The Point Magazine Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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The Town of Babylon
Alejandro VarelaThe Point MagazineTomorrow: join us and the @SeminaryCoop for a discussion of @drovarela’s debut novel, “The Town of Babylon.” Sign up here: https://www.semcoop.com/event/alejandro-varela-town-babylon-elias-rodriques
Paperback, 2024
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Common Good Constitutionalism
Adrian VermeuleThe Point MagazineMany on the broad left, from the mainstream to the margins, have embraced the language of the common good. It is for this reason that Adrian Vermeule’s new book, “Common Good Constitutionalism,” may have something to teach us. https://t.co/Vh0xvzN1aa
Hardcover, 2022
$69.95$44.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told by a Friend
Thomas MannThe Point MagazineOne might read Thomas Mann’s novel “Doctor Faustus,” an examination of irony, aesthetics and morality, and take from it the implication that artistic value must be reined in by moral and political standards. But this is manifestly not Mann’s conclusion. https://t.co/uECcBJzT7v
Paperback, 1999
$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Opening of the American Mind: Ten Years of The Point
The PointThe Point MagazineTen years of The Point in one tidy package! Much more than a “greatest hits” collection, “The Opening of the American Mind” captures a full decade of intellectual and political life in America—and makes for a good gift. https://t.co/pbtkTdgEAd
Hardcover, 2020
$103.00$78.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Escapes: Stories
Joy WilliamsThe Point Magazine“Where the stories are most parable-like in form, whatever lesson they’re meant to illustrate has been long forgotten even before the telling.” On Joy Williams: https://t.co/PNqzyFydmV
Hardcover, 1990
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays
Jesse McCarthyThe Point Magazine@jessedmccart Jesse won for his debut essay collection “Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul,” which you can check out here: https://t.co/l7I05mkirp
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Professing Literature: An Institutional History
Gerald GraffThe Point Magazine“The ‘method wars’ conflict and the other conflicts in literary studies described by Gerald Graff in ‘Professing Literature’ are, at least some of the time, understandable as a debate between critics with incommensurable ideas of what a good critic is.” https://t.co/CzJkpkjks4
Paperback, 2007
$34.00$17.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Republic
PlatoThe Point Magazine“Defenders of Great Books are inclined to situate Plato’s Republic at the heart of any canon, but Plato was not their friend.” https://t.co/yNlkbd6Tng
Hardcover, 2023
$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Short Stories for Kids: Four
John WilliamsThe Point Magazine“Reading her, I can never shake the impression of an oracularly sunglasses-clad Williams recording her vision faithfully, as John the Evangelist is depicted in Hans Memling’s ‘Triptych of the Two Saints John,’ writing down the Book of Revelation.” https://t.co/PNqzyFgCvn
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Heart of Darkness
J. ConradThe Point MagazineAbdulrazak Gurnah’s fiction responds to predecessors in both English and Swahili. Except here, instead of the cold precision of Tippu Tip’s memoir, or the paranoia and madness of Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” we encounter mystery, dignity and difference. https://t.co/nlybHVrzNl
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