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Harron Walker: Hi, Nan. Let’s begin with your decision, this past November, to pull out of a cover shooting for the New York Times Magazine. On Instagram, you cited the newspaper’s “complicity with Israel” and its anti-Palestinian bias, “how they question the veracity of anything Palestinians say.” What prompted you to make that decision? Nan […]
Join n+1 in our Greenpoint office for a day-long fair of books, magazines, records, art, and many other beautiful objects and holiday gifts, sold by an array of comradely publishers and cultural institutions! Browse offerings from nearly two dozen vendors from noon to 5 PM on Saturday, December 15. We’ll also be selling hot chocolate, […]
All these imaginary plans are premised on an Israeli victory. And what if Israel fails to dislodge Hamas but nevertheless runs out of energy and momentum for its campaign of genocidal violence? What if even the British and American governments feel at some point that the damage being inflicted on Gaza is causing too much harm to their own interests, their own domestic standing? What happens then?
That night alone we lost over 400 people. The rockets that were fired and the bombs that were thrown were strong enough to destroy whole residential buildings. Families were wiped out of existence completely. Every morning we would try to get an internet connection to reach our loved ones and confirm they were alive, and every morning we would get news that we lost one more person. Every day. That is the situation we are living in.
Then she was on the ground, crying. It was the first time she had cried since the day of Peou’s death. Trying desperately to recall some long-lost detail, she felt the gaps of her own memory, the lingering shadows of the past that had stretched into her family’s present, into Cambotown, these shadows she recognized but didn’t quite understand, even as they were beginning to fade, to diminish, along with her memory of Peou herself.
Please join n+1 at our office in Greenpoint for reading and drinks in celebration of Issue 46: AGITATION! Featuring readings by Thomas de Monchaux, Brian Robert Moore, Bela Shayevich, Amna A. Akbar, Joshua Craze, Alan Dean, and Lisa Borst. Entry is free; drinks and copies of the new issue for sale. Friday, November 17 7 PM […]
On Wednesday, November 15, join critics and n+1 contributors Nicholas Dames and Christine Smallwood for a conversation about Dames’s new book, The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century, out this month from Princeton University Press. The book illuminates the ways in which book chapters became a universally recognized component of narrative […]