The Thomas Salto – Timmy Straw
The Thomas Salto, a poetry collection largely set in and informed by the Reagan Era, reflects on the supposed timelessness of the 1980s, the American “golden age” the contemporary moment often nostalgically returns to.
The Mask of el Santo – Daniel Rosa Hunter
What happens when, in autofiction […] the writer adopts the persona of a masked figure from the world of professional wrestling?
I am flirty and irreverent. Deadpan and oblique.
Apparent Breviary – Gastón Fernández
The breviary is “apparent” because the spaces on the page—the vacuum between words—is every bit as meaningful as the words themselves. For the poet, Gastón Fernández, words are only apparent. Real prayer happens in emptiness, in silence
A Fictional Inquiry – Daniele Del Giudice
In A FICTIONAL INQUIRY, representation is a matter of collecting loose ends and leaving them loose.
Canadian author, Derek McCormack, writes like Vincent Price possessed by Elsa Schiaparelli: minimal, obscene, cartoonish. His early works include Dark Rides (1996), The Haunted Hillbilly (2003) and The Show That Smells (2008). In 2011, McCormack was diagnosed with abdominal cancer. Since then, he has published The Well-Dressed Wound (2015) and Castle Faggot (2020), both with […]
At times, it reads like a breathless impatience for the release of an orgasm: “Upon hearing the longed-for sound of the door after heaving my weight against it, I quickly put the key I’m already holding into the lock of my apartment and turn it, and once this second anticipated sound has been confirmed, I slip inside the door.”
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.
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.
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 […]