The Oblique Place – Caterina Pascaul Söderbaum
Don’t be fooled that this is a story about discovery. It is instead about trying to accommodate what’s been discovered.
The Full Stop Reviews Supplement #4
[These pieces] demonstrate what book critics can learn from acts of creative reading, finding in them an image of criticism as creative practice.
A Swarm of Dust – Evald Flisar
To what extent can we indeed plausibly claim to be focusing our attention on the text itself when the context needed to make the text fully intelligible might be missing?
The Stolen Bicycle – Wu Ming-Yi
How amazing it is, I thought, while flipping through book after book after book after zine after book, that I am here with THE STOLEN BICYCLE in my backpack, that we are in 2018 and still use paper, ink, and energy to capture, print, and sell random people’s precious moments of the past.
The visa, like the song, will end, and I’ll be swept back into regular-time.
Although Revueltas was a committed Marxist throughout his life, THE HOLE is not a political novel in the ordinary sense.
There is a direct link between listening and life, perceivable in its absence. What we cannot say and what we cannot hear matter.
An Untouched House – Willem Frederik Hermans
The square book fits easily into a jacket pocket, but the ninety-nine pages of narrative are so explosive as to make one feel like you’re smuggling a weapon.
Shall we take dust as the founding metaphor by which to broach the unruly topic of the essay?
Utopia Can Be Banal: The Unfinished Ballad of Kenny Dennis
It’s too easy to write Kenny Dennis off as just a joke. While there are aspects of Kenny that seem wholly ridiculous, Cohn makes his story expansive and dark, and he settles on an exuberance that overcomes Kenny’s struggle.