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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.
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Reeve’s imagined worlds are not habitable alternatives but critical comments on this one. Her idea of a refuge is not the infinite expanse of the interior self, but the tight-knit, embattled queer family in a hostile world ..read more
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On her own, Converse created great and complex work, but what might the canon look like today if she found an audience in her lifetime? If she created in communion with other great art ..read more
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Alikavazovic’s writing is contemplative and digressive, roving like the insatiable gaze of a consummate museum goer ..read more
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At a basic level . . . houses are like corsets for the characters to break out of; they are stuck exploring and returning and opening doors over and over until something within them or within the world is sorted out and overcome ..read more
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In each of your holes I find an invitation—an invitation to the party of the limitless, in spite of it all. Tell me more ..read more
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There was, for a time, genuine class mobility—jobs for people who really didn’t expect them, who pursued their studies out of burning interest—out of trust and faith in what they did not know ..read more
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Bergman emphasize[s] that our obligations are to those living, no matter how important the dead are. We must choose to be present with those around us ..read more
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I went to my first AWP in Seattle in 2023, anxious and green. I’m an academic; conferences stress me out. The AWP was my foray into the world of creative writing and nothing like what I knew. It’s possible that writers don’t know how to have superficial conversations, or maybe they just don’t want to ..read more
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The relinquishing of niceness is a difficult task, especially if you have been socialized into it forever. Learning how to be small took all of my girlhood, learning the opposite will take all of my adulthood ..read more
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3w ago
The following playlist is humbly submitted for your listening pleasure from Full Stop, your full service literary journal. We used to invoke the immortal and ominous words of Prince Buster, “Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think,” but having recently moved to Scotland I’ll invoke the immortal and precise words of Linton Kwesi Johnson, “Inglan is a bitch ..read more