postmodern
The Present of Fiction
Recent fiction by Curtis White, Alex Shakar, Michael Martone, and others read through the lens of Gertrude Stein and Wittgenstein.
Weight Inward into Lightness: A Reading of Canoe Repair
"The plot offers not so much progress as recurrence, duplication, and reiteration." Flore Chevaillier offers one way to fill in the gaps of Joseph McElroy "Canoe Repair."
Lessons in Latent History
Steffen Hantke presents an archeology of Don DeLillo's Underworld.
The Code is not the Text (Unless It Is the Text)
An argument against the collapse of categories by an author who has, yes, himself perpetrated a few codeworks.
The Riddling Effect: Rules and Unruliness in the Work of Harry Mathews
Michael Boyden reflects on the stubborn and idiosyncratic fiction of Harry Mathews and introduces a new ebr gathering of work on and by Mathews.