The Point Podcast
The Point is a magazine founded on the suspicion that modern life is worth examining. www.thepointmag.com
Podcasting since 2017 • 32 episodes
The Point Podcast
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Selected Essays | The n+1 Editors on the Intellectual Situation
On this bonus episode of Selected Essays, Jess and Zach talk to Dayna Tortorici and Mark Krotov about their new anthology of the best of n+1’s second decade, The Intellectual Situation.Craving more essays? Sub...
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Selected Essays | George Scialabba on Michael Walzer
On this episode of Selected Essays, Jess and Zach talk to George Scialabba about Michael Walzer’s "In Defense of Equality," first published in Dissent in 1973.Craving more essays? Subscribe to The Point <...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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Selected Essays | Emily Ogden on Elizabeth Hardwick
On this episode of Selected Essays, Jess and Zach talk to writer and literary critic Emily Ogden about Elizabeth Hardwick’s "Living in Italy: Reflections on Bernard Berenson," first published in Partisan Review in 1960.
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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Selected Essays | Julian Lucas on Jorge Luis Borges
On this episode of Selected Essays, Jess and Zach talk to Julian Lucas about his essay “Welcome to Armageddon,” published in Cabinet in 2017, and Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Enigma of Edward FitzGerald,” which was written in 1951...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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