This idea of science as a pure and separated sphere, divorced from politics and social dynamics, is a longstanding myth.

Far from lampooning the men at this ego crisis’s center, as is customary online, Ess’s novel Darryl takes us into the mind of a self-described “cuckold” with nuance, humor, and most importantly, empathy. 

This essay was originally published in the Full Stop Quarterly “Literary Dis(-)appearances in (Post)colonial Cities,” edited by Michelle Chan Schmidt. Subscribe at our Patreon page to get access to this and future issues, also available for purchase here. Ukrainian poetics function as a mode of defense against disappearance and a mode of remembrance in the city. I will address the […]

Exploiting the experience of others, Whistlin turns living people into hollow characters, artificial objects in both senses of the word.

This idea of science as a pure and separated sphere, divorced from politics and social dynamics, is a longstanding myth.

Far from lampooning the men at this ego crisis’s center, as is customary online, Ess’s novel Darryl takes us into the mind of a self-described “cuckold” with nuance, humor, and most importantly, empathy. 

Exploiting the experience of others, Whistlin turns living people into hollow characters, artificial objects in both senses of the word.

Lacey writes how Meg White drums: layered simplicity, phrase by primal phrase.

That feeling of disorientation might be my favorite thing about poetry. I think poems can bring about new possibilities by skirting the edges of sense, or they can expand our capacity for sense-making.

Fun and revelry can be deeply disruptive forces, ways to destabilize coercive structures. Never underestimate the power of fun.

Toni Morrison writes about how “you have to write the book that you want to read.” When I was growing up undocumented, the only things to read about my “situation” was through newspapers, and it was always a crisis.

I’ve been into horror movies and things that are scary or creepy since I was a little kid. I was obsessed with monsters and found something comforting about them.

This essay was originally published in the Full Stop Quarterly “Literary Dis(-)appearances in (Post)colonial Cities,” edited by Michelle Chan Schmidt. Subscribe at our Patreon page to get access to this and future issues, also available for purchase here. Ukrainian poetics function as a mode of defense against disappearance and a mode of remembrance in the city. I will address the […]

What makes a place utopic? Or rather what is it that makes a place received in people’s imaginations as utopic?

Lublin is not only a road trip on foot in central Europe, nor a coming-of-age novel . . . It is the translation into fiction of the economic migrant’s existential condition, caught and lost in the endless borderland that extends between their deprived place of origin and the metropole’s illusion of socio-economic elevation and fulfillment.

Navigating Capital Cities in Chinatown and Lungo Cammino as the Undesired

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This special issue of the FULL STOP QUARTERLY will aim to hold folklore as a prism through which to view connection, the self, and the future. . . . It will explore folklore in and as literature, as process, and as performance.

In times like ours, times of fracture, depravity and upheaval—times which are really not that different than any other time on earth, except for the speed and scale at which violence is exercised—what is the value of art?

Read the introduction to our latest issue of the Full Stop Quarterly, “Literary Dis(-)appearances in (Post)colonial Cities.”