The Stretch of a Soul

The last thing we should want to do with accounts of mystical or transcendent or contemplative experiences is send them to the taxidermist and mount them for inspection. The post The Stretch of a Soul appeared first on The Point Magazine.

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Searching for the Unexpected

This interview with Carlo Ginzburg, which we are publishing here for the first time, was conducted a decade ago at the University of Chicago. The post Searching for the Unexpected appeared first on The Point Magazine.

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Wiseman’s Children

The first Frederick Wiseman film I saw, and the one that remains my favorite so far (Wiseman made a lot of films, and I have […] The post Wiseman’s Children appeared first on The Point Magazine.

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Panahi’s Laboratory

In Taxi (2015), Jafar Panahi stages a brief but haunting moment that, in retrospect, feels like the seed of his most recent film, It Was Just an Accident(2025). The post Panahi’s Laboratory appeared first on The Point Magazine.

Mehrdad Babadi·Jun 16, 2026

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Meaning a Life | The Point Magazine

Along with George’s Selected Letters, Meaning a Life is the only prose account of the Oppens’ composite life as they understood it. Inside that story Mary has nested another—a rare story of imagination, companionship and love becoming mysteriously and beautifully aligned.

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The Group | The Point Magazine

If McCarthy’s critics thought the Vassar girls were pitifully naïve and shallow—about sex as about many other things—they might have recognized that what happens to any of these women cannot ruin the faith they have and the pleasure they take in their own experiences; and in this alone they must have had more to teach us than they were ever given credit for.

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On Integration | The Point Magazine

Not only was Cruse dubious about the plausibility of eradicating prejudice from the souls of whites, but he believed that such a project—inevitably focused on interracial settings and the individuals who inhabit them—was of little concrete use to the largely unintegrated communities that were, and still are, paying the steepest price for the country’s discriminatory history.

Jesse McCarthy, Jon Baskin·Oct 19, 2020·19 min read