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The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social · 5d

New on Forms of Life, Jennie Lightweis-Goff on Charlie Kirk, William Buckley, and what happens when campus culture wars hit Southern universities:

God and Man in Orem | The Point Magazine

I grew up a townie near Clemson University, so when campus hits the headlines, I react rather like a San Francisco native to the sight […]

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The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social · 6d

On today’s episode of Selected Novels, Zach Fine and Jess Swoboda talk to Eliza Barry Callahan about Fleur Jaeggy’s “Sweet Days of Discipline”:

Selected Novels | Eliza Barry Callahan on Fleur Jaeggy

Listen now | On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to Eliza Barry Callahan about Fleur Jaeggy’s Sweet Days of Discipline.

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The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social · 13d

New on Forms of Life, Clement Gelly on Bolsonaro’s conviction, Trump’s authoritarianism, and what it’s like to keep up with U.S. news through a Brazilian lens:

Reality Check | The Point Magazine

“It seemed like an off-season Carnaval,” the newscaster narrates for Brazil’s UOL News, over scenes of a street party with dancing, trumpets and drums. “But […]

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The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social · 14d

New online, @perioikos.bsky.social on Greg Grandin’s “America, América” and the difference between a moral and a moralizing history:

The Moral Hemisphere | The Point Magazine

A strange fact about the United States of America is that its name is not very specific.

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Adrienne Celt @celtadri.bsky.social · 15d

On absorption vs theatricality - an interesting read thepointmag.com/criticism/a-...

A Different Annihilation | The Point Magazine

The first novel I read by Michel Houellebecq was Elementary Particles, probably in 1999. I read it in German translation, toward the end of a year […]

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Dan Silver @dsilver432.bsky.social · 16d

Psyched and grateful that @thepointmag.bsky.social published my essay on reading Houellebecq through the lens of theatricality and absorption from Michael Fried.
Check it out there thepointmag.com/criticism/a-...

A Different Annihilation | The Point Magazine

The first novel I read by Michel Houellebecq was Elementary Particles, probably in 1999. I read it in German translation, toward the end of a year […]

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The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social · 16d

How does Houellebecq achieve his remarkable thriller/anti-thriller effect in his most recent novel, “Annihilation”? The art historian Michael Fried’s writing on absorption and theatricality holds the key, Daniel Silver writes:

A Different Annihilation | The Point Magazine

The first novel I read by Michel Houellebecq was Elementary Particles, probably in 1999. I read it in German translation, toward the end of a year […]

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The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social · 17d

New on Forms of Life, Oliver Eagan on Charlie Kirk and what it will take to respond to “post-political” acts of violence:

Live Leak | The Point Magazine

Ten days ago, my roommate flagged me down and showed me a portrait-mode video of somebody assassinating the conservative influencer Charlie Kirk. Kirk was only […]

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John Paul Stadler @johnpaulstadler.bsky.social · 19d

In other news, this critical essay on "Zone of Interest" by @garthgreenwell.bsky.social is both beautiful and provocative. Doing some lesson prep for my screening of ZoI next week and happened upon it. thepointmag.com/criticism/th...

The Zone of Interest | The Point Magazine

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.

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The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social · 19d

New on Forms of Life, Becky Zhang on her late-breaking summer fling: New York’s public swimming pools.

Among the Hamilton Fish | The Point Magazine

Two summers ago, two colleagues and I tried to spend our lunch break in what we’d noticed was a miniature wading pool about ten minutes […]

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The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social · 27d

Read the original story here:

A Letter to Vania | The Point Magazine

I’m still breathing, I’ll tell her, and so are those around me.

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The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social · 27d

New on our Substack, two interviews with Graham Liddell and Yousri Alghoul about Liddell’s translation of Alghoul’s issue 35 story “A Letter to Vania,” how their collaboration came out, and why writing is an act of madness:

The Act of a Madman

Two conversations with Yousri Alghoul and Graham Liddell

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León Castellanos-Jankiewicz @leoncastjan.bsky.social · Sep 7

From vicarious wars to remote wars -- to democratizing war? Great essay by David Bromwich via @thepointmag.bsky.social: thepointmag.com/politics/the...

The War Habit | The Point Magazine

On any given day for the past quarter of a century, the United States was probably dropping bombs on a country somewhere.

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The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social · Sep 8

New on Forms of Life, Maria Gomberg on why exhaustively AI-proofed syllabi won’t solve the problem of AI use in college classes:

Edu Ex Machina | The Point Magazine

This spring, I took a class on the history of AI. I chose it not so much for its subject matter but for one of […]

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The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social · Sep 5

Midwestern readers, take note: we’ll be at our local book fair, Chicago’s Printers Row Lit Fest, all weekend, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Find us at the Small Press Tent (Booth GG)! Details here:

Printers Row Lit Fest

The 40th Annual Printers Row Lit Fest, the largest free outdoor literary event in the Midwest, returns to Printers Row on September 6-7, 2025.

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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · Sep 4

If you like extremely overlooked works of mid century literature and podcasts oh boy have I got a link for you—

The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social · Sep 4

On today’s new episode of Selected Novels, Zach Fine and Jess Swoboda talk to @catherinelacey.bsky.social about Evan S. Connell’s “Mrs. Bridge”—at once a comic satire and a tender, sympathetic treatment of the mid-century American housewife, written in a style all its own.

Selected Novels | Catherine Lacey on Evan S. Connell - The Point Podcast

On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to Catherine Lacey about Evan S. Connell’s Mrs. Bridge.Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the normal rate.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thought I'd share this on David Brion Davis, the historian of slavery and abolition, whose life's work was shaped by his experience as a US military policeman in occupied post-war Germany. Seems pertinent in many ways right now.

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The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social · Sep 4

On today’s new episode of Selected Novels, Zach Fine and Jess Swoboda talk to @catherinelacey.bsky.social about Evan S. Connell’s “Mrs. Bridge”—at once a comic satire and a tender, sympathetic treatment of the mid-century American housewife, written in a style all its own.

Selected Novels | Catherine Lacey on Evan S. Connell - The Point Podcast

On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to Catherine Lacey about Evan S. Connell’s Mrs. Bridge.Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the normal rate.

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The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social · Sep 3

Two weeks from now we’re throwing an issue 35 release party in New York! Details + RSVP here:

Issue 35 Release Party | The Point Magazine

Join us on September 17th in New York City to celebrate the release of our special new issue on violence! Come hang out, have a […]

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The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social · Sep 3

New on Forms of Life, Joey Keegin on the Hurricane Katrina recovery effort and what New Orleans has to show for it, twenty years later:

A Streetcar Named Disaster | The Point Magazine

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Plaquemines Parish near the mouth of the Mississippi and proceeded to devastate the landscape: upwards of […]

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The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social · Aug 29

New online, Steve Larkin on the agony and the ecstasy of college football:

Begin the World Over Again | The Point Magazine

I was once told that I was in an abusive relationship with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team. It is true that they have […]

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · Aug 23

Mary Gaitskill is one of the few writers who effectively interrogates the nature of evil and the uglier sides of our internal lives.

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