All Hail Aphrodite: Venus in Fur’s Media Problem
A show like VENUS IN FUR is a testament to the ways in which power has so totally infiltrated the arts experience.
Corey McCorkle’s Forgotten Fantasies
In McCorkle’s work it is not the ordinary that is forgotten — but the extraordinary, the phenomenal, and the exotic.
Alan Moore was simply dead wrong when he stated that prequels and sequels diminish a work’s literary quality.
Introducing: Thinking The Present
All of us at Full Stop are excited to introduce “Thinking The Present”: a new series in which our editors and contributors will respond to contemporary academic and popular nonfiction books about our world today.
The Angel Esmeralda – Don DeLillo
It is that journey from not knowing what other people want to not knowing what oneself wants, a journey into greater depths of uncertainty, that brings all of DeLillo’s talents and perceptions into fruition.
Two friends respond to Molly Fischer’s recent piece in n+1, in which she critiques thehairpin.com, rookiemag.com, jezebel.com, xojane.com, and BFF-dom among women online.
“Inalienable Resurrection” wins a Critical Hit Award!
Great news from the good people over at Electric Literature: Peter Nowogrodzki’s essay on Tan Lin’s The Patio and The Index, has won a Critical Hit Award.
From the Mouth of the Whale – Sjon
Sjon’s Jonas is God’s champion, and his novel shapes its narrative antecedent into an experience that is utterly and beautifully different.
While an intern at Harpers Bazaar, a fashion magazine owned by the Hearst Corporation, Xuedan Wang was not paid, even though she was in fact working what amounted to a full time job. This, argues Wang and her lawyer, is in direct violation of federal and state wage and hour laws.
The first thing George Bahgory said to me when I met him was, “Helen, I am too much human.” I smiled and nodded; I believed it. The second thing he said was “Hand me my internet.” I glanced around and handed him his laptop.