writing under constraint

Alain Vuillemin comprehends the compendium - a summing up of four decades of Oulipian activity. A review of Harry Mathews & Alastaire Brotchie's Oulipo Compendium (1998, London: Atlas Press). Translation by James Stevens.

Jan Baetens reviews the Raymond Federman Recyclopedia, a book whose humour - and evident bad taste - raise it above its own formidable constraints.

Paul Harris rediscovers the senior American member of Oulipo on the occasion of three new reprints from The Dalkey Archive Press.

Phillippe Bootz gives an account of the longest standing web-based literary journal in France.
Translation by James Stevens

Stacey Levine on the occasion of Dalkey Archive's reprinting of The Age of Wire and String