In a 2016 essay for the New York Times, Parul Sehgal wrote that “the idea of a literature of migration seems to have fallen out of fashion.” She blamed this on the “bitter paradox” of how such literature is perceived, that the phrase “immigrant writing” connotes not the insight of those who exist between worlds […]
QAnon’s Pendulum: On Umberto Eco’s Fiction and Right-Wing Conspiracism
The stories of Umberto Eco and QAnon are those of people desperate for meaning, and of people willing to give them some semblance of it for profit, for power, or even for laughs.
It is not a unique experience to sit or stand in the presence of a pet or a house plant, or a favorite tree, and to feel that one is not entirely alone.
Max Gunther is indeed telling an “incredible true story,” but it is not the story of D.B. Cooper.
Full Stop Quarterly: Limits and Listening
When one listens, one opens oneself to the world.
Portugal Is Not a Small Country
There’s something slightly off in the way that Portugal memorializes its past.
I’m enamored by a birthright that feels just out of reach.
The Full Stop Reviews Supplement #3
Instead of treating the pdf as a site of loss, a dematerialization of the codex, this issue of the Full Stop Reviews Supplement posits the pdf as a material site of possibility.
Grounding ourselves in the Black radical tradition offers the best path forward toward freedom and liberation.
Anatomy Lessons: The Ecstatic Agony of Philip Roth
Roth’s self-appointed task was to journey deep into his own psyche—to root around, observe, provoke, record.