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“I am not unfamiliar with the reasons it is considered unhealthy to love people who can’t get through a day without getting shitfaced.” nplusonemag.com/issue-15/essay…

worth rereading Tobi Haslett now, when it seems more true than ever. "The rebellion didn't just release a jet of fury but lodged the riot, without apology, in the very rhythm of political life." nplusonemag.com/issue-40/polit…

ICE agents “displayed an exceeding level of stillness and homogeneity in a room with a flow of people from all over the world, who are always in motion, and who mostly looked different from one another.” New: Liv Veazey writes from immigration court. nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

Not doing this as a dunk, but because I think this is a better response. Here's what I said five years ago. People think it's just for kicks. In my experience, a fire in the road might make it impossible for a cop car to run you over. x.com/samth/status/1…

"They were all men and they stuck out because they displayed an exceeding level of stillness and homogeneity in a room with a flow of people from all over the world. . . ." Liv Veazey for n+1: nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

Immigrants are the scapegoats whom Trump has chosen for roundups, but the business of rounding up is itself an all-purpose tool in the assault on law. nplusonemag.com/issue-50/polit…

“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…

“The deportation officer applicant pool was, I felt, shockingly diverse—one might say it looked like America. The whole place looked and felt like America.” nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

"A Border Patrol agent was walking the agency’s emotional support dog," who "elicited coos of sympathy from agents whose job it is to impart unshakeable traumas onto the wretched of the earth." A brutal dispatch by first-time n+1 author Yanis Varoufuckice. nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

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

“The carefreeness of his films flourished not despite but because of a quietly steadfast formal rigor.” Alex Kong on Hiroshi Shimizu: nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

For n+1 I wrote about the films of the great Hiroshi Shimizu, on the occasion of a retrospective at Japan Society Film and Museum of the Moving Image last year—one of the most important NYC film events in a long time

“Fragrances are crucial to Shimizu’s work: moving swiftly through space and barreling through social distinctions, smells insinuate themselves in even more determined ways than the sounds of raucous neighbors or machinery.” nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

“Absent from most of the new TV novels is an older literature’s icy confidence that what we’re reading is independent from — or even superior to — the entertainment business” nplusonemag.com/issue-50/revie…

Back at the ICE booth, a lone protester was at last present, asking a simple question. At the deportation officer recruiting table, he asked, “Have you read Eichmann in Jerusalem?” nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

New Dig! Astra Taylor interviews Ryann Liebenthal, Chenjerai.bsky.social, Mike Pierce on Ryann's book Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis. A deep dive into how we got individualized student debt instead of socialized higher ed for all. Listen! Link below

The speed and thoroughness of Trump’s anti-transgender initiatives, bearing on virtually every aspect of transgender people’s lives, has been both relentless and heartbreaking. nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

“Brian’s genius was bound up in his fixation on these paradoxes: the absence that haunts every presence; the love that’s most vital just before it drains away; pain and beauty too enmeshed to be pulled apart.” New: Charlotte Shane on Brian Wilson. nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

In March, we took a shot at diagnosing this tendency in the DNC and beyond. We venture no sweeping explanation, but do note a self-reinforcing dynamic, stemming from formal party organizations' relative backwater status within modern party networks. nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…