writing under constraint

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.

Cynthia Davidson reviews Sex for the Millennium by Harold Jaffe

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).

a short fiction by Harry Mathews

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.