It's No Good
To call Kirill Medvedev a poet is to focus on only one aspect of his work: Medvedev is a committed socialist political activist, essayist, leftist publisher, and literary critic who lives in Moscow and who uses the medium of poetry as his artistic base for a broader discussion of art and politics, and the artist’s place ...
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Latest Review: "It's No Good" by Kirill Medvedev
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Will Evans (aka Bromance Will) on Kirill Medvedev’s It’s No Good, which is translated from the Russian by Keith Gessen, Mark Krotov, Corry Merrill, and Bela Shayevich and published by n+1/Ugly Duckling Presse. By now, most of you know who Bromance Will is, ...
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More on the Occupy Movement [N+1 Podcast]
The other day I discovered the N+1 podcast and expressed a public hope that they would dedicate a whole episode to discussing the Occupy Movement. (Again, for anyone who missed it, you should definitely check this out.) Well, fast forward, like, two days and N+1 has now posted a special Occupy the Studio podcast available ...
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N+1 Podcast
I totally missed the launch of this, but apparently N+1 now has a podcast, the new episode of which is now online. Carla Blumenkranz, n+1 editor and contributor, discusses her piece “Captain Midnight.” This unusual portrait follows a young Gordon Lish in the early ’60s as he searches for new talent and struggles ...
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Silje Bekeng on the Modern Norwegian Novel
Norwegians are said to be born with skis on their feet—ready from birth for a life in harmony with the inhospitable Nordic nature. Maybe my mother was lacking some important vitamin during the pregnancy. No skis accompanied me into this world. Instead of seeking the woods and mountains like a true ...
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New Issue of N+1
Issue 6 of N+1 is now available at—at least according to the descriptions provided in the annotated table of contents—has a few interesting articles. “The Hype Cycle” The problem with hype is that it transforms the use value of a would-be work of art into its exchange value. The important ...
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