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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Rebecca van Laer sat down with @fullstopmag to discuss people’s fear and hatred of cats.
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12 Feb 2025
"Herrera’s novel conjures the past from its hiding spot in plain sight. . ."
@truelora reviews Yuri Herrera's SEASON OF THE SWAMP, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman (@GraywolfPress): full-stop.net/2025/02/12/rev….
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"I can’t help but feel something cataclysmic taking place as I read Herrera’s writing. . ."
@truelora reviews Yuri Herrera's novel SEASON OF THE SWAMP in a new, English-language translation by Lisa Dillman (@GraywolfPress): full-stop.net/2025/02/12/rev….
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11 Feb 2025
"In her foregrounding of the harsh labor conditions of undocumented immigrants, Banca does not victimize her characters, nor does she give into painting them as easy tropes."
Rose Bialer reviews @alejbanca's FROM SAVAGERY in @DrKatieBrown's translation: full-stop.net/2025/02/11/rev….
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"Banca is not interested in painting the migrant life as one of pure struggle."
Rose Bialer reviews @AlejBanca's debut story collection, FROM SAVAGERY, translated from the Spanish by @DrKatieBrown (@RestlessBooks): full-stop.net/2025/02/11/rev….
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10 Feb 2025
"SPATRIATI eschews readers’ expectations, as life often does to those of us who think we are owed certainty and purpose."
Liliana Torpey reviews SPATRIATI by Mario Desiati (@otherpress), tr. from the Italian by Michael F. Moore: full-stop.net/2025/02/10/rev….
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7 Feb 2025
"Savaş’s project in this book, documenting with precision and care the liminality of early motherhood, . . . is also one of light and truth."
Vika Mujumdar reviews THE WILDERNESS by Ayşegül Savaş (@transitbooks): full-stop.net/2025/02/07/rev….
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"The mirrors of daughterhood—being mothered, motherhood, and mothering—make up the central tension of this diaristic documentation of new motherhood."
Vika Mujumdar reviews THE WILDERNESS by Ayşegül Savaş (@transitbooks): full-stop.net/2025/02/07/rev….
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7 Feb 2025
Here is a great interview by Phoebe Chan, who asks smart, thoughtful, meaningful questions about my debut novel, Koan Khmer. Thanks @fullstopmag for publishing it.
Please give it a read when you have a minute. Thank you.
Happy Friday, All!
full-stop.net/2025/02/04/int…
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5 Feb 2025
"To laugh at oneself is to reset one’s perception, and as Bassett reminds us, that can be enough to reveal the way forward."
Mike Nees reviews Janelle Bassett's debut collection, THANKS FOR THIS RIOT (@UnivNebPress): full-stop.net/2025/02/05/rev….
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"Connections, too often, mean relinquishing control, and none of the women in THANKS FOR THIS RIOT have enough to spare."
Mike Nees reviews Janelle Bassett's debut story collection, THANKS FOR THIS RIOT (@UnivNebPress): full-stop.net/2025/02/05/rev….
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"I hope Cambodian-American writers are inspired to tell their stories in a way that reflects their realities. KOAN KHMER is just one of many Cambodian American stories."
From Phoebe Chan's interview w/ @BunkongTuon on Tuon's debut novel (@northwesternup): full-stop.net/2025/02/04/int….
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4 Feb 2025
"[In] the old Cambodian way of seeing the world . . . there is another world that is alongside this world. . . the world of ghosts and spirits . . ."
—@BunkongTuon on his debut novel, KOAN KHMER (@northwesternup), with interviewer Phoebe Chan: full-stop.net/2025/02/04/int….
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Join us in celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth by picking several indie lit reads from our 2025 reading list! Featuring year-round recs from @haymarketbooks, @fullstopmag, @catalyst_press, @HangingLooseNY, @Sinister_Wisdom, @Coffee_House_ & more publishers: clmp.org/news/a-reading-list…
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4 Feb 2025
Our editorial collective is expanding! If you like what Full Stop does and want like to get involved with this work, now is your chance! To be considered, fill out our (simple✨) application form by Feb 15: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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"History has a tendency of seeming settled—until, all at once, it isn’t."
Eamon McGrath reviews Lidija Dimkovska's latest novel, GRANDMA NON-OUI (@Istros_books), in Christina E. Kramer's translation: full-stop.net/2025/02/03/rev….
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3 Feb 2025
"Dimkovska is a consummate storyteller . . . the novel unfolds as one long saga told by one generation to the next."
Eamon McGrath reviews GRANDMA NON-OUI by Lidija Dimkovska, tr. from the Macedonian by Christina E. Kramer (@Istros_book): full-stop.net/2025/02/03/rev….
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22 Jan 2025
Thanks to @fullstopmag for this astute close reading of UXA.GOV by @hesychasmtbh, contextualizing it w the work of Jodorowsky, Kafka, Artaud, Deleuze & Guattari, Burroughs, Sade, and this website
22 Jan 2025
"A breakneck ride through the nightmare of a dying empire . . . a dizzying feat that treats Antonin Artaud’s 'Theatre of Cruelty' as an ante to be upped."
@hesychasmtbh reviews @blakebutler's new novel UXA.GOV (@incastellated): full-stop.net/2025/01/22/rev….
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"Rising waters and the changes they necessitate will require losses. . . But Xia wants us to understand that there are many collective wins to be had."
Samara Skolnik reviews @RosannaXia's CALIFORNIA AGAINST THE SEA (@heydaybooks): full-stop.net/2025/01/31/rev…
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