A magazine founded on the suspicion that modern life is worth examining. thepointmag.com https://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mrsqa4eqo22hA new installment of @graziemana’s Substack-only column on celebrity and pop culture, on Taylor Swift’s wedding, Lana Del Rey, and two visions of Americana: https://thepointmag.substack.com/p/american-girls29 Jul 2026 20:10 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrsqa4eqo22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mr63u7osak2rA new Sincerity Files post for our Substack from Jon Baskin, on how we all became Bernhard bros: https://thepointmag.substack.com/p/how-we-all-became-bernhard-bros21 Jul 2026 15:12 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr63u7osak2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mr3lkikqg22xIssue 37—featuring a literature section on dialogic literature, a letter from the editors on AI and radical preservation, essays and criticism ranging from avant-garde art to coed wrestling to microcolleges, and much more—is coming soon. Preview it here: https://thepointmag.com/general/issue-37/20 Jul 2026 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr3lkikqg22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mr3liopfas2xIssue 37: Coming soon. thepointmag.com/subscribe20 Jul 2026 15:14 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr3liopfas2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mqmn567zue2eFor Brazil, the disaster of this year’s World Cup—their worst run in 36 years—lies in something deeper than winning or losing, Clement Gelly writes: https://thepointmag.com/forms-of-life/taking-a-7-1/14 Jul 2026 16:34 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqmn567zue2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mqmk5o3za224New on Forms of Life, Clement Gelly on Brazil in the aftermath of a World Cup disaster: https://thepointmag.com/forms-of-life/taking-a-7-1/14 Jul 2026 15:40 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqmk5o3za224https://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mpoeoyhaic2jNew online, Todd Shy on Clare Carlisle’s union of philosophy and biography in “Transcendence for Beginners”: https://thepointmag.com/criticism/the-stretch-of-a-soul/02 Jul 2026 15:43 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpoeoyhaic2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mphda5hdg22o“It almost feels as if we’re inside an AI-generated photo—not just because the surrealism of the weather has compounded that of the event but also because, when it comes down to it, none of this really means anything.” A dispatch from UFC Freedom 250: https://thepointmag.com/forms-of-life/drain-the-slop/29 Jun 2026 20:28 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mphda5hdg22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mpgkiapwac2eNew online, a conversation with the late Carlo Ginzburg, conducted a decade ago and published for the first time: https://thepointmag.com/dialogue/searching-for-the-unexpected/29 Jun 2026 13:05 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpgkiapwac2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3molnvpbijk2n“It is interesting how an aberrant harshness often coexists with a rhetorical or official commitment to a special care and gentleness in dealings with children.” https://thepointmag.com/criticism/wisemans-children/18 Jun 2026 20:24 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3molnvpbijk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3molbv6yik226“Their point is not really to tell us things about the world so much as to change our ways of seeing it: throwing sudden light; showing up what is beneath the surface as if in an x-ray; making the familiar strange, stupid, often hideous.” Lorna Finlayson on the films of Frederick Wiseman: https://thepointmag.com/criticism/wisemans-children/18 Jun 2026 16:49 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3molbv6yik226https://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mol6dwzvus2dNew online, Lorna Finlayson on “Juvenile Court” and why Frederick Wiseman’s harrowing filmmaking is so paradoxically enlivening: https://thepointmag.com/criticism/wisemans-children/18 Jun 2026 15:46 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mol6dwzvus2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mogazrlimm2v“It Was Just an Accident” is a departure for Jafar Panahi—a thriller at times reminiscent of Scorsese. But instead of mobsters navigating the violent codes of the underworld, he gives us a cat-and-mouse struggle between former political prisoners and the intelligence apparatus of the state. https://thepointmag.com/criticism/panahis-laboratory/16 Jun 2026 16:51 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mogazrlimm2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mog5prmaq22oNew online, Mehrdad Babadi on Jafar Panahi’s uneasy, precise exploration of ethical impasse in “It Was Just an Accident”: https://thepointmag.com/criticism/panahis-laboratory/16 Jun 2026 15:51 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mog5prmaq22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3moemkpupwe2rLast chance! Everything in our shop—back issues, books, hats and tote bags—is on sale until midnight tonight. thepointmag.com/shop16 Jun 2026 01:12 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3moemkpupwe2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3modvmj335k2xIntroducing “Just Like Us,” a celebrity and online culture column by Grazie Sophia Christie for our Substack. First up, the Shakespearean twists and turns of Season Ten of Summer House: https://thepointmag.substack.com/p/vampire-weekends15 Jun 2026 18:21 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3modvmj335k2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3modlljklvk2oIt’s the final day of our summer sale—shop 50% off back issues, 40% off books by Point editors and contributors, and 30% off merch here: thepointmag.com/shop15 Jun 2026 15:21 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3modlljklvk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mo47vllry22b“I enjoy watching games with my family so much that I sometimes get depressed even after a win. I feel suddenly adrift, my adrenaline dissipating as I return to my dull life. What is there now, I wonder, to be excited about?” New on Forms of Life, Tim Aubry on family life with the Knicks: https://thepointmag.com/forms-of-life/a-part-of-it/12 Jun 2026 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo47vllry22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mnzpor4fnj2m50% off back issues, 40% off books, 30% off merch! Now through June 15th: thepointmag.com/shop11 Jun 2026 17:08 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnzpor4fnj2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/thepointmag.bsky.social/post/3mnzk3ujook2wNow through June 15th: Summer Reading Sale! To celebrate the weather (and clear out our overstock) we’ve put everything in our web shop on sale: back issues and books, as well as seasonally appropriate and rarely discounted merch like totes and hats. thepointmag.com/shop11 Jun 2026 15:28 +0000at://did:plc:ecttkq54euimyldu4uyd6l2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnzk3ujook2w