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Unlocked today! John Wall Barger's feature essay "Original Child Bomb Threnody" was first published last month in our subscriber-only newsletter. Read it here: www.full-stop.net/2025/10/30/f....

Elegy Already: Millennials at Middle Age We were kids together. And now we are not.

"We were kids together. And now we are not."

Corley Miller writes about millennials growing up in the digital age—and documenting it through two recent memoirs—for our features section: www.full-stop.net/2025/08/13/f...

Madeline McDonnell I’d love to think that Lonesome Ballroom...might prove one of many “weird” books that make our broader tradition stranger and therefore stronger, more strapping.

"I’d love to think that Lonesome Ballroom...might prove one of many “weird” books that make our broader tradition stranger and therefore stronger, more strapping."

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"I am flirty and irreverent. Deadpan and oblique."

A new interview with Ashley D. Escobar by Stephanie Yue Duhem, on site now: www.full-stop.net/2025/05/27/i...

Mary Helen Callier That feeling of disorientation might be my favorite thing about poetry. I think poems can bring about new possibilities by skirting the edges of sense, or they can expand our capacity for sense-making...

New Interview! @griffin5a7.bsky.social interviews Mary Helen Callier about her remarkable poetry collection, When the Horses.

www.full-stop.net/2025/05/06/i...

Mary Helen Callier That feeling of disorientation might be my favorite thing about poetry. I think poems can bring about new possibilities by skirting the edges of sense, or they can expand our capacity for sense-making...

i interviewed my friend mary helen callier @fullstopmag.bsky.social on her new book of poetry, when the horses! www.full-stop.net/2025/05/06/i...

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👉 Less than two weeks left to register for this panel with CALYX press, moderated by @mwatsonfore.bsky.social!

Margaret Vandenburg Fun and revelry can be deeply disruptive forces, ways to destabilize coercive structures. Never underestimate the power of fun.

New Interview! Margaret Vandenburg interviewed Eva Dunsky about her jazz age romp with a healthy dose of gender politics. "Fun and revelry can be deeply disruptive forces, ways to destabilize coercive structures. Never underestimate the power of fun."

www.full-stop.net/2025/04/29/i...

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Esther Lin, and Janine Joseph Toni Morrison writes about how “you have to write the book that you want to read.” When I was growing up undocumented, the only things to read about my “situation” was through newspapers, and it was a...

New interview by Erin Evans with the editors of Here to Stay, a vital collection of poetry and prose from the undocumented diaspora. Cannot think of many more important works to read right now.

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www.full-stop.net/2025/04/22/i...

"The stories in Bad Houses span a kind of tonal spectrum that reaches on one end for the mythic and on another end for a wry, hyper-contemporary irony."

Kasey Peters reviews BAD HOUSES by @jestintzi.bsky.social (@arsenalpulp.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/2bn2b86e

Alternative Facts – Emily Greenberg Greenberg depicts these figures with sympathy, at times poignancy, yet never with forgiveness.

So grateful for this generous, thoughtful review of Alternative Facts in @fullstopmag.bsky.social!

www.full-stop.net/2025/03/12/r...

"When monuments fail us, words provide the last respite . . ."
Today we're unlocking another essay from our latest quarterly issue, edited by @arghpoetica.bsky.social: "Inorganic City: A Living Autopsy of Tirana" by Barbara Halla: www.full-stop.net/2025/03/27/f....

"[Bah's] novel attends to the ways [Stockholm's colonialist] legacy has shaped understandings of class, culture, gender, and sexuality."
Jessica Alexander reviews SUBTERRANE by Valérie Bah: www.full-stop.net/2025/03/26/r....

Submissions are open for "Possibilities in Folklore," a special issue of the Full Stop Quarterly to be edited by Full Stop Fellow Annalise Peters. Send your pitch for a book review, interview, essay, or visual art by April 22 for consideration: www.full-stop.net/2025/03/25/b...

Laura Paul Throughout the book, I mention harm that has occurred in and around film sets in the name of art. Workers are hurt or killed, sacrificed for the sake of the end product, which is the moving image. One...

"Death punctuates and punctures. It’s the ultimate period, the last sprocket hole. I’ve tried to show that viscerally. I’ve tried to show the hole; I’ve tried to point to the absence, the black, the end."
@laura-n-paul.bsky.social interviewed by Mike Corrao. www.full-stop.net/2025/03/25/i...

"Ibtisam Azem’s haunting novel . . . is an audacious work of speculative fiction that explores what happens when the colonizer’s wish to vanish indigenous peoples comes true."

Yasmin Desouki reviews THE BOOK OF DISAPPEARANCE by Ibtisam Azem (@syracuseup.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/yew77u87

"I listen to the cities, so they will not wound me too much."
—@jmaebarizo.bsky.social on her new book, TENDER MACHINES (@tupelopress.bsky.social), w/ @tiffanytroy.bsky.social in an interview from the latest Full Stop Quarterly, ed. by @arghpoetica.bsky.social: www.full-stop.net/2025/03/20/i....

"A new and urgent rethinking of the limits and possibilities of the photograph, and what literature offers us in relation to the hauntings of speculative absence."

Vika Mujumdar on THE USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY by Annie Ernaux & Marc Marie (@sevenstories.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/03/19/r....

"Ernaux and Marie venture into a new form of documentation, of record keeping, of making real the ephemeral."
@vikamujumdar.bsky.social reviews THE USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY by Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie, translated by Alison Strayer (@sevenstories.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/03/19/r....

"I don’t think I described friendship as a contract; our society already has." Anna Learn interviews Mariam Rahmani about her debut novel Liquid.
www.full-stop.net/2025/03/18/i...

Submissions are now open for "Contradictions of Looking," a special issue of the Full Stop Quarterly, edited by Full Stop Fellow Keely Shinners. Send a pitch by March 28 for consideration: www.full-stop.net/2025/03/18/b....

"I'm much more concerned with character than I am with crime: with the impact of the events – the crime, if you want – on the characters, rather than the crime itself." Benjamin Parris interviews Graeme Macrae Burnet about his Barthesian detective trilogy: www.full-stop.net/2025/03/18/i...

"Lonzi’s work . . . makes critics of us all."
Kaelie Giffel reviews FEMINISM IN REVOLT, a collection of works by Carla Lonzi, ed. by Luisa Lorenza Corna and Jamila M. H. Mascat, tr. by Luisa Lorenza Corna, Matthew Hyland, and Cristina Viti: www.full-stop.net/2025/03/17/r...

"An indispensable living document of a people’s fight against annihilation and a thesis statement on what makes us human."
Yasmin Desouki reviews IF I MUST DIE, an anthology of works by Refaat Alareer (@orbooks.bsky.social):

"An indispensable living document of a people’s fight against annihilation and a thesis statement on what makes us human."
Yasmin Desouki reviews IF I MUST DIE, an anthology of works by Refaat Alareer (O/R Books): www.full-stop.net/2025/03/14/r...

"[The] diversity of voices and styles, translated from the French, Dutch, German, Chinese, and more, surprises and entices in turn."
Eric Bies reviews AT THE LOUVRE: POEMS BY 100 CONTEMPORARY WORLD POETS (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social): tinyurl.com/3zcthc24.

The Human Situation in the Work of Alexander Kluge All of Kluge’s books contribute to one large, ongoing project to build up a toolkit of resistant feelings that readers can use to plot their own ways out.

Unlocked today! "The Human Situation in the Work of Alexander Kluge," an essay by Semyon Khoklov first published last month in our Patreon newsletter: www.full-stop.net/2025/03/06/f...

My review of Joshua Whitehead’s book, Making Love With the Land, is up @fullstopmag.bsky.social today! This book, and considering how to write about it, was a whole experience. Took me way out of myself and then put me back in.