We'll cover em all!

Tonight. Topics could include: Satyajit Ray & Ritwik Ghatak; national literatures; modernism is India; where Neil Diamond lived in Brooklyn; more.

Honored and somewhat mystified to have won a National Magazine Award for my @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social piece on Paul Rudolph alongside the great @monchaux.bsky.social, who won for two of his NYRA pieces (on Rudolph and the new Frick). Architectural criticism forever! nyra.nyc/articles/meg...

I have a new essay in the latest issue of @nplusonemag.com about the last Sundance in Park City. In print, online, now unpaywalled www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/ess...

Incredible new poem by Ken Chen www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“I was once forced by a publisher to undertake a similar quantitative analysis of my own translation, to tally what I thought someone else would consider a bad enough mistake to warrant my being fired. (I ended up getting fired.)” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

A reminder that I'll be in conversation with Amit Chaudhuri next Thursday at Rizzoli Bookstore! Happily reading one Chaudhuri novel after another even tho we're mostly supposed to talk about the essays (those are great, too). @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

Do you write great emails? Does the idea of spreading word about n+1 and our various events and initiatives appeal? We have a job for you!

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/...

Come hang at the n+1 office on 5/29! Featuring readings by @morleymusick.bsky.social, Angelo Hernandez Sias, @tavlin.bsky.social, Mina Tavakoli, @dennismhogan.bsky.social, Gillian Linden, @njdames.bsky.social, and @mmogi.bsky.social + cheap wine + cheaper beer

I watched at least 60 hours of Frederick Wiseman films in the last year and you can, too! Or read what I wrote about them and the structure of stories about states in the new issue of @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/rev...

Paul Goldberger and @markkrotov.bsky.social debate the merits of Norman Foster’s JPMorgan Chase tower our brand new NYRA no. 50. nyra.nyc/articles/normcores

My review of Greg Grandin's America, América, an essential book for understanding the Trump administration's hemispheric ambitions in historical context, is now online along with the rest of this excellent issue. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/rev...

For @nplusonemag.com, my essay about Operation Midway Blitz. I wrote about the apartment building that ICE raided, a young woman in ICE custody, asylum seekers and phone games, Silverio Villegas González & the owner of the hot dog restaurant where he worked. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/pol...

EXCURSIONS has arrived—now online and in print very soon. I’m proud of every issue of n+1, but this one feels like a milestone, full of magazine writing so good you’d think that magazines weren’t an endangered species. Subscribe to stave off extinction! www.nplusonemag.com/subscribe/

So grateful to @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social—and especially Sammy Medina and Chloe Wyma—for letting me Sorkinize about the worst new building in New York alongside Paul Goldberger (who likes it).

Just sent to the printer! Subscribe to read it all: www.nplusonemag.com/subscribe/

Really looking forward to speaking to the great Amit Chaudhuri at Rizzoli Bookstore on May 21! Reading and rereading his many @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social books in preparation. www.nyrb.com/blogs/events...

Extremely killer issue coming very soon: Nicholas Dames on THE TUNNEL, Will Tavlin on Sundance, and new writing by Grace Glass, Mina Tavakoli, Morley Musick, Gillian Linden, Angelo Hernandez Sias, and more. Subscribe now to read it as soon as it drops! www.nplusonemag.com/subscribe/

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Supreme zillennial excellence incoming (plus some other great generations). Subscribe! www.nplusonemag.com/subscribe/

One of @nplusonemag.com's very best issues ever is almost here, featuring journeys to mountaintops, artificial islands, fish processors, William Gass's interior life, and much more. Subscribe to read it as soon as it's out—20% off w/ discount code EXCURSIONS. www.nplusonemag.com/subscribe/

Congratulations to @hamrahrama.bsky.social, whose ALGORITHM OF THE NIGHT has been longlisted for the @bookcritics.bsky.social award for criticism!

Thank you @cvall96.bsky.social for this amazing review; I could hope for nothing better

A very happy publication day to @hamrahrama.bsky.social! His ALGORITHM OF THE NIGHT is out today from @nplusonemag.com. An incredible collection of film writing that makes sense of the dystopian present without ever giving in. Essential! shop.nplusonemag.com/products/alg...

Amazing lineup of recommended books and first-rate recommenders! Plus thirty silly, fun, profound questions about literature and life. Donate any amount to generate an unbeatable reading list for the next few months! (Tho large amounts are very welcome)

I had the great honor of writing the introduction to the @enchantedlion.bsky.social edition of Gianni Rodari's Adventures of Cipollino, translated by Antony Shugaar. This expands on that introduction! Huge thanks to Max Nelson for letting me dig into kids' books, produce, and the joy of the absurd.

“It is impossible not to extrapolate freely from Cipollino’s dense materiality, not to transpose our own urgent concerns onto its sly inventions. That we’re mostly dealing with fruits and vegetables shouldn’t discourage…generative projection.” — @markkrotov.bsky.social

An honor to review the new NYC subway map for the mighty @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social!

markkrotov.bsky.social‬ has tunnel vision.nyra.nyc/articles/tra...es

@shaabiranks.bsky.social, March 2024: "The aim of this strategy is to achieve by starvation what could not be achieved by military force." www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:

I wrote about the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp:

Just some lighthearted jokes on the way to the concentration camp approval bill

Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, an organizer with the Los Angeles-based Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, was picked up by men in an unmarked car last Wednesday, and nobody knows where she is. She made a phone call late Friday and the information she gave is chilling:

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

The difference between this and Nazi propaganda against Jews is that this is AI-generated.

Legit CQB role playing shit…no need to blow these doors and go in there that heavy…these cats watch “Sicario” on loop and now get to do it in real time

"inner-city rats"

"His campaign has advocated, he said, ’with no apology,’ on behalf of a particular New York, a city where hours and commutes are long, paychecks stretched, and housing precarious.” Beautiful @cgvanderburg.bsky.social piece about the Mamdani moment and the work it took to get us here.

Fantastic reported essay about what a public acclimated into fascism looks like on the ground. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

I wrote a sonnet about Jonathan Chait's hypothetical vote.

ICE has imprisoned the wife of a Marine veteran who was still breastfeeding a 3-month-old baby because her *mother* failed to attend a hearing in 2018 apnews.com/article/ice-...

once conspiracy theories about “FEMA camps” for mass internment flourished on the far right, and now—they’re going for it?

"Trump’s reliance on ICE underscores a transformation toward a domestic politics of domination that mirrors his administration’s lawlessness abroad." Excellent piece by @shaabiranks.bsky.social that connects the dots between the attack on Iran and ICE fascism at home.

“Increasingly, sovereignty appears to be a privilege limited by the caprices of the world hegemon.” New online: @shaabiranks.bsky.social on the Iran attack and the politics of domination abroad and at home.

It's one of those things like "the velvet underground only sold 6,000 records but everyone who bought it started their own band" but for everyone who answered "yes" to this being given a national newspaper column