Neither Maso nor her characters are afraid to transgress presumed boundaries.

Capista’s poetry may overlap with those of earlier domestic male poets, they are freed from any implied gendered notions or assignations, notably signaling an ideological departure from Western male hegemony.

The idea of performing gender and “returning the gaze” was just something that was creeping into my consciousness, and these images felt like a way to work it out before I could really talk about it or make sense of it all.

What if there is a great distance between an author’s real life and the way it’s represented on the page? What kind of accountability, if that’s the case, should the reader expect from the author?

Neither Maso nor her characters are afraid to transgress presumed boundaries.

Capista’s poetry may overlap with those of earlier domestic male poets, they are freed from any implied gendered notions or assignations, notably signaling an ideological departure from Western male hegemony.

A beloved pet serves as a singularly appropriate subject through which a story of change — epochal, mundane, or otherwise — can be told.

A poetry of directness, for Abi-Karam, means naming the violence, the rage, and the pain that is too often formally disguised.

The idea of performing gender and “returning the gaze” was just something that was creeping into my consciousness, and these images felt like a way to work it out before I could really talk about it or make sense of it all.

I think translation is very important in revolutionary, feminist, and oppositional political activism; we live and fight in Turkey, but we have to know what is going on in other parts of the world.

In my current novels, the satyr play is interwoven with the tragedy. Seriousness and fun are intertwined, philosophy, the former queen of the sciences is one with its jester …

“I want to make it clear that ‘not caring about money’ isn’t a heroic thing, I wish I cared more about it, I could help more people if I cared more about money, I could be a hero, but instead, I like to read books.”

What if there is a great distance between an author’s real life and the way it’s represented on the page? What kind of accountability, if that’s the case, should the reader expect from the author?

Even if we go nowhere, even if we staycate, our escape is always into rather than out from under the imperial gaze.

A drill-rig in the pasture. The intaglio of ditches in the valley. The person you sleep beside in bed. A life is a kind of dirt.

To understand these publishers, these people, is to understand how white nationalism functions.

There’s a profusion, a tailback of vehicles near the water’s edge, in places and positions that cause trouble.

A discussion with the inaugural Full Stop Fellows.

Small Press Publishing & the Normalization of Fascism

The decade’s best books, as selected by the editors of Full Stop.