Phil is joined by Becca Rothfeld, BD McClay, and Jon Baskin to discuss Norman Rush&#39;s 1991 novel Mating, and whether it offers a roadmap for love in the 21st century. 

Becca Rothfeld is the nonfiction book critic at the Washington Post and an editor at the Point. 
BD McClay is an essayist and critic who has written for publications like Lapham&#39;s Quarterly, The New Yorker, and New York Times Magazine. 
Jon Baskin is Deputy Editor at Harper&#39;s and a founding editor of The Point.

The Art: 
Norman Rush, Mating 
<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/158972/mating-by-norman-rush/" rel="nofollow">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/158972/mating-by-norman-rush/</a>

Article cited: 
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/style/mating-norman-rush.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/style/mating-norman-rush.html</a>

Episode 56: The Secular Saint

Your regular visit to the archives of vanity, where men and women who stopped making myths turned to issuing commandments. Your guides for this journey are the writers Phil Klay and Jacob Siegel, along with their trusty engineer, Jacqui Rigazio May you continue to be a person. Manifesto! Is now sponsored by Fairfield University, a Jesuit University in Fairfield Connecticut. Fairfield’s mission is to develop the creative intellectual potential of students and to foster in them ethical and religious values and a sense of social responsibility. Phil also teaches at Fairfield, in both their undergraduate English department and in their Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. We’re very pleased to be associated with Fairfield, and thank them for their sponsorship.