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January 24, 2015
Public Affairs
My deepest embarrassment about the whole subway-coffeeshop fantasy stems from the idea that I ever wanted my reading to fulfill someone else’s desire.
Waiting for Fascism
In his first novel, The Spider’s Web, the Austrian writer Joseph Roth portrays Theodor Lohse, an unexceptional young man who returns from the First World…
In Bloom
This is the second in a series of columns on political life by James Duesterberg; read the first here. After weeks of rain and unseasonable…
After a nearly one-year hiatus, the Point release party is back! Please join us on Saturday, January 24th at the Experimental Station in Hyde Park to celebrate issue 9. As usual, we’ll have a DJ, custom-made cocktails, cheap beer—and the usual collection of intellectual yet surprisingly sociable Point readers and writers. More info & RSVP required here.
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