Against the literary history proposed by Marjorie Perloff, Shaw goes on the lookout for an Outlook that just might save poetry from contemporary theory.

Perloff comes back with an alternative line of 'evolution' from the modern epic - one leading to language poetry, rather than the magical realist novel.

Franco Moretti responds to the review of his Modern Epic by Marjorie Perloff.

Vladislava Gordic writes from Novi Sad to a friend in London (1998).

A media parable by Novica Milic.

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

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

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

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