postmodern
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.
Exposed
William O'Rourke on the beat of the Clinton beat
Metahistorical Romance
On Amy Elias's view of fabulation in the moment of American corporate power, a postmodern novelistic aesthetic that is consistent with Sir Walter Scott's early nineteenth-century mix of romance and Enlightenment-inspired historiography.
Dispersion
"Dispersion" is a short-story by Rob Swigart.