It took a minute to see the irony of speed-reading over plant growth, but when I did, I had a profound and somewhat disembodied experience of my own latent criteria for value and narrative.
The Great American Pop Star Novel
Let’s explore the new canon of pop star novels.
An introduction to Full Stop Quarterly Issue #6.
Female friendship as a form of political resistance in Hulu’s adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale.
The next issue of the Full Stop Quarterly is coming May 1!
Introduction to the Diaries of Waguih Ghali
Traveler, expatriate, cosmopolite, or political exile that he was, Ghali often felt very lonely and abandoned, and his diaries describe his alienation and nostalgia.
I think it’s safe to say that, at this moment, where we find ourselves now, we need good reggae more than ever.
His Master’s Voice is Calling Me
Gaddis saw something else happening. A denouement. A decay. He writes about the decline of art into “usefulness.” Art becomes a product. It becomes therapy. It becomes sociological catalogues of oppression.
Anything could happen to you. Anything could happen. It couldn’t be pretense or something to do for kicks. It had to be real.
Manifesto for a Left-Wing Meme
Ironic socialist meme pages and left-wing melancholia.