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  • by Caitlin Kossmann


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

    Aristotle’s Wife: Six Short Plays About Women in Science – Claudia Barnett

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

  • by Eva Dunsky


    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. 

    Darryl – Jackie Ess

    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. 

  • by Olena Jennings


    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 […]

    The Appearance of Urban Memory in Ukrainian Poetics

    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 […]

  • by Konstantin Mitroshenkov


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

    Goat Song – Konstantin Vaginov

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

  • by Caitlin Kossmann


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

    Aristotle’s Wife: Six Short Plays About Women in Science – Claudia Barnett

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

  • by Eva Dunsky


    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. 

    Darryl – Jackie Ess

    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. 

  • by Konstantin Mitroshenkov


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

    Goat Song – Konstantin Vaginov

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

  • by Selen Ozturk


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

    The Möbius Book – Catherine Lacey

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

  • w/ Griffin Reed


    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.

    Mary Helen Callier

    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.

  • w/ Eva Dunsky


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

    Margaret Vandenburg

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

  • w/ Erin Evans


    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.

    Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Esther Lin, and Janine Joseph

    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.

  • w/ Gina Tomaine


    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.

    CD Eskilson

    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.

  • by Olena Jennings


    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 […]

    The Appearance of Urban Memory in Ukrainian Poetics

    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 […]

  • by poupeh missaghi


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

    Notecards on Shit

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

  • by Giorgia Tolfo


    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.

    In Search of Impossible Places?: Lublin by Manya Wilkinson

    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.

  • by Phương Anh


    Navigating Capital Cities in Chinatown and Lungo Cammino as the Undesired

    To Locate or Not to Locate

    Navigating Capital Cities in Chinatown and Lungo Cammino as the Undesired

  • by Michael Schapira


    The following playlist is humbly submitted for your listening pleasure from Full Stop, your full service literary journal. In

    20 4 420: Irie Edition

    The following playlist is humbly submitted for your listening pleasure from Full Stop, your full service literary journal. In

  • by The Editors


    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.

    Call for Pitches

    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.

  • by The Editors


    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?

    Call for Pitches

    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?

  • 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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