Literary criticism needs crisis, feeds on it, even as we let it mislead us. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/rev...

EMILY IN PARIS affords epistemological priority to Emily by focusing on her enchanting romantic dramas, sure, but it also lingers on sequences where French people berate her for being corny and basic. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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Thanks for reading, “Thomas Pynchon”!

This piece praises and criticizes and envisions academic conditions vividly. And I am proud to be among the graduates (MA Linguistics) of this university—UIC—well-educated within its “urban, diverse, hugely dynamic, and overwhelmingly working-class student body.”

Before you start reading this, ensure that your surroundings are suitable for explosive laughter. Absolutely brilliant and hilarious. Thank you, Elizabeth Schambelan, and @nplusonemag, for this experience. #shortstory #funny

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

It’s startling, the velocity with which a decades-long crisis in the humanities has, with the flourish of a few quick Executive Orders, become a crisis of the university, full stop. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

A perfect gift for the cinephile in your life. Order A. S. Hamrah’s ALGORITHM OF THE NIGHT by Tuesday to get it in time for Christmas.

Key to many of Mamdani’s proposals is immediacy: While new development can take years to happen and even longer to alter market dynamics, programs like a rent freeze for rent-stabilized tenants, or even property tax reform, can be felt as soon as passed. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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

“Hamrah does his part to resist neocapitalist amnesia with clarity, force, and a caustic yet romantic wit worthy of Billy Wilder.” Tremendous review of @hamrahrama.bsky.social’s ALGORITHM OF THE NIGHT and LAST WEEK IN END TIMES CINEMA: brooklynrail.org/2025/12/film...

Just a couple spots left at tonight’s celebration of TELEVISION! Hear Lauren Rothery read alongside Zain Khalid, Stephanie Wambugu, Natasha Stagg, and Jean Garnett at the n+1 office in Brooklyn. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“The last applicant I spoke with said he didn’t care much about the politics of ICE — he just thought his taxes shouldn’t be used to buy school supplies for “illegal alien children.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

"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...

Fantastic overview of the current state of music culture www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

good essay to read today in the light of the netflix/wb news www.nplusonemag.com/issue-42/ess...

In light of the Netflix/WB news, here’s a very good read on the Netflix content model. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

Here's what we've got in our weekly Top 5: * Appeal of the surreal @equatormag.bsky.social * Decoding AI dreck (NYT Magazine) * Goop relations @nplusonemag.com * Learning to think @bostonreview.bsky.social * Pigeon racing pitfalls @parisreview.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/12/05/l...

good day to read Will Tavlin

For @nplusonemag.com I wrote about the abandoned city of Varosha and the dream — long dormant, now stirring once again — of a reunified Cyprus www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“A more bitter takeaway lingered with me: This was not the victory of a beleaguered city over the difficulties of a brutal year in paradise, but of capital over everything else.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

More than fifty years since its thirty thousand inhabitants—most of them Greek-Cypriots—fled before the advancing Turkish army, the resort city of Varosha on Cyprus’s southeastern coast has been reborn. Aaron Timms visits: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“It is dizzying to watch a 125-year-old industry, one that earned $29.6 billion in global revenue in 2024, move so quickly to accommodate a relative upstart like Spotify.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“Three days in, the forty-nine of us were crying so much that little packs of tissues became a form of currency. By the fifth day, our conversations would begin to feel like séances dredging up unhappy ghosts.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...

Next Tuesday, December 9, join us at the n+1 office for a celebration of Lauren Rothery’s TELEVISION, out this month from @eccobooks.bsky.social. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“The Dodgers have found themselves one of LA’s last shared civic myths. Maybe that’s why the crowd’s chants felt almost religious.” New: Brandon Harris on the Dodgers (and the Reds). www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

This is the only quiz that matters

"It all suggested a future of ineptitude, where everyone was a brand instrument disguised as a resource" www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/ess...

This Thursday, December 4, join us at McNally Jackson Seaport for a celebration of two new books by A. S. Hamrah. Hamrah will discuss ALGORITHM OF THE NIGHT and LAST WEEK IN END TIMES CINEMA with K. Austin Collins. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Probably the most amazing personality quiz you will ever take. It is very funny and attuned to the present. Donate any amount to take it. The book recommendations I got as a result also look stellar (and I have not heard of any of them!). Last day is today!

Today is Giving Tuesday—and the final day of Bookmatch! If you haven’t taken the quiz yet, now’s your last chance to support n+1 and get some reading recommendations while you’re at it. secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...

My new collection, Algorithm of the Night, is out today from @nplusonemag.com shop.nplusonemag.com/products/alg...

Online at @nybooks.com, the introduction to my new book, Algorithm of the Night. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

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...

want to feel bad about the state of cinema while also feeling good about the state of writing about cinema while reading some of the best writing there is about cinema? want me to stop writing at you incoherently like this??? shut me up and buy this book (and Hamrah's previous n+1 collection too)

ALGORITHM OF THE NIGHT, the new collection of film writing by @hamrahrama.bsky.social, is out from n+1 Books today! shop.nplusonemag.com/products/alg...

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The Mamdani administration must build a popular coalition around housing development. How it does so has the potential to make or break New York’s nascent experiment in municipal socialism. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

I hear that if you take this quiz you might be matched with a certain novel about friendship 👀

Not only was this a really great quiz, but I hadn’t even heard of 7 of the books on the reading list, and only read 1. Highly recommended.

Update: the quirkiest, most enjoyable quiz I've taken in forever.

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"If the Democratic discourse du jour pits populist socialism against technocratic 'Abundance,' nobody seems to have told New York City voters." New online: Charlie Dulik on the tangled politics of housing under mayor-elect Mamdani. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Great piece updating the critique of culture industries for the age of the platform mega-rentier www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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Worth every minute of your time

thanks to @nplusonemag.com and @robarcand.bsky.social for this excellent essay on my book, as well as Mood Machine by @lizpelly.bsky.social, a book I absolutely love

Bookmatch is as good as everyone says , also not to be missed bsky.app/profile/nplu...

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