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August 1, 2016
The Other Woman
Jealousy ushers eros into its own; jealousy makes the invisible visible.
Anger Management
This is part of a series of columns on public philosophy by Agnes Callard; read more here. Racism doesn’t tend to make me angry. You might…
Inexhaustible Precision
This essay appears in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s new collection, In the Land of the Cyclops, translated from Norwegian by Martin Aitken—out now from Archipelago Books.…
Little-known fact: Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize-winning Irish novelist, poet and playwright, was also a prolific standardized-test writer. What follows is a selection of SAT questions from his archive.
If you liked this essay, you’ll love reading The Point in print.