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Who Needs Fiction After the Internet?

Against the self-reflexive lyricism of much contemporary literature, Natasha Stagg’s writing restores a concrete realism. The post Who Needs Fiction After the Internet? appeared first on The Point...

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Haunted by the Past

This is the second column in a four-part series by Nicholas Whittaker on black horror. The post Haunted by the Past appeared first on The Point Magazine.

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Grand Gestures

This is the fourth installment of Higher Gossip, an advice column on sex and love. The post Grand Gestures appeared first on The Point Magazine.

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Is Philosophy Self-Help?

In the past decade or so, there’s been a flowering of philosophical self-help—books authored by academics but intended to instruct us all. The post Is Philosophy Self-Help? appeared first on The Point...

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How the Story Turns Out

Since 1999, Edwin Frank and a handful of colleagues have published more than five hundred titles noteworthy for their excellence, latitude and cosmopolitanism. The post How the Story Turns Out appeared...

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A Prayer for the Dead

Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon opens with a holy man’s prayer before a burial. The post A Prayer for the Dead appeared first on The Point Magazine.

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The First Enchantment

Ten years ago, Seth and I were college students sitting in the back row of the indie cinema in Columbia, Missouri, waiting to be moved […] The post The First Enchantment appeared first on The Point...

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A Form of Refuge

This is the first installment of “Preserving Gaza,” a series of interviews with Palestinian writers and scholars about particular aspects of Gaza’s history, heritage and cultural life. The post A Form...

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Seductive Delusions

This is the fifth installment of Higher Gossip, an advice column on sex and love. The post Seductive Delusions appeared first on The Point Magazine.

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Can We Ever Trust Ourselves?

I have nothing approaching an answer to your question. I’ve chosen it because it expresses what I consider the foremost problem in my own life. The post Can We Ever Trust Ourselves? appeared first on...

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An Immeasurable Field

Today marks the three hundredth anniversary of Immanuel Kant’s birth. In his honor, we’ve invited some of Kant’s best living readers to write about their […] The post An Immeasurable Field appeared...

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An Enlightened Age

Among American Kant scholars, word on the street was that a drag queen would perform at Kant’s tricentennial birthday celebration. The post An Enlightened Age appeared first on The Point Magazine.

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Like a Dead Man

This is the third column in a four-part series by Nicholas Whittaker on black horror. Read the first two here. In his final masterpiece, The […] The post Like a Dead Man appeared first on The Point...

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Out of the Ordinary

The Vermeer exhibit that took place last year at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam was the largest and most comprehensive ever assembled of the Dutch master. […] The post Out of the Ordinary appeared first...

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Issue 32

The annotated table of contents below offers a sneak peek at what’s in issue 32. The post Issue 32 appeared first on The Point Magazine.

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This Irresistible Revolution

Reading Antón Barba-Kay’s A Web of Our Own Making: The Nature of Digital Formation, one experiences something like Tocqueville’s religious terror at the sight of the digital revolution. The post This...

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Searchers

A while before I saw Joe Rogan do stand-up in Denver, I organized a bachelor party in nearby Boulder. The post Searchers appeared first on The Point Magazine.

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Strength Training

Some time ago, I was in a hotel room, scrolling my phone, and enraged, as usual, at my body. The post Strength Training appeared first on The Point Magazine.

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The Zone of Interest

If somehow you were to wander into a screening of Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest (2023) without knowing what you were getting into, it might take about ten minutes to figure things out. The...

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Battlefield Ecstasies

Is it twisted that her first name means “manhood”? Andrea Dworkin, the legendary feminist, said she believed in men’s “humanity, against all the evidence.” And […] The post Battlefield Ecstasies...

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