Mars Review of Books Podcast · Mars Review of Books
It takes n + 1 to know one, ft. Marco Roth
·51 min·3 clips
N Plus One began on Mark Reif’s stoop after a frustrating Yale JISO meeting.
As heard by us
A brisk literary argument about names, inheritance, and disagreement.
The episode starts as a loose, brainy debate over names, memory, and the way language reaches for what it describes, then opens out into questions of inheritance, intellectual lineage, and how older literary arguments still press on present politics.
Why you'd press play
For when you want a conversation about names and ideas to turn into a real argument.
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