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Jon Baskin
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Jon Baskin is a founding editor of The Point.
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.
His recent protagonists dream only of money, except perhaps for the technological advances that will allow them to go on acquiring it indefinitely.
Why are the agonized liberals in Purity so skeptical of political conviction?
Ben Lerner and the novel of detachment.
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