powers

Tom LeClair surveys six gargantuan texts—both hyper- and print—and finds that size is not all that matters.

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.

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.

Joseph Tabbi reviews the essay collection Simulacrum America.