Summer has just begun, and here in Chicago we’re really feeling it—we’re part of the vast swathe of the country enduring a ruthless heat wave. If you too plan to spend this week sticking close by an air conditioner (and can only spend so much time at a movie theatre to escape the heat), we imagine you’ll be in need of something to read—and we’re here to help. This week only, if you subscribe to the magazine you’ll also get a free copy of Point editor Becca Rothfeld’s debut essay collection, All Things Are Too Small. 

For just $44, you’ll receive three issues of The Point, full access to our entire archive, and a copy of All Things Are Too Small. Featuring new and collected essays, including her breakout essay for the magazine on Sally Rooney, Becca’s book is an exuberant cri de coeur for the “extravagance that is our human due,” as she puts it in the introduction—and ideal summer reading for extravagant heat (or any climate, for that matter). 

Looking for more summer reading? Peruse our web shop, which we’ve just freshly stocked with new books from several of our contributors, from Agnes Callard to Scott Spillman to Aaron Robertson. 
 

“This is a radical and important book. Along with the brilliance of the prose and the range of consideration, there is the steady coherence of Becca Rothfeld’s argument: in these essays, she stages passionate duels between egalitarianism and distinction, abstinence and appetite, control and disproportion, and wins the battle, beautifully and eloquently, for the side of expansiveness and mess and desire. It’s a thrilling struggle, thrillingly prosecuted.”
—James Wood

“Bracing and brilliant... The iconoclastic U.S. author’s intellectually poised critique of minimalism boasts scintillating writing of breath and power.”
—The Guardian

“The drama of reading Rothfeld is primarily—thrillingly—intellectual... Having just recovered from a dazzling insight, we might be provoked to argue with her (one can imagine she likes it that way), and we are never bored.”
—The Washington Post

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