Kinderkrankenhaus – Jesi Bender
Jesi Bender is an adroit magician of the reshuffled phoneme. The author deconstructs and reconstructs language through verbal play, and in the process reveals that new worlds can be coined, just as words can.
A novel isn’t a painting, it’s language that’s been organized until it has the power to bombard pleasurably. The premise that ‘showing’ is somehow more respectful to a reader than ‘telling’ is illogical nonsense.
Every year when THE SOUND OF MUSIC aired on the local station, we were not allowed to watch it because my grandmother hated Julie Andrews, whom she considered an adventurous prude, a category of women she despised.
Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies – Heba Hayek
What Hayek accomplishes with her debut collection is to transcribe the crisis of categorization that defines the Palestinian experience.
The year’s best books, as selected by the editors of Full Stop.
ROGOMELEC is a collection of surrealist vignettes, conjoined by non-sequiturs. The novel is opaque, and that’s how Fini likes it.
Full Stop Quarterly: Winter 2021
There’s a language between the languages, where a translation lives. This other place is where Full Stop ventures in this quarterly issue.
Women of Color have used speculative and science fiction as genres of expression, overcoming the oppressive structures that incarcerate our realities
“There is Almost Not an Interval”: Composing in Steinian Time
Stein’s process moves in a way that creates an artifice of ambiguity and forms a structure that can reconfigure infinitely. There is a disruptive function to her use of repetition, a disorienting pulse.
No. 91/92: A Diary of the Year on the Bus – Lauren Elkin
Elkin adopts Georges Perec’s diaristic form and heightened engagement not only to lovingly render a place but also to represent the self within the collective of the Parisian community.