Cover of Spring 2026 issue of n+1
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n+1 Issue 53: EXCURSIONS is almost here! Featuring Will Tavlin at Sundance, Mina Tavakoli at sea, Grace Glass in Alaska, Morley Musick in ICE-raided Chicago, Nicholas Dames on William Gass, Dennis M. Hogan on Greg Grandin—and much more. Subscribe by May 4 to read it in print.
I have a piece in the new issue of @newrepublic.com about the Netflix Warners merger newrepublic.com/article/2058...
I have a piece in the new issue of @newrepublic.com about the Netflix Warners merger newrepublic.com/article/2058...
Reminder that Penske Media employees are obligated to post about the Golden Globes. You’re not.
Who is Mubi for? The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following, writes Will Tavlin. Then it started to expand.
"The team behind No Other Land was in the middle of negotiations with Mubi for a streaming deal that would have helped support the residents of Masafer Yatta when the Sequoia news dropped. “We were surprised and heartbroken,” Abraham told me. The deal fell apart."
www.vulture.com/article/mubi...
I have a new piece in the latest @nymag.com about the crisis at Mubi www.vulture.com/article/mubi...
Gaza has shown governments around the world just how much they can get away with when it comes to silencing the press,” Atossa Araxia Abrahamian writes for CJR’s Journalism 2050 Issue. Will other countries follow suit? www.cjr.org/feature/reci...
a good, smart piece on Netflix www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...
Online at @nybooks.com, the introduction to my new book, Algorithm of the Night. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
I recommended some books for this year's bookmatch. Take the quiz already
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities? Yes—and every student gets a personal chatbot. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
“The retired general [said] more than 10% of Gaza’s 2.2 million population had been killed or injured – “more than 200,000 people”. That estimate is…close to the current figures provided by Gaza’s health ministry, which Israeli officials have frequently dismissed as Hamas propaganda.”
For the past year, journalists at CBS News have been up against extraordinary pressure. The network reached a tipping point. Read the report by Adam Piore. www.cjr.org/feature/cbs-...
“'What if we take seriously the idea that AI assistance can accelerate learning — that students today are arriving at their destinations faster?' Hsu asks. But what if we don’t?"
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
This is the most entertaining thing I’ve read in some time, and extremely insightful about the coroprate bland-ification of American life.
Lisa Borst and I spoke to @hamrahrama.bsky.social about the new Cracker Barrel logo
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
As long as we’re on the subject of Netflix and movies (however reluctantly!) I recommend this piece by @tavlin.bsku.social about why so many Netflix movies suck: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...
Fascinating and depressing article on why almost everything on Netflix is shit
a political consultancy that does what now?
If you're near a landlord, go put your hand in his pocket for no reason
He was detained outside church.
“He was in chains at his feet,” Alondra Sotelo-Garcia told a local news outlet about seeing her father arrested. “Shoelaces were taken off, his belt was off, he didn’t have his ring, he didn’t have his watch. Everything was taken from him.”
A man with a green card said ICE agents arrested him in #Lynn, Mass then took him to a detention facility—but first made a detour to a cemetery, where they took him out of their vehicle and beat him.
#mapoli #Massachusetts
n+1’s 50th issue is out today! Feat. @hzeavin.bsky.social, Andrew Liu, @hamrahrama.bsky.social, @richardbeck.bsky.social, Iman Mersal, @cgvanderburg.bsky.social, Gemma Sack, @sarahlovescali.bsky.social, E. Tammy Kim, Lisa Borst, Gillian Linden, and Maureen McLane. www.nplusonemag.com/magazine/iss...
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
