemag.com, with an intro of mine! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/fic...
The Finishing Touch | Walter Siti
The murdered Poet became for him the gash in the center of the sun, the model and the justification for being misunderstood. From the audience, during academic conferences, he hurled passionate and se...
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January 15, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Walter Siti wrote about one of the strangest encounters concerning that strange figure who was Pier Paolo Pasolini—from just days before his death 50 years ago.
Proud to have a translation of this haunting story in the new @nplusonemag.com, with an intro of mine! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/fic...
Proud to have a translation of this haunting story in the new @nplusonemag.com, with an intro of mine! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/fic...
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wrote about Katherine Dunn for @nplusonemag.com 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 as a finalist for the National Book Award.
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January 15, 2026 at 3:55 PM
wrote about Katherine Dunn for @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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I wrote about @reproutopia.bsky.social's excellent book "Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" for the new @nplusonemag.com
“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...
In n+1’s Winter 2026 issue: coeditor @dtortorici.bsky.social on Sophie Lewis’s ENEMY FEMINISMS. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...
Not All Women | Dayna Tortorici
The point of all this cataloging — which is less schematic in Lewis’s presentation than my summary suggests — is to help us recognize traces of enemy feminism when we encounter them in the present. An...
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January 14, 2026 at 6:45 PM
I wrote about @reproutopia.bsky.social's excellent book "Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" for the new @nplusonemag.com
For all his peculiarity, Eric Adams was also a continuity, a return to a primordial style of petty corruption in politics. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/pol...
City of Meh | Samuel Stein
Adams will be remembered for his petty corruption, his self-mythologizing, and his ignominious dealmaking with the Trump White House; but he should also be remembered as the mayor who got New Yorkers ...
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January 14, 2026 at 6:54 PM
For all his peculiarity, Eric Adams was also a continuity, a return to a primordial style of petty corruption in politics. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/pol...
“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...
In n+1’s Winter 2026 issue: coeditor @dtortorici.bsky.social on Sophie Lewis’s ENEMY FEMINISMS. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...
Not All Women | Dayna Tortorici
The point of all this cataloging — which is less schematic in Lewis’s presentation than my summary suggests — is to help us recognize traces of enemy feminism when we encounter them in the present. An...
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January 14, 2026 at 5:51 PM
“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...
In n+1’s Winter 2026 issue: coeditor @dtortorici.bsky.social on Sophie Lewis’s ENEMY FEMINISMS. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...
n+1’s Winter 2026 issue is online now! Featuring new writing by:
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+Emily Callaci
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+Karen Tei Yamashita
+Dushko Petrovich Córdova
+Walter Siti (trans. @brianrobmoore.bsky.social) . . . www.nplusonemag.com/magazine/iss...
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+Emily Callaci
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+Karen Tei Yamashita
+Dushko Petrovich Córdova
+Walter Siti (trans. @brianrobmoore.bsky.social) . . . www.nplusonemag.com/magazine/iss...
Issue 52
Content filed under the Issue 52 taxonomy.
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January 14, 2026 at 4:23 PM
n+1’s Winter 2026 issue is online now! Featuring new writing by:
[email protected]
+Emily Callaci
[email protected]
+Karen Tei Yamashita
+Dushko Petrovich Córdova
+Walter Siti (trans. @brianrobmoore.bsky.social) . . . www.nplusonemag.com/magazine/iss...
[email protected]
+Emily Callaci
[email protected]
+Karen Tei Yamashita
+Dushko Petrovich Córdova
+Walter Siti (trans. @brianrobmoore.bsky.social) . . . www.nplusonemag.com/magazine/iss...
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compelling essay thinking through group relations, and also asking if and how and when thinking through group relations actually helps group relations
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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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January 13, 2026 at 2:29 AM
compelling essay thinking through group relations, and also asking if and how and when thinking through group relations actually helps group relations
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...
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I might be slow on the uptake, but this article from 2024 by Kay Gabriel for @nplusonemag.com makes a really compelling case that the US right wing's assault on trans rights is part of a well thought out campaign against worker's unions and public services. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/pol...
Inventing the Crisis | Kay Gabriel
Those of us opposed to the vision of Rufo and Walsh ought to ask why the right wing is so scared of the political power of organized teachers — scared to the point that they have organized their movem...
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January 11, 2026 at 10:12 AM
I might be slow on the uptake, but this article from 2024 by Kay Gabriel for @nplusonemag.com makes a really compelling case that the US right wing's assault on trans rights is part of a well thought out campaign against worker's unions and public services. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/pol...
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You can read @lilyscherlis.bsky.social's fascinating reportage of her experiences at a Tavistock groups event in @nplusonemag.com at 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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January 10, 2026 at 4:04 PM
You can read @lilyscherlis.bsky.social's fascinating reportage of her experiences at a Tavistock groups event in @nplusonemag.com at www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...
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this is a blast: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
The Last Intellectual | Michael Casper
Years after defending his dissertation, perhaps unable to adapt or evolve, he appeared stuck in an eternal limbo that would give any student the night sweats. On the other hand, John seemed an extreme...
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January 8, 2026 at 7:01 PM
this is a blast: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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beautiful piece
“John seemed an extreme version of a kind of intellectual ideal. Wasn’t the freedom to read for much of the day one of the draws of graduate school, after all?” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
The Last Intellectual | Michael Casper
Years after defending his dissertation, perhaps unable to adapt or evolve, he appeared stuck in an eternal limbo that would give any student the night sweats. On the other hand, John seemed an extreme...
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January 8, 2026 at 6:50 PM
beautiful piece
“John seemed an extreme version of a kind of intellectual ideal. Wasn’t the freedom to read for much of the day one of the draws of graduate school, after all?” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
The Last Intellectual | Michael Casper
Years after defending his dissertation, perhaps unable to adapt or evolve, he appeared stuck in an eternal limbo that would give any student the night sweats. On the other hand, John seemed an extreme...
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January 8, 2026 at 5:38 PM
“John seemed an extreme version of a kind of intellectual ideal. Wasn’t the freedom to read for much of the day one of the draws of graduate school, after all?” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
The US is filled with “pretty nice guys” who are ready to inflict, who have already inflicted, senseless and life-shattering violence on innocent, impoverished people. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...
Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice
Naturally there were lots of law enforcement types hanging around the convention — men with military fades, moisture-wicking shirts, and tattoos of the Bible and the Constitution and eagles and flags ...
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January 7, 2026 at 9:15 PM
The US is filled with “pretty nice guys” who are ready to inflict, who have already inflicted, senseless and life-shattering violence on innocent, impoverished people. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...
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Take some time to read this today.
fantastic essay on desire, politics, and psychoanalytic extrapolations
"you cannot not be in a group"
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"you cannot not be in a group"
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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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January 6, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Take some time to read this today.
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fantastic essay on desire, politics, and psychoanalytic extrapolations
"you cannot not be in a group"
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...
"you cannot not be in a group"
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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January 5, 2026 at 11:43 PM
fantastic essay on desire, politics, and psychoanalytic extrapolations
"you cannot not be in a group"
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...
"you cannot not be in a group"
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...
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Nikil Saval on how the inspiration from New York is taking different forms in cities across the country
The Power of the Source | Nikil Saval
The night Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York, I was at a dinner gathering of fair housing and tenants’ rights advocates in
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January 7, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Nikil Saval on how the inspiration from New York is taking different forms in cities across the country
n+1’s Winter 2026 issue is almost finished! Featuring:
+ Samuel Stein’s autopsy of the Eric Adams era
+ Richard Beck’s autopsy of the Dick Cheney era
+ Emily Callaci on the legacies of Wages for Housework
+ Han Zhang on Jia Zhangke
+ much more!
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+ Samuel Stein’s autopsy of the Eric Adams era
+ Richard Beck’s autopsy of the Dick Cheney era
+ Emily Callaci on the legacies of Wages for Housework
+ Han Zhang on Jia Zhangke
+ much more!
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January 6, 2026 at 7:08 PM
n+1’s Winter 2026 issue is almost finished! Featuring:
+ Samuel Stein’s autopsy of the Eric Adams era
+ Richard Beck’s autopsy of the Dick Cheney era
+ Emily Callaci on the legacies of Wages for Housework
+ Han Zhang on Jia Zhangke
+ much more!
nplusonemag.com/subscribe/
+ Samuel Stein’s autopsy of the Eric Adams era
+ Richard Beck’s autopsy of the Dick Cheney era
+ Emily Callaci on the legacies of Wages for Housework
+ Han Zhang on Jia Zhangke
+ much more!
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"The commodification of what should be social goods is insured by prisons and police."
re-uppping my @nplusonemag.com subscription because I just discovered an Amna Akbar piece I missed in new-parent haze.
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re-uppping my @nplusonemag.com subscription because I just discovered an Amna Akbar piece I missed in new-parent haze.
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Malm and Mangione | Amna A. Akbar
You can almost hear the chattering class’s chattering teeth as they balance the need to generate clicks with their sanctimonious shock at the public’s hatred for Brian Thompson, the company he ran, an...
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December 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"The commodification of what should be social goods is insured by prisons and police."
re-uppping my @nplusonemag.com subscription because I just discovered an Amna Akbar piece I missed in new-parent haze.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
re-uppping my @nplusonemag.com subscription because I just discovered an Amna Akbar piece I missed in new-parent haze.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Literary criticism needs crisis, feeds on it, even as we let it mislead us.
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Crise en Abyme | Colin Vanderburg
Anyone who has ever emerged from a multiday academic conference will recognize this truth: as the sun sets on the jetsam of crumpled programs and the custodians vacuum the carpet, you set out for the ...
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December 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Literary criticism needs crisis, feeds on it, even as we let it mislead us.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/rev...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/rev...