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

Perusing websites pertaining to literary matters, Eye magazine cites HTML's "gaptoothed rawness" as a hindance to readability in ebr (prior to the journal's redesign).

Paul Harris examines the theoretical aspects of constrained thinking in the age of electronic textuality (in 2000 words, natch!)

William O'Rourke on the beat of the Clinton beat. Includes reviews of Andrew Morton's Monica's Story (1999); George Stephanopoulos's All Too Human: A Political Education (1999), Michael Isikoff's Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story (1999); Bob Woodward's Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate (1999); and Christopher Hitchens' No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton (1999).

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

a short fiction by Harry Mathews

Thomas Hartl reviews Ron Sukenick's Mosaic Man

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.

Tony D'Souza reviews Alex Shakar's City in Love: The New York Metamorphoses (1996).

Paul Braffort studies constrained writing from Henry Adams to Braffort's own ALAMO project, and presents his findings in the form of a Triolet (between 1999 and 2000 words)

Cynthia Davidson reviews Sex for the Millennium by Harold Jaffe

Brian Lennon considers the aesthetic that Retallack has evolved out of a cybernetic sensibility - a formalism that does not impose authoritarian codes or repressive orders, but rather hacks a pattern out of the sheer data of everyday life: directories, menus, phone books, indexes, encyclopedias, and archives.

Bernardo Schiavetta: a definition (in 2000 words)

ebr10, a satisfyingly even number published at the turn of the millennium, seemed at the time like the right occasion for calling an end to issues altogether. In the event, we would not manage to eliminate issues until February 2002 - that palindromic month and year, as satisfying in its way as the y2k.

Laura Dassow Walls reconsiders Consilience and finds E. O. Wilson to be more Christian in outlook than the Reverend William Whewell, who originated the term, 'consilience'

Timothy Melley reviews Mark Fenster on conspiracies in fact and fiction and finds evidence against the assumption that only nonexistent conspiracies produce conspiracy theories.

Luc Herman reviews the collection, Cyberspace Textuality by Marie-Laure Ryan, and warns against the creation of a false dichotomy between the digital and traditional print text.

Bruce Clarke reviews the new translation of Grammophone, Film, Typewriter, a requiem and good-riddance for the era of so-called Man.

Jan van Looy reviews Silvio Gaggi on hypertext fiction up to the early '90s.

Shirin Shenassa situates Roman de la Campa's Latin Americanism within the critical discourses of the world's metropolitan centers and introduces a new thREAD into ebr's Internet Nation series