“The motivating force behind American career fascism would appear to be wanderlust.” New: Yanis Varoufuckice reports from an ICE job fair. nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

“Rhetorically, this was among the less-remarked gifts of this campaign: to see and speak to working people in both the bonds of universality and with the dignity of specificity.”

My survey of a bunch of new novels about TV (and “literary fiction”’s growing financial reliance on adaptation) is unpaywalled. With appearances by Justin Taylor, Danzy Senna, Taffy B-A, some grouchy anti–boob tube quotes from Vineland, others. In newest issue of n+1!

“What he was really interested in, he said, was parlaying his wages as a deportation officer into buying Airbnbs.” nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

Online today: the inimitable Charles Petersen on the embarrassment and the ecstasy of the Tour de France. nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

oh shit....

Lots to love in the new n+1 issue, including this show-stopping short story by the GOAT Elizabeth Schambelan. Really an all-timer, wish it was 600 pages long: nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ficti…

In the new Intellectual Situation, some thoughts on trying to AI-proof reading and writing (Pynchon correct as usual) nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the-i…

Lovely piece by Sam about the late great Michael Hurley (especially his songs about chowing down) nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

This Thursday in Brooklyn: celebrate n+1’s Fall issue with readings and a party! nplusonemag.com/online-only/ev…

Second best novel I’ve read recently about a hapless detective who’s sent to Budapest in pursuit of a missing person and gets sucked into a central European underworld

It's hard to describe this incredible, hilarious piece by Elizabeth Schambelan about living next to unchecked construction in New York, so I'll just say: read it now!! n+1 nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ficti…

Mark Krotov (Mark Krotov) on the Italian children’s author Gianni Rodari and his grammars of fantasy go.nybooks.com/3WrpeKv

From Lisa Borst, on Thomas Pynchon’s novel of international espionage and white-cheddar crime: thebaffler.com/latest/lactose…

Tried to use Shadow Ticket—which I liked a lot—to survey some of my favorite Pynchonian tendencies (hates union-busting, loves movies and conjunctural analysis, etc.) thebaffler.com/latest/lactose…

I am one of the recommenders for n+1 Bookmatch this year and I can't pretend to be cool about it bc this is like my world series, Oscars, etc. Naturally I took the quiz & got an incredible list of books, none of which were my recs. The questions are🔥, they see me, etc.

Surely someone can make this happen

Sincerely so moving to look at our donations spreadsheet during Bookmatch month and see friends, heroes, writers we’ve worked with, etc. supporting n+1. Just a great feeling. If you’ve participated: thank you so much! secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-foun…