The aims of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration are exposed by the writer as quests into nothingness.

WHITEWALLING: ART, RACE, & PROTEST IN 3 ACTS exposes systems that perpetuate racial oppression in the art world and pricks a bubble of white-centered consciousness with a clear message about complicity.

POSO WELLS is the sort of dizzying novel that only begins to make sense as it finishes, but then becomes so fascinating that you want to read the hazy first hundred pages all over again.

If actual [David] Shields were really serious about ending the oligarchy, he’d have written a different book.

The aims of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration are exposed by the writer as quests into nothingness.

WHITEWALLING: ART, RACE, & PROTEST IN 3 ACTS exposes systems that perpetuate racial oppression in the art world and pricks a bubble of white-centered consciousness with a clear message about complicity.

POSO WELLS is the sort of dizzying novel that only begins to make sense as it finishes, but then becomes so fascinating that you want to read the hazy first hundred pages all over again.

If actual [David] Shields were really serious about ending the oligarchy, he’d have written a different book.

“The daydream emerged as such an unbidden gift.”

In life, like love, or the shape of a story itself, time is fast and slow at once, compressed and expanded; it is never as simple or singular as a minute is long.

I do sometimes feel that reading and writing is a way of preparing oneself [for death], as much as a person can be prepared.

It’s fun to see people talk about revolution seriously, because they can’t imagine anything else anymore and it’s starting to enter the consciousness.

There is a direct link between listening and life, perceivable in its absence. What we cannot say and what we cannot hear matter.

It’s too easy to write Kenny Dennis off as just a joke. While there are aspects of Kenny that seem wholly ridiculous, Cohn makes his story expansive and dark, and he settles on an exuberance that overcomes Kenny’s struggle.

I like the fact that you can see error moments that have been used to do something and, also, that there are other latent, inelegant bits that could be resolved differently. I like having both—utilised errors and potentially resolvable parts that nonetheless remain uncoopted.

“The daydream emerged as such an unbidden gift.”

Beware what hasn’t already been fractured.

I love the sample as you love the sample, Tip—for how it can be extracted from the past and stretched over a sound reaching for the future.

The year’s best forthcoming books, as selected by the editors of Full Stop.

[These pieces] demonstrate what book critics can learn from acts of creative reading, finding in them an image of criticism as creative practice.