Ivan Callus skims the surface of Pavic's print hypertext.

The Internet Nation thread, which the editors hope to develop substantially in the coming years, was introduced in the winter of 98/99, following a trip to Novi Sad by ebr editor Joseph Tabbi a few months before that city would be bombed by NATO troups.

Geoffrey Winthrop-Young gets inside De Landa's total history.

Poet Nina Zivancevic translates and comments on poetry by the founder of Modernism in Yugoslav literature

On twentieth-century Poland's leading author.

Reflections on the abject in the new world order.

Svetozar Postic, on why his contemporaries in Serbia don't write like Hemingway

Doug Nufer on big business's buy-out of history and the corporate biography's elevation to an art form untroubled by irony.

John Matthias reflects on Humphrey Carpenter's biography of 1992, in light of earlier work by Auden and recent findings.

Dragica Felja on the Peripatetic Poetry of Miroslav Mandic.

Vana Goblot reconsiders the Russian Master

Piotr Parlej surveys contemporary Polish poetry

Marjorie Perloff reviews Franco Moretti's Modern Epic: The World-System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez.

Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds follows the narrative line of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon as it bifurcates and spreads over the globe and across two centuries.

Thomas Swiss unravels Laura Miller's arguments in the New York Times Book Review and finds news of hypertext's demise premature - as was Robert Coover's call for the end of books five years ago in the same journal.

Jan Baetens re-reads a print hypertext by France's leading gay author, whose work loses something in the actual translation into electronic hypertext.

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

Chris Messenger reviews Tom LeClair's first novel, Passing Off (1996).

Steffen Hantke presents an archeology of Don DeLillo's Underworld.

Stephanie Strickland asks how a poetics of hypertext can structure encounters with the world that are as resonant and co-participatory as quantum models.