The Point Podcast

Jan 30 2025 33 ep. 51 mins 52
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The Point is a magazine founded on the suspicion that modern life is worth examining. www.thepointmag.com

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Selected Novels | Lillian Fishman on Edith Wharton

Jan 30 2025 60 mins  
On this episode—our very first!—of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to novelist (and writer of our 2024 advice column, Higher Gossip) Lillian Fishman about Edith Wharton’s novel Age of Innocence. Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the normal rate.

Selected Essays | The n+1 Editors on the Intellectual Situation

Oct 22 2024 52 mins  
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? Subscribe to The Point here at 50% off the normal rate.

Selected Essays | George Scialabba on Michael Walzer

Aug 08 2024 36 mins  
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 here at 50% off the normal rate.

Selected Essays | Emily Ogden on Elizabeth Hardwick

Jul 16 2024 45 mins  
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.Craving more essays? Subscribe to The Point here at 50% off the normal rate.

Selected Essays | Julian Lucas on Jorge Luis Borges

Jun 18 2024 51 mins  
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.Craving more essays? Subscribe to The Point here at 50% off the normal rate.

Selected Essays | Greg Jackson on Hannah Arendt

May 28 2024 45 mins  
On this episode of “Selected Essays,” Jess and Zach talk with Greg Jackson about his essay “Within the Pretense of No Pretense,” published in issue 31 of The Point, and Hannah Arendt’s “Truth and Politics,” first published in 1967 in the New Yorker.Craving more essays? Subscribe to The Point here at 50% off the normal rate.

Selected Essays | Michael Clune on Thomas Nagel

Apr 30 2024 47 mins  
On this episode of “Selected Essays,” Jess and Zach talk with Michael Clune abouthis essay “The Anatomy of Panic,” published in Harper's last May and recently selected for Best American Essays, and Thomas Nagel’s “What Is it Like to Be a Bat?” first published in 1974 in the Philosophical Review.Craving more essays? Subscribe to The Point here and use the coupon code 7

Selected Essays | Jennifer Wilson on Viktor Shklovsky

Apr 09 2024 36 mins  
On this episode of “Selected Essays,” Jess and Zach talk with Jennifer Wilson abouther New York Times Book Review essay, “The Love Letters That Spoke of Everything but Love,” and Viktor Shklovsky’s “Art as Device,” first published in 1917.Craving more essays? Subscribe to The Point here and use the coupon code 7POD50at checkout for 50% off.

Selected Essays | Bonus Episode with Jon Baskin and Rachel Wiseman

Mar 21 2024 52 mins  
On this bonus episode of Selected Essays, Jess and Zach talk to Point editors, Jon Baskin and Rachel Wiseman about two of their favorite essays—Charles Comey's “Against Honeymoons,” and Moeko Fujii’s “Let Them Misunderstand”—and what makes them quintessential Point pieces.

Selected Essays | Apoorva Tadepalli on Maeve Brennan

Mar 19 2024 35 mins  
On this episode of “Selected Essays,” Jess and Zach talk with Apoorva Tadepalli about Maeve Brennan’s “Lost Overtures” and her Electric Lit essay “It’s Okay to Talk to Me When I’m Trying to Read.”