At its heart, The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks is a quirky love letter to the city of Providence.

HUMAN SADNESS has the unique feature of being translated by five different translators, all based around the Oxford Georgian Translation Project, to preserve the tonal differences between the various chroniclers . . .

One of the great potentials of science fiction is its ability to relativize our own experience, to put it in different contexts.

Framed through the lens of Prasad’s shifting relationship with her parents across geographies, THE TRANSLATOR’S DAUGHTER is a startling, aching account of [her] relationship to home.

At its heart, The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks is a quirky love letter to the city of Providence.

HUMAN SADNESS has the unique feature of being translated by five different translators, all based around the Oxford Georgian Translation Project, to preserve the tonal differences between the various chroniclers . . .

Framed through the lens of Prasad’s shifting relationship with her parents across geographies, THE TRANSLATOR’S DAUGHTER is a startling, aching account of [her] relationship to home.

Discomfort is the mission. Comic madness is the method. After reading Cannon, there’s no going back to the world you came from.

One of the great potentials of science fiction is its ability to relativize our own experience, to put it in different contexts.

It sort of seems old-fashioned now, but I consider myself a social realist. I like to work on big canvases. I like books that take on the whole world.

Forever—a terrifying idea in many regards. It’s not proper to earthly creatures.

I felt a kindred experience in Isabel Allende while writing here in the United States but thinking about Venezuela and dealing with all these feelings about being apart from it . . . guilt, love, nostalgia for my home country that I knew I probably was never going to live in again.

Hoffman had to translate a Ukrainian particularity into an American one. This task shows the power at the core of the art of translation.

The word “classic” once had a very specific meaning, namely a text written in Greek and Latin during the era of antiquity.

With a figure as important to the American far-right as Gottfried, what excuse is there to lend him the veneer of academic legitimacy and to suggest his views have merit in scholarship?

On her own, Converse created great and complex work, but what might the canon look like today if she found an audience in her lifetime? If she created in communion with other great art?

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Full Stop stands proudly in solidarity with the people of occupied Palestine in committing to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) guidelines.

[This issue aims] to explore how the intersection of language, queerness, and shifting dynamics of racialization and belonging can help generate language to define oneself and to approach literary and arts criticism without centering Global North, white, male, cis-hetero standpoints.

What are the commonalities or differences of writing urban dis(-)appearance across continents, or in the same city across disparate works of literature?
How does literature counter brutality? Does an ideal utopian city exist across the trenches of global writing?