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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 · 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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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 · 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 (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 · 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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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 · 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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