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“TRANSCRIPTION might owe its structure, funnily enough, to TO THE LIGHTHOUSE: another spare, restless novel about death, art, and technological change.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“We’d all be better off today if Cheney had kept drinking after he got kicked out of Yale.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/pol...

Incredibly excited to share this brief excerpt from BLUE POWER (@basicbooksgroup.bsky.social), published online today by @nplusonemag.com. It's about how a cop who became a member of Congress herded police into a powerful lobbying unit. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Emily Callaci’s essay about writing a history of the Wages for Housework movement is now out from behind the paywall. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/ess...

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...

Amit Chaudhuri on monuments at @nplusonemag.com

“I’ve always had trouble translating the terms Russians use for their law enforcement. First of all, there are a lot of different law enforcement officials in Russia. It was hard to keep them straight.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

So the results of the @nplusonemag.com translation contest featuring my poem have been announced in Bela Shayevich's column. I had entirely forgotten that I had promised the winner a cookie, so I need to get on that. Also, there's a new translation puzzle for you to have fun with.

“Few books so aptly capture the weirdness of being flanked by two mutually incomprehensible generations—tech-illiterate elders on the one hand and digital natives on the other—and the mental gymnastics involved in liaising between them.” On TRANSCRIPTION: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Trump’s own stated reasons for initiating the war may change by the hour, but the strategic goal of Israel and its Western allies is to ignite a permanent civil war that ensures no authority in Iran can rebuild itself for the foreseeable future. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

🔔🔔 new Bela www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“What kind of verbal machine is an elegy supposed to be, let alone one for intellectual giants like Waldrop or Kluge?” New online: Maggie Millner on Ben Lerner and his mentors. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

I ask that you read this piece in full, especially if you know little about the Prairieland trial.

“Djokovic has always drawn power from a raging well of spite, while Alcaraz draws from a fountain of joy. Sinner doesn’t derive his success from any emotion that I recognize.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

this is very good. "It is a bitter irony that in a case in which prosecutors— pointing to Signal chats, text messages, and crowdfunding sites—were desperate to evidence nefarious connections, more nefarious connections might have changed the verdict." www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Whoa. Recommend reading article in its entirety.

“Somehow, my well-loved grandfather provoked the creation of an undeniably compelling yet undeniably bigoted image.” New, and co-published with Cake Zine: Rachel Ossip’s quest to find “steakhouse royalty, feminist icon, fungible tourism graphic.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

a detailed and informative article from a journalist who attended the federal trial last month. please read and share!!! it walks through many of the discrepancies of the state's narrative and the challenges faced pre-trial

“In what has become a grotesque pattern of overreach, the government charges left-wing protestors engaged in protected First Amendment activity with the most serious felonies available.” New: Sara Van Horn reports from the Prairieland trial in Fort Worth. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

"it is imperative to recognize the present moment not as a rupture but a repetition under new conditions: the same geography of extraction and control, the same fantasy of white imperialist domination of trade chokepoints, " Great essay by Ganji & Noorizadeh www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“We” went to the moon in the same sense that “we” are seven feet tall, or have a PhD in astrophysics, or were born in Luxembourg. Someone did; not me. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...

Absolutely loved this

“Tennis is about more than simply destroying your inferiors as ruthlessly as possible. It’s also about how you perform against players just as good as you, players who can reveal the precise depths and limits of your talents.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

As Jannik Sinner has made extreme improvements to his game over the past few years, he's gone from a player I enjoyed watching to one whose tennis inherently drains the tension from his matches. I wrote about that, and lots more, for n+1: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

literary essay about tennis are BACK and I love to see it

I love reading about tennis and I love N+1. Excited to peruse this Adorno-esque take on my favorite sport.

“Sinner’s mastery is staggering; it also, to my mind, effectively defeats the purpose of watching tennis.” New: @owensports.bsky.social on Jannik Sinner. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“a long durée of imperial governmentality in which technologies of surveillance, classification, and control are first tested on colonized and occupied populations, only to be later reimported into the metropole.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“As always, colonial knowledge proceeds through destruction: Where missiles fall, epistemic curiosity belatedly follows.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“One after another, bomb after bomb, imperial fictions have burst into powder & dust. Precision strike, human shield, necessary casualties. On March 7, one of the most horrifying nights in Tehran so far, a resident wrote that ‘two suns rose in Tehran … night became day and day became night’.”

Ganji and Noorizadeh are brilliant. Their previous piece (Iran's Three-Body Problem) was equally imaginative and insightful.

"The imperialist’s fallacy has always been to think that simply by imposing suffering, he can impose his will. Yet this pure negation cannot produce any durable dominance; the Strait of Hormuz bears witness to this. Nonetheless, the destruction is real. Israel and the US are deindustrializing Iran."

“If you can, see Dry Leaf at a theater. That Alexandre Koberidze shot the film on a phone is not a pretext to watch it on one.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“From the film’s first frame, we know how we’re seeing, even if we often don’t know what it is we’re looking at.” New online: @markkrotov.bsky.social on Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“Iran must be saved from imperial capture; the conditions of life must be preserved, in the face of an enemy whose murderous ‘Gaza doctrine’ aims to destroy those conditions.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

For those interested I would also highly recommend its sister article published a little while back www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Great article. Snippet I thought folks would be interested in:

“In mainstream media outlets, Democratic senators, congressmembers, and experts condemn Trump’s ‘recklessness,’ the ‘lack of clarity’ about the war’s ‘objectives.’ In fact, the objectives are perfectly clear.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

"Both [the neo-Pahlavist movement & Iranian liberal groups' endorsement of war] surrender all popular agency & self-determination to the quixotic promise of freedom bombs. Such attitudes bespeak a psychic possession by forces that render us living military bases, rockets launched on our own bodies."

“Contrary to caricatures in right-wing media, Iranian society is deeply entangled across institutional, economic, and spatial lines. The language of ‘precision strikes,’ as in Gaza and Lebanon, functions as a convenient fiction.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

worth your time

“As the tragedy of murder and destruction unfolds in Iran—and Lebanon, and Palestine—an unbearable farce is simultaneously being staged in the imperial center.” New: Iman Ganji and Bahar Noorizadeh on the Iran war. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“That Sirât gets loonier as it goes on is either a sign of inspiration or a signal that Laxe has backed himself into a corner, despite the great expanse of Moroccan desert where the film ends up.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

For nearly two years, Dick Cheney lacked a detectable pulse. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/pol...

Comrades, rejoice! The People’s Tote is here. You have nothing to lose but your other, worse totes. shop.nplusonemag.com/products/the...

WEAPONS is in fact the rare film to address the problem of American gerontocracy head-on. In Gladys, we see a direct illustration of one generation taking the lives of another so that it can go on forever. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

it's the greatest day of the year

“Relations between the sexes and races in One Battle After Another expose a blatant truth about Hollywood action movies: Guns are for fun, sex is for power, not the other way around.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

A.S. Hamrah roasting a film I disliked: Ha ha, ha ha, ha ha. A.S. Hamrah roasting a film I liked: Well, that fucking sucks.