Reviews. Interviews. Marginalia. An online publication of literary criticism focusing on debuts, works in translation, and books published by small presses. https://www.full-stop.net/https://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3m4g5eqlhvm2zUnlocked today! John Wall Barger's feature essay "Original Child Bomb Threnody" was first published last month in our subscriber-only newsletter. Read it here: https://www.full-stop.net/2025/10/30/features/essays/johnwallbarger/original-child-bomb-threnody/.30 Oct 2025 14:12 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4g5eqlhvm2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3lwopnnzy722m"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: https://www.full-stop.net/2025/08/13/features/corley-miller/elegy-already-millennials-at-middle-age/18 Aug 2025 15:29 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwopnnzy722mhttps://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3lw7bc4tjqs27"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." https://www.full-stop.net/2025/08/12/interviews/miles-mikofsky/madeline-mcdonnell/12 Aug 2025 12:02 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw7bc4tjqs27https://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3lq66ncftkk2t"I am flirty and irreverent. Deadpan and oblique." A new interview with Ashley D. Escobar by Stephanie Yue Duhem, on site now: https://www.full-stop.net/2025/05/27/interviews/stephanieyd/ashley-d-escobar/27 May 2025 17:11 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lq66ncftkk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3lojkxzjmp22rNew Interview! @griffin5a7.bsky.social interviews Mary Helen Callier about her remarkable poetry collection, When the Horses. https://www.full-stop.net/2025/05/06/interviews/griffinreed/mary-helen-callier/06 May 2025 19:00 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lojkxzjmp22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3lohfsnflps2jhttps://www.givemn.org/organization/Mizna [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2025 22:22 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lohfsnflps2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3loggrabbis23We need n+1! Please support + subscribe 🙏 [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2025 13:07 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3loggrabbis23https://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3loebyu7rxc2l👉 Less than two weeks left to register for this panel with CALYX press, moderated by @mwatsonfore.bsky.social! [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 May 2025 16:36 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3loebyu7rxc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3lnxjbwye2s2rNew 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." https://www.full-stop.net/2025/04/29/interviews/eva-dunsky/margaret-vandenburg/29 Apr 2025 14:42 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnxjbwye2s2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3lnfxhr4dx22tNew 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. https://www.full-stop.net/2025/04/22/interviews/erinevans/marcelo-hernandez-castillo-esther-lin-and-janine-joseph/22 Apr 2025 15:08 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnfxhr4dx22thttps://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3lltpharhjc2k"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/2bn2b86e02 Apr 2025 15:31 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lltpharhjc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3llegca377m2m"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: https://www.full-stop.net/2025/03/27/features/barbarahalla/inorganic-city-a-living-autopsy-of-tirana/.27 Mar 2025 13:38 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3llegca377m2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3llbx4blll526"[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: https://www.full-stop.net/2025/03/26/reviews/jessica-alexander/subterrane-valerie-bah/.26 Mar 2025 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3llbx4blll526https://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3ll7flh3jp42rSubmissions 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: https://www.full-stop.net/2025/03/25/blog/the-editors/call-for-pitches-3/25 Mar 2025 13:42 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll7flh3jp42rhttps://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3ll7ccccnxk2y"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. https://www.full-stop.net/2025/03/25/interviews/mike-corrao/laura-paul/25 Mar 2025 12:43 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll7ccccnxk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3ll4qoav5ck2w"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/yew77u8724 Mar 2025 12:22 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll4qoav5ck2whttps://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3lkswymjlez22"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: https://www.full-stop.net/2025/03/20/interviews/tiffanytroy/squinting-at-the-gold-teeth-of-the-sun-a-conversation-with-j-mae-barizo-on-tender-machines/.20 Mar 2025 14:49 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkswymjlez22https://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3lkqwj2vmlu2m"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): https://www.full-stop.net/2025/03/19/reviews/vikamujumdar/the-use-of-photography-annie-ernaux-and-marc-marie/.19 Mar 2025 19:35 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkqwj2vmlu2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3lkqfi2z5ae2v"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): https://www.full-stop.net/2025/03/19/reviews/vikamujumdar/the-use-of-photography-annie-ernaux-and-marc-marie/.19 Mar 2025 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkqfi2z5ae2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3lknyeg2uu32a"I don’t think I described friendship as a contract; our society already has." Anna Learn interviews Mariam Rahmani about her debut novel Liquid. https://www.full-stop.net/2025/03/18/interviews/anna-learn/mariam-rahmani/18 Mar 2025 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lknyeg2uu32ahttps://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3lknwn2lvuc2hSubmissions 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: https://www.full-stop.net/2025/03/18/blog/the-editors/call-for-pitches-2/.18 Mar 2025 14:59 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lknwn2lvuc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3lknocdgswv22"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: https://www.full-stop.net/2025/03/18/interviews/benjamin-parris/graeme-macrae-burnet/18 Mar 2025 12:30 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lknocdgswv22https://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3lklh2grby72r"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: https://www.full-stop.net/2025/03/17/reviews/kaeliegiffel/feminism-in-revolt-carla-lonzi-ed-luisa-lorenza-corna-and-jamila-m-h-mascat/17 Mar 2025 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lklh2grby72rhttps://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3lkdte7tnz522"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): https://www.full-stop.net/2025/03/14/reviews/yasmindesouki/if-i-must-die-poetry-and-prose-refaat-alareer/14 Mar 2025 14:34 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkdte7tnz522https://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3lkdl7yopa22n"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): https://www.full-stop.net/2025/03/14/reviews/yasmindesouki/if-i-must-die-poetry-and-prose-refaat-alareer/14 Mar 2025 12:08 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkdl7yopa22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3ljsd66t52y2f"[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/3zcthc24.07 Mar 2025 15:29 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljsd66t52y2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/fullstopmag.bsky.social/post/3ljpwvtd2tk2nUnlocked today! "The Human Situation in the Work of Alexander Kluge," an essay by Semyon Khoklov first published last month in our Patreon newsletter: https://www.full-stop.net/2025/03/06/features/semyon-khokhlov/the-human-situation-in-the-work-of-alexander-kluge/06 Mar 2025 16:44 +0000at://did:plc:2563dfz54sunaffalygskpg6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljpwvtd2tk2n