Marco Roth (born 1974) in New York, New York is a co-founder and former editor of n+1 magazine.

Life

Roth is a graduate of The Dalton School, Columbia University, and began but did not finish a PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University. In 2009, he was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and the Roger Shattuck prize for literary criticism in 2011. He lives in Philadelphia. He resigned from his masthead position at n+1 in response to the publication of what he called "an unapologetic, celebratory account of the pro-Palestinian rallies on Oct. 8" following the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel.

Essays and criticism

His work has appeared in the Dissent, New York Times, Harper's, The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement and the Nation. His memoir, The Scientists: A Family Romance, about his father's death and "truths and limitations in literature", came out in 2012.

Selected works

Interviews