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.

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

• , Spring 2005.

• On Reality TV'', Fall 2005.

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