Marco Roth

Marco Roth
Born	1974 (age 50–51)
Education	Columbia University Yale University
Occupation	Editor
Known for	Founding 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 began but did not finish 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 lived for many years 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]

Roth was previously married to Emily Wilson. ^[9]

Essays and criticism

His work has appeared in the Dissent, ^[10] New York Times, Harper's, The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement and the Nation. ^[11] His memoir, The Scientists: A Family Romance, about his father's death and "truths and limitations in literature", ^[12] came out in 2012. ^[13]

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.

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.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
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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. Archived from the original on 2013-09-12. 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. "'Highbrow Fight Club'". Observer. 2004-12-20. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
10. Roth, Marco. "Fall 2010 Issue - The Credit Crisis and". Dissent Magazine. Archived from the original on 2010-11-22. Retrieved 2010-11-11.
11. "Marco Roth: The Rise of the Neuronovel". RN Book Show. 3 February 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-11.
12. "Close Reading: Marco Roth's Memoir Began as Revenge, But Turned Into Something Far More Complicated". Observer. 2012-09-13. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
13. "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).