Since the end of the 90s, phenomena have accumulated that have finally led to the fundamentally new form of Slovakian literature we know today.

When we are increasingly concerned about documentary technologies’ capacity for truth, it makes sense that the stories we tell might be concerned with the horror of too much truth, or of truth stripped bare.

I remember all my efforts to prepare to move forward, but I forget the jerky reverse, stop-and-go motion that made that eventual forward movement possible.

I find it both beautiful and sad how these great expectations can fail to pan out, and how people can still find life in the aftermath.

When we are increasingly concerned about documentary technologies’ capacity for truth, it makes sense that the stories we tell might be concerned with the horror of too much truth, or of truth stripped bare.

Embedded in his encounters with himself amid piles of corpses is an ambitious attempt to breach the sublime with the flood of language in this novel.

Tragedy is a condition, rather than the failure to act heroically.

Sentences repeat as situations repeat. The sense of relief at yet another opportunity to imagine the future of a life that was lost is cut by the knowledge that loss will win out in the end.

I find it both beautiful and sad how these great expectations can fail to pan out, and how people can still find life in the aftermath.

We identify so completely with our own suffering, then wish to visit our suffering upon others in turn. Makes one wish we could just have a nice simple fistfight and be done.

Esther recalls her comrades in the seemingly unending struggle for civil rights in the U.S., and explicates the mysteries of race and kinship in this contradictory country.

It never reached the level of aesthetic. That’s like a craps shooter talking about his skill with dice. I was just hoping to get lucky.

I remember all my efforts to prepare to move forward, but I forget the jerky reverse, stop-and-go motion that made that eventual forward movement possible.

The artist Rammellzee used the term ‘lightdwellers’ to reference a generic societal elite. Decades later, ‘the lofts’ can do a similar job for a certain kind of New Yorker. Ditto for ‘condos.’

Full Stop editors recommend books, music, TV and films for your enjoyment. This round features Pagan priestesses, the great Koonklaster, & Christina Ricci chained to a radiator.

On Jungian shadows, Elena Ferrante, THE BABADOOK, and the sinister side of motherhood.

Since the end of the 90s, phenomena have accumulated that have finally led to the fundamentally new form of Slovakian literature we know today.

52 places to travel in a world that’s turned into what the architect Rem Koolhaas called junkspace.

BDSM is not inherently radical or alternative. It’s just a way of having sex.

There are as many routes as there are individual souls. There are as many ways to make a waffle as there are waffle-makers.