Mark Greif (born 1975[1]) is an author, educator and cultural critic.
[2] One of the co-founders of n+1, he is a frequent contributor to the magazine and writes for numerous other publications.
[4] 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.
[5] Greif has served as both an editor and writer for the journal, contributing essays on a wide variety of topics: politics, sociology, Radiohead.
[6] In 2010, he described the journal's mission: “We are creating a long print archive in an era of the short sound bite.”[7] Greif's criticism is marked by a willingness to address pop culture, conservative books, and leftist academic critical theory, and to link these to literature and larger questions of culture.