critical ecologies

A personal account by novelist Joseph McElroy of the WTC crash (that is: a structure of some outside and inside project encompassing one individual).

Chris Messenger achieves a rare convergence of elite and popular cultural criticism by doing for The Godfather (and its spinoffs) what previous critics have done for Uncle Tom's Cabin.

According to Amy Elias, Paul Maltby's negation of the mystical Other forecloses 'the most interesting conversation': between a critic who does not believe in visionary moments and those writers and critics who do believe in them.

On Amy Elias's view of fabulation in the moment of American corporate power, a postmodern novelistic aesthetic that is consistent with Sir Walter Scott's early nineteenth-century mix of romance and Enlightenment-inspired historiography.

Carsten Schinko on Niklas Luhmann's Analogue Loyalty.

Lev Manovich makes the first sustained case for a new media theory, but with cinema as his starting point he has a hard time engaging the non-representational artforms and aural explorations to be found there. So argues the Australian media writer, geniwate.

Linda Carolli on the third hybrid collection by Michael Joyce, a work (like the technological landscape it's about) at once industrial and informatic, essayistic and narrative, technical and autobiographical.

Steffen Hantke reviews the reviewers of Don DeLillo's Body Artist, dispelling the notion that, after Underworld, the shorter book is necessarily a slighter one.

A revaluation and appreciation of Stanley Elkin on the occasion of the Dalkey Archive reprinting of four separate volumes.

Joseph Tabbi reviews the essay collection Simulacrum America.