“Just when you’re thinking you’re intellectually alone in the world, something like n+1 falls into your hands,” wrote Jonathan Franzen in The New York Observer, and the description is a pretty accurate one.
n+1 is a twice-yearly print journal devoted to the best writing and thinking of our time. Sounds like a robust claim, but then again, the magazine delivers big-time. Mingling all-star contributors with stellar unknowns, the magazine’s editors combine a sharp sense of humor with bone-crushing smarts and a flair for the unusual. Don’t be fooled by the magazine’s super lo-fi website––they keep it that way on purpose. The magazine itself is a beauty.
Past topics have included the concept of hype, a philosophy of pop music, the internet, hedge funds, neoliberals, dating, Bolaño, and a summer in Uzbekistan. No telling what the future will bring, but it ought to be good. Anyone who thinks that our country is getting dumber should get themselves a subscription, stat, and correct the impression.
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