The Municipal Sublime

September 15, 2026

In a city that treats its architectural highlights—and even some of its mediocrities!—with an ardor that verges on the obsessive, plenty of buildings nonetheless manage to escape collective reverence. A disproportionate number of these buildings happen to belong to the public: community spaces, senior centers, park bathrooms. On Friday, October 16, join n+1 and the Center […]

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The Freedom of the Weasel

Her great themes were timeless, the stuff of the ancients’ ancients: perception, eternity, travel, the problem of evil. She repudiated Aristotle, denied the primordial split between myth and natural philosophy: Anything could, and would, be likened to everything, in the service of the sentence.

Grace GlassSep 22, 2026

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Last Year in End Times Cinema

It’s been nearly a year since n+1 film critic A. S. Hamrah’s book Last Week in End Times Cinema—a study of bad news in the movie industry over the course of 365 days—was published. What’s happened in end times cinema since then? On Thursday, October 1, join us as we investigate. Hamrah will appear in […]

Sep 14, 2026

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The Hi-Neighbor! Mayor

When I first met David Morales it was December 2019, and I was standing in David’s ill-lit bachelor apartment as he announced to a small holiday party full of socialists that he intended to run for state representative. I was skeptical. David was young—only 21 at the time—just recently graduated, and not a native Rhode […]

Dennis M. HoganSep 11, 2026

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Issue 54 Reading and Celebration

Please join n+1 at our office in Greenpoint for reading and drinks in celebration of Issue 54: POWER PLAY! Featuring readings by Walker Caplan, Mark Krotov, Leigh Claire La Berge, Maria Marchinkoski, and Colin Vanderburg. Readings will start at 7, followed by a party, and cheap drinks will be for sale. Entry is free for subscribers […]

Sep 10, 2026

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Laura Kolbe and Patricia Lockwood in conversation

On Saturday, October 10, join us at the n+1 office in Brooklyn for a celebration of two new works of poetry: Laura Kolbe’s The Decadent Movement (out in September from University of Pittsburgh Press) and Patricia Lockwood’s Agate Head/Stone Soup (out in October from Penguin Books). Lockwood and Kolbe will read from and discuss their work, […]

Sep 10, 2026

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Social and Anti-Social Housing

We have public housing, but it has never been as well designed, built, or maintained. We have limited-equity co-ops built by limited-dividend companies, but we built far fewer of them, and we allowed some to go private. We have inclusionary zoning, but whereas their model requires two-thirds of the development to be social housing, ours only demands that one-third be targeted to tenants under a certain household income.

Samuel SteinSep 4, 2026