Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he’s having a midlife crisis. He lives a dissolute existence in a tiny apartment with three (sometimes four) slacker roommates, holds a mind-numbing job at the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, and has a chronic inability to make up his mind. Encouraged by one of his roommates to try an experimental drug meant to banish indecision, Dwight jumps at the chance (not without some vacillation about the hazards of jumping) and swallows the first fateful pill. And when all at once he is “pfired” by Pfizer and invited to a rendezvous in exotic Ecuador with the girl of his long-ago prep-school dreams, he finds himself on the brink of a new life. The trouble–well, one of the troubles–is that Dwight can’t decide if the pills are working. Deep in the jungles of the Amazon, in the foreign country of a changed outlook, his would-be romantic escape becomes a hilarious journey into unbidden responsibility and unwelcome knowledge–and an unexpected raison d’être.

Indecision

Literature & Fiction

Benjamin Kunkel

Contemporary

Random House]

Humor & Satire

Random House International

Inaugural issue. Polemics against the New Republic, McSweeney's, and the Weekly Standard. Mark Greif's "Against Exercise" and "Mogadishu, Baghdad, Troy." Keith Gessen's "Eggers, Teen Idol." Benjamin Kunkel's "Horse Mountain." Patrick Giles on James McCourt. And the first and only English-language translation of Vladimir Sorokin's The Norm.

n+1, Number One: Negation

MASHA GESSEN

Marco Roth

Mark Greif

Keith Gessen

Sam Lipsyte

Vladimir Sorokin

Dushko Petrovich

Joshua Glenn

n+1 Research

The aftermath of Bush s second election. Theory after the fall. Literary readings: cancel them. Is J. M. Coetzee afraid of life? Elif Batuman brings Isaac Babel s last living relatives to California. George Scialabba massacres Christopher Hitchens.

n+1, No. 2: Happiness

DANIEL SMITH

Elif Batuman

Alexander Kluge

Peter Gizzi

Rachel Sherman

Peter Frankel

Pankaj, Mishra

James Wood's "Apologia Pro Vita Sua"; Andrew Bujalski on the real truth of independent filmmaking; Mark Greif's "Radiohead, Or the Philosophy of Pop"; Benjamin Kunkel's "Or Things I Did Not Do or Say"; Marco Roth's "Torture and Parenting"; Elif Batuman on Franco Moretti; plus Walter Benn Michaels on diversity and the first of the new batch of stories from Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.

n+1, Number Three: Reality Principle

Walter Benn Michaels

Meghan Falvey

J.D. Daniels

Michael T. Klare

James Wood

Siddhartha, Deb

Andrew Bujals

François Cusset

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya

Emily Votruba

Winner of the Utne Reader Independent Press Award for Best Writing 2006. Technological excess, from email to porn to blogs. Basharat Peer sees torture in Kashmir, Eli S. Evans watches television in Los Angeles. A fable by Benjamin Kunkel, fiction about nuclear proliferation, a report on flying cars.

n+1 Issue 5: Decivilizing Process

Nancy Bauer

Daniel Albert

Carla Blumenkranz

Imraan Coovadia

Rebecca Curtis

Eli S. Evans

Basharat Peer

Gemma Sieff

n+1 Foundation

Obama as American Gorbachev; Roberto Bolaño canonized. Interviews with David Harvey and an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager. Molly Young takes adderall, Mark Greif eats locally, A. S. Hamrah sees every Iraq war movie.

n+1 Issue 7: Correction

ROBERTO BOLAÑO

thomas-bernhard

A.S. Hamrah

David Harvey

Wesley Yang

Frederick Seidel

Ceridwen Dovey

DJ/Rupture

Britt Peterson

Molly Young

Featuring analysis of MFA vs. NYC literary cultures, pro-life vs. animal rights politics, the failure of California, the politics of white victimization, American elitism, and how an Indian management guru made his money. Also featuring fiction by Mathias Enard and Sheila Heti and four responses to Jonathan Franzen's Freedom.

n+1 Issue 10: Self-Improvement

NIKIL SAVAL

Sheila Heti

Mathias Énard

Kristen Dombek

Richard Beck

Elizabeth Gumport

Bruce Robbins

Our eleventh issue features an investigation into the cult of Cambridge poet J. H. Prynne, a short history of Argentina, notes on the uprisings in the Middle East and Midwest, and a memoir of two brothers, one of whom went to Afghanistan. It also features debut fiction and a memoir of working with Bourdieu on a "fanzine for sociology."

n+1 Issue 11: Dual Power

Luc Boltanski

Emily Witt

Yelena Akhtiorskaya

Kent Russell

Andrew Jacobs

Megan K. Stack

Nicholas Dames

Amanda Claybaugh

Ken Kalfus

The definitive history of Pitchfork, a report from the Gathering of the Juggalos, Kristin Dombek (author of "The Two Cultures of Life" from Issue 10) on the surprising sweetness of The Book of Mormon, and an excerpt from Helen DeWitt's new novel, Lightning Rods. Plus Mark Greif on Stanley Cavell and Carla Blumenkranz on Gordon Lish and new fiction, poetry, and reviews.

n+1 Issue 12: Conversion Experience

Kristin Dombek

ChaD Harbach

Lawrence Jackson

Helen DeWitt

Gideon Lewis-Kraus

Alexander Borinsky

Yitzhak Laor

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