Marco Roth

Marco Roth
Born1974 (age 49–50)
EducationThe Dalton School, Columbia University, Yale University
OccupationEditor
Known forFounding n+1 magazine

Marco Roth (born 1974) in New York, New York is a co-founder and former editor of n+1 magazine.[1][2]

Life

Roth is a graduate of The Dalton School, Columbia University, and holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University.[3][4] In 2009, he was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts,[5] and the Roger Shattuck prize for literary criticism in 2011.[6] He lives in Philadelphia.[7]

He resigned from his masthead position at n+1 in response to the publication of what he called "an unapologetic, celebratory account of the pro-Palestinian rallies on Oct. 8" following the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel.[8]

Essays and criticism

His work has appeared in the Dissent,[9] New York Times, Harper's, The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement and the Nation.[10] His memoir, The Scientists: A Family Romance, about his father's death and "truths and limitations in literature",[11] came out in 2012.[12]

Selected works

  • Roth, Marco (20 February 2014). "I don't want your revolution". London Review of Books. Vol. 36, no. 4. pp. 24–25. Archived from the original on 16 February 2017.
  • "Among The Believers" Harper's Magazine. October, 2015.
  • "Belgrade: History-of-the-Present" Places Journal, October 2015.
  • "An insular view of the Nobel prize". The Guardian. 8 October 2008.
  • "A Year in Reading: Marco Roth". The Millions. December 11, 2009.
  • "Enduring Love". Tablet. July 19, 2007.
  • Roth, Marco; n+1 (2014). "Too Much Sociology". In Wilson, Carl (ed.). Let's Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 245–256. ISBN 978-1-4411-6677-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Selected Articles published in n+1
  • "Derrida: An Autothanatography" A memoir/obituary about Roth/Derrida.
  • "I'm with Stupid" - About Michael Moore and our values."
  • "On Torture And Parenting" On the psychology of American torturers and behavioral therapists.
  • "Attack of the Clones" On Houellebecq, Ishiguro, and the idea of the clone in contemporary fiction.
  • "Lower the Voting Age!" Argument to lower the voting age to 16.
  • "Rise of the Neuronovel" Neurology vs. Modernism in Contemporary Fiction.
  • "Throwback Throwdown" On the rhetoric of "sampling" in contemporary writing.
  • "The Information Essay" On the informational sublime in the contemporary essay.
  • "The Drone Philosopher" On Drones and the imagination.

Interviews

  • "Young Critics: Marco Roth". Full Stop. 22 June 2011.
  • "Conversations With Writers Braver Than Me #14." The Rumpus. January 4, 2013.

References

  1. ^ "n+1: Marco Roth". Nplusonemag.com. Retrieved 2010-11-11.
  2. ^ Scott, A. o (2005-09-11). "Among the Believers". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
  3. ^ "Bookshelf | Columbia College Today". www.college.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-15.
  4. ^ "Placement of Yale Comparative Literature PhDs, 1995 to present" (PDF).
  5. ^ "Marco Roth". The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Archived from the original on 2009-12-07. Retrieved 2010-11-11.
  6. ^ "Roger Shattuck Prizes for Criticism: Lila Azam Zanaganeh and Marco Roth". www.centerforfiction.org. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
  7. ^ "Marco Roth". Retrieved 2017-02-16.
  8. ^ Roth, Marco (January 24, 2024). "Shylock at the U.N." Tablet Magazine. Retrieved March 25, 2024.
  9. ^ Roth, Marco. "Fall 2010 Issue - The Credit Crisis and". Dissent Magazine. Archived from the original on 2010-11-22. Retrieved 2010-11-11.
  10. ^ "Marco Roth: The Rise of the Neuronovel". RN Book Show. 3 February 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-11.
  11. ^ "Close Reading: Marco Roth's Memoir Began as Revenge, But Turned Into Something Far More Complicated". Observer. 2012-09-13. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
  12. ^ "n+1's Marco Roth Sells a Memoir to FSG". The New York Observer. 2010-05-28. Archived from the original on 2010-05-30. Retrieved 2010-11-11.

External links

  • "Franz the Obscure" - Kafka: The Decisive Years,' by Reiner Stach Review by Roth in The New York Times, (Published: January 1, 2006).
  • "Shalimar the Clown" Review of Salman Rushdie in Times Literary Supplement.
  • "Marco Roth: The Rise of the Neuronovel", The Book Store, 3 February 2010
  • http://www.npr.org/2012/09/12/161003574/the-scientists-a-fathers-lie-and-a-familys-legacy
  • https://newrepublic.com/article/107405/marco-roth-the-scientists-a-family-romance
  • ‘The Oppermanns’ Brings Us Some Bad News From 1933 Review of Lion Feuchtwanger’s novel in Tablet (Published: June 30, 2022).


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