Mark Krotov

New York

Publisher and Co-Editor at n+1 Magazine

coeditor/publisher, @nplusonemag. krotov at nplusonemag dot com.

Featured in: Favicon

nplusonemag.com Favicon

newrepublic.com Favicon

lithub.com Favicon

jewishcurrents.org Favicon

truthdig.com Favicon

internazionale.it Favicon

yahoo.com

newyorker.com Favicon

rferl.org

nyra.nyc

Articles

DOGE Nation | Online Only | n+1 | Mark Krotov

2 months ago | nplusonemag.com | Mark Krotov

In the aftermath of this fall’s presidential election, some commentators argued that for a critical constituency of Trump voters, the second “A” in “MAGA” had referred to Trump’s first term. If, during the 2016 campaign, “Again” had evoked—however hazily—a midcentury idyll of professional stability and aggressively policed racial and gender hierarchies, in 2024 the gesture had become recursive: vote me back in for more of the same. RETVRN . . . to that? It was hard to figure.
Triumph of the Worst | Mark Krotov

Dec 16, 2024 | nplusonemag.com | Mark Krotov

Dushko Petrovich Córdova, Trump on My Phone. 2024, acrylic on glass. 12 × 26". Photo by Assaf Evron. Courtesy of the artist. The Friday after the election, I spoke on the phone with a friend from Europe while wandering around the riverfront park near the n+1 office. My friend informed me that he would soon be sending me an election rant. Within minutes the email appeared, subject line “rant.” “How come you didn’t see what was so obvious?” he wrote.
How R.E.M. Created Alternative Music

Nov 13, 2024 | newyorker.com | Mark Krotov

Three-quarters of the way through Richard Linklater’s 1990 film “Slacker,” an accomplice to a botched robbery strolls past a concrete lot covered in AstroTurf, on top of which a sculptor is setting up an installation: twenty-eight clay teacups arranged in a circle, symbolizing her menstrual cycle.
Milestones | Online Only | n+1 | Mark Krotov

Nov 6, 2024 | nplusonemag.com | Mark Krotov

In the final weeks of the campaign it was hard not to interpret the images of Donald Trump’s turgid, endless rallies as proof of collective exhaustion on the part of his party.
Is the Nobel Prize in Literature Great Again?

Oct 10, 2024 | newrepublic.com | Mark Krotov
Is the Nobel Prize in Literature Great Again?

Oct 10, 2024 | yahoo.com | Mark Krotov |Alex Shephard

For the second time in a decade, the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature is a challenging, self-obsessed singer-songwriter from the Midwest. Congratulations to Bon Iver!Apologies, we’re getting reports that the winner is not Bon Iver, but rather the South Korean novelist Han Kang.
The Week's Best: 10 Stories And Videos You Shouldn't Miss

Sep 27, 2024 | rferl.org | Mark Krotov |Miloš Katić |Maja Zivanovic |Frud Bezhan

We know you're busy and probably don't have the time to read all of our coverage each and every day. That's why we've put together The Week's Best. Here are some of the highlights produced in English by RFE/RL's vast team of correspondents, multimedia editors, and visual journalists over the past seven days. As the story of a comic becoming president and wartime leader has been told again and again, little room remained for his former troupe.
Auto Show Dispatch | Mark Krotov

Aug 22, 2024 | nplusonemag.com | Mark Krotov

The Buick display at this year’s New York International Auto Show was located in the far back corner of the Javits Center’s third-floor main exhibition hall, the kind of dim and lonely zone where you might stumble upon unused sound equipment from the 2016 Hillary Clinton victory party. What I found instead was a solitary, sickly orange Buick Envista, a crossover SUV presumably named to match its sisters, Encore, Envision, and Enclave.
We Bought the Certain Dog | Mark Krotov

Jun 28, 2024 | nplusonemag.com | Mark Krotov

During the first Trump term I never got too worked up about the Democrats’ weird fondness for blaming everything on Vladimir Putin. The gesture seemed so reflexive, so desperate in its invocation of an outdated cold war anxiety, that my only reaction to Rachel Maddow freaking out about the Steele dossier and dezinformatsiya was pity and bemusement. But in recent months I’ve been feeling less equanimity about vulgar Soviet-Russian analogies.
Il salone delle auto tutte uguali

May 15, 2024 | internazionale.it | Mark Krotov

All’International auto show di New York (Nyias) di quest’anno lo stand della Buick è stato allestito in una zona buia e desolata nell’angolo in fondo alla sala espositiva principale al terzo piano del Jacob Javits center. In mostra c’era un’unica auto, la Buick Envista, un suv crossover.