Mark Greif

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Mark Greif is the co-editor, co-founder, and contributor to the magazine n+1, as well as a frequent contributor to American Prospect and occasional contributor to the London Review of Books.

Greif attended the Commonwealth School in Boston. He received a BA in History and Literature from Harvard in 1997, after which he received a Marshall Scholarship, which he used to study British Literature and 19th and 20th century American Literature at Oxford through 1999. He holds a PhD in American studies from Yale.

His criticism is marked by a willingness to address pop culture, conservative books, leftist academic critical theory, and link these to literature and larger questions of culture.

[edit] Works by Greif

Articles in n+1

• Against Exercise, Fall 2004.
• Mogadishu, Baghdad, Troy, Fall 2004.
• The Concept of Experience, Spring 2005.
• Radiohead, or the Philosophy of Pop, Fall 2005.
• Afternoon of the Sex Children, Winter 2006, reprinted as 'Children of the Revolution', Harpers Magazine January 2007

Reviews

• On Giorgio Agamben: Apocalypse Deferred, Spring 2005.
• On Reality TV, Fall 2005.

Web

• "The Tattoo"

[edit] External links

• n+1 magazine - The magazine that Greif edits and frequently contributes to.
• Articles by Mark Greif from The American Prospect.
• Mark Greif on Hannah Arendt from Dissent, Spring 2004.
• Mark Greif on Michel Houellebecq from Dissent, Fall 2003.
• "Digging for Goldwater" Very short review by Greif, The Village Voice, (April 19th, 2001).
• "Schnitzler on Tap" Very short review by Greif in The Village Voice, (January 30 - February 5, 2002).
• "The Great American Novel" - An audio discussion between Greif, James Wood, and Lydon, in response to The New York Times Book Review solicited top twenty-five best books of the last quarter-century, (May 23, 2006).