From the Quarterly

Ottessa Moshfegh

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This needs more subjectivity and observation. Tell me more about being nervous.

Deep Dream Believer

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Despite what you’ve heard, Google’s Deep Dream is not an artificial intelligence – it’s just an interesting image filter. What does this misrepresentation tell us about the state of online tech journalism?

I’m Not You

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The multiplicity of binaries and hierarchies in Leon Neyfakh’s THE NEXT NEXT LEVEL testifies to a profound uneasiness regarding the center of power in America, cultural and otherwise.

The Full Stop Quarterly Issue #2 Is Now Available

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The Full Stop Quarterly Issue #2 is an action-packed, emotionally-satisfying thrill ride.

I don’t actually know where my faculties are

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Platforms like Facebook require consistency between one’s online and offline selves. But maybe there’s something unnatural about trying to force this consistency.

Honeychild, Fly Away Home

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For a brief moment in the cemetery, I wished it wasn’t my inheritance. That this wasn’t my story.

The Poetry of Pedestrians

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By merely wandering, the dérivist frustrates the spatial logic of capitalism, in the process discovering new currents, fissures, and vortices of possibility within a deeply familiar space.

Lesser-Known Pleasures

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Nell Zink’s prose may not expand into rolling curls of unconventional syntax, but it is nonetheless difficult. Her mercilessly enjoyable prose leaves itself open to serious moral misinterpretation.

Pick Me

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The ability to choose is a luxury, a delightful freedom, a tricky exercise for a mammal that probably never imagined it would be asked to decide so much.

This Imaginary Half-Nothing: Time

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There are dawns and noons and nightfalls, diseased interludes and riots and political turns, seasons of tumors and cures and poisons, and along with these the daily need to reproduce oneself as a living person.