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Reviews. Interviews. Marginalia. An online publication of literary criticism focusing on debuts, works in translation, and books published by small presses.

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Unlocked today! John Wall Barger's feature essay "Original Child Bomb Threnody" was first published last month in our subscriber-only newsletter. Read it here: www.full-stop.net/2025/10/30/f....
October 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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"We were kids together. And now we are not."

Corley Miller writes about millennials growing up in the digital age—and documenting it through two recent memoirs—for our features section: www.full-stop.net/2025/08/13/f...
Elegy Already: Millennials at Middle Age
We were kids together. And now we are not.
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August 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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"I’d love to think that Lonesome Ballroom...might prove one of many “weird” books that make our broader tradition stranger and therefore stronger, more strapping."

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Madeline McDonnell
I’d love to think that Lonesome Ballroom...might prove one of many “weird” books that make our broader tradition stranger and therefore stronger, more strapping.
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August 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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"I am flirty and irreverent. Deadpan and oblique."

A new interview with Ashley D. Escobar by Stephanie Yue Duhem, on site now: www.full-stop.net/2025/05/27/i...
May 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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New Interview! @griffin5a7.bsky.social interviews Mary Helen Callier about her remarkable poetry collection, When the Horses.

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Mary Helen Callier
That feeling of disorientation might be my favorite thing about poetry. I think poems can bring about new possibilities by skirting the edges of sense, or they can expand our capacity for sense-making...
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May 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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i interviewed my friend mary helen callier @fullstopmag.bsky.social on her new book of poetry, when the horses! www.full-stop.net/2025/05/06/i...
Mary Helen Callier
That feeling of disorientation might be my favorite thing about poetry. I think poems can bring about new possibilities by skirting the edges of sense, or they can expand our capacity for sense-making...
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May 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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May 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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nplusonemag.com n+1 @nplusonemag.com · May 4
Our NEA grant was canceled.

Here’s a letter from our development director about what’s happening.
On Friday night, n+1—alongside many of our peer nonprofit arts organizations—received notice that our 2025 NEA grant has been terminated due to the Trump administration’s “shifting funding priorities.” We knew this might be coming, but receiving the official notice was still jarring, as was some of the messaging itself. It’s unclear to us whether we’ll still be able to recover the money we’ve been promised this year—a $12,500 grant meant to help us pay our authors, our editors, and to have the magazine printed and distributed to our readers. We’ve requested the funds we’ve already spent, and now we’re waiting to see if the money will come through. We’re trying to stay optimistic, but with the administration’s other announcement this week that the NEA might be shut down in its entirety, it’s hard to do so. I’m writing to ask for two things—first, for short-term, immediate assistance to help us replace these funds. You can make a donation through our website, or—if you’re in New York and free on June 10—you can buy a ticket to our annual benefit, the N Plus Ultra. Second, we ask for your ongoing support amid the challenges that we, and other small magazines, are already beginning to face. You can do that by subscribing, of course, convincing your friends to subscribe (or simply sending them a gift subscription), or by buying a bit of merch from our shop. And maybe most meaningfully, you can share the n+1 pieces you’re reading and stay engaged with (and be vocal in your support of) the independent media you care about most. We’ll need all the help we can get. With gratitude, Dani Oliver Development Director, n+1
May 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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👉 Less than two weeks left to register for this panel with CALYX press, moderated by @mwatsonfore.bsky.social!
May 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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New Interview! Margaret Vandenburg interviewed Eva Dunsky about her jazz age romp with a healthy dose of gender politics. "Fun and revelry can be deeply disruptive forces, ways to destabilize coercive structures. Never underestimate the power of fun."

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Margaret Vandenburg
Fun and revelry can be deeply disruptive forces, ways to destabilize coercive structures. Never underestimate the power of fun.
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April 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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New interview by Erin Evans with the editors of Here to Stay, a vital collection of poetry and prose from the undocumented diaspora. Cannot think of many more important works to read right now.

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Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Esther Lin, and Janine Joseph
Toni Morrison writes about how “you have to write the book that you want to read.” When I was growing up undocumented, the only things to read about my “situation” was through newspapers, and it was a...
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April 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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"The stories in Bad Houses span a kind of tonal spectrum that reaches on one end for the mythic and on another end for a wry, hyper-contemporary irony."

Kasey Peters reviews BAD HOUSES by @jestintzi.bsky.social (@arsenalpulp.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/2bn2b86e
April 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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So grateful for this generous, thoughtful review of Alternative Facts in @fullstopmag.bsky.social!

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Alternative Facts – Emily Greenberg
Greenberg depicts these figures with sympathy, at times poignancy, yet never with forgiveness.
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March 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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"When monuments fail us, words provide the last respite . . ."
Today we're unlocking another essay from our latest quarterly issue, edited by @arghpoetica.bsky.social: "Inorganic City: A Living Autopsy of Tirana" by Barbara Halla: www.full-stop.net/2025/03/27/f....
March 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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"[Bah's] novel attends to the ways [Stockholm's colonialist] legacy has shaped understandings of class, culture, gender, and sexuality."
Jessica Alexander reviews SUBTERRANE by Valérie Bah: www.full-stop.net/2025/03/26/r....
March 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Submissions are open for "Possibilities in Folklore," a special issue of the Full Stop Quarterly to be edited by Full Stop Fellow Annalise Peters. Send your pitch for a book review, interview, essay, or visual art by April 22 for consideration: www.full-stop.net/2025/03/25/b...
March 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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"Death punctuates and punctures. It’s the ultimate period, the last sprocket hole. I’ve tried to show that viscerally. I’ve tried to show the hole; I’ve tried to point to the absence, the black, the end."
@laura-n-paul.bsky.social interviewed by Mike Corrao. www.full-stop.net/2025/03/25/i...
Laura Paul
Throughout the book, I mention harm that has occurred in and around film sets in the name of art. Workers are hurt or killed, sacrificed for the sake of the end product, which is the moving image. One...
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March 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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"Ibtisam Azem’s haunting novel . . . is an audacious work of speculative fiction that explores what happens when the colonizer’s wish to vanish indigenous peoples comes true."

Yasmin Desouki reviews THE BOOK OF DISAPPEARANCE by Ibtisam Azem (@syracuseup.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/yew77u87
March 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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"I listen to the cities, so they will not wound me too much."
—@jmaebarizo.bsky.social on her new book, TENDER MACHINES (@tupelopress.bsky.social), w/ @tiffanytroy.bsky.social in an interview from the latest Full Stop Quarterly, ed. by @arghpoetica.bsky.social: www.full-stop.net/2025/03/20/i....
March 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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"A new and urgent rethinking of the limits and possibilities of the photograph, and what literature offers us in relation to the hauntings of speculative absence."

Vika Mujumdar on THE USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY by Annie Ernaux & Marc Marie (@sevenstories.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/03/19/r....
March 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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"Ernaux and Marie venture into a new form of documentation, of record keeping, of making real the ephemeral."
@vikamujumdar.bsky.social reviews THE USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY by Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie, translated by Alison Strayer (@sevenstories.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/03/19/r....
March 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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"I don’t think I described friendship as a contract; our society already has." Anna Learn interviews Mariam Rahmani about her debut novel Liquid.
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March 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Submissions are now open for "Contradictions of Looking," a special issue of the Full Stop Quarterly, edited by Full Stop Fellow Keely Shinners. Send a pitch by March 28 for consideration: www.full-stop.net/2025/03/18/b....
March 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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"I'm much more concerned with character than I am with crime: with the impact of the events – the crime, if you want – on the characters, rather than the crime itself." Benjamin Parris interviews Graeme Macrae Burnet about his Barthesian detective trilogy: www.full-stop.net/2025/03/18/i...
March 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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"Lonzi’s work . . . makes critics of us all."
Kaelie Giffel reviews FEMINISM IN REVOLT, a collection of works by Carla Lonzi, ed. by Luisa Lorenza Corna and Jamila M. H. Mascat, tr. by Luisa Lorenza Corna, Matthew Hyland, and Cristina Viti: www.full-stop.net/2025/03/17/r...
March 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM