“Diary of a Very Bad Year is a rarity: a book on modern finance that’s both extraordinarily thoughtful and enormously entertaining.”
— James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds 
“A great read. . . . HFM offers a brilliant financial professional’s view of the economic situation in real time, from September 2007, when problems in financial markets began to surface, until late summer 2009.”
— Booklist 
“n+1 is the rightful heir to Partisan Review and the New York Review of Books. It is rigorous, curious and provocative.” 
— Malcolm Gladwell 
A profoundly candid and captivating account of the economic crisis and subprime mortgage collapse, from an anonymous hedge fund manager, as told to the editors of New York literary magazine n+1.

Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager

Business & Money

Gessen, Keith

Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager

Business Culture

Harper-perennial

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

Benjamin Kunkel

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

RECONSTRUCTION, featuring n+1's symposium on American Literature; Philip Connors on life at the Wall Street Journal; Mark Greif's "Afternoon of the Sex Children"; Benjamin Kunkel's "The Novel"; Keith Gessen's "Money"; Elif Batuman's "Short Story"; Gregoire Bouillier's "The Mystery Guest." Chad Harbach on global warming. n+1, Chad Harbach, Daniel Alarcón, Andrew Ellner, Johannes Türk, Mark Greif, Elif Batuman, Stephen Burt, Caleb Crain, Rodrigo Fresán, Keith Gessen, Vivian Gornick, Gerald Howard, Benjamin Kunkel, Marco Roth, Philip Connors, Meline Toumani, Grégoire Bouillier, Mark Greif, John Haskell, Ilya Kliger, Rebecca Schiff, Misha Hoekstra, Marco Roth, J. D. Daniels

n+1, Number Four: Reconstruction

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

Literature & Fiction

n+1 Foundation

Winner of the Utne Independent Press Award for 'Best Writing,' 2006.

n+1, Number Six: Mainstream

NIKIL SAVAL

Helen DeWitt

Wesley Yang

Kirill Medvedev

Ilya Gridneff

Caleb Crain

Alexandra Heifetz

Gloria Fisk

Alex Gourevitch

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

Frederick Seidel

Ceridwen Dovey

DJ/Rupture

Britt Peterson

Molly Young

Winner of the Utne Reader Independent Press Award for Best Writing, n+1 is a twice-yearly print journal of politics, literature, and culture.

n+1 Issue 8: Recessional

Emily Witt

Juan Villoro

Philip Connors

Nicholas Dames

Katherine Sharpe

Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: the Art of the Art Assignment, is a unique and wide-ranging anthology featuring essays, drawings, and assignments from over 100 contributors including: John Baldessari, William Pope.L, Mira Schor, Rochelle Feinstein, Bob Nickas, Chris Kraus, Liam Gillick, Amy Sillman, James Benning, and Michelle Grabner. Practical and quixotic in equal parts, the art assignment can resemble a riddle as much as a recipe, and often sounds more like a haiku, or even a joke, than a clear directive. From introductory exercises in perspective drawing to graduate-level experiments in societal transformation, the assignment coalesces ideas about what art is, how it should be taught, and what larger purpose it might, or might not, serve. The book is a written record of an evolving oral tradition. Bringing together hundreds of assignments, anti-assignments, and artworks from both teachers and students from a broad range of institutions, Draw It with Your Eyes Closed serves as an archive and an instigation, a teaching tool and a question mark, a critique and a tribute.

Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment

Arts & Photography

Paper Monument

History & Criticism

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