Waiting for the End of the World
In Durham, where Leave gained 57.5% of the referendum vote, one could see a man walking around the city center, bearing a sign that read, “LEAVE THE EU – RETURN TO YOUR GOD.”
Grace Paley’s Political Vision of Love
At a time when self-care has been effectively sold and “love” mangled to mean turning a blind eye, Paley’s stories seem to offer a way out—a less sanitized and more genuinely compassionate way to live with both ourselves and others.
With each day, as walks and meals arrive in a predictable order, as I persuade him to walk down the stairs or past the bicycle and no catastrophe occurs, we grow closer together, but he’ll remain a visitor—and thus so will I—until we can talk with one another.
The encounter with the other in street cats gestures beyond itself towards the true Other of the Divine.
The Splash of Icarus: Theorizing Sound Writing / Writing Sound Theory
Sound knowledge — a nondiscursive form of affective transmission resulting from acts of listening.
Sound writing — a performance in word-sound of such knowledge.
What’s wrong with feeling, anyway?
Each autumn is a collection of every autumn past.
Murder Play: Reading Pain in Chris Kraus’s HOW TO SHOOT A CRIME
Rather than deeply connecting sadomasochism with gentrification, the film shows how removed loft living can be from issues of displacement and crime.
Lifting the Veil: Behind the Sacred Text of Islam
What will you find if you open the Qur’an and begin to read?
The Full Stop Reviews Supplement #2
A glimpse into our ongoing conversations about the possibilities of the contemporary review.