Bruce Clarke reviews Stephan Harding's Animate Earth and James Lovelock's recent book on Gaia, the mother of all systems.

Linda Brigham reviews Katherine Hayles' My Mother was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts.

Reviewing Andrew McMurry's Environmental Renaissance, Stephen Dougherty questions the systems approach to ecocriticism.

Joseph Tabbi introduces the thread and gathers prior essays by fiction writers on fiction writing.

Andrew McMurry introduces Katherine Acheson's review of Radiant Textuality, declaring that Acheson's illuminated critique exemplifies what's missing in McGann: the use of design not just to illustrate prose but also to extend a textual engagement.

Katherine Acheson's free-standing hypertext demonstrates how design can reinforce what's said, offer a counterpoint, and, occasionally, convey a critique of the critic.

In his review of Lee Rozelle's Ecosublime, Andrew McMurry offers a contrasting understanding of the sublime as a term describing our closure to nature, not our openness.

Rob Swigart asks why we keep hearing about a technological fix (dubious) and rarely about adaptation as a viable response to global warming.

Ted Pelton writes an in-depth account not just of the &Now Conference at Lake Forest College but of the state of experimental writers and small press publishing.

"Dispersion" is a short-story by Rob Swigart.

Tim Keane reviews David Matlin's Prisons: Inside the New America.

Sascha Pöhlmann reviews Lance Olsen's 2006 novel Nietzsche's Kisses.

Michael Wutz writes of how, in Raymond Federman's My Body in Nine Parts, body parts are represented as having registered, inscribed, contributed to Federman's life.

Michael Boyden interviews Harry Mathews via email.

Harry Mathews writes of the inherent difficulties in translation - especially the translation of his own work.

This is a reprint of Mathews' short story which originally appeared in The Human Country: New and Collected Stories (Dalkey Archive 2002).

Michael Boyden reflects on the stubborn and idiosyncratic fiction of Harry Mathews and introduces a new ebr gathering of work on and by Mathews.

Stephen J. Burn interviews fiction writer Lee Siegel.

FC2 author and ebr "Fictions Present" editor Lance Olsen, in his 2005 novel offers one alternative for print fiction in the era of big data: to suggest and depict "the vastness of time when it is not strictly confined to numerical sequence."

Jacob Edmond reviews Brian McHale's The Obligation toward the Difficult Whole.