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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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December 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Literary criticism needs crisis, feeds on it, even as we let it mislead us.
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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...
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December 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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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Thanks for reading, “Thomas Pynchon”!
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Thanks for reading, “Thomas Pynchon”!
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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.”
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.”
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/...
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...
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December 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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.”
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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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
Absolutely brilliant and hilarious. Thank you, Elizabeth Schambelan, and @nplusonemag, for this experience.
#shortstory #funny
Now out from behind the paywall: fiction by the great Elizabeth Schambelan.
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Construction | Elizabeth Schambelan
The truth is, I want to fucking kill him. Because, not that long ago, I was a semi-together individual with some irons of my own in the fire, living in an apartment that had finally achieved the elega...
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December 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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
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!
Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Criticism
December 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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/...
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...
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December 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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.
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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December 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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.
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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...
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December 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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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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:
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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...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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...
brooklynrail.org/2025/12/film...
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...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“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...
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.
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Lauren Rothery in conversation
A celebration of Television in Brooklyn
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December 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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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“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...
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 ...
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December 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
“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...
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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 ...
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December 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"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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Fantastic overview of the current state of music culture www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Fantastic overview of the current state of music culture www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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In light of the Netflix/WB news, here’s a very good read on the Netflix content model. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...
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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December 5, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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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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
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* 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
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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
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December 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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
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* 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
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good day to read Will Tavlin
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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December 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
good day to read Will Tavlin
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For @nplusonemag.com 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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December 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
For @nplusonemag.com 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.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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...
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December 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
“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/...
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...
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December 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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/...
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...
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December 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
“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/...
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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...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:48 AM
“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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