critical ecologies

Elizabeth Wall Hinds reviews Andrew Miller's first novel, Ingenious Pain, winner of the James Black Memorial Fiction Prize and the 1999 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Linda Brigham offers a Deleuzean take on Independence Day.

For Daniel Punday, Bernard Siegert's historical materialism - a difficult synthesis of historical, literary, and institutional analysis - falls somewhere between Derrida and Foucault. But see also the review in ebr by historian Richard John, who considers Siegert in the line of Walter Ong, Elizabeth Eisenstein, and Harold Innis.

Geoffrey Winthrop-Young takes the outside perspective on German media studies.

Every crank has an idea. Every American is a crank. Philip Wohlstetter is an American, therefore - well, you get the idea.