Mark Greif
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Against Everything and the Arbitrary Nature of Success in Trump’s America
Each essay is animated by the conviction Greif articulates in his preface: that many of the reasons for our most common habits are wrong.
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The Ordinary Extraordinary
In an interview with Mark Greif for Los Angeles Review of Books, Greg Gerke frames Against Everything as an essay collection that faces outward, more political and less personal, despite its origins in rarified academia. Greif cites the influence and…
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The Power of Thought
Over at VICE, Lauren Oyler interviews Mark Greif, author of the recently released Against Everything. Greif trains his keen thinking on current culture, from the almost paradoxical way sanctimony and change seem to go hand in hand of late, to the…
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“A Return to the Pleasures of Critical Discourse”
“Greif turns the quotidian world over like a miniature globe in his hand, scrutinizing it for false messages, bad faith, and the occasional sign of progress,” writes Daphne Merkin, in The New York Times, of n+1 co-founder Mark Greif’s essay collection,…
