Dowling is uncritical and unsentimental in his portrayal of the mfa as the death-knell of creative solitude, spontaneous community-making, and writing for writing’s sake.

If magick is about intentionality and focus, then poetry may be the best way for a poet to cast a spell.

The University of Iowa is a prairie-bound theater of the entwined ideological wars on labor rights and academic freedom.

Why would the exploration of the formal possibilities (in all their complexity) not be just as crucial to the integrity of fiction as evoking emotion in the reader?

Dowling is uncritical and unsentimental in his portrayal of the mfa as the death-knell of creative solitude, spontaneous community-making, and writing for writing’s sake.

Why would the exploration of the formal possibilities (in all their complexity) not be just as crucial to the integrity of fiction as evoking emotion in the reader?

No anti-colonial tract more effectively debunked the, by then, three-century-old system which—tweaked and window-dressed to pacify the progressives of each generation—had enriched Europe while shredding colonized societies everywhere.

In many novels, the survival of a marriage symbolizes a return to normalcy, but Ingalls twists that convention by rendering marriage as a stricture on each individual’s autonomy.

If magick is about intentionality and focus, then poetry may be the best way for a poet to cast a spell.

I still feel the echo of shame and confusion, but I also feel the clarity and peace that comes with speaking out about these difficult things.

The imperfection of knowledge is something that fascinates me. The fact that if you want to be certain about something, the more closely you think about it the less certain you become at a certain point.

I enjoy working on something I can control. That rules out everything written for publication

The University of Iowa is a prairie-bound theater of the entwined ideological wars on labor rights and academic freedom.

On the Student/Worker Distinction

The American Midwest in idea and in fact is girded.

When we talk about men the same way men have talked about women for centuries, it reads as grotesque and insanely violent, un-compassionate, and shocking, which was exactly Solanas’s point.

Although saying the right political thing and giving some money, that can just be part of the pageant so no one knows how awful you are.

We are really excited to share with you our second episode of the Full Stop Podcast, which ties into our most recent special quarterly issue on Graduate Student Organizing.

Drug brand names have a weird music all their own.

We’re excited to announce the launch of the Full Stop Patreon, which will help us continue to pay our writers well into the future.