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...
View ArticleHaunted 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.
View ArticleGrand 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.
View ArticleIs 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleA 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.
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleSeductive 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.
View ArticleCan 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...
View ArticleAn 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...
View ArticleAn 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.
View ArticleLike 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...
View ArticleOut 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...
View ArticleIssue 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.
View ArticleThis 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...
View ArticleSearchers
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.
View ArticleStrength 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.
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleBattlefield 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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