I know some of them have extreme content, but to me it’s always been organic to the stories and not designed to shock for shock’s sake. To me, all my books are serious books, written with serious intent.

If some people are freer than others in society at large, it is worth looking at the prison system to see if, within its confines, these differences are amplified.

By eschewing a standard business profile, the book acts as a site of conflict and translation between a waning medium — print — and an ascending one — the internet.

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

By eschewing a standard business profile, the book acts as a site of conflict and translation between a waning medium — print — and an ascending one — the internet.

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.

I know some of them have extreme content, but to me it’s always been organic to the stories and not designed to shock for shock’s sake. To me, all my books are serious books, written with serious intent.

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.

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.

If some people are freer than others in society at large, it is worth looking at the prison system to see if, within its confines, these differences are amplified.

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.