Full Stop
Reviews. Interviews. Marginalia.
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by Jonah Walters
If Walter Benjamin’s angel of history moved backwards, observing society’s wreckage but blind to its progress, the many avatars of Joe’s wandering generation — booted boys in Cuba, beatnik wanderers like Joe — saw the whole world blurry, victims of their own velocity.
The End of the Road: The Last Great Road Bum by Héctor Tobar
If Walter Benjamin’s angel of history moved backwards, observing society’s wreckage but blind to its progress, the many avatars of Joe’s wandering generation — booted boys in Cuba, beatnik wanderers like Joe — saw the whole world blurry, victims of their own velocity.
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by Cherilyn Elston
It expertly weaves its politics into a psychologically complex story that centers a character, and her desires, frustrations, and emotions, who is not commonly represented in either Colombian or international literature.
The Bitch – Pilar Quintana
It expertly weaves its politics into a psychologically complex story that centers a character, and her desires, frustrations, and emotions, who is not commonly represented in either Colombian or international literature.
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by Hannah Borenstein
Rollerball and Death Race 2000 may have been early entrants into diagnosing that dreadful feeling that accompanies the unbeatable supremacy of capitalism.
Starlets of Dystopian Sport
Rollerball and Death Race 2000 may have been early entrants into diagnosing that dreadful feeling that accompanies the unbeatable supremacy of capitalism.
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w/ Kyle Williams
“Illustrated literature hasn’t really been popular since the nineteenth century. I would like to open the discussion around that form again, to see what we can do with it.”
Forsyth Harmon
“Illustrated literature hasn’t really been popular since the nineteenth century. I would like to open the discussion around that form again, to see what we can do with it.”
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by Cherilyn Elston
It expertly weaves its politics into a psychologically complex story that centers a character, and her desires, frustrations, and emotions, who is not commonly represented in either Colombian or international literature.
The Bitch – Pilar Quintana
It expertly weaves its politics into a psychologically complex story that centers a character, and her desires, frustrations, and emotions, who is not commonly represented in either Colombian or international literature.
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by Alec Joyner
The Inland Sea demonstrates both what realist fiction can offer, as we try harder to grapple with climate crisis, and what it can’t.
The Inland Sea – Madeleine Watts
The Inland Sea demonstrates both what realist fiction can offer, as we try harder to grapple with climate crisis, and what it can’t.
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by Devin Smith
for nigh-on end of season came the apex of her woe
Ride South Until The Sawgrass
for nigh-on end of season came the apex of her woe
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by Sam Adrien Smith
Arguably, much of what is beguiling in Diana Taylor’s approach lies in her refusal to be defeated by the negative dimension of critique; rather, she embraces a relationship with political failure, by focusing precisely on what such failure might produce.
¡Presente!: The Politics of Presence – Diana Taylor
Arguably, much of what is beguiling in Diana Taylor’s approach lies in her refusal to be defeated by the negative dimension of critique; rather, she embraces a relationship with political failure, by focusing precisely on what such failure might produce.
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w/ Kyle Williams
“Illustrated literature hasn’t really been popular since the nineteenth century. I would like to open the discussion around that form again, to see what we can do with it.”
Forsyth Harmon
“Illustrated literature hasn’t really been popular since the nineteenth century. I would like to open the discussion around that form again, to see what we can do with it.”
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w/ Megan Kakimoto
“Are these instances magic? Are they myths? To us, they’re just part of life.”
Isabel Yap
“Are these instances magic? Are they myths? To us, they’re just part of life.”
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w/ Michael Schapira
You have to look beyond the monster itself in order to understand what it actually means.
Andrea Muehlebach
You have to look beyond the monster itself in order to understand what it actually means.
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w/ Logan Berry
Within the violence of that work I find a space to explore myself, a hostile and empty space with which to reconfigure myself.
Mika
Within the violence of that work I find a space to explore myself, a hostile and empty space with which to reconfigure myself.
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by Jonah Walters
If Walter Benjamin’s angel of history moved backwards, observing society’s wreckage but blind to its progress, the many avatars of Joe’s wandering generation — booted boys in Cuba, beatnik wanderers like Joe — saw the whole world blurry, victims of their own velocity.
The End of the Road: The Last Great Road Bum by Héctor Tobar
If Walter Benjamin’s angel of history moved backwards, observing society’s wreckage but blind to its progress, the many avatars of Joe’s wandering generation — booted boys in Cuba, beatnik wanderers like Joe — saw the whole world blurry, victims of their own velocity.
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by Hannah Borenstein
Rollerball and Death Race 2000 may have been early entrants into diagnosing that dreadful feeling that accompanies the unbeatable supremacy of capitalism.
Starlets of Dystopian Sport
Rollerball and Death Race 2000 may have been early entrants into diagnosing that dreadful feeling that accompanies the unbeatable supremacy of capitalism.
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by Kaja Marczewska
The bookmobile’s appropriation by the small press community, although on a relatively small scale, played a crucial role in forming independent publishing communities.
Here Comes the Small Press
The bookmobile’s appropriation by the small press community, although on a relatively small scale, played a crucial role in forming independent publishing communities.
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by Kelly M.S. Swope
Imagining the mass strike and practically organizing it are one and the same activity.
The Monster Out of Nowhere
Imagining the mass strike and practically organizing it are one and the same activity.
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by Christine Hume
Building an audible nest for intensifying, as a bird might shed drab feathers for bright ones in a time of courtship, an ordinary song for a mating call, my sonic ornament was a customized flush of puberty, a condensed libidinal vehemence.
Ransom Voice
Building an audible nest for intensifying, as a bird might shed drab feathers for bright ones in a time of courtship, an ordinary song for a mating call, my sonic ornament was a customized flush of puberty, a condensed libidinal vehemence.
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by Lauren Stroh
Publishing’s leaders composed careful statements in the height of this summer’s protests for racial justice. But these ring hollow in the face of an industry rife with sexism, classism, and racism.
Fair Practices And Damaged Book Workers
Publishing’s leaders composed careful statements in the height of this summer’s protests for racial justice. But these ring hollow in the face of an industry rife with sexism, classism, and racism.
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by The Editors
We discuss travel writing, its pitfalls, and what might come after the pandemic … if there’s really going to be an after.
Podcast #11: Post-Post-Pandemic Travel Writing
We discuss travel writing, its pitfalls, and what might come after the pandemic … if there’s really going to be an after.
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by The Editors
The year’s best books, as selected by the editors of Full Stop.
The 10 Best Books of 2020
The year’s best books, as selected by the editors of Full Stop.