Linda Brigham breaks the first rule of Fight Club and talks about what the movie industry keeps secret - not male masochism, anti-corporate terrorism, self-help, or even heterosexual anxiety, but how best to deliver a commodity that doesn't act like one.

Joseph Tabbi identifies a shift in U.S. criticism that has taken place in the eight years separating Susan Strehle's Fiction in the Quantum Universe and John Johnston's Information Multiplicity.

Noting that media are not only proposed to readers but also imposed on customers, Jan Baetens introduces Adorno into the debates on remediation.

Stephanie Strickland unravels the crochet of categorizations used to contain data, and explores the texture and topography of a hypertext poetics.

Joseph Tabbi reads both the book and the hypertext version of Strickland's True North.

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

Linda Brigham reads How We Became Posthuman the way Katherine Hayles reads novels: as a story that resists both linearity and the analytical ardor of attempts at humanist ordering.

Walton Muyumba reviews Randall Kenan's massive meditation on race and introduces a new word into the discourse on African American literature: zugenruhe.

Ted Pelton views Robert Creeley's image/text collaborations in Buffalo, NY.

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

Raymond Federman compiles a small manual of poetic pleasures.

Matt Kirschenbaum reviews Remediation by Richard Grusin and Jay David Bolter.

Luca Di Blasi reads Peter Sloterdijk straight. Translation by Chris Thomas

David Zauhar reads Marjorie Perloff the way she reads poetry and philosophy: as ways of doing, rather than saying

Against the literary history proposed by Marjorie Perloff, Shaw goes on the lookout for an Outlook that just might save poetry from contemporary theory.

Perloff comes back with an alternative line of 'evolution' from the modern epic - one leading to language poetry, rather than the magical realist novel.

Franco Moretti responds to the review of his Modern Epic by Marjorie Perloff.

Vladislava Gordic writes from Novi Sad to a friend in London (1998).

A media parable by Novica Milic.

Florin Popescu introduces Western readers to a national literature whose modern humor and archaic spirituality affront postmodern sensibilities