1999
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.
1997
Joel Felix listens in on Postmodern Culture's privatization debate.
Marta Werner uncages Emily Dickinson's fragments.
John Cayley reviews the Hypertext '97 Conference, which brought together representatives from corporate and academic sectors.
Stephanie Strickland on the translation of poetry from print to screen.
A conversation with Pierre Joris and Jerome Rothenberg on the technology and politics of the millenial anthology.