Le Havre and the Cinema of Nostalgia
The “nostalgia cinema” designation and its tidy Hollywood ending grossly complicate LE HAVRE, an impossible fairy tale firmly rooted in present-day France’s post-colonial, post-9/11 atmosphere of xenophobia.
These men in their expensive suits, stabbing each other quietly in the back, are Le Carré’s satirical metaphor for the decay of England after the fading of the Empire.
Full Stop Recommends (February 21, 2012)
Recommendations for reading, watching, looking, listening, and doing from Full Stop editors.
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How (Not) to Say “I Love You” with Perec
Perec’s narrative frames and the people who live in them tend to look fragmented, but it’s this incompleteness that invites pathos and attempts to piece a puzzle back together.
All Hail Aphrodite: Venus in Fur’s Media Problem
A show like VENUS IN FUR is a testament to the ways in which power has so totally infiltrated the arts experience.
Introducing: Thinking The Present
All of us at Full Stop are excited to introduce “Thinking The Present”: a new series in which our editors and contributors will respond to contemporary academic and popular nonfiction books about our world today.
Stephen Greenblatt: Theory and the Public Intellectual
THE SWERVE is a sort of wish-fulfillment with which Greenblatt has gifted his readers.
Welcome to a new year in Full Stop features. In this section, you can find high quality criticism on literature, culture and politics, updated weekly.
The Situation in American Writing: Yannick Murphy
You don’t become a writer to pay the rent. If you do make money at writing, then you’re not only a writer, you gain an extra word in your title, and you become a “lucky writer.”