n+1 Issue 35: Savior Complex by n+1

n+1 Issue 35: Savior Complex Reviews

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  Josh Pendergrass

  This issue of n+1 includes a short story called "The Feminist" by Tony Tulathimutte that is absolute fire. Be careful with this one! Powerful, uncanny, and insightful writing that breaks through illusions and brings us closer to the truth of how human beings connect with each other (or not haha) in this age of alienation. (It reminds me in many ways of Cat Person which went viral last year.) You can read the whole story here -
  
  
  https://nplusonemag.com/issue-35/fict...
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  Lucy

  Read "The Feminist" and wow. Wow.
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  Ostrava

  I've only read Tulathimutte's "The Feminist" and that was a LONG time ago. But still, wow is that short story brilliant.
  
  I must assume (as my memory isn't too good) that it was a denouncement of the most liberal and performative femenism that prevails in so many left-circles, though I don't necessarily read it as a complete denouncement either (the main character is unreliable after all). Regardless of what your conclusions on the story were, the characterization and the writing are superb, and the pacing is spectacular.
  
  The progressive movement needs to do something about masculinity because it's losing the battle to the likes of Jordan Peterson. On the one hand, the men's liberation movement has the heart in the right place (and it is true that we need to get rid of gender expectations and so on), but it's clearly not doing enough. On the other hand, the left needs "masculine" role models that talk about issues of masculinity from a leftist and femenist point of view. I'm hopeful though, we'll get there, eventually.
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  SeirenAthena

  “The Feminist” was excellent. Should keep Tony Tulathimutte on my radar for young writers of contemporary lit.
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  Jessenia Class

  read Lorelei Lee’s Cash/Consent
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  el

  The Feminist was physically uncomfortable to read. Alright, then.
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  Harris

  Great issue. The piece on sex work is especially incredible.
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  Jordan

  In the two years worth of issues I've now read, this is the first where my favorite piece has been fiction. Tony Tulathimutte's The Feminist is incredible, manipulative and desperate just like it's protagonist. Agonizing and heartbreaking and horrifying.
  
  Also incredibly strong was Lorelei Lee's essay on the complexities of sex work - how people get into it, how they stay, how they fight for it, why they love it, who supports it and who tries to dismantle it's systems of safety in the name of some kind of "purity" motivated eradication.
  
  I was glad to see Mark Grief's name again but less interested in his take on the Mueller report than his past work.
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  James

  Really enjoyed the nonfiction and editorial content at the beginning. Especially the evangelical mind and, surprisingly, the Muller report.