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Thanks to Full Stop for this astute close reading of UXA.GOV by Ted, contextualizing it w the work of Jodorowsky, Kafka, Artaud, Deleuze & Guattari, Burroughs, Sade, and this website

"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 Rosanna Xia's CALIFORNIA AGAINST THE SEA (heydaybooks): full-stop.net/2025/01/31/rev…

"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….

"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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Join us in celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth by picking several indie lit reads from our 2025 reading list! Featuring year-round recs from Haymarket Books, Full Stop, Catalyst Press, Hanging Loose Press, ✨Sinister Wisdom✨, @Coffee_House_ & more publishers: clmp.org/news/a-reading…

"[In] the old Cambodian way of seeing the world . . . there is another world that is alongside this world. . . the world of ghosts and spirits . . ." —Bunkong Tuon on his debut novel, KOAN KHMER (Northwestern University Press), with interviewer Phoebe Chan: full-stop.net/2025/02/04/int….

"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/ Bunkong Tuon on Tuon's debut novel (Northwestern University Press): full-stop.net/2025/02/04/int….

"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 (Univ Nebraska Press): full-stop.net/2025/02/05/rev….

"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 (Univ Nebraska Press): full-stop.net/2025/02/05/rev….

Here is a great interview by Phoebe Chan, who asks smart, thoughtful, meaningful questions about my debut novel, Koan Khmer. Thanks Full Stop 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…

"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 (Transit Books): full-stop.net/2025/02/07/rev….

"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 (Transit Books): full-stop.net/2025/02/07/rev….

"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 (Other Press), tr. from the Italian by Michael F. Moore: full-stop.net/2025/02/10/rev….

"Banca is not interested in painting the migrant life as one of pure struggle." Rose Bialer reviews Alejandra Banca's debut story collection, FROM SAVAGERY, translated from the Spanish by Katie Brown (Restless Books): full-stop.net/2025/02/11/rev….

"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 Katie Brown's translation: full-stop.net/2025/02/11/rev….

"I can’t help but feel something cataclysmic taking place as I read Herrera’s writing. . ." Lora Maslenitsyna reviews Yuri Herrera's novel SEASON OF THE SWAMP in a new, English-language translation by Lisa Dillman (Graywolf Press): full-stop.net/2025/02/12/rev….

"Herrera’s novel conjures the past from its hiding spot in plain sight. . ." Lora Maslenitsyna reviews Yuri Herrera's SEASON OF THE SWAMP, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman (Graywolf Press): full-stop.net/2025/02/12/rev….