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...

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/...

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...

After a couple of weeks during which the Femonationalist French collective Nemesis has been making headlines, this review by @dtortorici.bsky.social of @reproutopia.bsky.social's new book 'Enemy Femnisms' in the lastest issue of @nplusonemag.com has been very enlightening. now on to the real thing.

A brilliant analysis of how sanctions have transformed the Iranian government into a Chicago School regime of austerity that benefits those attached to the regime, creates precarious labour, and rolls back all the redistributive and social measures of the past: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

At n+1, Justin Taylor is typically excellent on the oeuvre of Katherine Dunn--which, with the inclusion of some posthumously published work, is much more than that one famous book www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

In 2019, the late Asad Haider wrote about Martin Luther King, Jr. “In the declaration of solidarity across every border, he offered a vision of freedom that extends to all.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

"What are the red flags of enemy feminism? For starters, fear: an emphasis on danger over pleasure; a preoccupation with purity; technophobia; congealed opinion; resistance to surprise or novelty; and the desire for strong borders.... But by far the most common feature of enemy feminism is racism."

Literally the dream review - not only does Dayna *get it*, she illuminates the stakes of what I was trying to do in ways I needed to have explained back to me / didn't totally grasp or know how to articulate. I'm so thrilled I could die

I wrote about @reproutopia.bsky.social's excellent book "Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" for the new @nplusonemag.com

Congratulations to Laurie Bertram Roberts, our 2025 Ann Snitow Prize winner! If you are interested in learning more about Roberts' work and the award, join us at the online awards ceremony on Tues Dec 9 at 6pm! annsnitowprize.com

Join us at 6 PM EST on Zoom tonight for a conversation with Ann Snitow Prize winner Laurie Bertram Roberts and Debbie Nathan about organizing for reproductive justice in the deep south. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I did this and it's wildly entertaining and yes I bought a book.

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Parochial when he needed to be, in victory Mamdani was borderless, gesturing to so many of the countries whose emigrants populated New York City. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

🚨 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...

The @nplusonemag.com book match quiz is funny--I even cackled--and then the book recommendations included 3 favorites. A good time for a good cause: secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...

This essay bangs. It gets at a specific problem with how AI is being sold to us--or how the industry is getting us to sell it to ourselves-- that I haven't seen described this clearly anywhere. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

All the reasons not to give in to generative AI. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

“Within the experimental enclosure, you say things you didn’t think you could possibly say. Then you see others see you saying them, and then you do it again.” Now out from behind the paywall: @lilyscherlis.bsky.social on group relations. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...

“We will go on like this for two weeks, some of us losing our minds through sheer proximity to other people. The conversation eventually devolves into a kind of libidinal dodgeball.” @lilyscherlis.bsky.social tries to find out what Bion's group relations has to say about contemporary political life

Bless the @nplusonemag.com editors for coining the term "a single-use plastic of the mind" to describe AI www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

This is long, but worth it. Some choice quotes: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the... >>

thank you @nplusonemag.com for publishing this piece about the infrastructure of deportation in rural Kentucky and beyond www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

"When we use generative AI, we stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

AUTHORITY, by the inimitable Andrea Long Chu, is out today from @fsgbooks.bsky.social! shop.nplusonemag.com/products/aut... Livestream tickets are still available for her launch tomorrow with Arielle Angel—(4/9) at The Center for Fiction, 7PM: centerforfiction.org/event/on-ame...

Read Tom’s O. Henry–prize winning short story “Inversion of Marcia” on our website, where we’ve taken all his stories out from behind the paywall: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-27/fic...

In today’s newsletter: a note from n+1 coeditor @dtortorici.bsky.social about our contributor Thomas Bolt, who died last month at age 65.

Tonight at the 92nd street Y I'll be moderating a conversation about Alba de Céspedes and her debut novel "There's No Looking Back" newly translated into English by Ann Goldstein, with Goldstein, Judith Thurman, and Joanna Biggs! Tickets here: www.92ny.org/event/on-alb...

honestly think some of the hesitation here is that no one wants to sound like a crank. i was talking at an event last night and even i felt like a crank while i was speaking!

According to a senior CDC official, some of the pages that were removed on Friday have been reinstated due to backlash from the scientific community and the public. Keep speaking up, it matters!

When I wrote this 11 days ago, I genuinely did not think they would move this quickly or aggressively, but what we are witnessing is very much state capture donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-dange...

Twitter was a social media website employing 7500 people. The federal government employees ~3 million people and touches every part of your day—roads, planes, schools, healthcare, food safety, Social Security and on and on. We’re going to learn the hard way that we’ve been taking it for granted

How can anyone in their right mind ignore this letter from Caroline Kennedy about her cousin, RFK Jr.?

New online: Saree Makdisi on the ceasefire in Gaza. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

"Blockbuster punished customers for being forgetful; Netflix rewarded them for being mindless." - Will Tavlin via @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

The @nplusonemag.com essay on the enshittification of Netflix is excellent, but for a palate-cleanser, also check out this smart essay on Radu Jude, whose brilliant & crazy films are the antithesis of the TNM (Typical Netflix Movie)

I interviewed Jordan Thomas, a former wildland firefighter and cultural anthropologist who researches Indigenous burning practices, to understand why megafires in California burn the way they do. A helpful and ultimately hopeful conversation: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...