Mark Greif

Mark Greif is an author, educator and cultural critic. His most recent book is Against Everything. One of the co-founders of n+1, he is a frequent contributor to the magazine and writes for numerous other publications. Greif teaches literature at the New School University in New York City.

Greif 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.

Greif is associate professor of literary studies at The New School in New York City.

In the fall of 2004, along with fellow writers and editors Keith Gessen, Chad Harbach, Benjamin Kunkel, and Marco Roth, Greif launched the literary journal n + 1. Greif has served as both an editor and writer for the journal, contributing essays on a wide variety of topics: politics, sociology, Radiohead. In 2010, he described the journal's mission: “We are creating a long print archive in an era of the short sound bite.”

Greif's 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.

Books

• The Age of the Crisis of Man, 2015
• Against Everything: Essays, 2016

Articles in n+1

• Against Exercise, Fall 2004.
• Mogadishu, Baghdad, Troy, Fall 2004.
• The Concept of Experiences, 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 November 2006
• "Notes From An Occupation" (the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators), with Astra Taylor, Fall, 2011

Reviews

• On Giorgio Agamben: Apocalypse Deferred, Spring 2005.
• On Reality TV, Fall 2005.
• "The Hipster in the Mirror", New York Times, November 12, 2010.

Web

• "The Tattoo"

• http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/188120/mark-greif-adam-kirsch