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Then, a kind of madness set in. During previous stretches of depression and anxiety, I had experienced the world as overstimulating, as though it wished to voice a complaint: electrical grids too loud, lights too bright and the wrong color, water that turned salty in my mouth. This time, it seemed the world had stopped speaking to me at all. Anything that broke through felt like a violation. (The horn section on Lemonade was a particular issue.)]]> Tue, 25 Jan 2022 18:47:57 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpewYq0WJsN6oe3Mq2h3ehXEp https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezmOgfJVCciIf9M7fKGWt0o
“The writing is clunky. He tries to say too much in each sentence,” I deduced he’d said to S, his college friend and acquaintance of mine, when S commented, on a blog post I’d posted about my walk: “Love this! His writing isn’t clunky! He doesn’t try to say too much in every sentence!”]]> Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:55:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezmOgfJVCciIf9M7fKGWt0o https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexeeS5_qCITBVT72x6uxjiK
On Thursday, January 27 at 7 PM EST, join n+1 for a virtual celebration of Ari M. Brostoff’s Missing Time: Essays, out next week from n+1 Books. Brostoff will discuss the book with novelist and n+1 contributor Alexandra Kleeman, and n+1 coeditors Mark Krotov and Dayna Tortorici. The event is free and open to the […]]]> Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:49:55 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexeeS5_qCITBVT72x6uxjiK https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexWgy9kSYXXrwpx5_w21kha
For Disturbing the View, his performance at the Whitney last summer, the artist Dave McKenzie washed some of the museum’s floor-to-ceiling plate glass windows twice weekly in the afternoon. As performance art goes, the piece was remarkably unspectacular, though in a recent interview1 the artist said he considered having himself lowered over the Whitney facade […]]]> Tue, 18 Jan 2022 17:35:40 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexWgy9kSYXXrwpx5_w21kha https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexTCwzHvunqJN5ZnUTwRGH7
In Axel’s Castle, his searching 1931 study of the high modernists, Edmund Wilson fretted that writers of the future might continue to become either baroque hermits or violently, self-deceivingly antisocial. Poised between the curious exemplars of Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s suicidal Romantic antihero Axel and the menacing boy wonder Rimbaud, they would become pitiable misfits […]]]> Fri, 07 Jan 2022 18:10:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexTCwzHvunqJN5ZnUTwRGH7 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezCyMB3-ORKkHKSkciKEY1s
Soon after meeting P in 2011, I read his first book. The overall mood was utopian, yet pragmatic. Fable-like methods were used to depict bleak truths while avoiding finger-pointing: Once upon a time, farmers cleared a forest; the water table fell, so they dug a well, and it fell some more, et cetera. Red herrings abounded. One memorable paragraph lamented the extinction of Steller’s sea cow, a sluggish 30-foot behemoth that could have provided truly socialist quantities of meat and milk.]]> Thu, 06 Jan 2022 17:51:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezCyMB3-ORKkHKSkciKEY1s https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpewQGd-VYHwo9bkdRKkm2PJP
There is so much that is novelistic about Amazon. Having amassed the volumes of power and capital formerly reserved for sovereign nation-states, and having fully realized the diffuse postwar project of subsuming information technologies into commodity markets, the retail giant/cloud-computing host/television and movie studio/book publisher/government contractor/infrastructure-reshaping logistics network seems like it should be the subject, […]]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2021 19:29:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpewQGd-VYHwo9bkdRKkm2PJP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyNvlRvfyUae4eLGixeGJZp
n+1 is seeking a full-time Managing Editor to work in our Brooklyn office starting February 1. Compensation is $56,000 and includes health and dental insurance. n+1 is a print magazine of literature, culture, and politics published three times a year. Founded in 2004 with a mission to revive the tradition of little magazines, it has […]]]> Wed, 15 Dec 2021 22:52:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyNvlRvfyUae4eLGixeGJZp https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezcMUaxyCCBG3Mq2h3ehXEp
In May 2018, as Trump’s family separation policy became a major scandal, former Obama speechwriter and “Pod Save America” host Jon Favreau tweeted a photo of two migrant girls sleeping on the floor of a cage. “Look at these pictures. This is happening right now, and the only debate that matters is how we force our government to get these kids back to their families as fast as humanly possible.” As a number of his replies pointed out, the photos were actually from 2014, when his boss was still President. As with Biden’s response to the recent assault on Haitians, Favreau was fixated on the image.]]> Mon, 13 Dec 2021 19:33:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezcMUaxyCCBG3Mq2h3ehXEp https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezSzrgqfyGUKkGb1Jh49AJn
Darkness falls. Only the aura of plasma around the sun is visible. The birds stop singing. It lasts for two minutes and twenty-three seconds.]]> Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:01:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezSzrgqfyGUKkGb1Jh49AJn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexOEjFK1lKUTwVLTsI7B9NX
Mauro Javier Cárdenas’s Aphasia is titled after a musical composition by Mark Applebaum. The piece, first performed in 2010 by Applebaum himself after four months of fastidious rehearsal—Cárdenas saw it live—was originally conceived for singer and two-channel tape. In his performance, Applebaum, the “singer,” does not make a sound. Seated, he moves his hands in […]]]> Thu, 09 Dec 2021 17:30:54 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexOEjFK1lKUTwVLTsI7B9NX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezPsfnnx07PdrmyhX6zo8SW
[It was hard for me to seriously confront my relationship because I’m a typical Italian who’s always got himself a steady, token girlfriend—guys like me are incapable of truly being alone and analyzing our own emotions. My friend Francesco insists that in novels by real men, from Philip Roth to Edoardo Nesi (only the best), […]]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2021 17:31:30 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezPsfnnx07PdrmyhX6zo8SW https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezf2utvQe4DNHOFESPuQWsX
For all the historical acclaim a journalist may have gained by being their newspaper’s first Black employee or by broadcasting brutality, that praise does little for the person trying to pay their rent. It does not even offer job security. Despite his many achievements, Lomax lost more than one job. But Lomax’s life is not only a reminder of the stark difficulties of media and of the protections writers deserve.]]> Mon, 06 Dec 2021 19:33:06 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezf2utvQe4DNHOFESPuQWsX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexQ5pTa16fsXAaB2UxGNFpJ
On Wednesday, December 8, join n+1 and McNally Jackson for a conversation between novelists and n+1 contributors Francesco Pacifico and Alexandra Kleeman, who will be discussing Pacifico’s new novel, The Women I Love—out December 7 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and is available for preorder from the n+1 bookstore. The event is free and open […]]]> Fri, 03 Dec 2021 23:27:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexQ5pTa16fsXAaB2UxGNFpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexYIZrHveBkh-QEmsPXZ5C9
Within the first two minutes of Benedetta’s prologue—in which its namesake’s younger incarnation compels a bird to shit in the eye of a potential assailant—it’s clear that Verhoeven is in his comfort zone; if the movie doesn’t necessarily push beyond those confines, it confirms them as a uniquely spacious and fertile patch of cinematic terrain, where provocation and pleasure get intertwined on a molecular level and nearly every line cuts two ways, as a statement of principles and a sick joke.]]> Fri, 03 Dec 2021 17:32:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexYIZrHveBkh-QEmsPXZ5C9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpez4ppZSc8hg41hGNgNo2_0q
Today, water law remains largely unchanged, a residually conservative doctrine that disfigures California’s progressive posturing. It’s all still a dizzying maze of pre- and-post-1914 rights claims, made more dizzying by the steady accumulation of niche contractual obligations, bizarre and dubious exceptions, the overlapping roles of roughly hundreds of county water districts and local agencies, and even the private leasing of rights between landowners.]]> Mon, 22 Nov 2021 20:23:03 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpez4ppZSc8hg41hGNgNo2_0q https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyg4-l_PCLwSWZMehmtHS8-
You begin with a product, any product. I thought of a mousetrap, a microbead, an outdated magazine, a yogurt container, an oil-coated seagull, a condo, a Lego leg, a fingernail clipping, a floundering laywoman with no future plans. Next you ask: where did the materials come from to make it? What did it take to manufacture it? Mining? Milling? Stewing? Melting down? Did you use a conveyor belt? A vat? A smokestack?]]> Fri, 19 Nov 2021 17:24:10 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyg4-l_PCLwSWZMehmtHS8- https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpewvhx-eKQpi3koy9CZgXDJO
My first and most enduring memory of Sylvère Lotringer is of his eyes, a bright, light blue that was like a shade of the absolute. I only ever saw them shining with kindness, amusement, or that “serene irony” Mallarmé writes of in “L’Azur.” Only later, from those who knew and wrote about Sylvère far more […]]]> Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:54:56 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpewvhx-eKQpi3koy9CZgXDJO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezKBisnr9XF_-QEmsPXZ5C9
Bookforum presents the second event in its series “No Wrong Answers” with a conversation between novelist (and n+1 editor and contributor) Elias Rodriques and scholar-author Robin D. G. Kelley. As with every “No Wrong Answers” event, there will be no moderator, no agenda, and no preconceived notions—just the opportunity to watch what happens when two […]]]> Wed, 17 Nov 2021 00:07:32 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezKBisnr9XF_-QEmsPXZ5C9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeylxSKWYjgqJFhGNgNo2_0q
Choose your own birth adventure: either you come out of a dark vagina or an iridescent anus. Taking over for Spinoza, the receding figure who is always with us, Kafka laughs at the childishness of a second creation story. In his work, the animal speaks while the human is, ultimately, struck dumb by anal bureaucracies of his own making. Legal fictions estrange humans from each other and create, in the most sensitive souls, fissures that never heal.]]> Wed, 10 Nov 2021 17:27:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeylxSKWYjgqJFhGNgNo2_0q