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The Point is a magazine founded on the suspicion that modern life is worth examining. www.thepointmag.com

  1. 2025-09-04

    Selected Novels | Catherine Lacey on Evan S. Connell

    On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to Catherine Lacey about Evan S. Connell’s Mrs. Bridge. Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the normal rate.

    41 min

  2. 2025-08-07

    Selected Essays | Ellen Wayland-Smith on Siddhartha Mukherjee

    On this episode of the podcast, Jess and Zach return to Selected Essays to talk to Ellen Wayland-Smith about Siddhartha Mukherjee’s “My Father’s Body, at Rest and in Motion,” published in the New Yorker in 2018. Craving more essays? Subscribe to The Point here at 50% off the normal rate.

    36 min

  3. 2025-07-03

    Selected Novels | Bruce Holsinger on Stoner

    On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to the novelist and English professor Bruce Holsinger about John Williams’s Stoner. Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the normal rate.

    43 min

  4. 2025-06-05

    Selected Novels | Joanne McNeil on J.G. Ballard

    On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to the novelist and cultural critic Joanne McNeil about J.G. Ballard’s Concrete Island. Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the normal rate.

    47 min

  5. 2025-05-01

    Selected Novels | Jessi Jezewska Stevens on Thomas Mann

    On the fourth episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to the novelist and short story writer (and Point contributor) Jessi Jezewska Stevens about Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain. Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the normal rate.

    44 min

  6. 2025-03-27

    Selected Novels | Adam Ehrlich Sachs on Gustave Flaubert

    On the third episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to the novelist Adam Ehrlich Sachs about Flaubert’s final, unfinished novel, Bouvard and Pécuchet. Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the normal rate.

    50 min

  7. 2025-02-27

    Selected Novels | Clare Sestanovich on Marilynne Robinson

    On the second episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to Clare Sestanovich, writer and managing editor of the Drift, about Marilynne Robinson’s first novel, Housekeeping. Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the normal rate.

    47 min

  8. 2025-02-14

    The decline of Aaron Rodgers (with Leif Weatherby)

    On this episode of The Point podcast, Zach Fine takes a break from Selected Essays and Selected Novels to discuss another important, if less literary, topic: American football. Zach is joined by Leif Weatherby, the author of an essay just published this week in The Point about the career of Aaron Rodgers against the backdrop of U.S. empire in decline, as well as Point editors James Duesterberg and Julia Aizuss, to discuss this year’s Super Bowl, why Aaron Rodgers (and all quarterbacks) are so weird, and what drives a man into the realm of violence and conspiracy.  Relevant reading: “Permanent Decline: The long, slow end of Aaron Rodgers, the American man, and U.S. empire,” by Leif Weatherby (The Point)“Steroids, Baseball, America,” by Jon Baskin (The Point)“Biggest Losers,” by Jon Baskin (The Point, Forms of Life)

    1h 3m
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  • Years Active
    2017 - 2025
  • Episodes
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