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Dayna Tortorici

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co-EIC @nplusonemag, writer

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Dayna Tortorici @dtortorici.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I reviewed Emily Eakin’s “The Frenchmen” — a memoir / intellectual history / group biography of Althusser, Lacan, Foucault, Barthes, Deleuze, Guattari, Derrida, and De Man—for @newyorker.com
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sarah thankam mathews @smathewss.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
newwwwwww ting out <3
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Mychal Denzel Smith @mychaldenzelsmith.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I wrote about America's 250th by way of America's 200th, exploring the ways Richard Pryor and Gil Scott-heron gave voice to some bicentennial dissent Excited to publish this essay with @nplusonemag.com and to have worked on it with the brilliant @dtortorici.bsky.social
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Dayna Tortorici @dtortorici.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The “general response to Midway Blitz [was] an aggrieved, futile attempt to correct someone who has violently misinterpreted reality.” Over and over, Chicagoans pointed “to the normality of life as a defense against the menacing accusations” of ICE and CPB www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/pol...
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ICE in Autumn | Morley Musick
Oscar Martinez’s remarks were emblematic of a more general response to Midway Blitz: an aggrieved, futile attempt to correct someone who has violently misinterpreted reality. Over and over, I heard Ch...
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 11/05/2026
n+1 is looking for an Audience Manager to help us grow our subscriber base! All who love to scheme about ways to keep little magazines alive are encouraged to apply by May 18: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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n+1 Seeks Audience Manager
n+1 is seeking a full-time Audience Manager to work in our Brooklyn office. Compensation will range from $60,000 to $64,000 and includes health and dental insurance. n+1 is a print magazine of literat...
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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This essay by Emily Callaci on the complex history of the Wages for Housework Campaign in @nplusonemag.com is one of the most engaging texts I've read in a long while. Billions must-read. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/ess...
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In the Wages for Housework Archives | Emily Callaci
The feminists got headaches and worked so relentlessly that they forgot to eat. They smoked too much and made half-hearted attempts to quit. They sent each other presents — articles of clothing, a cop...
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Michaële Cutaya @michaelecutaya.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
After a couple of weeks during which the Femonationalist French collective Nemesis has been making headlines, this review by @dtortorici.bsky.social of @reproutopia.bsky.social's new book 'Enemy Femnisms' in the lastest issue of @nplusonemag.com has been very enlightening. now on to the real thing.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
A brilliant analysis of how sanctions have transformed the Iranian government into a Chicago School regime of austerity that benefits those attached to the regime, creates precarious labour, and rolls back all the redistributive and social measures of the past: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
These policies have also reconfigured the state itself. Rather than shrinking, the Iranian state has mutated into an apparatus of authoritarian austerity: fiscally disciplined, physically coercive, and interventionist in the monetary and financial sphere, while retreating from universal welfare and redistribution.3 Social justice is thus reduced to a technical matter of administrative inclusion and exclusion, and society itself appears not as a political subject but as a risk to be managed through “transparency,” persuasion, and policing. The structural reforms pursued by Ali Madani-Zadeh—the current minister of economy, a University of Chicago economics graduate and the latest heir to Chicago-style neoliberalism—are a class project aimed at reproducing the state and its dominant class fractions under crisis, even as they further undermine social reproduction in wartime conditions.
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Sam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
At n+1, Justin Taylor is typically excellent on the oeuvre of Katherine Dunn--which, with the inclusion of some posthumously published work, is much more than that one famous book www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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You Are Who Eats You | Justin Taylor
Dunn was quite possibly the last writer anyone would have expected to resurface, after nearly two decades of silence, with the 1989 bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award.
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 19/01/2026
In 2019, the late Asad Haider wrote about Martin Luther King, Jr. “In the declaration of solidarity across every border, he offered a vision of freedom that extends to all.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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Martin Luther King Jr. and the Meaning of Emancipation
As a theorist of inequality, King is our contemporary. But he was also a philosopher of equality, and thus of emancipation. At the core of his thought one finds the political subjectivity that the civ...
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
"What are the red flags of enemy feminism? For starters, fear: an emphasis on danger over pleasure; a preoccupation with purity; technophobia; congealed opinion; resistance to surprise or novelty; and the desire for strong borders.... But by far the most common feature of enemy feminism is racism."
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Literally the dream review - not only does Dayna *get it*, she illuminates the stakes of what I was trying to do in ways I needed to have explained back to me / didn't totally grasp or know how to articulate. I'm so thrilled I could die
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Dayna Tortorici @dtortorici.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I wrote about @reproutopia.bsky.social's excellent book "Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" for the new @nplusonemag.com
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Alyson K. Spurgas @alysonkspurgas.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Congratulations to Laurie Bertram Roberts, our 2025 Ann Snitow Prize winner! If you are interested in learning more about Roberts' work and the award, join us at the online awards ceremony on Tues Dec 9 at 6pm! annsnitowprize.com
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Announcing the winner of the 2025 Ann Snitow Prize: Laurie Bertram Roberts - The Ann Snitow Prize
New York – November 27, 2025 The Organizing Committee of the Ann Snitow Prize is thrilled to name Laurie Bertram Roberts its sixth annual honoree. The $12,000 award recognizes a feminist of outstandin...
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Dayna Tortorici @dtortorici.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Join us at 6 PM EST on Zoom tonight for a conversation with Ann Snitow Prize winner Laurie Bertram Roberts and Debbie Nathan about organizing for reproductive justice in the deep south. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I did this and it's wildly entertaining and yes I bought a book.
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 16/11/2025
We’re already halfway through Bookmatch! Take the quiz before it’s gone. secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 12/11/2025
Parochial when he needed to be, in victory Mamdani was borderless, gesturing to so many of the countries whose emigrants populated New York City. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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Debs, Nehru, Mamdani | J. K. Mehta, José Sanchez, Nikil Saval, Colin Vanderburg
“I am a democratic socialist.” These words were really spoken by an American politician on live TV, just hours after being elected to govern a city with a population greater than that of all but twelv...
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 03/11/2025
🚨 Bookmatch is back! 🚨 From now until December 2, make a donation of any amount to n+1 and we’ll send you the Bookmatch quiz—a personality test that will generate a reading list tailored to your tastes and whims. Try the quiz here: secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The @nplusonemag.com book match quiz is funny--I even cackled--and then the book recommendations included 3 favorites. A good time for a good cause: secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This essay bangs. It gets at a specific problem with how AI is being sold to us--or how the industry is getting us to sell it to ourselves-- that I haven't seen described this clearly anywhere. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
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Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
All the reasons not to give in to generative AI. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
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Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 24/09/2025
“Within the experimental enclosure, you say things you didn’t think you could possibly say. Then you see others see you saying them, and then you do it again.” Now out from behind the paywall: @lilyscherlis.bsky.social on group relations. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...
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Experiences in Groups | Lily Scherlis
The more experienced attendees explain that here, one’s individual experience is seen as a symptom of the group’s dynamics. If someone is physically ill, it is because the system needs to eject someon...
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Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
“We will go on like this for two weeks, some of us losing our minds through sheer proximity to other people. The conversation eventually devolves into a kind of libidinal dodgeball.” @lilyscherlis.bsky.social tries to find out what Bion's group relations has to say about contemporary political life
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Experiences in Groups | Lily Scherlis
The more experienced attendees explain that here, one’s individual experience is seen as a symptom of the group’s dynamics. If someone is physically ill, it is because the system needs to eject someon...
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Jillian Steinhauer @jilnotjill.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Bless the @nplusonemag.com editors for coining the term "a single-use plastic of the mind" to describe AI www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
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Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
This is long, but worth it. Some choice quotes: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the... >>
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Jack @jacknorton.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
thank you @nplusonemag.com for publishing this piece about the infrastructure of deportation in rural Kentucky and beyond www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...
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ICE in Harlan County | Jack Norton and Judah Schept
More and bigger detention infrastructure follows a strict logic of “if you build it, they will fill it.” Larger county jails not only enable the incarceration of more people by local police; they also...
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Wm McKenna @wmmckenna.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
"When we use generative AI, we stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
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Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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Dayna Tortorici @dtortorici.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
AUTHORITY, by the inimitable Andrea Long Chu, is out today from @fsgbooks.bsky.social! shop.nplusonemag.com/products/aut... Livestream tickets are still available for her launch tomorrow with Arielle Angel—(4/9) at The Center for Fiction, 7PM: centerforfiction.org/event/on-ame...
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Authority, by Andrea Long Chu
A bold, provocative collection of essays on one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything?Since her canonical 2017 essay “On Liking Women,”...
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 20/02/2025
Read Tom’s O. Henry–prize winning short story “Inversion of Marcia” on our website, where we’ve taken all his stories out from behind the paywall: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-27/fic...
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Inversion of Marcia | Thomas Bolt
My sister grabbed a sheet, tripped on it, ran out of the room naked. I stepped back, mouth open. Marcia’s bare feet pounded down the hall. A door slammed. Alicia was naked, too, but she didn’t move. “...
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 20/02/2025
In today’s newsletter: a note from n+1 coeditor @dtortorici.bsky.social about our contributor Thomas Bolt, who died last month at age 65.
Dear readers,

On January 21, 2025, n+1 lost a great contributor and friend in Thomas Bolt, who died at the age of 65 after being diagnosed with glioblastoma. Tom published four short stories with n+1: the O. Henry Award–winning “Inversion of Marcia” (2017), “Insurance” (2017), “Estación Origen MADRID” (2018), and “Area of Isolation” (2023). We’ve unpaywalled them all so that more readers can enjoy the exceptional richness and warm, playful intelligence of his writing, and to honor the life of a talent cut off too soon.

Tom was a poet as well as a fiction writer, and he brought a poet’s attention to his stories. He was sensitive to rhythm, and to what a choice of punctuation said about the quality of a thought. Regarding a copyediting query about a misstated quotation in “Inversion of Marcia,” he wrote, “Giving Milt the correct Marlowe quotation is fine (though my variant was intentional), since he has just told a story about Greco di Tufo that traces back no further than a 1950s potboiler novel. Milt is reliable and consistent only in his self-indulgence.” The response is classic Tom: the gameliness (fine to change); the suggestion of deeper esoteric knowledge (the 1950s potboiler novel); the investment in his characters (Milt is as real as you or me). It captures that disposition as a writer—deliberate but open, never prickly or obstinate—that made him so wonderful to work with.My favorite of Tom’s creations is Mary, the 15-year-old protagonist of “Inversion of Marcia” whose near-twin Marcia has abandoned her for the more alluring Alicia, a college-age girl her parents have brought along as a babysitter on their family trip to Italy. Mary’s observations are delivered with a teenager’s slouching exaggeration (she describes Alicia as “taking about four years to slide her leg off the bench” at breakfast), but contain some of Tom’s own perspicacity and sensitivity to history and beauty. Passing an afternoon in Naples, Mary thinks critically about whether the modelesque pose Alicia assumes in public, with her wrists on her hips and her hands open, is an affectation or inborn awkwardness. “Amazing, though, to see the palm trees near the ancient columns,” she pivots. “Pretty obvious where the whole idea for columns had come from, right down to the leafy decorations on top.”

I loved working with Tom on these stories, and it’s an honor to share them again, even under these mournful circumstances. I hope you find as much resonance in them as I do. 

In loving memory,
Dayna Tortorici
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Dayna Tortorici @dtortorici.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Tonight at the 92nd street Y I'll be moderating a conversation about Alba de Céspedes and her debut novel "There's No Looking Back" newly translated into English by Ann Goldstein, with Goldstein, Judith Thurman, and Joanna Biggs! Tickets here: www.92ny.org/event/on-alb...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/02/2025
honestly think some of the hesitation here is that no one wants to sound like a crank. i was talking at an event last night and even i felt like a crank while i was speaking!
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/02/2025
According to a senior CDC official, some of the pages that were removed on Friday have been reinstated due to backlash from the scientific community and the public. Keep speaking up, it matters!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
When I wrote this 11 days ago, I genuinely did not think they would move this quickly or aggressively, but what we are witnessing is very much state capture donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-dange...
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DOGE: Dangerous Oligarchs Grab Everything
What Marc Andreessen revealed about the tech-industrial complex
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Twitter was a social media website employing 7500 people. The federal government employees ~3 million people and touches every part of your day—roads, planes, schools, healthcare, food safety, Social Security and on and on. We’re going to learn the hard way that we’ve been taking it for granted
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
How can anyone in their right mind ignore this letter from Caroline Kennedy about her cousin, RFK Jr.?
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 24/01/2025
New online: Saree Makdisi on the ceasefire in Gaza. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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They Make a Wasteland and Call It Peace | Saree Makdisi
The Roman historian Tacitus once chronicled the last speech of Calgacus, a Caledonian chieftain rousing his troops to resist the foreign invaders of their land. “To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they g...
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Li Lai • Mediaversity is @VIFFest26 @mediaversityreviews.com · 06/01/2025
"Blockbuster punished customers for being forgetful; Netflix rewarded them for being mindless." - Will Tavlin via @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...
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Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...
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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
The @nplusonemag.com essay on the enshittification of Netflix is excellent, but for a palate-cleanser, also check out this smart essay on Radu Jude, whose brilliant & crazy films are the antithesis of the TNM (Typical Netflix Movie)
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Dayna Tortorici @dtortorici.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I interviewed Jordan Thomas, a former wildland firefighter and cultural anthropologist who researches Indigenous burning practices, to understand why megafires in California burn the way they do. A helpful and ultimately hopeful conversation: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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Fire-evolved | Dayna Tortorici and Jordan Thomas
The job parameters for wildland firefighters haven’t changed significantly since the 1980s. What has changed significantly since the ’80s is the climate. So essentially, they’re working with the job e...
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