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by Eamonn Gallagher
How does it feel to be a father? It is a sensitive, self-reflective state. I am always aware of the political and social tenuousness of my position, the expectation that I will disappoint, the lack of a solid script.
Childish Literature – Alejandro Zambra
How does it feel to be a father? It is a sensitive, self-reflective state. I am always aware of the political and social tenuousness of my position, the expectation that I will disappoint, the lack of a solid script.
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by Yasmin Desouki
EGYPT +100 is anchored by an elegantly simple premise: invite a cadre of influential Egyptian writers to imagine what the country will be like in the year 2111—one hundred years after the 2011 Revolution.
Egypt + 100: Stories from a Century after Tahrir – ed. Ahmed Naji
EGYPT +100 is anchored by an elegantly simple premise: invite a cadre of influential Egyptian writers to imagine what the country will be like in the year 2111—one hundred years after the 2011 Revolution.
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by Alex Tan
As [Mersal’s] recursive and often discontinuous writing attests, the drive toward progress tends to entail an imperfect erasure, whose traces might resurface—as if through a palimpsest—if only one cared to look.
City Addresses: Iman Mersal’s Rihla through a Dis(-)appearing Cairo
As [Mersal’s] recursive and often discontinuous writing attests, the drive toward progress tends to entail an imperfect erasure, whose traces might resurface—as if through a palimpsest—if only one cared to look.
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by Lora Maslenitsyna
Herrera’s novel conjures the past from its hiding spot in plain sight. What appears absent is in fact there, somewhere—only it requires the work of a skilled author to coax it to life.
Season of the Swamp – Yuri Herrera
Herrera’s novel conjures the past from its hiding spot in plain sight. What appears absent is in fact there, somewhere—only it requires the work of a skilled author to coax it to life.
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by Eamonn Gallagher
How does it feel to be a father? It is a sensitive, self-reflective state. I am always aware of the political and social tenuousness of my position, the expectation that I will disappoint, the lack of a solid script.
Childish Literature – Alejandro Zambra
How does it feel to be a father? It is a sensitive, self-reflective state. I am always aware of the political and social tenuousness of my position, the expectation that I will disappoint, the lack of a solid script.
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by Yasmin Desouki
EGYPT +100 is anchored by an elegantly simple premise: invite a cadre of influential Egyptian writers to imagine what the country will be like in the year 2111—one hundred years after the 2011 Revolution.
Egypt + 100: Stories from a Century after Tahrir – ed. Ahmed Naji
EGYPT +100 is anchored by an elegantly simple premise: invite a cadre of influential Egyptian writers to imagine what the country will be like in the year 2111—one hundred years after the 2011 Revolution.
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by Lora Maslenitsyna
Herrera’s novel conjures the past from its hiding spot in plain sight. What appears absent is in fact there, somewhere—only it requires the work of a skilled author to coax it to life.
Season of the Swamp – Yuri Herrera
Herrera’s novel conjures the past from its hiding spot in plain sight. What appears absent is in fact there, somewhere—only it requires the work of a skilled author to coax it to life.
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by Rose Bialer
FROM SAVAGERY, the debut work of fiction by Alejandra Banca, beautifully translated by Katie Brown . . . gives a voice to a new generation of Venezuelan migrants creating life abroad.
From Savagery – Alejandra Banca
FROM SAVAGERY, the debut work of fiction by Alejandra Banca, beautifully translated by Katie Brown . . . gives a voice to a new generation of Venezuelan migrants creating life abroad.
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w/ Phoebe Chan
I was trying to capture the reality of the old Cambodian way of seeing the world, where there is another world that is alongside this world.
Bunkong Tuon
I was trying to capture the reality of the old Cambodian way of seeing the world, where there is another world that is alongside this world.
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w/ Tamanna Basu
I love short fiction as a form . . . I think it’s able to speak to the kinds of concerns I want to think about when reading—loneliness, grief, regret, the human condition—better than anything.
Tim Blackett
I love short fiction as a form . . . I think it’s able to speak to the kinds of concerns I want to think about when reading—loneliness, grief, regret, the human condition—better than anything.
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w/ Zach Peckham
Much of the digital realm as it is currently constructed has been shifted to become a facilitator, or enactor, of a fascistic societal structure . . . We are increasingly encouraged to forgo critical thinking and to ignore how society is actually formed and slide along its autonomous rails.
Geared to Machine as Metaphor and Driver: An Interview with Michael Salu, Part II
Much of the digital realm as it is currently constructed has been shifted to become a facilitator, or enactor, of a fascistic societal structure . . . We are increasingly encouraged to forgo critical thinking and to ignore how society is actually formed and slide along its autonomous rails.
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w/ Zach Peckham
There’s an intense metaphysical battle for the soul unfurling. One’s will and agency is funneled through coiling mechanical algorithms by technologists—so knowing exactly what cognitive levers to pull and how is of great consequence.
Geared to Machine as Metaphor and Driver: An Interview with Michael Salu, Part I
There’s an intense metaphysical battle for the soul unfurling. One’s will and agency is funneled through coiling mechanical algorithms by technologists—so knowing exactly what cognitive levers to pull and how is of great consequence.
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by Alex Tan
As [Mersal’s] recursive and often discontinuous writing attests, the drive toward progress tends to entail an imperfect erasure, whose traces might resurface—as if through a palimpsest—if only one cared to look.
City Addresses: Iman Mersal’s Rihla through a Dis(-)appearing Cairo
As [Mersal’s] recursive and often discontinuous writing attests, the drive toward progress tends to entail an imperfect erasure, whose traces might resurface—as if through a palimpsest—if only one cared to look.
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by Olivia Muenz
The body can guide the process of its own translation if its author will let it. An expert at adaptation, it already knows how to exist on the page.
The Textbody: Rendering the Body’s Divergences
The body can guide the process of its own translation if its author will let it. An expert at adaptation, it already knows how to exist on the page.
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by Thaddeus Squire
In the end, a long-term structural operating deficit killed UArts, not a capital fundraising shell game or evil provost.
The Folly of Philanthropy: On the Demise of UArts
In the end, a long-term structural operating deficit killed UArts, not a capital fundraising shell game or evil provost.
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by Ali Nahdee
Blending a cultural story and creating something new with it can be good or bad, depending on who’s telling the story and who’s in charge of the narrative.
The Native American Horror Story (video essay)
Blending a cultural story and creating something new with it can be good or bad, depending on who’s telling the story and who’s in charge of the narrative.
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by Michelle Chan Schmidt
Read the introduction to our latest issue of the Full Stop Quarterly, “Literary Dis(-)appearances in (Post)colonial Cities.”
Dis(-)appearing Cities or: How I Learned to Stop Walking and Love the Empire
Read the introduction to our latest issue of the Full Stop Quarterly, “Literary Dis(-)appearances in (Post)colonial Cities.”
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by The Editors
Get to know our 2024 Full Stop Editorial Fellows, Keely Shinners and Annalise Peters!
Introducing the Full Stop Editorial Fellows
Get to know our 2024 Full Stop Editorial Fellows, Keely Shinners and Annalise Peters!
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by The Editors
Full Stop invites applications for two Full Stop Editorial Fellows. These six-month fellowships invite early career writers or editors to independently envision, commission, and edit an issue of the Full Stop Quarterly.
Call for Applications: 2024 Full Stop Editorial Fellows
Full Stop invites applications for two Full Stop Editorial Fellows. These six-month fellowships invite early career writers or editors to independently envision, commission, and edit an issue of the Full Stop Quarterly.
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by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
Lately I’ve stopped looking at my father; his body is just another part of the room now, like the bed, the chair, and the window onto the maternity ward.
No One Knows Their Blood Type (Excerpt)
Lately I’ve stopped looking at my father; his body is just another part of the room now, like the bed, the chair, and the window onto the maternity ward.