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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.”

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.”

  • 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.”

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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