"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...

"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." www.full-stop.net/2025/08/12/i...

"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...

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...

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!

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...

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. Link in Bio. 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

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...

"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.

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.

"A revelation of the many forms queerness can take, an expansion, a celebration of an ever-widening canon." @mwatsonfore.bsky.social reviews Joshua Whitehead's essay collection MAKING LOVE WITH THE LAND (@uminnpress.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/03/05/r...

"In the process of confronting the system, one cannot quite overcome the bitterness produced by the system . . ." Soni Wadhwa reviews Sole Otero's graphic novel MOTHBALLS (@fantagraphics.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/03/03/r....

For our new "Interlingual Reviews" initiative, we invite pitches for reviews of books published in languages other than English & not—or not yet—translated into English. Email the reviews team w/ any pitches, drafts, or Q's: www.full-stop.net/masthead/.

"Desiati gives the reader a world that is as cold as we know it to be, and yet, until the very end, offers connection as an alternative for warmth." Arla Hoxha reviews SPATRIATI by Mario Desiati, tr. from the Italian by Michael J. Moore (Other Press): www.full-stop.net/2025/02/28/r...

"The digital materiality of the poem makes it both more and less disposable than paper . . ." Lilith Todd reviews WRONG HEAVEN AGAIN by @ryaneckes.bsky.social: https://www.full-stop.net/2025/02/26/reviews/lilithtodd/wrong-heaven-again-ryan-eckes/.

An wide-ranging interview at @fullstopmag.bsky.social with collective members about After Accountability and our project overall www.full-stop.net/2025/02/25/i...

loved working on this brilliant essay about relationality and relatability--how can we approach works of literature from realms unfamiliar to us? which is really: how can we understand other people? grateful to Lara for her honed empathy, and to @fullstopmag.bsky.social for publishing!

"Nordenhök transforms Caesaria from footnote to fiction, turning 'that little orphan girl' into a formidable, ghastly narrator." Anna Learn reviews Hanna Nordenhök's CAESARIA, tr. from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel (@bookhugpress.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/02/24/r...

"AGAIN I HEAR THESE WATERS attempts to create a world where songs and verses represent both erasure and belonging." Sayani Sarkar reviews an anthology of poems from the Miyah movement, curated and translated by Shalim M. Hussain (@tiltedaxispress.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/02/21/r....

In her essay from the latest Full Stop Quarterly (ed. by @arghpoetica.bsky.social), Lara Norgaard discusses her translation of Felix Nesi's PEOPLE FROM OETIMU (@archipelagobooks.bsky.social) from the original Indonesian: www.full-stop.net/2025/02/20/f....

"The acts of translation throughout TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE show how language hides our blind spots and how caring deeply for others might help to reveal them." Amber Ruth Paulen reviews Yáng Shuāng-Zǐ's novel, translated by Lin King (@graywolfpress.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/02/19/r...

This week in Interviews, Elvira Navarro discusses her latest novel, THE VOICES OF ADRIANA (@twolinespress.bsky.social) w/ interviewer Alia Spartz: www.full-stop.net/2025/02/18/i....

"When fatherhood is discussed in literature . . . it is never located as a source of interiority and experience; it is usually mentioned offhand, as a detail or inconvenience." Eamonn Gallagher reviews CHILDISH LITERATURE by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell:

LAST DAY TO APPLY! 💘 If you like what Full Stop does and want like to get involved, now is your chance: We're looking to expand our Interviews team! Fill out our (simple✨) application form by Feb 15: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"People will hold onto the rebellious spirit of 2011, and it will continue to haunt both Egyptians and the security apparatus of the state for decades to come." —Yasmin Desouki on the collection EGYPT +100, ed. by @ahmednaji.bsky.social (@commapress.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/02/14/r...

We're excited to share a piece from our latest Full Stop Quarterly, edited by Michelle Chan Schmidt: Alex Tan's review of TRACES OF ENAYAT by Iman Mersal is up on our site today. The full issue is available to Patreon members + for purchase on Gumroad: www.full-stop.net/2025/02/13/f....