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by Julia Conrad
Messina’s writing is bleak and tender and honest and is not trying to persuade me of anything, least of all that things will work out.
Maria Messina’s Feminine Flaw
Messina’s writing is bleak and tender and honest and is not trying to persuade me of anything, least of all that things will work out.
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w/ Rachelle Toarmino
I love gossip in poems, and I love to see friendship performed in pieces of art, so I don’t know how to create things like that without those kinds of references.
Sadie Dupuis
I love gossip in poems, and I love to see friendship performed in pieces of art, so I don’t know how to create things like that without those kinds of references.
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by Elizabeth Hall
Without awe, how can we dream up a different reality? Without wonder, the dark matter of possibility, how do we find the courage to zoom in on our unbearable humanity?
Bright Unbearable Reality – Anna Badkhen
Without awe, how can we dream up a different reality? Without wonder, the dark matter of possibility, how do we find the courage to zoom in on our unbearable humanity?
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by Ryan Chang
To ask whether the pornographic narrative style does anything (and to value it accordingly) is to buy into the promises of virtuous consumption. It is to believe that consuming a book somehow transforms aesthetic experience into social action.
Against Safe Sex: A Review of Kathleen J. Woods’s White Wedding
To ask whether the pornographic narrative style does anything (and to value it accordingly) is to buy into the promises of virtuous consumption. It is to believe that consuming a book somehow transforms aesthetic experience into social action.
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by Elizabeth Hall
Without awe, how can we dream up a different reality? Without wonder, the dark matter of possibility, how do we find the courage to zoom in on our unbearable humanity?
Bright Unbearable Reality – Anna Badkhen
Without awe, how can we dream up a different reality? Without wonder, the dark matter of possibility, how do we find the courage to zoom in on our unbearable humanity?
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by Damini Pant
Many of the people we encounter in the pages of this book do not identify as smugglers but as workers of various kinds.
Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below – ed. Mahmoud Keshavarz and Shahram Khosravi
Many of the people we encounter in the pages of this book do not identify as smugglers but as workers of various kinds.
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by Colleen Alles
These poems leave us with a gentle litany of things left behind—things more suitable, perhaps, for the more subtle shades of grief.
Divination with a Human Heart Attached – Emily Stoddard
These poems leave us with a gentle litany of things left behind—things more suitable, perhaps, for the more subtle shades of grief.
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by Ryan Thier
[The novel’s] layering surpasses anything like theme or plot and suffuses into a kind of aesthetic ethos which justifies the old saying: The novelist picks up where the historian has to stop.
Lost in the Long March – Michael X. Wang
[The novel’s] layering surpasses anything like theme or plot and suffuses into a kind of aesthetic ethos which justifies the old saying: The novelist picks up where the historian has to stop.
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w/ Rachelle Toarmino
I love gossip in poems, and I love to see friendship performed in pieces of art, so I don’t know how to create things like that without those kinds of references.
Sadie Dupuis
I love gossip in poems, and I love to see friendship performed in pieces of art, so I don’t know how to create things like that without those kinds of references.
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w/ Paul Morton
With comics, for better or worse, you can’t really hide from who you are. You’re spending so much time working on these things that you can’t keep up a persona for that long.
Nick Drnaso
With comics, for better or worse, you can’t really hide from who you are. You’re spending so much time working on these things that you can’t keep up a persona for that long.
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w/ Della Watson
Communing with the mineral/rock world is also another way for me to contemplate time, and to understand that the destructive/creative geologic processes are always underfoot.
Tiff Dressen
Communing with the mineral/rock world is also another way for me to contemplate time, and to understand that the destructive/creative geologic processes are always underfoot.
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w/ Peter Mishler
The curse and hex lie alongside the charm and balm. Rhetoric has no team, rhetoric has no flag.
Kamden Ishmael Hilliard
The curse and hex lie alongside the charm and balm. Rhetoric has no team, rhetoric has no flag.
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by Julia Conrad
Messina’s writing is bleak and tender and honest and is not trying to persuade me of anything, least of all that things will work out.
Maria Messina’s Feminine Flaw
Messina’s writing is bleak and tender and honest and is not trying to persuade me of anything, least of all that things will work out.
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by Ryan Chang
To ask whether the pornographic narrative style does anything (and to value it accordingly) is to buy into the promises of virtuous consumption. It is to believe that consuming a book somehow transforms aesthetic experience into social action.
Against Safe Sex: A Review of Kathleen J. Woods’s White Wedding
To ask whether the pornographic narrative style does anything (and to value it accordingly) is to buy into the promises of virtuous consumption. It is to believe that consuming a book somehow transforms aesthetic experience into social action.
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by Mahnaz Dar
Why is cynicism so seemingly tied to whiteness?
Daria Morgendorffer, Jodie Landon, and the Privilege of Cynicism
Why is cynicism so seemingly tied to whiteness?
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by Tom LeClair
Perhaps there is a tablet, a Dylar that actually works, that would make me forget Baumbach’s movie as the Gladneys wanted to forget death.
The Maladaptation of White Noise
Perhaps there is a tablet, a Dylar that actually works, that would make me forget Baumbach’s movie as the Gladneys wanted to forget death.
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by The Editors
We’re excited to announce the 2022 Full Stop Editorial Fellows: Ching-In Chen and Gillian Joseph!
Announcing the Full Stop Editorial Fellows
We’re excited to announce the 2022 Full Stop Editorial Fellows: Ching-In Chen and Gillian Joseph!
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by The Editors
The year’s best books, as selected by the editors of Full Stop.
The 10 Best Books of 2022
The year’s best books, as selected by the editors of Full Stop.
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by The Editors
This episode includes an interview with Keely Shinners, as well as a sound experiment between Ansgar Allen and Mike Carrao.
Podcast #16 – Keely Shinners, Ansgar Allen, & Mike Corrao
This episode includes an interview with Keely Shinners, as well as a sound experiment between Ansgar Allen and Mike Carrao.
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by The Editors
Any money you donate to Full Stop today will go twice as far toward ensuring the future of independent literary criticism. There has never been a better time to donate.
Full Stop’s 2022 Whiting Matching Grant
Any money you donate to Full Stop today will go twice as far toward ensuring the future of independent literary criticism. There has never been a better time to donate.