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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
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....
"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
Kasey Peters reviews BAD HOUSES by @jestintzi.bsky.social (@arsenalpulp.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/2bn2b86e
April 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"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
Kasey Peters reviews BAD HOUSES by @jestintzi.bsky.social (@arsenalpulp.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/2bn2b86e
"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....
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
"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....
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....
"[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....
Jessica Alexander reviews SUBTERRANE by Valérie Bah: www.full-stop.net/2025/03/26/r....
March 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"[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....
Jessica Alexander reviews SUBTERRANE by Valérie Bah: www.full-stop.net/2025/03/26/r....
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
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...
"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
Yasmin Desouki reviews THE BOOK OF DISAPPEARANCE by Ibtisam Azem (@syracuseup.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/yew77u87
March 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
"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
Yasmin Desouki reviews THE BOOK OF DISAPPEARANCE by Ibtisam Azem (@syracuseup.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/yew77u87
"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....
—@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
"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....
—@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....
"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....
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
"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....
Vika Mujumdar on THE USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY by Annie Ernaux & Marc Marie (@sevenstories.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/03/19/r....
"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....
@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
"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....
@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....
"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
"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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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
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....
"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
"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...
"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...
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
"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...
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...
"An indispensable living document of a people’s fight against annihilation and a thesis statement on what makes us human."
Yasmin Desouki reviews IF I MUST DIE, an anthology of works by Refaat Alareer (O/R Books): www.full-stop.net/2025/03/14/r...
Yasmin Desouki reviews IF I MUST DIE, an anthology of works by Refaat Alareer (O/R Books): www.full-stop.net/2025/03/14/r...
March 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"An indispensable living document of a people’s fight against annihilation and a thesis statement on what makes us human."
Yasmin Desouki reviews IF I MUST DIE, an anthology of works by Refaat Alareer (O/R Books): www.full-stop.net/2025/03/14/r...
Yasmin Desouki reviews IF I MUST DIE, an anthology of works by Refaat Alareer (O/R Books): www.full-stop.net/2025/03/14/r...
"[The] diversity of voices and styles, translated from the French, Dutch, German, Chinese, and more, surprises and entices in turn."
Eric Bies reviews AT THE LOUVRE: POEMS BY 100 CONTEMPORARY WORLD POETS (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/3zcthc24.
Eric Bies reviews AT THE LOUVRE: POEMS BY 100 CONTEMPORARY WORLD POETS (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/3zcthc24.
March 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"[The] diversity of voices and styles, translated from the French, Dutch, German, Chinese, and more, surprises and entices in turn."
Eric Bies reviews AT THE LOUVRE: POEMS BY 100 CONTEMPORARY WORLD POETS (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/3zcthc24.
Eric Bies reviews AT THE LOUVRE: POEMS BY 100 CONTEMPORARY WORLD POETS (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/3zcthc24.
"A revelation of the many forms queerness can take, an expansion, a celebration of an ever-widening canon."
@mwatsonfore.bsky.social reviews Joshua Whitehead's essay collection MAKING LOVE WITH THE LAND (@uminnpress.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/03/05/r...
@mwatsonfore.bsky.social reviews Joshua Whitehead's essay collection MAKING LOVE WITH THE LAND (@uminnpress.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/03/05/r...
March 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
"A revelation of the many forms queerness can take, an expansion, a celebration of an ever-widening canon."
@mwatsonfore.bsky.social reviews Joshua Whitehead's essay collection MAKING LOVE WITH THE LAND (@uminnpress.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/03/05/r...
@mwatsonfore.bsky.social reviews Joshua Whitehead's essay collection MAKING LOVE WITH THE LAND (@uminnpress.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/03/05/r...
"In the process of confronting the system, one cannot quite overcome the bitterness produced by the system . . ."
Soni Wadhwa reviews Sole Otero's graphic novel MOTHBALLS (@fantagraphics.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/03/03/r....
Soni Wadhwa reviews Sole Otero's graphic novel MOTHBALLS (@fantagraphics.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/03/03/r....
March 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"In the process of confronting the system, one cannot quite overcome the bitterness produced by the system . . ."
Soni Wadhwa reviews Sole Otero's graphic novel MOTHBALLS (@fantagraphics.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/03/03/r....
Soni Wadhwa reviews Sole Otero's graphic novel MOTHBALLS (@fantagraphics.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/03/03/r....
For our new "Interlingual Reviews" initiative, we invite pitches for reviews of books published in languages other than English & not—or not yet—translated into English. Email the reviews team w/ any pitches, drafts, or Q's: www.full-stop.net/masthead/.
March 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
For our new "Interlingual Reviews" initiative, we invite pitches for reviews of books published in languages other than English & not—or not yet—translated into English. Email the reviews team w/ any pitches, drafts, or Q's: www.full-stop.net/masthead/.
"Desiati gives the reader a world that is as cold as we know it to be, and yet, until the very end, offers connection as an alternative for warmth."
Arla Hoxha reviews SPATRIATI by Mario Desiati, tr. from the Italian by Michael J. Moore (Other Press): www.full-stop.net/2025/02/28/r...
Arla Hoxha reviews SPATRIATI by Mario Desiati, tr. from the Italian by Michael J. Moore (Other Press): www.full-stop.net/2025/02/28/r...
February 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"Desiati gives the reader a world that is as cold as we know it to be, and yet, until the very end, offers connection as an alternative for warmth."
Arla Hoxha reviews SPATRIATI by Mario Desiati, tr. from the Italian by Michael J. Moore (Other Press): www.full-stop.net/2025/02/28/r...
Arla Hoxha reviews SPATRIATI by Mario Desiati, tr. from the Italian by Michael J. Moore (Other Press): www.full-stop.net/2025/02/28/r...
"The digital materiality of the poem makes it both more and less disposable than paper . . ."
Lilith Todd reviews WRONG HEAVEN AGAIN by @ryaneckes.bsky.social: https://www.full-stop.net/2025/02/26/reviews/lilithtodd/wrong-heaven-again-ryan-eckes/.
Lilith Todd reviews WRONG HEAVEN AGAIN by @ryaneckes.bsky.social: https://www.full-stop.net/2025/02/26/reviews/lilithtodd/wrong-heaven-again-ryan-eckes/.
February 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"The digital materiality of the poem makes it both more and less disposable than paper . . ."
Lilith Todd reviews WRONG HEAVEN AGAIN by @ryaneckes.bsky.social: https://www.full-stop.net/2025/02/26/reviews/lilithtodd/wrong-heaven-again-ryan-eckes/.
Lilith Todd reviews WRONG HEAVEN AGAIN by @ryaneckes.bsky.social: https://www.full-stop.net/2025/02/26/reviews/lilithtodd/wrong-heaven-again-ryan-eckes/.
"Nordenhök transforms Caesaria from footnote to fiction, turning 'that little orphan girl' into a formidable, ghastly narrator."
Anna Learn reviews Hanna Nordenhök's CAESARIA, tr. from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel (@bookhugpress.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/02/24/r...
Anna Learn reviews Hanna Nordenhök's CAESARIA, tr. from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel (@bookhugpress.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/02/24/r...
February 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"Nordenhök transforms Caesaria from footnote to fiction, turning 'that little orphan girl' into a formidable, ghastly narrator."
Anna Learn reviews Hanna Nordenhök's CAESARIA, tr. from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel (@bookhugpress.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/02/24/r...
Anna Learn reviews Hanna Nordenhök's CAESARIA, tr. from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel (@bookhugpress.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/02/24/r...
"AGAIN I HEAR THESE WATERS attempts to create a world where songs and verses represent both erasure and belonging."
Sayani Sarkar reviews an anthology of poems from the Miyah movement, curated and translated by Shalim M. Hussain (@tiltedaxispress.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/02/21/r....
Sayani Sarkar reviews an anthology of poems from the Miyah movement, curated and translated by Shalim M. Hussain (@tiltedaxispress.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/02/21/r....
February 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
"AGAIN I HEAR THESE WATERS attempts to create a world where songs and verses represent both erasure and belonging."
Sayani Sarkar reviews an anthology of poems from the Miyah movement, curated and translated by Shalim M. Hussain (@tiltedaxispress.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/02/21/r....
Sayani Sarkar reviews an anthology of poems from the Miyah movement, curated and translated by Shalim M. Hussain (@tiltedaxispress.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/02/21/r....
In her essay from the latest Full Stop Quarterly (ed. by @arghpoetica.bsky.social), Lara Norgaard discusses her translation of Felix Nesi's PEOPLE FROM OETIMU (@archipelagobooks.bsky.social) from the original Indonesian: www.full-stop.net/2025/02/20/f....
February 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
In her essay from the latest Full Stop Quarterly (ed. by @arghpoetica.bsky.social), Lara Norgaard discusses her translation of Felix Nesi's PEOPLE FROM OETIMU (@archipelagobooks.bsky.social) from the original Indonesian: www.full-stop.net/2025/02/20/f....
"The acts of translation throughout TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE show how language hides our blind spots and how caring deeply for others might help to reveal them."
Amber Ruth Paulen reviews Yáng Shuāng-Zǐ's novel, translated by Lin King (@graywolfpress.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/02/19/r...
Amber Ruth Paulen reviews Yáng Shuāng-Zǐ's novel, translated by Lin King (@graywolfpress.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/02/19/r...
February 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"The acts of translation throughout TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE show how language hides our blind spots and how caring deeply for others might help to reveal them."
Amber Ruth Paulen reviews Yáng Shuāng-Zǐ's novel, translated by Lin King (@graywolfpress.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/02/19/r...
Amber Ruth Paulen reviews Yáng Shuāng-Zǐ's novel, translated by Lin King (@graywolfpress.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/02/19/r...
This week in Interviews, Elvira Navarro discusses her latest novel, THE VOICES OF ADRIANA (@twolinespress.bsky.social) w/ interviewer Alia Spartz: www.full-stop.net/2025/02/18/i....
February 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
This week in Interviews, Elvira Navarro discusses her latest novel, THE VOICES OF ADRIANA (@twolinespress.bsky.social) w/ interviewer Alia Spartz: www.full-stop.net/2025/02/18/i....