Silvia Federici’s BEYOND THE PERIPHERY OF THE SKIN is a baffling work that slides from the academically indefensible to the ethically dubious with remarkable facility.

I’ve cultivated a kind of heat in my process both in order to short circuit my critical faculties, so I can more readily be surprised, and also to outrun my self-doubt.

An exploration of capital punishment and the prison system in America, how incarceration is turned into a spectacle at the expense of the humans who are trying to make that of that system a grim home.

As I reread the poems in Ferrell’s YOU DARLING THING in this unprecedented moment, I see her lines anew, perhaps as they have always been

Silvia Federici’s BEYOND THE PERIPHERY OF THE SKIN is a baffling work that slides from the academically indefensible to the ethically dubious with remarkable facility.

An exploration of capital punishment and the prison system in America, how incarceration is turned into a spectacle at the expense of the humans who are trying to make that of that system a grim home.

As I reread the poems in Ferrell’s YOU DARLING THING in this unprecedented moment, I see her lines anew, perhaps as they have always been

MINOR DETAIL itself is an act of subversion because it represents history told on Palestinian terms, through a Palestinian voice.

I’ve cultivated a kind of heat in my process both in order to short circuit my critical faculties, so I can more readily be surprised, and also to outrun my self-doubt.

I prefer the French term ‘chercheur,’ or straight-up ‘researcher’ because it has a kind of Sufi ring to it. You know, the idea of being on a never-ending path towards knowledge, ignorance being the perpetual state of the present.

“Fiction can give meaning to the world and fiction can make sense of the world, but then, because it is fiction after all, it also makes a good case for questioning whether anything is for anything.”

Yep.

99 River Street – both the film and the critical reaction to it – serves to encapsulate the various strategies that we’ve seen deployed in the backlash to the Me Too movement – from denial to willed blindness to mockery.

What if there is a great distance between an author’s real life and the way it’s represented on the page? What kind of accountability, if that’s the case, should the reader expect from the author?

Even if we go nowhere, even if we staycate, our escape is always into rather than out from under the imperial gaze.

A drill-rig in the pasture. The intaglio of ditches in the valley. The person you sleep beside in bed. A life is a kind of dirt.

Novelist and critic S. D. Chrostowska discusses her new book, The Eyelid, with fellow novelist Tamara Faith Berger.

To celebrate today’s release of 4/20, the latest holiday film from the producers of Valentine’s Day, we present the top ten films with 420 in the title.

The following playlist is humbly submitted for your listening pleasure from Full Stop, your full service literary journal.

There is something revealing when you decide to watch a horror movie alone on a weekday — especially in the wake of a tumultuous breakup.