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Keith Gessen reads from All the Sad Young Literary Men
n+1 comes to your door twice a year, the size of a large paperback book. Published since 2004, winner of awards for writing and editing, it holds no value sacred but the need to rethink every part of our life: from childrearing to war, money to exercise, television to the university, literature to oil.
“They intend nothing less in their periodical than to reimagine and reestablish the world.”
—Jordan Mejias, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
“Just when you’re thinking you’re intellectually alone in the world, something like n+1 falls into your hands.”
—Jonathan Franzen, quoted in the New York Observer
A magazine of literature, politics, and culture, n+1 brings you the best essays by unknown writers – the unpublished and unpublishable fiction of major figures – and politics from the fringe to the mainstream, with an eye for the new idea, the impossible vision, the remarkable work of art.
“Pointed, closely argued and often
brilliantly original critiques of contemporary life and letters... a
generational struggle against laziness and cynicism.” —A. O. Scott, The New York Times Magazine
“We have found that n+1 is always thoughtful and surprising: At the end
of every essay, you can't help but think that you've just read the
masterwork of that author's career.” —Utne Reader, in a citation for a Best Writing Award
Featuring fiction, poetry, memoir, translation, and scholarship, n+1 is unlike other literary magazines – because it is actively edited, not just curated. Each issue contains a special assessment of the “Intellectual Situation” and short essays on “Politics” that are about principles, not news. A liberal publication, n+1 is sometimes mistaken for a conservative publication, and we don’t care – the goal is not position-taking, but the forward movement of ideas.
“n+1 is an altogether ballsier publication ... edgily erudite ...
[with] punchy reportage … essays … and weird short stories.” —Times Literary Supplement
“The authors of n+1 are more original and write better than other
left-wing writers—sometimes breathtakingly well. They also aim their
ire at their own ranks. . . . They are highbrows—not particularly in
the choice of subjects, which varies from the rock band Radiohead,
dating, fitness culture, and Bush’s economic policy to T. S. Eliot,
Isaac Babel and the Armenian diaspora—but in their approach and their
high regard for the reader.” —Pieter van Os and Peter Vermaas, De Groene Amsterdammer
“Great writing. Great content. These guys should have called their
zine, "This Magazine is F*ing Great: The Magazine." That's what I would
have done. Which is why I'm probably not in marketing anymore.” —Justin, www.bearlikemouse.net
n+1 stands for the survival of the little magazine and public intellect in an era of corporate behemoths. We need you, reader. Funded by subscriptions and newsstand sales, n+1 survives on the support of its readers, keeping open a place for new thought and new art. Please try out the magazine, purchase a pamphlet or a back issue, get a gift subscription for someone you know who is aching for the new. Together we have everything to gain and nothing to lose.
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