Review The mag's design is modeled on the Partisan Review, but its attempt to historicize snark is... refreshing. -- Ben Williams, Slate.com, July 27, 2004 To read the contents of the journal...is to realize that the science of the literary brawl has been revivified. -- Joshua Glenn, Boston Globe, July 25, 2004 n+1 is distinguished from academic journals by its readability... [I]t canvasses big ideas while informing a wider public. -- Gary Shapiro, New York Sun, July 26, 2004 Product Description Inaugural issue. Polemics against the New Republic, McSweeney's, and the Weekly Standard. Mark Greif's "Against Exercise" and "Mogadishu, Baghdad, Troy." Keith Gessen's "Eggers, Teen Idol." Benjamin Kunkel's "Horse Mountain." Patrick Giles on James McCourt. And the first and only English-language translation of Vladimir Sorokin's The Norm.

"A collection of essays--historical and personal--about the present and future of American cities Edited by Keith Gessen and Stephen Squibb, City by City is a collection of essays--historical, personal, and somewhere in between--about the present and future of American cities. It sweeps from Gold Rush, Alaska, to Miami, Florida, encompassing cities large and small, growing and failing. These essays look closely at the forces--gentrification, underemployment, politics, culture, and crime--that shape urban life. They also tell the stories of citizens whose fortunes have risen or fallen with those of the cities they call home. A cross between Hunter S. Thompson, Studs Terkel, and the Great Depression-era WPA guides to each state in the Union, City by City carries this project of American storytelling up to the days of our own Great Recession"--