Marco Roth Explained

Marco Roth
Education:	The Dalton School, 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 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

• News: Roth. Marco. I don't want your revolution. London Review of Books. 20 February 2014. 36. 4. 24–25. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20170216215740/https://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n04/marco-roth/i-dont-want-your-revolution. 16 February 2017.
• "Among The Believers" Harper's Magazine. October, 2015.
• "Belgrade: History-of-the-Present" Places Journal, October 2015.
• News: An insular view of the Nobel prize. The Guardian. 8 October 2008 .
• News: A Year in Reading: Marco Roth. December 11, 2009. The Millions .
• Enduring Love. Tablet. July 19, 2007 .
• Book: Roth. Marco. n+1. Wilson. Carl. Let's Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste. 2014. Bloomsbury Academic. New York. 978-1-4411-6677-7. Too Much Sociology. 245–256.

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. Web site: n+1: Marco Roth . Nplusonemag.com . 2010-11-11.
2. News: Among the Believers. Scott. A. o. 2005-09-11. The New York Times. 2017-02-16. 0362-4331.
3. https://observer.com/2012/09/close-reading-marco-roths-memoir-began-as-revenge-but-turned-into-something-far-more-complicated/amp/{{Cite web |title=Bookshelf Columbia College Today |url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/winter12/bookshelf |access-date=2022-06-15 |website=www.college.columbia.edu}}
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5. Web site: Marco Roth. The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. 2010-11-11. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20091207024444/http://www.pcah.us/the-center/grants-awarded/2009-marco-roth. 2009-12-07.
6. Web site: Roger Shattuck Prizes for Criticism: Lila Azam Zanaganeh and Marco Roth. www.centerforfiction.org. 2017-02-16.
7. Web site: Marco Roth. 2017-02-16.
8. Web site: Roth . Marco . January 24, 2024 . Shylock at the U.N. . March 25, 2024 . Tablet Magazine.
9. Web site: Roth . Marco . Fall 2010 Issue - The Credit Crisis and . Dissent Magazine . 2010-11-11 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101122005510/http://dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=3688 . 2010-11-22 .
10. Web site: Marco Roth: The Rise of the Neuronovel . RN Book Show . 3 February 2010 . 2010-11-11.
11. News: Close Reading: Marco Roth's Memoir Began as Revenge, But Turned Into Something Far More Complicated. 2012-09-13. Observer. 2017-02-16. en-US.
12. Web site: n+1's Marco Roth Sells a Memoir to FSG . https://web.archive.org/web/20100530111733/http://www.observer.com/2010/media/n1s-marco-roth-sells-memoir-fsg . dead . 2010-05-30 . The New York Observer . 2010-05-28 . 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).