Join McNally Jackson and n+1 to celebrate their new collection, The Intellectual Situation: The Best of n+1’s Second Decade, with speakers Tony Tulathimutte, Andrea Long Chu, Sarah Resnick, Jesse McCarthy, Dayna Tortorici, and Ari M. Brostoff. Cheers to 20 years!

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A collection of essays, fiction, and criticism from the second decade of the US’s premier intellectual magazine, edited by Mark Krotov, Nikil Saval, and Dayna Tortorici

n+1 was founded in 2004 as a little magazine with big ambitions that would treat literature, culture, and politics as inextricable concerns. Within a decade, it went from a pipe dream in a Brooklyn apartment to “the bellwether of a new generation of literary intellectuals” (Harper’s Magazine)—an essential publication known for discovering talent and marking the cutting edge of political and cultural discourse.

Twenty years in, the magazine’s impact on American intellectual life remains undiminished. The Intellectual Situation: The Best of n+1’s Second Decade collects twenty-four era-defining essays, short stories, and reviews published by n+1 between 2014 and 2024. Featuring a murderer’s row of 21st-century writers and thinkers—including Andrea Long Chu, Anna Wiener, Tobi Haslett, Tony Tulathimutte, A. S. Hamrah, Sarah Resnick, Ari M. Brostoff, Elizabeth Schambelan, Jesse McCarthy, Gabriel Winant, Dawn Lundy Martin, and writer-editors Dayna Tortorici, Nikil Saval, Mark Krotov, Lisa Borst, and Nausicaa Renner—The Intellectual Situation is a gateway drug to the vast, heady, and impossibly variegated world of n+1. Whether examining the Bernie Sanders campaign or start-up culture, trap music or contemporary sexual politics, the George Floyd protests or the Covid-19 pandemic, the entries in this definitive anthology capture how the US’s premier intellectual magazine met an extraordinary moment in history.

“The Intellectual Situation contains not just some but much of the best writing and thinking of the past ten years. Everyone must own this collection.” —Malcolm Harris, author of Palo Alto

“n+1 is the smartest and coolest magazine. Every intellectual who cares about situations needs a copy of this book.” —Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot and Either/Or

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Andrea Long Chu is the author of Females and a critic at New York magazine. She received the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism in 2023.

Ari M. Brostoff is the author of Missing Time (n+1 Books) and a member of Writers Against the War on Gaza.

Dayna Tortorici has been co-editor-in-chief of n+1 since 2014.

Jesse McCarthy is a professor of English and African & African American studies at Harvard University. His book Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? won the Whiting Award for Nonfiction in 2022.

Sarah Resnick is a writer living in New York. Her fiction has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and her nonfiction selected for The Best American Essays.

Tony Tulathimutte is the author of Private Citizens and Rejection.

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