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Reviews. Interviews. Marginalia. An online publication of literary criticism focusing on debuts, works in translation, and books published by small presses. www.full-stop.net

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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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....
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
"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...
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Elegy Already: Millennials at Middle Age
We were kids together. And now we are not.
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
"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...
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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.
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
"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...
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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...
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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...
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griffin @griffin5a7.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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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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...
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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For more than 20 years, Mizna has provided a rare space on the national landscape—a multidisciplinary critical platform for Southwest Asian and North African artists led by a small team of SWANA women...
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
👉 Less than two weeks left to register for this panel with CALYX press, moderated by @mwatsonfore.bsky.social!
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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...
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Margaret Vandenburg
Fun and revelry can be deeply disruptive forces, ways to destabilize coercive structures. Never underestimate the power of fun.
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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...
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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...
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
"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
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Emily Greenberg @egreenberg.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
So grateful for this generous, thoughtful review of Alternative Facts in @fullstopmag.bsky.social! www.full-stop.net/2025/03/12/r...
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Alternative Facts – Emily Greenberg
Greenberg depicts these figures with sympathy, at times poignancy, yet never with forgiveness.
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
"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....
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"[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....
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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...
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
"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...
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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...
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"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
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
"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....
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"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....
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"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....
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"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...
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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....
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"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...
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"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...
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
"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):
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
"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...
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
"[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.
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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...
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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.
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McKenzie Watson-Fore @mwatsonfore.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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.
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
"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...
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
"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....
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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/.
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"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...
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
"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: www.full-stop.net/2025/02/26/review….
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Pinko Magazine @pinko.online · 25/02/2025
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...
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Interview [audio + transcript] with Max Fox, M.E. O’Brien, and Tiana Reid, conducted by Nico Millman
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michelle chan 樂澄 @arghpoetica.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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!
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"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...
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
"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....
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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....
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"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...
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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....
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
"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:
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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...
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
"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...
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Full Stop @fullstopmag.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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....
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