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

Mark Greif

Benjamin Kunkel

Keith Gessen

Daniel Albert

Carla Blumenkranz

Joshua Glenn

Imraan Coovadia

Rebecca Curtis

Eli S. Evans

Meghan Falvey

Basharat Peer

Gemma Sieff

Literature & Fiction

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

Elif Batuman

David Harvey

Wesley Yang

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

Marco Roth

NIKIL SAVAL

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

Who was the turn-of-the-century hipster? Who is free enough of the hipster taint to write its history without contempt or nostalgia? Why do we want to declare the neo-hipster moment over, when the hipster's "global brand" has just reached apotheosis? 
 A panel of writers invited the public to join an investigation into the rise and fall of the contemporary hipster. Their debate took place at the New School University in New York City. 
 In addition to the panel transcript, the book includes responses from critics Jennifer Baumgardner, Patrice Evans aka The Assimilated Negro, and Margo Jefferson, as well as essays on douchebags, Hasidism versus hipsters, the Hipster Feminine, and the sneaker shop Alife Rivington.

What Was The Hipster?: A Sociological Investigation

Politics & Social Sciences

Margo Jefferson

Dayna Tortorici

Christian Lorentzen

Jace Clayton

Reid Pillifant

Rob Horning

Jennifer Baumgardner

Patrice Evans

Rob Moor

Christopher Glazek

Anthropology

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

Sheila Heti

Mathias Énard

Kristen Dombek

Richard Beck

Elizabeth Gumport

Bruce Robbins

Siddhartha, Deb

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

Yelena Akhtiorskaya

Kent Russell

Andrew Jacobs

Megan K. Stack

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

The Intellectual Situation is occupied. James Franco prepares, Sotheby's sells out. Are computers stupid? Christopher Glazek: Raze the prisons. Benjamin Kunkel: Buzz.

n+1 Issue 13: Machine Politics

Franco Moretti

Sarah Allison

Ryan Heuser

Matthew Jockers

Michael Witmore

JAMES FRANCO

Alice Gregory

Astra Taylor

David Auerbach

Deenah Volmer

Kirill Medvedev

Burn your degrees! Demand sex class action. Against big babies at home and imbeciles abroad. Yelena Akhtiorskaya panics in a suitcase.

n+1 Issue 14: Awkward Age

Adriana Camarena

Charles Petersen

Moira Weigel

Molly Fischer

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