Thread: internet nation

Dave Ciccoricco returns to Stuart Moulthrop, considers Operation Enduring Freedom (2003) in light of Operation Desert Storm (1991), and consults the annals of World War II for a likely source of "Victory Garden," the title of Moulthrop's 1991 network fiction on the Gulf War.

Reiichi Miura considers the worldwide reception of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami and charts a course for a fiction where nationalism loses relevance.

Claire Rasmussen on geography and the social theory of Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Mike Davis, and Edward Soja.

Steffen Hantke on Tom LeClair's and Richard Powers's novelistic imaginations of terror.

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

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

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.

A media parable by Novica Milic.

Dragica Felja on the Peripatetic Poetry of Miroslav Mandic.

Piotr Parlej surveys contemporary Polish poetry

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

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

Todd E. Napolitano on Going Gonzo: Following the Trail of the WWWench