A new installment of @graziemana’s Substack-only column on celebrity and pop culture, on Taylor Swift’s wedding, Lana Del Rey, and two visions of Americana:
American Girls
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In this newly published interview, the late historian Carlo Ginzburg reflects on a lifetime of uncovering forgotten voices, arguing that the best history doesn't confirm what we already believe—it reveals the unexpected humanity hidden in the archives. thepointmag.com/dialogue/sea...
Searching for the Unexpected | The Point Magazine
This interview with Carlo Ginzburg, which we are publishing here for the first time, was conducted a decade ago at the University of Chicago.
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A new Sincerity Files post for our Substack from Jon Baskin, on how we all became Bernhard bros:
How We All became Bernhard Bros
The Sincerity Files #4
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Issue 37—featuring a literature section on dialogic literature, a letter from the editors on AI and radical preservation, essays and criticism ranging from avant-garde art to coed wrestling to microcolleges, and much more—is coming soon. Preview it here:
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The annotated table of contents below offers a sneak peek at what’s in issue 37.
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For Brazil, the disaster of this year’s World Cup—their worst run in 36 years—lies in something deeper than winning or losing, Clement Gelly writes:
Taking a 7-1 | The Point Magazine
When I first moved to Brazil, I was overwhelmed by its vastness and diversity. Brazil is physically larger than the 48 states, and includes German-speaking […]
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New on Forms of Life, Clement Gelly on Brazil in the aftermath of a World Cup disaster:
Taking a 7-1 | The Point Magazine
When I first moved to Brazil, I was overwhelmed by its vastness and diversity. Brazil is physically larger than the 48 states, and includes German-speaking […]
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"[Clare Carlisle's] understanding of transcendence will draw on the ways a biographer sees as well as the ways a philosopher reflects." —Todd Shy reviews Transcendence for Beginners for @thepointmag.bsky.social
The Stretch of a Soul | The Point Magazine
The last thing we should want to do with accounts of mystical or transcendent or contemplative experiences is send them to the taxidermist and mount them for inspection.
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New online, Todd Shy on Clare Carlisle’s union of philosophy and biography in “Transcendence for Beginners”:
The Stretch of a Soul | The Point Magazine
The last thing we should want to do with accounts of mystical or transcendent or contemplative experiences is send them to the taxidermist and mount them for inspection.
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"I find the role of chance in research very interesting. I mean, it is something that is usually concealed, but I think it’s very interesting." thepointmag.com/dialogue/sea...
Searching for the Unexpected | The Point Magazine
This interview with Carlo Ginzburg, which we are publishing here for the first time, was conducted a decade ago at the University of Chicago.
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This is a previously unpublished, decade-old conversation between David Gutherz (with the help of "co-conspirator" Oliver Cussen) and the late Carlo Ginzburg. Below the piece, you'll find a screenshot of Ginzburg's Foucault anecdote, which appears in the text. thepointmag.com/dialogue/sea...
Searching for the Unexpected | The Point Magazine
This interview with Carlo Ginzburg, which we are publishing here for the first time, was conducted a decade ago at the University of Chicago.
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This is a remarkable interview. Anyone curious about the past, and the craft of history, should read it. That historical perspective comes the Christian gaze on the Jew… damn. thepointmag.com/dialogue/sea...
Searching for the Unexpected | The Point Magazine
This interview with Carlo Ginzburg, which we are publishing here for the first time, was conducted a decade ago at the University of Chicago.
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An amazing interview with the late Carlo Ginzburg (via @thepointmag.bsky.social). thepointmag.com/dialogue/sea...
Searching for the Unexpected | The Point Magazine
This interview with Carlo Ginzburg, which we are publishing here for the first time, was conducted a decade ago at the University of Chicago.
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“It almost feels as if we’re inside an AI-generated photo—not just because the surrealism of the weather has compounded that of the event but also because, when it comes down to it, none of this really means anything.” A dispatch from UFC Freedom 250:
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It’s 8:15 p.m. on Friday, June 12th, and we’re at the base of the Lincoln Memorial, a few hundred of us, for the UFC Freedom […]
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New online, a conversation with the late Carlo Ginzburg, conducted a decade ago and published for the first time:
Searching for the Unexpected | The Point Magazine
This interview with Carlo Ginzburg, which we are publishing here for the first time, was conducted a decade ago at the University of Chicago.
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Read what I thought to be a very neat essay about the art of Ljubodrag Andric's photography, analyzing it through the lens of 'art without markers' such as the literature of Nirmal Verma. thepointmag.com/criticism/th...
The Work Without Markers | The Point Magazine
In the late 1990s, I read a short story by Nirmal Verma called “Terminal.”
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“It is interesting how an aberrant harshness often coexists with a rhetorical or official commitment to a special care and gentleness in dealings with children.”
Wiseman’s Children | The Point Magazine
The first Frederick Wiseman film I saw, and the one that remains my favorite so far (Wiseman made a lot of films, and I have yet to see more than a fraction of them), was his seventh: Juvenile Court.
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Top docs of the 21st century @documentary.org, Raoul Peck @hammerandhope.bsky.social, Maya Cade (@mayascade.bsky.social) @ebertvoices.bsky.social, Jafar Panahi @thepointmag.bsky.social, Screwball Summer @lrb.co.uk … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
“Their point is not really to tell us things about the world so much as to change our ways of seeing it: throwing sudden light; showing up what is beneath the surface as if in an x-ray; making the familiar strange, stupid, often hideous.” Lorna Finlayson on the films of Frederick Wiseman:
Wiseman’s Children | The Point Magazine
The first Frederick Wiseman film I saw, and the one that remains my favorite so far (Wiseman made a lot of films, and I have yet to see more than a fraction of them), was his seventh: Juvenile Court.
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New online, Lorna Finlayson on “Juvenile Court” and why Frederick Wiseman’s harrowing filmmaking is so paradoxically enlivening:
Wiseman’s Children | The Point Magazine
The first Frederick Wiseman film I saw, and the one that remains my favorite so far (Wiseman made a lot of films, and I have yet to see more than a fraction of them), was his seventh: Juvenile Court.
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“It Was Just an Accident” is a departure for Jafar Panahi—a thriller at times reminiscent of Scorsese. But instead of mobsters navigating the violent codes of the underworld, he gives us a cat-and-mouse struggle between former political prisoners and the intelligence apparatus of the state.
Panahi’s Laboratory | The Point Magazine
In Taxi (2015), Jafar Panahi stages a brief but haunting moment that, in retrospect, feels like the seed of his most recent film, It Was Just an Accident(2025).
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New online, Mehrdad Babadi on Jafar Panahi’s uneasy, precise exploration of ethical impasse in “It Was Just an Accident”:
Panahi’s Laboratory | The Point Magazine
In Taxi (2015), Jafar Panahi stages a brief but haunting moment that, in retrospect, feels like the seed of his most recent film, It Was Just an Accident(2025).
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Last chance! Everything in our shop—back issues, books, hats and tote bags—is on sale until midnight tonight. thepointmag.com/shop
Introducing “Just Like Us,” a celebrity and online culture column by Grazie Sophia Christie for our Substack. First up, the Shakespearean twists and turns of Season Ten of Summer House: thepointmag.substack.com/p/vampire-we...
Vampire Weekends
Just Like Us #1
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It’s the final day of our summer sale—shop 50% off back issues, 40% off books by Point editors and contributors, and 30% off merch here: thepointmag.com/shop
“I enjoy watching games with my family so much that I sometimes get depressed even after a win. I feel suddenly adrift, my adrenaline dissipating as I return to my dull life. What is there now, I wonder, to be excited about?” New on Forms of Life, Tim Aubry on family life with the Knicks:
A Part of It | The Point Magazine
After my parents divorced, my dad started his own advertising agency in Manhattan and determined that his efforts to woo clients would be immeasurably enhanced […]
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Now through June 15th: Summer Reading Sale! To celebrate the weather (and clear out our overstock) we’ve put everything in our web shop on sale: back issues and books, as well as seasonally appropriate and rarely discounted merch like totes and hats. thepointmag.com/shop
