Synopses & Reviews
The first anthology of America's foremost intellectual magazine.
n+1 appeared in the fall of 2004, the brainchild of a group of writers working out of a small apartment. Intended to revive the leftist social criticism and innovative literary analysis that was the hallmark of the
Partisan Review and other midcentury magazines,
n+1 was a rejoinder to the consumerism and complacency of the Bush years. It hasnt slowed down since.
n+1 has given us the most clear-eyed reporting on the 2008 crash and the Occupy movement, the best criticism of publishing culture, and the first sociological report on the hipster. No media, new or old, has escaped its ire as
n+1s outspoken contributors have taken on reality TV, Twitter, credentialism, drone strikes, and Internet porn.
Happiness, released on the occasion of n+1s tenth anniversary, collects the best of the magazine as selected by its editors. These essays are fiercely contentious, disconcertingly astute, and screamingly funny. They explore our modern pursuits of happiness and take a searching moral inventory of the strange times we live in. Founding lights Chad Harbach, Keith Gessen, Benjamin Kunkel, Marco Roth, and Mark Greif are featured alongside Elif Batuman, Rebecca Curtis, Emily Witt, and other young talents launched by n+1. This n+1 anthology is the definitive work of the definitive twenty-first century intellectual magazine.
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Praise for
n+1“Just when youre thinking youre intellectually alone in the world, something like n+1 falls into your hands.” —Jonathan Franzen
“n+1 is rigorous, curious and provocative. Intelligent thought is not dead in New York. It has simply moved to Brooklyn.” —Malcolm Gladwell
Review
Praise for
Happiness: Ten Years of n+1 “Sometimes-angry, always intelligent, deeply earnest,
n+1, protesting against the glib, the slick and the trendy, is well-represented by this articulate collection.” —
Kirkus Praise for
n+1“Just when youre thinking youre intellectually alone in the world, something like n+1 falls into your hands.” —Jonathan Franzen
“n+1 is the rightful heir to the Partisan Review and The New York Review of Books. It is rigorous, curious, and provocative.” —Malcolm Gladwell “n+1 is a lively, stimulating magazine of a rare intellectual scope.” —Joyce Carol Oates
Synopsis
The first anthology of America's foremost intellectual magazine.
n+1 appeared in the fall of 2004, the brainchild of a group of writers working out of a small apartment. Intended to revive the leftist social criticism and innovative literary analysis that was the hallmark of the Partisan Review and other midcentury magazines, n+1 was a rejoinder to the consumerism and complacency of the Bush years. It hasn't slowed down since. n+1 has given us the most clear-eyed reporting on the 2008 crash and the Occupy movement, the best criticism of publishing culture, and the first sociological report on the hipster. No media, new or old, has escaped its ire as n+1's outspoken contributors have taken on reality TV, Twitter, credentialism, drone strikes, and Internet porn.
Happiness, released on the occasion of n+1's tenth anniversary, collects the best of the magazine as selected by its editors. These essays are fiercely contentious, disconcertingly astute, and screamingly funny. They explore our modern pursuits of happiness and take a searching moral inventory of the strange times we live in. Founding lights Chad Harbach, Keith Gessen, Benjamin Kunkel, Marco Roth, and Mark Greif are featured alongside Elif Batuman, Rebecca Curtis, Emily Witt, and other young talents launched by n+1.
This n+1 anthology is the definitive work of the definitive twenty-first century intellectual magazine.
About the Author
n+1, a New York-based literary magazine, publishes social criticism, political commentary, essays, art, poetry, book reviews, and short fiction. It was founded in 2004 by Keith Gessen, Mark Greif, Chad Harbach, Benjamin Kunkel, Allison Lorentzen, and Marco Roth.