2006
Francis Raven reviews Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity.
Christopher Leise reviews Kenneth Bernard's The Man in the Stretcher and Richard Kalich's Charlie P, a work that is as much interested in the idea of the novel as it is a novel of ideas.
Dave Ciccoricco responds to Luc Herman and Bart Vervaeck.
2004
Diana Lobb responds to Katherine Hayles and ponders the ambiguities of dialogue.
William Major measures academic "ecocriticism" against the practical "agrarianism" of Wendell Berry.
Stephen Schryer reviews Mark Taylor and casts a critical eye on the unconditional celebration of complexity.
Diana Lobb tackles the legacy of positivism and the politics of chaotics.
Author Lucy Corin opposes the emotionalism of genre fiction to the deeply emotional formalism in the fiction of Harold Jaffe, Patricia Eakins, and Janet Kauffman.
Lisette Gonzales reviews a book of essays by Matthew Fuller that examines the way we are programmed by software.
Kiki Benzon on narrative ecology and the "fradulence paradox" of Oblivion.
Andrew Walser introduces a gathering of essays on and by the novelist Joseph McElroy.
"Sedgwick's emphasis is on generating concepts that add to the complexity and inclusiveness of our representations, rather than trying to prescribe the right revolutionary path." Melissa Gregg reviews Eve Sedgwick's Touching Feeling.
On Joseph McElroy's Fiction as a lifelong, dramatic investigation of noesis - that abstract but evocative concept rooted in Platonic idealism and redefined(through Phenomenology) as those ineluctable acts of consciousness that constitute reality.
Excerpted from Water Writing - an essay; presented as part of the ebr Critical Ecologies thread; concurrent with a literary Festschrift in honor of Joseph McElroy's lifework.
Paul Gleason on Joseph McElroy's mid-career epic, Women and Men, as contrasted with Don DeLillo's Underworld.
Charles Molesworth on style and spatial form in McElroy's Letter Left to Me, a novel whose poetic making is also an ethical growth.
Joseph Milazzo writes about one of the least written about books by Joseph McElroy.
Salvatore Proietti straddles science and fiction to offer an interpretation of a McElroy Cyborg.
Yves Abrioux approaches Woman and Men (1987) as an extended novelistic medition on cognition and action.