The Intellectual Situation: The Best of n+1's Second Decade

ISBN 10: 1953813119 / ISBN 13: 9781953813114

Published by n+1 Books, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Intellectual Situation: The Best of n+1's Second Decade
• Publisher: n+1 Books
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1953813119
• ISBN 13: 9781953813114
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A collection of essays, fiction, and criticism from the second decade of the US’s premier intellectual magazine, edited by Mark Krotov, Nikil Saval, and Dayna Tortorici

n+1 was founded in 2004 as a little magazine with big ambitions that would treat literature, culture, and politics as inextricable concerns. Within a decade, it went from a pipe dream in a Brooklyn apartment to “the bellwether of a new generation of literary intellectuals” (Harper’s Magazine)—an essential publication known for discovering talent and marking the cutting edge of political and cultural discourse. 

Twenty years in, the magazine’s impact on American intellectual life remains undiminished. The Intellectual Situation: The Best of n+1’s Second Decade collects twenty-four era-defining essays, short stories, and reviews published by n+1 between 2014 and 2024. Featuring a murderer’s row of 21st-century writers and thinkers—including Andrea Long Chu, Anna Wiener, Tobi Haslett, Tony Tulathimutte, A. S. Hamrah, Sarah Resnick, Ari M. Brostoff, Elizabeth Schambelan, Jesse McCarthy, Gabriel Winant, Dawn Lundy Martin, and writer-editors Dayna Tortorici, Nikil Saval, Mark Krotov, Lisa Borst, and Nausicaa Renner—The Intellectual Situation is a gateway drug to the vast, heady, and impossibly variegated world of n+1. 

Whether examining the Bernie Sanders campaign or start-up culture, trap music or contemporary sexual politics, the George Floyd protests or the Covid-19 pandemic, the entries in this definitive anthology capture how the US’s premier intellectual magazine met an extraordinary moment in history.

About the Authors

Mark Krotov is co-editor-in-chief of n+1.

Nikil Saval is Pennsylvania state senator. From 2014 to 2019 he was a co-editor-in-chief of n+1. He is the author of Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace (Doubleday, 2014). 

Dayna Tortorici is co-editor-in-chief of n+1. She is consulting editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and a freelance writer, with work appearing in The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, Harper's Magazine, and elsewhere. Her first novel is forthcoming from Riverhead Books.