If we treat football’s extinction as a foregone conclusion, I wondered, are we just creating a (very classist and racialized) permissive structure for its violence to continue while we wait for it to disappear? www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

We’re very proud to be a 2026 general operating grant awardee of the Literary Arts Fund. And in great company! @literaryartsfund.bsky.social literaryartsfund.org/announcing-t...

For every Hollywood suit who visited Sundance, the opposite kind of person also continued showing up. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/ess...

“Kluge was one of those marginal collectors who, as Walter Benjamin said of the ragpickers, are the kindred spirits of Baudelaire, selecting their prized possessions from among the debris of modern life.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

This Friday! Morley Musick, Angelo Hernandez Sias, Will Tavlin, Mina Tavakoli, Dennis M. Hogan, Gillian Linden, Nicholas Dames, and Mariana Mogilevich read from their Issue 53 pieces—then a party! www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

THE BRIGHTNESS, Chad Harbach’s long-awaited followup to ART OF FIELDING, is out in October. Preorder your copy from n+1: shop.nplusonemag.com/products/the...

Funny af

I wrote about the costumes (and the image of the Magazine Woman) in The Devil Wears Prada 2 for @nplusonemag.com 💅

if you subscribe to @nplusonemag.com and you have a keen eye, you will find out what happens when a child who loves The Jolly Postman grows up to do mail art and advertise about it in national publications

Congratulations to @nplusonemag.com, a finalist for the 2026 Firecracker Award in Magazines/General Excellence! www.nplusonemag.com/magazine/

How should a sequel’s costumes be? New: @nicoleklipman.bsky.social on The Devil Wears Prada 2. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

I like Will Tavlin’s sayonara Sundance reportage. (Plus, I’m quoted.)

Congratulations to the finalists of the 2026 Firecracker Award in Magazines/General Excellence! www.clmp.org/programs-opp...

Sundance would go elsewhere — would there be an indie film industry to go along with it? www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/ess...

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...

Now out from behind the paywall: @tavlin.bsky.social’s journey to the final Sundance Film Festival in Park City, from our Spring 2026 issue.

"The faces of the not-quite-theres held a secret, focused serenity [...] It was the flickering, only occasionally visible pact between at least two selves" www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/ess... via @nplusonemag.com

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

“Palestinian neonatalist, pediatrician: in your kin-making, / your life-tending, you frustrate the plan of Generals obsessed / with the metrics of unliving.” New: A poem by Ken Chen. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

War crimes and assassinations, once obscured or at least subsurface, are now advertised with flagrant pride. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/the...

“Mendonça has made room for so much in this inventive Once Upon a Time in Recife that is suffused with cinephilia and color, along with a severed leg and a snitch movie-theater projectionist, which I hated to see.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

oh fuck, new Will Tavlin essay

Applications for our Audience Manager position are open for just a few more days! Apply by May 18.

“‘You know what happens when I talk to kids as Ozzy? They finally listen,’ he said, raising what looked and smelled like a goblet of melon juice. ‘Everyone listens when I bring them the chalice of Ozzy.’” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/ess...

“[Anonymous] sent me several questions about translation. She worried that they were somehow “too remedial,” but they were actually something worse: ancient, unanswerable debates.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

"A Venezuelan nurse told me she had lost her job because she was afraid of leaving her house and getting deported. It was a surprise to be treated this way in the US after all she’d been through, she said. Life here felt strangely continuous with life in Venezuela."

“When I later texted Alex that I would be writing a long piece about the building and Operation Midway Blitz, he replied, ‘😄 In what way 👍 positively or 👎 negatively 🤔 because you’re view point shapes perceptions for readers 😁.’” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/pol...

Mentioned in the leftist intellectual mag by a mutual friend of many online and IRL friends for recommending an author I've talked up here before

“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] brilliant work of criticism, an imaginative and original intervention into the twinned fields of poetics and translation studies." An excellent review of Jennifer Scappettone's POETRY AFTER BARBARISM in @nplusonemag.com. tinyurl.com/42z46kfa @xenoglossic.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

If you see JERRY GARCIA walking through, you’re NOT DRUNK! YOU MIGHT BE! BUT HE’S HERE! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/ess...

🛎️🛎️ New Bela bsky.app/profile/nplu...

“How do I improve my prose style? Maybe not for the purposes of e.g. this column, I’m fine with my ‘voice,’ but generally, for when I’m trying harder to impress people like Lydia Davis or Claude?” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Miss Translation returns! Bela Shayevich on measuring “mistranslation,” assonance that won’t quit, two upcoming live events, and—of course—a new puzzle. 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

“Sinatra (A), by the banquette, had just politely pumped the hand of Sinatra (B), when both were intercepted by Dangerfield, who seemed interested in explaining the dimensions of his cabin’s toilet.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/ess...

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...

“‘You ever get tired of being someone else?’ Bezos asked. The Dude shrugged, distracted by a man wearing a shirt that read SOMEBODY arm-in-arm with a woman in a shirt that read SOMEBODY’S PROBLEM.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/ess...

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/...

NYC! Chicago! n+1’s own Miss Translation, aka Bela Shayevich, is hosting two mixers / mini-workshops next week for “translators and the translation-curious,” including one at the n+1 office on Tuesday, May 19. Do NOT miss this opportunity to meet your soulmate!! www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

For Issue 53, Morley Musick spoke to people whose lives (and apartments) were turned upside down by ICE’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago last summer. Unpaywalled: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/pol...

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

From @nplusonemag.com, much more fun than the other cruise ship story in the news. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/ess...

Ever wondered why police aren't always reliable supporters of gun control? The story goes back to the '80s, when cops learned to seek self-interested unity and symbolic wins. It was a key turning point in the development of BLUE POWER. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Also I got to make this poster for Bela's events at the n+1 office & Morley's space , that's called hitting a triple www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Happy birthday Thomas Pynchon! Here’s @iosifescu.biz on SHADOW TICKET. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“The fact was — and he’s going to kill me for saying this — Frank Sinatra was seasick.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/ess...

Mina Tavakoli sweep

Join us on Friday, May 29 in Brooklyn to celebrate n+1 Issue 53: EXCURSIONS. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

I read this incredible essay years ago, and ever since I've been convinced that hazing culture is at the center of many of our social ills www.nplusonemag.com/issue-34/ess...