See the 1999/2000 collection of ebr essays Writing Under Constraint which explore how the use of numerical and other non-verbal constraints stimulate literary expression.

In addition to Michael Boyden’s interview with Harry Mathews, ebr has republished a number of Mathews’ short stories (“The Dialect of the Tribe” and the constrain-based “Mister Smathers”) and essays (“Fearful Symmetries” and “Translation and the Oulipo: The Case of the Persevering Maltese”).

See also Michael Boyden’s interview with Mathews in which he discusses the issue of translation, referring to this essay and two other related pieces available on ebr: the story “Dialect of the Tribe” and “Translation and the Oulipo: The Case of the Persevering Maltese.” See also Michael Boyden’s interview with Mathews in which he discusses the issue of translation, referring to this essay and two other related pieces available on ebr: the story “Dialect of the Tribe” and “Translation and the Oulipo: The Case of the Persevering Maltese.”

See also Michael Boyden’s interview with Mathews in which he discusses this essay, along with a story and essay available on ebr: “The Dialect of the Tribe” and “Fearful Symmetries.”

Michael Boyden’s essay “The Riddling Effect” contextualizes these three texts that Mathews refers to, all of which are now available on ebr: “The Dialect of the Tribe,” “Fearful Symmetries,” and “The Case of the Persevering Maltese.”