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Fair Practices And Damaged Book Workers

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Publishing’s leaders composed careful statements in the height of this summer’s protests for racial justice. But these ring hollow in the face of an industry rife with sexism, classism, and racism.

Podcast #11: Post-Post-Pandemic Travel Writing

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We discuss travel writing, its pitfalls, and what might come after the pandemic … if there’s really going to be an after.

The 10 Best Books of 2020

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

Full Stop Quarterly: Winter 2020

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In this issue we look at and beyond all sorts of crisis-bred monsters.

The classroom is burning, let’s dream about a School of Improper Education

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in defining our initiative as a school, how can we use it as an avenue through which we can practice unlearning?

Girl, Woman, Odor

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Deodorant as an accoutrement of my coming-of-age was slightly thrilling… it represented the excitement of being a body that required self-maintenance, like upgrading to a vehicle that prefers to drink high octane gasoline.

An Adultery

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“Hate” is a much ballyhooed word of the zeitgeist: We lob softballs like “I hate tofu,” “I hate Knausgard,” or, “I hate Bernie Bros.” Theroux didn’t write the book on hatred, but he wrote four novels where the emotion coruscates…

Podcast #10: Gabrielle Civil & Allison Noelle Conner

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Full Stop contributing editor Allison Noelle Conner talks with poet and conceptual artist Gabrielle Civil.

What if we all lay down and everything was fine and no one died?

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What if an immigrant got tired?

What if an immigrant was lazy?

I think that’s when they send a federal agent to your local masjid.

Hard Lads as an Important Failure

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In 2015, a phone video of young muscular White British men hitting each other with a chair went viral…