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What a Piece of Work, by William Deresiewicz

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We've recently updated our website to make signing in easier and more secure Discussed in this essay: The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973, by Mark Greif. Princeton University Press. 448 pages. $29.95. T he journal n+1 began publication in 2004. Its intention was immediately clear: to revive the little magazine as an intellectual presence in American culture. The midcentury stalwarts were long since moribund. Commentary was a right-wing rag. Dissent staggered on in obscurity. When Partisan Review folded its tent the year before, people were surprised to learn it still existed. More recent pretenders, like Lingua Franca, had come and gone. The New York Review of Books, true heir to the literary energies of postwar progressivism, having followed the intelligentsia into the academy, was still immensely worthy but increasingly sclerotic. N+1 was a blast of new blood, smart and clever in every direction. Its editors were young and hungry. Its writing was c

June 2015 Issue [Reviews] What a Piece of Work Adjust Share Mark Greif’s intellectual excavations by William Deresiewicz , Discussed in this essay: The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973, by Mark Greif. Princeton University Press . 448 pages. $29.95. T he journal n+1 began publication in 2004. Its intention was immediately clear: to revive the little magazine as an intellectual presence in American culture. The midcentury stalwarts were long since moribund. Commentary was a right-wing rag. Dissent staggered on in obscurity. When Partisan Review folded its tent

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