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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

4 years

some news! I'm thrilled to announce that after a decade in print, @the_point_mag 's first essay collection, “The Opening of the American Mind,” will be published this fall with @UChicagoPress .

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“Not that [Guillory] sees only gloom and doom. He’s encouraged by the growing ranks of younger scholars who straddle the line between academia and journalism, via magazines like the @the_point_mag and @thedrift_mag .”

What Is Literary Criticism For? (Published 2023)

John Guillory’s “Cultural Capital,” published amid the 1990s canon wars, became a classic. In a follow-up, “Professing Criticism,” he takes on his field’s deep funk.

www.nytimes.com

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

3 months

Very excited to finally announce that my and @a_n_a_berg ’s book, “What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice,” has a fetching typographic cover and is coming out with @StMartinsPress on June 11th!

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

5 years

personal milestone: i am *officially* the 49th most literary person in chicago (…actually it's a two-way tie with @BaskinJon )

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

5 years

Buttigieg is aggressively courting an endorsement from @the_point_mag

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

8 months

Issue 31 is a special literature issue, with stories in translation by the remarkable @carmenboullosa (trans. @samanthaschnee ) and @SabineHuynh (trans. @NatashaLehrer ), and original fiction by @ann_manov .

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

8 months

Issue 31: coming soon.

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

1 year

We've only done an editors-only symposium once before. But we felt that beauty deserved it.

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

1 year

Issue 30 | Summer 2023 What is beauty for? Featuring a rare all-editors symposium Coming soon.

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

5 years

what to expect when you're expecting the next issue of @the_point_mag

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

5 years

Issue 20: What are children for? Due September 2019.

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

6 months

two paths for the point: - "a smart, fun and fast-moving way to help you get to the point of what's going on in the world today" - 8,700-word essays on dating problems and/or the end of history through the lens of contemporary art and literature

Jon Baskin

@BaskinJon

6 months

Yes, I am aware that the @nytimes has started an opinion blog called The Point. Yes, it is annoying.

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

5 years

beyond delighted to announce our new issue, which, in a first for @the_point_mag , features fiction (!)

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

5 years

Issue 21 | Winter 2020 Coming soon. “He wanted to look at the bodies, but at the same time he felt disgust and held himself back.”

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

9 months

doing final copyedits on the book with @a_n_a_berg

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

4 years

why do so many of these people have tambourines?

John Nichols

@NicholsUprising

4 years

Sicily has figured out this whole self-isolation thing. #COVID19 #CoronavirusPandemic

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

2 months

“What Are Children For?” is coming out in the UK with @OneworldNews on August 15th. Check out the terrific cover for the UK edition:

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

6 years

we only need 34,104 to get @the_point_mag to 40k. come on guys, let's do it!!!!!

Yascha Mounk

@Yascha_Mounk

6 years

This article attacks me for the rather peculiar crime of having 40,000 followers. The thing is, dear reader, I don't. As it happens, I'm nine followers short. Will you please RT this Tweet, and follow me if you don't already, to prove my critic (or at least his premise) right?

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

4 years

alas I have no such good excuses for keeping this under wraps! I am so incredibly excited to be working on this book with @a_n_a_berg ✨💫

Anastasia Berg

@a_n_a_berg

4 years

A new job, an international move and some nasty morning sickness (😋) kept me from doing this earlier, but @rachelcwiseman and I are thrilled to finally announce that we are writing a book on childbearing ambivalence and how to overcome it!

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

3 years

loved talking with @lithub about @the_point_mag , the essays I keep returning to, and why I'm sort of a crank about takedowns

Literary Hub

@lithub

3 years

Everything you need to know about @the_point_mag , the intellectual magazine that aims to "create a public space for philosophical writing about everyday life and culture."

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

1 year

Issue 29, long just a digital dream, is off to the printers. The issue gives the question concerning technology a long-awaited update, with a symposium that asks, "What is tech for?"

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

1 year

What's coming in issue 29:

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

1 year

a lovely meditation on forgiveness from @ebruenig , from her visit to Chicago last week:

The Limits of Forgiveness | The Point Magazine

This is the text of the inaugural talk given in the Public Thinking Lecture Series, an event series co-sponsored by the Point Program for Public […]

thepointmag.com

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

2 months

“The book is best read, I think, as a corrective to liberal neuroses about having kids, one that feels necessary at a time when the right wants to dictate the terms of the family.” @jaycaspiankang reviews “What Are Children For?” in the @NewYorker (!)

kang

@jaycaspiankang

2 months

Wrote about how liberals talk about children and if there might be a need for progressive family values that aren’t just broad statements of inclusion, apologies for privilege, and endless caveats.

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

2 years

so much to love in this new issue of the magazine—it took a while to get her ready for her big debut but let me tell you it was worth the wait!!

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

2 years

A look inside our new issue:

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

6 years

RIP to philip roth, whose "portnoy's complaint" once inspired a boy in college to ask me out on a date—a thing you should never tell a girl on a date

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

5 years

if you're a journalist in Chicago, I encourage you to check out this paid EIC job with the @SouthSideWeekly , one of the most remarkable and ambitious community papers in the city.

South Side Weekly

@SouthSideWeekly

5 years

We’re hiring! The Weekly is seeking a part-time paid editor-in-chief. This is an opportunity to lead a small, mostly volunteer newsroom dedicated to serving the South Side of Chicago. South Siders, people of color, women, & LGBTQ people encouraged to apply

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

6 years

Kafka on fact-checking in 2019:

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

11 months

we're having a party the week from friday in NYC, and i will be making a rare in-person appearance (as the bouncer). come!

The Point Release Party: Issue 30 - What is beauty for?

A release party for our "What is beauty for?" issue. Meet the editors, talk and hang out. No readings, we promise.

www.eventbrite.com

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

8 years

these are the top @MerriamWebster search terms this week. @the_point_mag #langcrisis

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

4 years

to make your self-isolation a little less solitary & grim, we present the Quarantine Journal—a view into daily life amid the coronavirus crisis, from writers around the world.

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

1 month

For @TheCut , @KJezerMorton on how youth sports have become one of the rare arenas in modern life with readily available forms of structured family time (featuring a nice discussion of my intro essay from “What Are Children For?”).

Why Do Parents Obsess Over Kids’ Athletics?

Being a committed Sports Parent™ is a path toward absolution of any guilt.

www.thecut.com

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

6 years

verily we are the magazine with the fewest writers on twitter. we may even beat out @laphamsquart , and most of their contributors are dead.

Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

6 years

📣 our new issue, with Kira Thurman, Sophie Beck, @frankophilia , Benjamin Ewing, Kaya Naomi Williams, Edyson Julio, Jacob Abolafia, @JFormanJr , @mychalsmith , John J. Lennon, @phil_christman , Reginald Dwayne Betts, Matthew McKnight, Ana Isabel Keilson, Scott Spillman & Aaron Thier

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

5 years

tabling at Brooklyn Book Festival today for @the_point_mag ! we're appositely stationed right across from the bankruptcy court. can't miss us!!

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

3 years

this is really a standout issue: @_ryanruby_ on Peter Weiss & the political novel, @Elizabbarber on hotness, @ininteriority on Stuart Hall, @AgnesCallard on the ideology of the elite, @humeorous on organizing the university, & much more:

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

3 years

It’s orientation time. Issue 25 | What is college for? Coming soon.

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

7 years

Stalin's 8-year-old daughter was, perhaps unsurprisingly, a little bossy: "Order no. 11 to First Secretary Comrade Stalin: I order you to let me go to the movies, and to request 'Chapaev' and some kind of American comedy."

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

5 years

@a_n_a_berg and I wrote about why arguing over the ethics of bringing children into a degenerating world is a dead end:

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

3 years

time for my triannual tweet annotating the annotated table of contents for our new issue—which is at the printer right now! it runneth over with exceptional fiction and writing that I hope you will read and enjoy.

Issue 26 | The Point Magazine

The annotated table of contents below offers a sneak peek at what’s in issue 26. To get the issue delivered straight to your door, subscribe […]

thepointmag.com

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

6 years

📣 our new issue, with Kira Thurman, Sophie Beck, @frankophilia , Benjamin Ewing, Kaya Naomi Williams, Edyson Julio, Jacob Abolafia, @JFormanJr , @mychalsmith , John J. Lennon, @phil_christman , Reginald Dwayne Betts, Matthew McKnight, Ana Isabel Keilson, Scott Spillman & Aaron Thier

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

6 years

Introducing Issue 17: What is prison for? Subscribe today to get it straight from the printer: .

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

5 years

the cure for millennial burnout: servants!

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

5 years

introducing our new socialism issue, a postcard from the end of the end of history

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

5 years

Issue 19: there are alternatives.

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

2 years

not enough love for this extremely dumb graphic i made. (where are all the @the_point_mag / F&F franchise crossover fans...?) please clap... and then subscribe

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

2 years

Today only, 2/22/22, subscriptions are just $22.22—40% off the usual rate. Sign up with the code TWOSDAY:

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

4 years

apex of the "as a scholar of x..." discourse

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

6 years

spent 52 dystopian minutes on the phone today with a facebook rep trying to sort out how small mags can navigate this new policy. she told me that any post with the *word* "political" was automatically flagged as a political ad.

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

5 years

idk… I had a fine time wandering around MLA that one time I went. amazing book deals—$5 for all-you-can-carry from Penguin Classics. 5 stars

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

1 year

chatgpt could never

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

1 year

Coming soon: Issue 29 | What is tech for? 224 pages of non-artificial intelligence.

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

3 years

👀

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

3 years

What you’ll find in issue 25. + subscribe to read it all:

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

1 year

the most genuinely insightful thing I've read on AI—a banger of a public-writing debut from @dadsein :

Intelligent Life | The Point Magazine

What would it be to approach the question “Can machines think?” in a different way? A preview from our forthcoming tech symposium.

thepointmag.com

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

7 years

Saturday morning cardio: breathlessly following the reports of a lost puppy found behind @57thstreetbooks this a.m.

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

6 years

I've never believed more in the importance of @the_point_mag 's work. There are a million worthy causes out there, but please consider supporting this one. (And not just because they employ me, though that's not a bad reason either!)

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

6 years

The Point needs your help to continue to grow. Read our letter from the editors on why we need your support and donate today:

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

5 months

“Writers are not truth-tellers, they are witnesses to the event of their own gift, finally impersonal. Which consumes them. Which may sound romantic. It is, in fact, the least romantic thing in the world.” An interview with Edwin Frank by Scott Sherman:

How the Story Turns Out | The Point Magazine

Since 1999, Edwin Frank and a handful of colleagues have published more than five hundred titles noteworthy for their excellence, latitude and cosmopolitanism.

thepointmag.com

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

5 years

💁‍♀️📣 issue 19: with @JMColony ’s personal history of the DSA (a millennial Marxist epic), @danielleamir on Lorraine Hansberry, @rb8181 on the Book of Amos, Laura Baudot on workplace lit, @martinhaegglund and Robert Pippin on Marx, Hegel and the free life, + way way more !!

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

5 years

Issue 19 (our socialism issue!) is at the printers. Check out the table of contents and subscribe today to get first access:

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

6 years

at long last

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

6 years

What are intellectuals for? The Point weighs in. Coming in April:

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

3 years

. @a_n_a_berg and I wrote about The Lost Daughter, and the myth of the myth of the unnatural mother:

Motherhood and Taboo | The Point Magazine

The Lost Daughter is not only a story about a mother who leaves her children; it’s a story about a mother who leaves her children and returns.

thepointmag.com

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

6 years

my debut in the right-wing press as a moral relativist 🙊

Anastasia Berg

@a_n_a_berg

6 years

“I then asked if The Point thinks that adults having sex with children is wrong. [Wiseman] said, ‘We don’t have a position… sorry, sorry, no…I just don’t have any further comment.’” @spectator getting to the bottom of things with @rachelcwiseman

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

4 years

Whew, this issue! Highlights include: a monumental 76-page oral history of the protests, @jessedmccart and @BaskinJon on Harold Cruse & the possibility of pluralism, @ininteriority on the Cultural Revolution, a whole sex symposium, and the long-awaited return of S. G. Belknap.

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

4 years

Mic check: Issue 23 | Fall 2020 Coming this week.

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

7 years

the origins of totetalitarianism

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

6 years

. @the_point_mag is having a party this Friday in Chicago to celebrate the arrival of summer and issue 16. I'll be reading along with @AndrewK811 & @olliecussen —we'd love to see you there!

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

5 years

important notice about the house style at my grandpa's retirement village

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

7 years

nice

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@pamelaanderson

7 years

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

2 months

this was a good time! listen in tomorrow to find out why the book strikes glee in the hearts of debate bros AND somehow convinced Jay and Tyler to do more chores.

Tyler Austin Harper

@Tyler_A_Harper

2 months

@jaycaspiankang and I had an awesome chat with @rachelcwiseman and @a_n_a_berg about their new book, What Are Children For? We talked about climate anxiety, parental ambivalence, and how novels/TV/film shape our attitudes toward having kids. New episode of @ttsgpod out tomorrow!

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

2 years

i schlepped 4 boxes of issues from chicago and my flight was so turbulent the person sitting next to me made a voice memo to her boyfriend in case we crashed. please subscribe to make it worth it:

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

2 years

We came all the way out to New York for Brooklyn Book Festival only for it to get canceled by Hurricane Ian. But the BKBF sale goes on! Subscribe with the code BKBF22 today for 50% off a year of The Point. #climatechangeadaptation

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

5 years

lol

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

6 years

[cue opening theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey 🎶🐒🔨🌑👶]

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

6 years

Introducing Issue 18: What is the earth for? 🌍 Subscribe today to have the new issue land right on your doorstep: .

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

4 years

today in @nytopinion , @a_n_a_berg writes about deciding to try for a baby, with a little assist from Abbas Kiarostami. ladies—get your man a Criterion subscription!!!

Opinion | Now Is as Good a Time as Any to Start a Family (Published 2020)

On affirming life, in all its uncertainty and suffering.

www.nytimes.com

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

2 years

“I have this master plan to transform academic writing to the point where every article and every book is actually interesting and fun to read.” this interview with @TorilMoi by @JessSwoboda is wise and delightful.

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

3 months

My and @a_n_a_berg ’s book, “What Are Children For?” is coming out next month with @StMartinsPress ! If you're in NYC or Chicago in June, mark your calendar for these launch events—we hope you can join us.

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

4 years

such a beautiful piece by @freganmitts on love and grief—always a “longing for the world as it was before.”

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

5 years

i respect how canada gave up on waging the nyc-vs-montreal bagel wars on earth and just decided to colonize space with them instead. playing the long game

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

5 years

This long essay by @JMColony captures the motives but also the mood behind the socialist reawakening in America like nothing else I've read to date: the hope and anxiety and search for purpose. Maybe the first great millennial Marxist memoir:

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

6 years

umm i got cited in a russian magazine column?

Republic

@Republic_Mag

6 years

Там, где у американца дилемма включаться/отключаться, у нас – 50 оттенков неучастия и внутренней эмиграции. В какой еще культуре встретишь такие тонкие, разработанные практики выживания и сохранения здравого смысла в условиях для этого не приспособленных?

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

7 years

beginning to notice a pattern...

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

2 months

Today is the pub day for my and @a_n_a_berg 's book, "What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice"—a literary, cultural & philosophical investigation of the growing hesitancy about having kids, and whether it's possible to overcome it. Order it here!

What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice a book by Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman

A modern argument, grounded in philosophy and cultural criticism, about childbearing ambivalence and how to overcome it Becoming a parent, once the expected outcome of adulthood, is increasingly...

bookshop.org

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

7 years

sent this off to press last night! really excited to see this in 3-D.

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

7 years

Issue 15 | What is church for? Arriving in mailboxes later this month.

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

5 years

favorite lunch spot downtown, an unassuming Russian bliny place, has been "reconcepted" as corruption-themed restaurant called the DEAD LAWYERS PUB. a little on the nose as historical metaphors go 😕😢

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

7 months

dearest followers: if you've liked reading @the_point_mag this year, please consider giving a little something. we rely on reader support to pay writers and continue to publish in print. every donation really does matter.

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

7 months

We're in the final stretch of our end-of-year fundraising campaign. (We're only $600 away from our goal.) Help us reach it—every bit helps!

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

6 years

On my last read-through, I was struck by how much of issue 18 ( @arabist on the Arab left, @apcbapcb on police torture, @DaeganMiller on ecological connection, @BenWKJ on @wesyang 's essays) is about defying oblivion: how to build a world in the face of defeat. It's almost hopeful.

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

6 years

Issue 18 is nearly here…

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

5 years

now that @the_point_mag ’s new site is live, let's all pour one out for the old website, which displayed such charming senescent quirks as… an empty archives page.

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

5 years

We’ve made some improvements. Check out our redesigned website:

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

6 years

smuggled a bottle of malört to nyc for this, so you better be there

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

6 years

Just a few more hours until our @BKBF party with @LAReviewofBooks and we are dressed to impress. Details here:

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

4 years

there’s SO much to get hyped about in @the_point_mag ’s new issue—on nationalism, internationalism and the idea of home… ⛺️

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

4 years

Shelter in place? Issue 22 | Summer 2020 What are nation-states for? Coming soon.

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

7 years

come dance and drink and watch me bust any undergrads who try to steal our liquor

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

7 years

Issue 13 release party next Saturday at the @expstation . Clear your social calendars and RSVP here:

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

1 year

. @the_point_mag 's beauty issue is here!

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

1 year

Issue 30—featuring a special all-editors symposium that asks, “What is beauty for?”—is now online! Read it all here:

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

7 years

. @BaskinJon reimagining the sacred and the cool at @upperhouseUW

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

1 year

for @the_point_mag 's new issue, I wrote about grasping for beauty in the things we cannot see.

Negative Space | The Point Magazine

For five months last year I was going to be a mother.

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Rachel Wiseman

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8 months

“You describe your sex life as divided between the private and ‘the real world.’ In terms of sex, there is no real world. There is only the familiar and the unknown.”

Dilettantes in Love | The Point Magazine

This is the second installment of Higher Gossip, an advice column on sex and love.

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Rachel Wiseman

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5 years

strange as it might seem, the original essay is the first thing in a long time that made me *want* to go to grad school, to see the value of it, even if there are no jobs on the other side.

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5 years

THE HUMANITIES WITHOUT PYROMANIACS! 🚒🔥 @a_n_a_berg in the @ChronicleReview :

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

6 years

@katforrester @gabrielwinant hey guys! stay tuned for our upcoming podcast: @a_n_a_berg talks to @theorygurl about desire, feminism, and “bad politics”; Jon and I interview @rachelrosenfelt on the legacy of Occupy at leftist magazines; and Jon calls his mom to discuss the impact Doris Lessing has had on her.

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6 years

“It’s easy to see King as an idealist, but there’s a strong streak of realism in his work.” Fantastic interview with @tommie_shelby by @jcljules on the centrality of dignity, and the possibility of moral persuasion, in MLK’s thought:

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@rachelcwiseman

6 years

another killer essay from @frankophilia : on Norman Podhoretz's "Making It" and what became of the New York intellectuals once they did, finally, make it 👉👉

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@rachelcwiseman

8 years

last night in @the_point_mag situation room: issue 13 ("what is America for?") is in proof stage–nearly ready!

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@rachelcwiseman

6 years

please come, there is no heat in this bldg and we frail booksellers need bodies for warmth

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

6 years

Got our flannel out for the Twin Cities Book Festival at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. Minneapolis readers, come say hi! There are books and mags and possibly corn dogs. #TCBF2018

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@rachelcwiseman

2 years

we had a blast sharing all our sacred and profane thoughts on maternal love with @jennfrey on one of our favorite literary podcasts, @eudaimoniapod .

Sacred and Profane Love

@eudaimoniapod

2 years

Very excited to share this conversation with @rachelcwiseman and @a_n_a_berg of @the_point_mag about Motherhood, suffering, and sacrificial love. And Ferrante!!! Patreon Exclusive Featuring Rachel Wiseman & Anastasia Berg

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

4 years

This summer, as millions took to the streets after George Floyd’s killing, the editors of @the_point_mag asked how we might cover the protests. in place of a historical review, or more political commentary (of which there was plenty)—we wanted to do something a little different…

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

8 years

latest sign of the coming apocalypse: Rahm Emanuel was at the screening of Moonlight that I attended tonight

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2 years

@sayanniething @astra_mag @bookforum @LAReviewofBooks @the_point_mag !

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@rachelcwiseman

4 years

“At times like this, when a window opens, and all of humanity sees the End rushing at us from the future, it behooves the humanists to be the ones who refuse to shut our eyes.” — @AgnesCallard

The End Is Coming

We may not have arrived at the end, but we have certainly arrived at the thought of it.

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

1 year

"Regular journalism plumped up with NGO filler and paid for with foundation dough too easily becomes either risibly partisan or a kind of kitsch." @James__Harkin on the pressures leading nonprofit news outlets to trade real stories for "issues" & "impact":

Brace for Impact | The Point Magazine

Who picks up the tab of paying for journalism when the audience won’t, and how does that change the truths that we journalists want to tell?

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

14 days

I'll be in London for the UK launch of "What Are Children For?" and would love to see you there!

Anastasia Berg

@a_n_a_berg

14 days

UK Friends! What Are Children For? is coming out in the UK on August 15. To celebrate @rachelcwiseman and I will be discussing the book with Tom Whyman ( @HealthUntoDeath ) at the Gower St. Waterstones. Looking forward to seeing you there!

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

7 years

🚨new swag alert🚨 not a drill; inspired by real life

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

7 years

Introducing our new tote:

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

6 years

I wrote about Joseph Brodsky, Keith Gessen and whether we ever have a duty to be useless.

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@rachelcwiseman

6 years

polar vortex mood courtesy of Gogol

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

3 years

for years, i've been the lucky (if sometimes reluctant) beneficiary of @a_n_a_berg 's life advice. now, with her new column, you can be too!

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

3 years

In the first installment of her new advice column for The Point, @a_n_a_berg addresses an important but little-discussed dilemma: Should couples spend time together in the bathroom?

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

2 years

this Valentine's Day @a_n_a_berg and I wrote for @theatlantic about dating paradigms, romantic fantasies, and why, while love can be many things, it should not be "slow." 💘

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Rachel Wiseman

@rachelcwiseman

2 years

this event with @rosemarieho_ , @storyshaped and @red_dilettante is going to be so fun—can't wait to get these three writers together. sign up! 👇

The Point Magazine

@the_point_mag

2 years

Tomorrow: our issue 26 Afterthoughts discussion on the economic and intellectual constraints of literary careers today. RSVP for the Zoom link here:

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