Phillippe Bootz gives an account of the longest standing web-based literary journal in France. Translation by James Stevens

Linda Brigham reads How We Became Posthuman the way Katherine Hayles reads novels: as a story that resists both linearity and the analytical ardor of attempts at humanist ordering.

Walton Muyumba reviews Randall Kenan's massive meditation on race and introduces a new word into the discourse on African American literature: zugenruhe.

Ted Pelton views Robert Creeley's image/text collaborations in Buffalo, NY.

Paul Harris rediscovers the senior American member of Oulipo on the occasion of three new reprints from The Dalkey Archive Press.

Raymond Federman compiles a small manual of poetic pleasures.

Matt Kirschenbaum reviews Remediation by Richard Grusin and Jay David Bolter.

Luca Di Blasi reads Peter Sloterdijk straight. Translation by Chris Thomas

David Zauhar reads Marjorie Perloff the way she reads poetry and philosophy: as ways of doing, rather than saying

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.

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.

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.