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For most of us, our cars, no matter how much we cherish them, hold us in social and economic custody. As more and more vehicles are financed, and with higher loans and interest rates, creditors exert a carceral pull over our ability to earn a sustainable livelihood. Perhaps the most telling evidence of this servitude is that, in times of financial stress, households will prioritize their monthly car payments over all others, including basic necessities. Surely it is the mark of our perverse civilization when food, medical care, and housing have to take a back seat to our need to keep wheels on the road.]]> Wed, 15 Mar 2023 17:17:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezmesnCl8RP1oIAmcWJ0TmB https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpew_xazhSDFJdC3FFO_xyF25
Trucking saved her, she said, but she still got lonely. Solitude became its own source of claustrophobia. “I have blue days,” Jess said. “If I slammed my truck into a mountain, would anyone notice? Does anyone know I’m out here?”]]> Thu, 02 Mar 2023 21:41:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpew_xazhSDFJdC3FFO_xyF25 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeza22VjDYhY32Fk24e89-qg
Taking a handful of men into custody does not constitute an acknowledgment of the party-state’s systemic refusal to enforce public safety requirements when its clientelist political economy was at stake. As a Turkish colleague put it to me in conversation, the culprits will not be held to account when the culprits and those holding to account are the same people.]]> Tue, 21 Feb 2023 19:35:03 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeza22VjDYhY32Fk24e89-qg https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyIfYV7s60N1QaB2UxGNFpJ
Writing fiction hadn’t been false, for nonfiction isn’t truer than fiction; but I’d seemed to row at the shallowest region of the narrative stream, where the water wouldn’t reveal its deepest enchantments. I needed to allow the subject to change the form as I progressed. Where I began with curiosity about my uncle’s fate, my travels made me aware of how little of the war had been monumentalized in the Nigerian landscape, ultimately making it necessary for me to define the shape of my work as a reconciliation with the fragmented nature of the past.]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2023 17:42:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyIfYV7s60N1QaB2UxGNFpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezV9K_wG0KH2bkdRKkm2PJP
How many times have we seen this drama play out in the last several decades? Every presidential administration wants to fix America’s “crumbling infrastructure” until they discover the business interests profiting from disrepair.]]> Fri, 17 Feb 2023 18:01:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezV9K_wG0KH2bkdRKkm2PJP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyb26zzj1a_yvnNuMIJyU22
The Ramones were great, but Television made their CBs confreres sound like Johnny one notes. Television had chops, tunes, and weren’t afraid to stretch out and solo—they even had arrangements for god’s sake.]]> Thu, 09 Feb 2023 21:20:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyb26zzj1a_yvnNuMIJyU22 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyFzKZM0uvsD1w3HFUzDTIP
Love found me twice, at once. If it never happens again I’ll still be luckier than the moon. Breathing, typing these lines, texting a friend, checking the time, thinking it wouldn’t always be like this, but still, sometimes, it was.    It is.]]> Tue, 07 Feb 2023 16:46:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyFzKZM0uvsD1w3HFUzDTIP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexnn8zOPziYuVRpWVnEcNkS
For thirteen years I had an interest in echolocation jamming, ever since I read Lynne Peeples reporting in Scientific American on Aaron Cochran’s doctoral research into how tiger moths click to blur bats’ acoustic vision. I mean, I talked with engineers who work on radar-absorbing polymer materials in stealth bombers, man. When I light out for the territory, I go over the mountain.]]> Fri, 27 Jan 2023 17:39:25 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexnn8zOPziYuVRpWVnEcNkS https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyTFCovDOvvMa8qfTAM-Smm
There is a symmetry between Corky Lee’s passing and the rise of Anti-Asian Hate: the departure of Asian America’s greatest documentarian and its most visible recent efflorescence. Years earlier, the brief window of postwar Asian American radicalism seemed to have already swung shut. Today, our most notable figures are corporate CEOs and conservative politicians, the eponymous Asians rich and crazy, so the artists, revolutionaries, and workers preserved in Lee’s prints can feel as elusive as their author. No matter how distant an Asian American poor people’s movement may seem, his prints still vibrate with radical temporality and potential.]]> Wed, 25 Jan 2023 18:42:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyTFCovDOvvMa8qfTAM-Smm https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpewqi6yrTeoQkO4sICfMfkNm
To celebrate a year since the publication of Ari M. Brostoff’s essay collection, Missing Time, join n+1 for an evening with Brostoff and contributor Blair McClendon. They’ll discuss the book, their approaches to writing cultural criticism from the left, and much else. The event is free and open to the public, and beer and popcorn […]]]> Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:02:46 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpewqi6yrTeoQkO4sICfMfkNm https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexoqaYDGRX3MUQqW5gBv7mX
Join n+1 for a discussion between the poets Eugene Ostashevsky and Genya Turovskaya. They’ll be discussing ghost languages, host languages, translation, and Ostashevsky’s new collection The Feeling Sonnets. The event is free and open to the public. Friday, February 3 7PM n+1 office: 37 Greenpoint Ave #316  About the book: Eugene Ostashevsky’s The Feeling Sonnets—his fourth collection […]]]> Fri, 13 Jan 2023 23:09:25 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexoqaYDGRX3MUQqW5gBv7mX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpewLu4emGuvKPXCrAHWlao0B
She is cutting, wary, funny, and wise. Her style is what I wish I had instead of the chipper inner voice I’m stuck with. Nothing in Malcolm’s writing is dull or amiss unless she’s quoting somebody else. Her lines put me in mind of the painter Agnes Martin—everything so even and tight.]]> Tue, 10 Jan 2023 16:59:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpewLu4emGuvKPXCrAHWlao0B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyUIzEAYEY1GAC0qH-r7xlT
That Panahi was arrested shortly after completing the film—and that he is now serving out the six-year prison sentence originally handed down in 2010 in Tehran’s infamous Ervin Prison—is an irony that would have been out of place in all of his work until the stark horror of No Bears.]]> Fri, 06 Jan 2023 19:08:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyUIzEAYEY1GAC0qH-r7xlT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezkp8dITxy7SbkdRKkm2PJP
Marseille, the second-largest city in France, is neither here nor there. Hemmed in on three sides by hills and mountains and cliffs, it is cut off from country and continent; the front door of Marseille was once its harbor, now known as the Vieux-Port, meaning that the city faces the sea, looks out onto the […]]]> Sat, 24 Dec 2022 17:26:32 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezkp8dITxy7SbkdRKkm2PJP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexJ4IrnOyLgVO-bbeigX9oC
Then the parents threatened a class-action lawsuit. The students occupied a university building. The full-time faculty began rumbles about a vote of no confidence against the president. They had nowhere left to go.]]> Fri, 23 Dec 2022 16:57:05 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexJ4IrnOyLgVO-bbeigX9oC https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezKU-knemQpObmyhX6zo8SW
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, suggesting a degree of cultural self-awareness even where it threatens to alienate viewers who might see themselves in the protagonist. Even Emily’s dutiful, dead-eyed preoccupation with virality and marketing analytics mirrors Netflix’s obsession with its own growth. It is as if TV finally looked at itself and made the hollow conditions of its own reception an active plot point, the way novels in the ’60s started to incorporate literary critics as characters.]]> Thu, 22 Dec 2022 19:27:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezKU-knemQpObmyhX6zo8SW https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyU8qOflvCyU1RpWVnEcNkS
If Iñárritu longs to have his masochism and refute it, too, Bardo can be seen as an overfull-length elaboration on the theme, an entire movie about a man desperate to get the last, measuredly self-deprecating word.]]> Thu, 22 Dec 2022 17:26:36 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyU8qOflvCyU1RpWVnEcNkS https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyDJ7NAHWeUWgX50KYzL9tX
I had arrived at the all too probably named Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute past its ostensible heyday. Founded in 1974 by Waldman and her “spiritual husband” Allen Ginsberg, the school had the reputation of a mountain retreat for the Beat Poets, and their friends in the New York School, and their friends in the Black Mountain school, and their friends in the New Narrative school.]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2022 18:19:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyDJ7NAHWeUWgX50KYzL9tX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezHb3DQXbj1GgC0qH-r7xlT Join n+1, and our friends at the great new magazine Parapraxis, for drinks and dancing to celebrate Parapraxis’s inaugural issue as well as the new Winter issue of n+1. Admission is free, with drinks and discounted copies of both magazines for sale. Friday, December 16 7 PM The Poetry Project / St. Marks Church 131 […]]]> Wed, 07 Dec 2022 20:03:20 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezHb3DQXbj1GgC0qH-r7xlT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexGrt5zsb9nwTHgrmwRGUK6 n+1’s heroes (despite occasional attempts to diversify things) were often drawn from this Carveresque ethos — which seems to have also doomed the magazine to repeat the false binary of sellouts v. masochism. My point here isn’t that “selling out” is OK, but that the binary itself proved unsustainable and almost always led, as in Carver’s own case, to some form of seriously shitty, uncritical surrender to one of these strands or the other, or to both.]]> Mon, 05 Dec 2022 23:51:01 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexGrt5zsb9nwTHgrmwRGUK6