"There’s a temptation, when we talk about illness and disability in fiction, to treat the body as either a tragic backstory or an inspirational obstacle course. These novels do something else."
First published last month in our subscriber-exclusive newsletter, @amoye.favour 's "Traumatic Brain Novel" discusses debut works by Esinam Bediako and Stacy Nathaniel Jackson.
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"My husband was actually the one who came up with the zombie Lenin idea. It’s not particularly new, it seems almost obvious. The Lenin mummy has been lying in the mausoleum on Red Square for more than a hundred years now, after all."
Svetlana Satchkova interviewed by Maria Kuznetsova, now live. Link in bio.
In her essay for this month's subscriber newsletter, @fleamcqueen reviews three books on eating disorders—only one of which, she argues, avoids the pitfall of aestheticizing illness.
"Boring Starvation: On Finding the Eating Disorder Book I Needed" is out today exclusively for our Patreon supporters 🔒 To read the piece before it goes online next month, subscribe today at any membership level ($2 and up) at patreon.com/fullstopmag.
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"It would be tempting, if you were a theoretical physicist working on the first atomic bomb, to imagine yourself as a demiurge. To frame the process as spiritual longing for God’s wrath . . ."
First published last month in our subscriber-exclusive newsletter, @johnwallbarger 's "Original Child Bomb Threnody" considers the horrors of the US's bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the nature of evil, and how we process collective trauma, drawing on firsthand accounts of the bombings as well as poetry and films that emerged in response, from Godzilla to Hiroshima Mon Amour, and from David Lynch to Thomas Merton and Toge Sankichi.
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New interview! @tanishatekriwal has an illuminating chat with @lydiconklin about their fabulous new novel Songs of No Provenance (@catapult ).
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“IN A DEEP BLUE HOUR, the latest novel by Swiss writer Peter Stamm, unfolds in . . . [the] interstice between documentary and narrative film, reality and fiction, memory and dream.”
Eamon McGrath (@balkanbooks ) reviews Peter Stamm's (@autorstamm ) IN A DEEP BLUE HOUR (Other Press @otherpress 2025), translated from the German by Michael Hofmann.
"...Reines makes it clear that poetry is the motor—for speaking from the heart, for giving form to grief and rage, and thus for staying conscious to and in the world."
Mairead Case (@maireadcase ) reviews Ariana Reines' (@arianareines )WAVE OF BLOOD (Divided Publishing @dividedpublish 2025.)
"The Equestrian Turtle and Other Poems is more than a recovered oddity—it’s a blast of defiant lyricism, a queer call to arms, a reminder of the generative power of embodiment."
"La tortuga ecuestre y otros poemas no es una rareza recuperada: es un estallido de lirismo desafiante, un manifiesto queer, un recordatorio del poder generativo del cuerpo."
A special bilingual review of César Moro's THE EQUESTRIAN TURTLE (@cardboardhousepress ) from Nilton Maa (@niltonmaa ) up on the site now.
The Interviews Section returns after a summer hiatus. We're back with this wonderful conversation between Madeline McDonnell and @milesmikofsky about Madeline's funny, strange, wonderous debut novel Lonesome Ballroom (@rescuepress ).
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"It is very hard to work together towards emergent capacity when your vagus nerve is lit up like the Drop Tower at Lakeside Amusement Park. “To me,” writes Spade, “LOVE is a clear extension of the questions at the heart of my previous work: How do we build lasting and effective resistance movements? What are the barriers, and how do we overcome them?”"
Mairead Case (@maireadcase ) reviews Dean Spade's (@spade.dean ) LOVE IN A F*CKED-UP WORLD: HOW TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS, HOOK UP, AND RAISE HELL TOGETHER, released by Algonquin Books (@algonquinbooks ).
"Audition by New Zealand writer Pip Adam starts with an unconventional premise. Three giants (Stanley, Alba, and Drew) are in a spaceship named Audition; their bodies keep growing if they remain silent, but their noise is what propels the ship in space, so they have to keep talking."
Babak Lakghomi (@babk ) reviews Pip Adam's (@pipadam ) AUDITION, released earlier this year by Coffee House Press (@coffeehousepress .)
"In the long wake of her twenty-two year marriage to David, Eve—a sixty-two-year-old writer and French expatriate residing in New York City—takes up online dating. The site yields flirtation and a smattering of stimulating dalliances, and it presents Eve with Jonah: a thirty-seven-year-old jazz guitarist with “a flop of dark hair” who comes to haunt Eve’s fantasies for the next two years."
McKenzie Watson-Fore (@krazykenzer14 ) reviews Catherine Texier's (@unevagabonde ) latest novel, AFTER DAVID, released in 2024 by ITNA Press (@itnapress ).
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