The Point’s Substack | Substack

What Is Substack For?

A new way to engage with The Point

Dec 5, 2024 • Jon Baskin

The Point’s Book-Gifting Guide for Normies (and Beyond)

Plus our 2023 guide, rescued from the depths of email

Dec 15, 2025 • The Point

Selected Novels | Austyn Wohlers on Clarice Lispector

On this episode of Selected Novels (the last of the season!), Jess and Zach talk to Austyn Wohlers about Clarice Lispector’s Near to the Wild Heart.

Dec 11, 2025 • The Point

37:02

Selected Novels | Maya Binyam on Sam Selvon

On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to Maya Binyam about Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners.

Nov 13, 2025 • The Point

50:52

Knausgaard, Wallace, Dostoevsky

The Sincerity Files #2

Nov 7, 2025 • Jon Baskin

Previews

Explicit Content

A review from issue 35

Aug 22, 2025 • Alex Rollins Berg

Issue 35 Outtake: Sources

A back door into the new issue

Aug 21, 2025 • The Point

A Preview of Issue 35

The annotated TOC for our forthcoming issue

Aug 6, 2025 • The Point

Crushing Banalities

In search of the true internet novel

Jun 12, 2025 • The Point

Dialogues

Is Humanistic Knowledge Useless?

And so what if it is?

Nov 5, 2025 • Jon Baskin and Michael Lipkin

Will We Miss the Ivory Towers When They’re Gone?

A conversation on graduate education and the humanities

Oct 21, 2025 • becca rothfeld and Ben Jeffery

Can the Humanities Be Saved?

A conversation with Jennifer Frey and Anastasia Berg

Oct 15, 2025 • The Point and Interintellect

The Act of a Madman

Two conversations with Yousri Alghoul and Graham Liddell

Sep 11, 2025 • Julia Aizuss

Substack-only

The Point’s Book-Gifting Guide for Normies (and Beyond)

Plus our 2023 guide, rescued from the depths of email

Dec 15, 2025 • The Point

Knausgaard, Wallace, Dostoevsky

The Sincerity Files #2

Nov 7, 2025 • Jon Baskin

Violence and Beauty

How we find our covers, plus a conversation with the issue 35 cover photographer

Aug 19, 2025 • Rachel Wiseman

Bringing up Baby

A reply to Moira Donegan

Apr 29, 2025 • Anastasia Berg

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