1999
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.
Vana Goblot reconsiders the Russian Master
Piotr Parlej surveys contemporary Polish poetry
1998
Marjorie Perloff reviews Franco Moretti's Modern Epic: The World-System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez.
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.
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
Chris Messenger reviews Tom LeClair's first novel, Passing Off (1996).
Steffen Hantke presents an archeology of Don DeLillo's Underworld.
Stephanie Strickland asks how a poetics of hypertext can structure encounters with the world that are as resonant and co-participatory as quantum models.
On the futures of electronic scholarship - an exchange among editors.
On the futures of electronic scholarship - an exchange among editors.
The culmination of ebr version 2.0 (an html- and java-based Web production), the spring 1999 "gathering of threads" introduced an important component into the journal design: the thREAD that actively conducts readers among affiliated essays.
J. Hillis Miller looks at the "multimedia" Victorian novel, embodied in ink, paper, cardboard, and glue.
In collecting essays for ebrs 6 and 7, the editors sought work that would not only talk about image and narrative theory in the networked environment; we wanted essays with design elements in their very construction. The essays were presented in the context of Anne Burdick's first integral design for the journal itself, ebr version 2.0.