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March 6, 2019
4:30 - 6:00
Only Disconnect
Contemporary Turkish literature would look different if authors wrote soulful books like Atay’s.
Surviving the Script
There’s a story I know by heart. It’s a monologue I once performed often, about a woman named Laura.
Get in the Crystal
When I saw the party announcement weeks ago I felt a sinking feeling and simply avoided it. At 10 p.m. on election night, after it…
What are intellectuals for? What do they do? And how do they make a living? Join The Point at the Poynter Institute for a panel that will consider the role of the intellectual in the public sphere.
With panelists from both within and outside of academia, the discussion will not only ask what intellectuals are for, but what bearing that answer might have on the production of ideas at institutions of higher learning like Yale.
With… Natasha Lennard (contributing writer for the Intercept), Jesse McCarthy (editor at The Point and assistant professor of English and African American literature at Harvard) and Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft (author of Thinking in Public). Moderated by Point editor Anastasia Berg.
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