Standish bears the specific features of the gentleman — or a parody of it — in all its idiotic, self-regarding, and brutal composure.

Our adornments are not just for vanity, but for resonance—they transmit something to someone who sees you. It’s not just to look pretty; it’s a language.

The sparsity of text keeps the reader at a remove from Mara, as she is trying to keep herself at a remove from her own mind.

Darkly comedic and wildly inventive, REVENGE OF THE SCAPEGOAT explores childhood trauma, medical exploitation, art making, and the ethics of fleeing our pasts.

Standish bears the specific features of the gentleman — or a parody of it — in all its idiotic, self-regarding, and brutal composure.

The sparsity of text keeps the reader at a remove from Mara, as she is trying to keep herself at a remove from her own mind.

Darkly comedic and wildly inventive, REVENGE OF THE SCAPEGOAT explores childhood trauma, medical exploitation, art making, and the ethics of fleeing our pasts.

To this gay, it comes as no surprise that a book called Villainy is about friendship. Queerness isn’t individual — it’s not something we can do on our own. We need each other just as much in the street as we do in the hot tub orgy.

Our adornments are not just for vanity, but for resonance—they transmit something to someone who sees you. It’s not just to look pretty; it’s a language.

I do think I’ve lost something that’s beyond recovery, which is the tender feeling for a language that comes with it being native to your world and brain.

I spend a lot of time with each sentence asking myself: is this as true as it can be? Am I taking a risk here?

I keep having this phrase that feels important to me: How does language happen to me? In relationship to these landscapes, in relationship to these questions, in relationship to these documents. What kind of language wants to emerge?

The rest of the academic world has left the subject behind because we, ostensibly, already have institutes and authors to cover this subject. This situation is not inevitable, but only the result of the political right staking their claim to the subject of antisemitism.

Freely/Dawe represent what they have produced as a translation when, by any fair definition of the word, it isn’t. To make matters worse—much worse—they misread the Turkish again and again.

The malcontents of quarantine life—especially for women—recall other forms of domestic confinement, from self-inflicted agoraphobia to endless household drudgery. 

For Black people, the opportunity to explore and indulge non-racial angst is a sacred but not always convenient or respected imperative.

In the immortal and ominous words of Prince Buster, “Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think.”

“The Ostrich is the Key for the Future Development of all Mankind!”

Trove Newsletter’s February 2022 Backlist Recommendations

Full Stop founding editors Eric Jett and Alex Shephard dive deep into the world of Jonathan Franzen!