Jon Baskin

Jon Baskin is a founding editor of The Point.

George Saunders’s Lincoln

George Saunders’s Lincoln George Saunders’s Lincoln

The novel ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ examines the Civil War as the root of America’s violent past—and as a possible source of empathy that might release us from it.

May 3, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Jon Baskin

Don DeLillo’s American Dream

Don DeLillo’s American Dream Don DeLillo’s American Dream

His recent protagonists dream only of money, except perhaps for the technological advances that will allow them to go on acquiring it indefinitely.

May 11, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Jon Baskin

Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen Withdraws Jonathan Franzen Withdraws

Why are the agonized liberals in Purity so skeptical of political conviction?

Oct 8, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Jon Baskin

Always Already Alienated

Always Already Alienated Always Already Alienated

Ben Lerner and the novel of detachment.

Feb 11, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Jon Baskin

x