Ian Singleton

Aug 29, 2024 | full-stop.net | Ian Singleton

This essay was first published last month in our subscriber-only newsletter. To receive the monthly newsletter and to support Full Stop’s original literary criticism, please consider joining us on Patreon. While some interpreted the speech Vladimir Putin gave right before he began the full-scale war against Ukraine as a desire to return the Soviet Union to power, the Russian dictator actually described a false history that the Soviets “invented” modern Ukraine.

Aug 28, 2024 | thebookendsreview.com | Ian Singleton |Jordan Blum

Knockout Beauty and Other Afflictions by Marina Rubin is a recent collection of seventeen short stories about various female characters such as Daisy in “Jaula” about whom Rubin writes, “In writing circles, she was known more for her beauty than her talent.” It’s a trick for the reader.