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August 1, 2016
Transfixing
I had gone to volunteer at the gay history archive in Cologne because I was going insane.
Reciprocal Otherness
If we take a look at Simone de Beauvoir’s writing in the 1940s, we will find a series of different notions of otherness, enabling us…
Pathetic Fallacy
On being Barbie
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.