Marco Roth

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

Roth is a graduate of The Dalton School and Columbia University. In 2009, he was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and the Roger Shattuck prize for literary criticism in 2011. He lives in Philadelphia.

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

• "I don't Want Your Revolution" London Review of Books. 20 February 2014.
• "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.

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.