n+1’s 50th issue, HARSH REALM, is out today! Featuring new writing by @sarahlovescali, E. Tammy Kim, @HZeavin, Mark Greif, @andybliu, Iman Mersal, @cgvanderburg, Gillian Linden, @lisa_borst, Gemma Sack, @Richard__Beck, Maureen N. McLane, and @hamrahrama.

For me, watching Hong’s repeated tales most resembles the vagaries of retrospection. Thinking back on a drunken night, sometimes you remember the good; other times, more often, the bad. You wonder what you should have said or done differently.

“Long Island Compromise” illuminates a newish kind of literary territory: the novel that sounds like TV, that was clearly written in order to become TV, that constantly reminds us how great TV is.

Back at the ICE booth, a lone protester was at last present, asking a simple question. At the deportation officer recruiting table, he asked the agent, “Have you read Eichmann in Jerusalem?”

Novels are better than television. For a long time this thesis underwrote nearly all literature that tackled the subject of TV.

RT @lisa_borst: My survey of a bunch of new novels about TV (and “literary fiction”’s growing financial reliance on adaptation) is unpaywal….

“These are texts in which the publishing and entertainment industries jockey for cultural dominance, in which TV is examined from within a form it’s assaulted.” Now out from behind the paywall: n+1 coeditor @lisa_borst on recent fiction about television.

Although RevCom wasn’t the only organization channeling youth antiwar sentiment in the streets, it was one of few, and in any case, it found me first.

RT @CullmanNYPL: "'Why aren't you sleeping, habibi?' I asked him. He said: 'There's a butterfly flying round inside my head and stopping me….

RT @BigMeanInternet: If you want to know about how/why Silicon Valley tech people are obsessed with race and IQ, I really do think PALO ALT….

RT @BigMeanInternet: At the @nplusonemag they're selling WHAT'S LEFT so cheap they're basically distributing it as a charitable endeavor ht….

This weekend, starting now: every book, back issue, tote bag, and copyleft-embracing baseball cap in the n+1 bookstore is on sale.

Of course, there was the man himself: warm and natural, impossible to dislike, a gifted talker equally at ease on-script or off-the-cuff, and with what a friend of mine called a “generational smile.”.

RT @HZeavin: my essay, "Struggle Unity Struggle," about being a teenage maoist, the anti-war movement (such as it was) after 9/11, and comr….

I didn’t mention that I loved my parents, but I did. “Will they have to die,” I asked, “when the revolution comes?” .She looked shocked. “Yes?”

“Who I was becoming was the least of my concerns. We were at war.” Out now from behind the paywall: @HZeavin on life as a tween revolutionary.

“‘Things have never been so bad’—on this, at least, prisoners and guards in the prison where I teach agree.”

With the primary all but won, a longer, fiercer fight begins. The redbaiting caricatures, antisemitism slanders, and Islamophobic threats will intensify. Most chilling has been the anti-immigrant vitriol.

RT @andrewelrod: this piece is so good

RT @leowatkins91: Nice piece about Mamdani’s victory in n+1

RT @BrusselerMel: "The campaign’s climax, for me, came with Zohran’s Whitmanic walk down the length of Manhattan on the Friday night before….