n+1, Issue 6: Mainstream (Winter 2008)

n+1, Issue 6: Mainstream (Winter 2008)

Language: English

Pages: 194

ISBN: 2:00244299

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


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n+1 is a New York–based American literary magazine that publishes social criticism, political commentary, essays, art, poetry, book reviews, and short fiction. It is published three times each year, and content is published on its website several times each week. Each print issue averages around 200 pages in length.

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Issue Six - Mainstream, Winter 2008: 194 pgs

The “hype cycle” as the emotional life of capitalism, the death and life of book reviewing. Is global warming a “politics of fear”? Cho Seung-Hui. Gawker. Caleb Crain’s novella, Helen DeWitt’s new novel.

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about the piccalilli?” “Is it the piccalilli is a sign that he’s a queerbait?” “I don’t see how that would follow.” “I give up.” “You just started! Is it the piccalilli . . . ?” “Is it the piccalilli . . . that nobody would really want to eat that if they were hungry.” “No. Okay, the piccalilli I just threw in.” “Is it why would he leave the door unlocked.” “That’s a good question. But no.” “But he left the door unlocked for the killer.” “How would he know there’s a killer around? He just went

“He has exhausted his instructions!” Lady Betsy marveled. “That’s boring. That isn’t how it goes,” Alice interjected. “If you don’t think he’ll repeat his impertinence, I’ll venture to wind him up again,” Sir John offered. “Please do,” Mimsy begged, tearfully, “or the dinner will have been in vain.” Jacob wound up the robot on Sir John’s behalf. “Robot—obtain—supplies.” “That’s precisely why we invited you!” Lady Betsy exclaimed. “Why not dip this walnut into the fondue?” proposed Mimsy.

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even as this kind of book reviewing appears genuinely endangered, the preeminent intellectual publication in the English language continues to be—after nearly fifty years in existence—the New York Review of Books. This is incredible—the thing was practically a lark, launched in 1963 when there were a whole raft of non-review journals (Partisan, Commentary, Dissent, even the early National Review), simply because there was a printer’s strike for newspaper supplements. The NYRB seized the

something outside the literary work and the literary culture that produced it. This—not the status of the outlets for reviews, not their forum in newsprint or online—is what marks a distinction in reviewing. And we can conceive of two groups of literary reviewers who serve the two branches of the reviewing art: ad hoc vitalism, we’ll call it, and programmatic criticism. The first—the ones who want books to bring them into contact with life for the first time, remaining perfectly open to whatever

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