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The 10 Best-Worst Things I Ate in 2014

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Instead of reviewing the best, which risks a sappy food-gazing given voice, it might be more revealing to ask: what were the worst things I ate this year?

Stuff I Read In The Last Year or So

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Life is all your clothes in piles all over the floor, and sometimes the pieces of clothing get up and move to a different pile at night when you’re asleep.

The 10 Best Books of 2014

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The year’s best books, as selected by the editors of Full Stop.

A Holiday Gift: Field of Reeds

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I am describing something I have sincerely come to love and I do this to challenge my own impulse towards cynicism. Not to banish cynicism, it is really important, but to make it not what I do every day.

Colchester

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Initially, Colchester quite rightly seems shabby, ugly, and like there’s nothing really there: but the surface, at least this once, is an illusion.

Love in the Era of Amazon

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Because we are being surveilled in so many other, more intimate, less visible ways, the absolute transparency of surveillance cameras has come to seem honest, clean-cut, and even nice.

Stuff I’ve Read in the Last Month or so: Truth in Fiction

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The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley is the first novel I’ve ever read that understands the full significance of the eye roll — something I previously thought was only understood by television shows.

Best of the Blog, 2014 (Part 2)

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The blog recap continues with Chop Suey in art, James Joyce on Twitter, orphans on trains, Satanism in America, yarn, Scotland, and much more.

Call of the Void

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A new magazine made by some friends of Full Stop takes you right to the heart of things.

Best of the Blog 2014, (Part 1)

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A cursed horoscope, Taylor Swift’s cruel longing, the 1968 Great Bitter Lake Games, and a bunch of cupcake fascists: it’s all here in our 2014 blog recap.