Reflections on the abject in the new world order.

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.

Vana Goblot reconsiders the Russian Master

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.

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

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

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

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