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n+1 Issue 50: Harsh Realm
One simple trick for solving climate grief. Field trip horror story. DOGE as management technique. Richard Beck on John Ganz. E. Tammy Kim on midlife as open-faced sandwich.
200 pages
Published May 1, 2025
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63 books138 followersn+1 is a print journal of politics, literature, and culture, published originally twice a year and now three times a year.
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October 7, 2025
This was the first issue of any literary magazine I'd ever read. I largely enjoyed it, though some parts were certainly better than others (in terms of writing, engagement, and effect on me).
Last year, in my freshman year of college, I took a class entitled Literary Theory and Critical Methods. Though well outside my major, I knew I enjoyed reading literature, so a class like that immediately appealed to me. We discussed the history of different movements in literary theory from New Criticism and Structuralism to Deconstruction, Formalism, and beyond, the differences between lowercase- and capital-L-literature, how certain critical arguments fail and succeed, and so on. However, one thing we hadn't really talked about much, except for in a few isolated instances, was where the state of literature is today.
Over the summer, I relearned how to read for fun again, which was something I was not often able to do as a college freshman attempting to find my way around campus. From this, I wanted to keep reading Literature, and I found myself looking for a new lit mag to pick up. In came N+1, and read it I would.
I found some of this issue's works, particularly "Deep State Chainsaw Massacre," "The Fork in the Road," "Struggle Unity Struggle," and "On literary criticism in crisis" to be overall quite good, well-written, and at times even funny. These, in addition to the final letter, aptly titled "Letters: A Letter," from the magazine's editors, gave a new reader such as myself a clear insight into what this magazine is about and more than made up for the relative mediocrity of some of the writing in the middle of the issue. I am looking forward to reading the magazine's next issue, but I do want to read some other books in the meantime before jumping back in.
Last year, in my freshman year of college, I took a class entitled Literary Theory and Critical Methods. Though well outside my major, I knew I enjoyed reading literature, so a class like that immediately appealed to me. We discussed the history of different movements in literary theory from New Criticism and Structuralism to Deconstruction, Formalism, and beyond, the differences between lowercase- and capital-L-literature, how certain critical arguments fail and succeed, and so on. However, one thing we hadn't really talked about much, except for in a few isolated instances, was where the state of literature is today.
Over the summer, I relearned how to read for fun again, which was something I was not often able to do as a college freshman attempting to find my way around campus. From this, I wanted to keep reading Literature, and I found myself looking for a new lit mag to pick up. In came N+1, and read it I would.
I found some of this issue's works, particularly "Deep State Chainsaw Massacre," "The Fork in the Road," "Struggle Unity Struggle," and "On literary criticism in crisis" to be overall quite good, well-written, and at times even funny. These, in addition to the final letter, aptly titled "Letters: A Letter," from the magazine's editors, gave a new reader such as myself a clear insight into what this magazine is about and more than made up for the relative mediocrity of some of the writing in the middle of the issue. I am looking forward to reading the magazine's next issue, but I do want to read some other books in the meantime before jumping back in.
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October 28, 2025This is exactly what I needed right now
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