Michael Boyden interviews Harry Mathews via email.

Harry Mathews writes of the inherent difficulties in translation - especially the translation of his own work.

This is a reprint of Mathews' short story which originally appeared in The Human Country: New and Collected Stories (Dalkey Archive 2002).

Michael Boyden reflects on the stubborn and idiosyncratic fiction of Harry Mathews and introduces a new ebr gathering of work on and by Mathews.

Stephen J. Burn interviews fiction writer Lee Siegel.

FC2 author and ebr "Fictions Present" editor Lance Olsen, in his 2005 novel offers one alternative for print fiction in the era of big data: to suggest and depict "the vastness of time when it is not strictly confined to numerical sequence."

Davis Schneiderman revisits the non-debate between Jonathan Franzen and Ben Marcus, touches on recent flare-ups in the American Book Review and the NOW WHAT blog, and reflects on the economy of book jacket blurbs.

R M Berry Replies to Joseph Tabbi

If you're under the impression that Americans are wealthy, check out the capital city of Latvia.

Ara Wilson writes a riposte on the gathering of "waves" essays; she points out that global feminist politics provides a necessary perspective on debates about the current state of feminism.

Benjamin J. Robertson responds to Francis Raven's review of Lessig's Free Culture. Writing against Raven, he outlines the ways in which Lessig's work is crucial for our current cultural moment.

Lisa Joyce introduces this new gathering, titled "waves," of postfeminist essays.

Alison Piepmeier examines the differences in postfeminism and third-wave feminism.

Dave Ciccoricco responds to Luc Herman and Bart Vervaeck.

Karim A. Remtulla asks to what degree postfeminism is identical with hactivism?

Jess M.  Laccetti presents a theory of "multi-mimesis" as a way to redefine female subjectivity.

Luc Herman and Bart Vervaeck review Marie Laure-Ryan's Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media. They review the essential characteristics of hypertext to suggest more nuanced ways to understand realism in relation to virtual reality.

Caren Irr reframes the question of private property through fantastic narratives of the commons.

Hanjo Berressem provides both fast-forward and slow-motion readings of Slavoj Žižek's Organs without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences.

William Smith Wilson injects the transcendentals of aesthetic illusions into Hardt and Negri's immanent materialism.