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We Were the 99 Percent: The left after Occupy
Our new issue was posted online this week. In the essays section, you will find “We Were the 99 Percent,” by , a look back on Occupy Wall Street, fifteen years on, and its legacy on the American left. We’re publishing an excerpt here on Sub...
American Girls
This is the second installment of “Just Like Us,” a monthly Substack-only column on celebrity and online culture, by . Read the first, on Summer House, here.
We are three weeks past Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s “royal wedding.” T...
How We All Became Bernhard Bros
This post is most profitably read as an addendum to ’s impressively comprehensive report on the influence of the Austrian novelist Thomas Bernhard on contemporary fiction. Although I have not read all of Bernhard’s books or all of the novel...
A Preview of Issue 37
“Language is the house of being,” the philosopher Martin Heidegger wrote in 1946. “In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.” Taken from Heidegger’s “Letter on Humanism,”...
The New Right as Culture
On April 17, 2026, the Parrhesia Program for Public Thought and Discourse at the University of Chicago hosted “Covering the New Right.” This two-panel event, co-hosted by The Point, brought together scholars, journalists and critics to disc...
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Literary critic and litterateur. Self-actualizing subject of very late capitalism. Lives in Portugal.
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Founding editor of The Point
Associate Professor of English/Comp Lit at Rutgers, novelist, translator. Author of Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño (Oxford) and the Spanish-language novel El americano (Chatos Inhumanos)
The Public Culture Project, housed in Harvard’s Division of Arts & Humanities, aims to revivify our shared public life by placing existential, moral and even spiritual questions at the center of our public conversations. Directed by @ianmarcuscorbin
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