The postfeminist issue of ebr was the first to use visual art as a means of navigation as well as illustration.

George Landow reviews Patchwork Girl by Shelley Jackson.

Having women in power won't automatically make for caring, sensitive environmental policies as Stacy Alaimo implies in her review of Carolyn Merchant and Val Plumwood.

Elisabeth Joyce reads Howe as a postfeminist Thoreau facing the dilemma that 'to inhabit a wilderness is to destroy it.'

Martin Rosenberg discusses Kiki Smith's feminist visual art and cognitive science.

Matthew Fuller on The Cyborg Handbook.

Christopher Knight on Stanley Fish's Professional Correctness.

Lisa Joyce critiques the rash of historical fiction by women, circa 1996.

Cris Mazza sends in her introduction to the follow-up volume of Chick-Lit, No Victims.

Michael Bérubé responds to the respondents in Selling Out (Spring 1996).

Marjorie Perloff on the surprising viability of art and poetry - everywhere but in universities.

Joe Amato muses on academic stardom, the poetics list, and the corporation that motors his university.

Should the Left pool its resources and buy CBS? Robert Markley offers strategies for avoiding Patrick Buchanan's jihad.

Can electronic conversations reconstitute Bérubé's lost public sphere? A Marxist analysis by Jamie Daniel.