critical ecologies

Christopher Leise reviews Kenneth Bernard's The Man in the Stretcher and Richard Kalich's Charlie P, a work that is as much interested in the idea of the novel as it is a novel of ideas.

Diana Lobb responds to Katherine Hayles and ponders the ambiguities of dialogue.

Katherine Hayles responds to Diana Lobb.

Diana Lobb tackles the legacy of positivism and the politics of chaotics.

William Major measures academic "ecocriticism" against the practical "agrarianism" of Wendell Berry.

Stephen Schryer reviews Mark Taylor and casts a critical eye on the unconditional celebration of complexity.

Author Lucy Corin opposes the emotionalism of genre fiction to the deeply emotional formalism in the fiction of Harold Jaffe, Patricia Eakins, and Janet Kauffman.

Lisette Gonzales reviews a book of essays by Matthew Fuller that examines the way we are programmed by software.

Kiki Benzon on narrative ecology and the "fradulence paradox" of Oblivion.

Andrew Walser introduces a gathering of essays on and by the novelist Joseph McElroy.