The literary magazine has partnered with the indie bookseller to launch the sixth edition of its annual Bookmatch fundraiser.

If you liked that @lithub.com.web.brid.gy essay on not talking to the NYT about Mamdani, read this @nplusonemag.com piece by the same author on working class higher ed and its enemies. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Bless Angelo Hernández Sias and n+1 for a deep dive into the new translation of José Donoso's "Obscene Bird of Night," an abject, mind bending and mind boggling novel I've been lightly obsessed with since I read it (attempted to read it?) in college. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

n+1. ALGORITHM OF THE NIGHT, the new collection of film writing by @hamrahrama.bsky.social, is out next month. Preorder it today. A. S. Hamrah’s criticism is hilarious, irreverent, full of passionate and ingeniously defended judgments. He can be relied upon to push things to a point of

ALGORITHM OF THE NIGHT, the new collection of film writing by @hamrahrama.bsky.social, is out next month. Preorder it today: shop.nplusonemag.com/products/alg...

it's @nplusonemag.com bookmatch season again!! bookmatchquiz.com

We’ve been told that Bookmatch "feels like a Buzzfeed quiz if Don DeLillo had been a Buzzfeed employee." Correct? Take the quiz and find out. secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...

I fucking love bookmatch season, there are always questions that make me genuinely crack up, but this is an all-timer forever.

i did this as a little treat to myself

Rhetorically, this was among the less-remarked gifts of the Mamdani campaign: to see and speak to working people in both the bonds of universality and with the dignity of specificity. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Bookmatch 2025!! Here's your reading list for next year!

Got my quiz link via email today, and the quiz was quite fun and resulted in some excellent recommendations. I highly recommend donating for the joy of donating, but also for the profit of bookmatch.

my favorite time of year!!!

I recommended some books for this year's bookmatch. Take the quiz already

Reading @hamrahrama.bsky.social reminds me of Richard Price’s cameo in Scorsese’s LIFE LESSONS, when he says to the painter played by Nick Nolte: “I’m an artist myself, but when I look at your work I wanna go home and divorce my wife.”

One of the absolute best things you can do this month is take the @nplusonemag.com Bookmatch quiz. Such a joy from beginning to end & you'll end up with a list of fascinating books most of which will be entirely new to you secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...

I am one of the recommenders for n+1 Bookmatch this year and I can't pretend to be cool about it bc this is like my world series, Oscars, etc. Naturally I took the quiz & got an incredible list of books, none of which were my recommendations. They know me better than I know myself

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)

Bookmatch, once again, Knows Me (I own, and have read, the latter two)

🚨 Bookmatch is back! 🚨 From now until December 2, make a donation of any amount to n+1 and we’ll send you the Bookmatch quiz—a personality test that will generate a reading list tailored to your tastes and whims. Try the quiz here: secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...

“If Jude’s intervention was to drag Romania’s ugly past into the light, what was to be done about the present?” From Issue 49: Alan Dean on Radu Jude. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/rev...

This weekend only, take 25% off a year of n+1 with the discount code TRICKORTREAT. nplusonemag.com/subscribe/

This thing you’re doing is supposed to be happening in a place with a lot more room. That’s how the dumpster mechanism was designed. You’re supposed to back that ass up in a straight line. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/fic...

What initially appears to be a dialogue between geometric form, architectural allusion, and figuration transforms into a preadolescent coup d’état by scythe qua jumprope. It is, after all, Baghdad’s people that will make it modern, not shapes on canvasses. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

@nplusonemag.com current issue features a group of reportage from front lines of the deportation terror machine, and ICE’s leveraging and extention of US as carceral state stands out:

Incredible personal reflections on organising from @alybatt.bsky.social Spadework www.nplusonemag.com/issue-34/pol...

Leigh Claire La Berge’s “Fake Work” gets at some of this www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/ess...

FWIW, I enjoyed the hell out of this story. The arrival of the print edition of @nplusonemag.com at my own dwelling that might collapse any day now is always a blessed event. Consider subscribing if you don't already.

Not that long ago, I was a semi-together individual. And now I’m this wild-eyed person with scalloped rat barriers around her doors who watches her space heater on a baby monitor. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/fic...

Now out from behind the paywall: fiction by the great Elizabeth Schambelan. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/fic...

“A convenience inherent to the BMAG’s attempt to wed Iraqi art with Modernism was that the region’s aesthetic tradition already revered abstraction.” New: Ali Hassani on the legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

It's hard to describe this incredible, hilarious piece by Elizabeth Schambelan about living next to unchecked construction in New York, so I'll just say: read it now!! @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/fic...

Just got around to reading this and it’s terrific. Deny the machine. Resisting resignation is easy. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

A strong statement on refusing to resign to AI resignation www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

“Trump was—and is—intent on creating a new future, and to gain a better sense of that vision, I needed to understand what future he was working to prevent.” In n+1’s new issue: @rodriquese.bsky.social on the art that’s been censored by the Trump administration. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...

Now out from behind paywall: I wrote about art under authoritarianism and the cancellation of the art exhibit of Andil Gosine for @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/essays/lifetime-achievement/

I shared last time, sharing again. Brilliant essay/research

“A year after the encampments, it feels like people in my life — largely cultural workers who live in big cities — are all feeling political, but many of them seem to feel surprisingly alone in it.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...

These five poems are incredible; by three anonymous Palestinian students in an Israeli university system H/t @prisonculture.bsky.social #poem #poems #poetry www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Terrifying. "Over and over the DHS agents at the fair emphasized how [travel] was the best part of their job. A longtime ICE agent said he had accompanied undocumented immigrants on deportation flights to more than fifty countries." @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

Beneath familiar folk and blues chord progressions, Hurley presented a cryptic symbology of images cribbed from the country’s popular culture, an upside-down, Looney Tunes universe populated by songs that could be as simple as a Mother Goose rhyme. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

The temptation to resign ourselves to resignation is never stronger than at a time of overlapping crises, and the AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

This Thursday in Brooklyn: celebrate n+1’s Fall issue with readings and a party! www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

a great essay on that very genre of writing! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

“We are near an old strain of folk utopianism, one that depicts the afterlife as a place with towers of food rising to the heavens.” New: Sam Dembling (@demblehoffer) on Michael Hurley. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Longer read, but the best I've read in a while on why no one should be using AI shit. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Gotta print these out on peppermint scratch-n-sniff paper

Next week: a party in Greenpoint! www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...