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Literary criticism needs crisis, feeds on it, even as we let it mislead us.
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Crise en Abyme | Colin Vanderburg
Anyone who has ever emerged from a multiday academic conference will recognize this truth: as the sun sets on the jetsam of crumpled programs and the custodians vacuum the carpet, you set out for the ...
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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.
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Lisa in Emily in Little Paris | Lisa Borst
The show 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, sugge...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/lisa-in-emily-in-little-paris/
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Thanks for reading, “Thomas Pynchon”!
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julianne warren (jwren)
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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.”
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I Write Like
12 days ago
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
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Congratulations to
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, whose ALGORITHM OF THE NIGHT has been longlisted for the
@bookcritics.bsky.social
award for criticism!
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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.
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Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello
So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/memos-of-blood-and-fire/
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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.
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Algorithm of the Night, by A. S. Hamrah
“A. S. Hamrah’s criticism is hilarious, irreverent, full of passionate and ingeniously defended judgments.” —Dana Spiotta
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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.
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Homeward Bound? | Charlie Dulik
If the Democratic discourse du jour pits populist socialism against technocratic “Abundance,” nobody seems to have told New York City voters. One the same day that a majority chose Zohran Mamdani to b...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/homeward-bound/
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A. S. Hamrah
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Thank you
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for this amazing review; I could hope for nothing better
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“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:
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A.S. Hamrah’s Algorithm of the Night and Last Week in End Times Cinema | The Brooklyn Rail
Hamrah releases two books in one month: for n+1, Algorithm of the Night, a collection sequel spanning the chaotic years from 2019 to 2025; and for Semiotext(e), Last Week in End Times Cinema, a tragic...
https://brooklynrail.org/2025/12/film/a-s-hamrahs-algorithm-of-the-night-and-last-week-in-end-times-cinema/
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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.
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Lauren Rothery in conversation
A celebration of Television in Brooklyn
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david i. backer
21 days ago
“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.”
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Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice
Naturally there were lots of law enforcement types hanging around the convention — men with military fades, moisture-wicking shirts, and tattoos of the Bible and the Constitution and eagles and flags ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/politics/yanis-two-days-talking-to-people-looking-for-jobs-at-ice-2/
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"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."
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Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice
Naturally there were lots of law enforcement types hanging around the convention — men with military fades, moisture-wicking shirts, and tattoos of the Bible and the Constitution and eagles and flags ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/politics/yanis-two-days-talking-to-people-looking-for-jobs-at-ice-2/
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al-Mutaghatris
22 days ago
Fantastic overview of the current state of music culture
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The Same Stream Twice | Rob Arcand
Two recent books, Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine and Andrew deWaard’s Derivative Media, explore the consequences of these technological intermediaries for the music, film, and television industries. While P...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-same-stream-twice/
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april
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good essay to read today in the light of the netflix/wb news
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Digital Rocks | Will Tavlin
Eventually DCI scrubbed celluloid film almost entirely from the film industry, ushering in the most significant technological shift since the introduction of sound. The digital revolution transformed ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-42/essays/digital-rocks/
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Carlos Perez
22 days ago
In light of the Netflix/WB news, here’s a very good read on the Netflix content model.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...
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Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...
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Longreads
22 days ago
Here's what we've got in our weekly Top 5: * Appeal of the surreal
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* Decoding AI dreck (NYT Magazine) * Goop relations
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* Learning to think
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* Pigeon racing pitfalls
@parisreview.bsky.social
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads
In this edition: the appeal of the surreal, decoding AI dreck, goop relations, learning to think, and pigeon racing pitfalls
https://longreads.com/2025/12/05/longreads-top-5-589/?utm_source=blueksy&utm_medium=social
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Corey Atad
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good day to read Will Tavlin
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Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/essays/casual-viewing/
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Aaron Timms
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For
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I wrote about the abandoned city of Varosha and the dream — long dormant, now stirring once again — of a reunified Cyprus
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“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.”
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Big Blue Machine | Brandon Harris
The Dodgers’ model, like the city’s, depends on endless escalation, infinite growth; more spending, more spectacle, more winning. The Reds, meanwhile, live on prayer and parsimony. When you know the e...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/big-blue-machine/
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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:
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Reconciliation versus Real Estate | Aaron Timms
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 rebo...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/reconciliation-vs-real-estate/
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“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.”
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The Same Stream Twice | Rob Arcand
Two recent books, Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine and Andrew deWaard’s Derivative Media, explore the consequences of these technological intermediaries for the music, film, and television industries. While P...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-same-stream-twice/
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“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.”
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Experiences in Groups | Lily Scherlis
The more experienced attendees explain that here, one’s individual experience is seen as a symptom of the group’s dynamics. If someone is physically ill, it is because the system needs to eject someon...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/essays/experiences-in-groups
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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
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Lauren Rothery in conversation
A celebration of Television in Brooklyn
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/lauren-rothery-in-conversation/
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“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).
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Big Blue Machine | Brandon Harris
The Dodgers’ model, like the city’s, depends on endless escalation, infinite growth; more spending, more spectacle, more winning. The Reds, meanwhile, live on prayer and parsimony. When you know the e...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/big-blue-machine/
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Xopher Besinger
25 days ago
This is the only quiz that matters
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"It all suggested a future of ineptitude, where everyone was a brand instrument disguised as a resource"
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An Age of Hyperabundance | Laura Preston
Everyone at this conference kept invoking loneliness and claiming the antidote was conversation. That didn’t track with my own experience. My most desperate moments of loneliness have been in conversa...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/essays/an-age-of-hyperabundance/
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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.
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A. S. Hamrah and K. Austin Collins in conversation
A celebration of Algorithm of the Night
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/events/a-s-hamrah-and-k-austin-collins-in-conversation/
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Megin Jimenez
25 days ago
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!
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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.
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A. S. Hamrah
25 days ago
My new collection, Algorithm of the Night, is out today from
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Algorithm of the Night, by A. S. Hamrah
“A. S. Hamrah’s criticism is hilarious, irreverent, full of passionate and ingeniously defended judgments.” —Dana Spiotta
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A. S. Hamrah
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Online at
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, the introduction to my new book, Algorithm of the Night.
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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A Total Breakdown of All the Easter Eggs | A. S. Hamrah
In December 2019, three months before the pandemic, I was standing on a subway platform in Brooklyn when I recognized a prominent older film critic also
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/12/02/a-total-breakdown-of-all-the-easter-eggs/
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Mark Krotov
25 days ago
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!
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Algorithm of the Night, by A. S. Hamrah
“A. S. Hamrah’s criticism is hilarious, irreverent, full of passionate and ingeniously defended judgments.” —Dana Spiotta
https://shop.nplusonemag.com/products/algorithm-of-the-night-by-a-s-hamrah
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rob dunson
25 days ago
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)
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ALGORITHM OF THE NIGHT, the new collection of film writing by
@hamrahrama.bsky.social
, is out from n+1 Books today!
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Algorithm of the Night, by A. S. Hamrah
“A. S. Hamrah’s criticism is hilarious, irreverent, full of passionate and ingeniously defended judgments.” —Dana Spiotta
https://shop.nplusonemag.com/products/algorithm-of-the-night-by-a-s-hamrah
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Black Friday is over, but a much cooler and more digital fake holiday is here: Cyber Monday! Today only, take 30% off everything in the n+1 online bookstore with the discount code CYB3R.
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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.
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Homeward Bound? | Charlie Dulik
If the Democratic discourse du jour pits populist socialism against technocratic “Abundance,” nobody seems to have told New York City voters. One the same day that a majority chose Zohran Mamdani to b...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/homeward-bound/
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Angela Flournoy
27 days ago
I hear that if you take this quiz you might be matched with a certain novel about friendship đź‘€
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Agri IsmaĂŻl
27 days ago
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.
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PeggyDavisLA
27 days ago
Update: the quirkiest, most enjoyable quiz I've taken in forever.
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🚨 Bookmatch ends in two days! 🚨 If you’ve been waiting to take the quiz, or to send it as a gift, now’s the time.
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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.
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Homeward Bound? | Charlie Dulik
If the Democratic discourse du jour pits populist socialism against technocratic “Abundance,” nobody seems to have told New York City voters. One the same day that a majority chose Zohran Mamdani to b...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/homeward-bound/
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Will Davies
30 days ago
Great piece updating the critique of culture industries for the age of the platform mega-rentier
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The Same Stream Twice | Rob Arcand
Two recent books, Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine and Andrew deWaard’s Derivative Media, explore the consequences of these technological intermediaries for the music, film, and television industries. While P...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-same-stream-twice/
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We’re running our biggest sale of the year through tomorrow: 40% off subscriptions and gift subscriptions with code BLACKFRIDAY25.
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Gary Kennedy
about 1 month ago
Worth every minute of your time
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Andrew deWaard
about 1 month ago
thanks to
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and
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for this excellent essay on my book, as well as Mood Machine by
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, a book I absolutely love
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Tom Bubul
about 1 month ago
Bookmatch is as good as everyone says , also not to be missed
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We told you it works.
BookmatchQuiz.com
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