Geoffrey Winthrop-Young gets inside De Landa's total history.

Chris Messenger reviews Tom LeClair's first novel, Passing Off (1996).

John Cayley reviews the Hypertext '97 Conference, which brought together representatives from corporate and academic sectors.

Cary Wolfe reviews Luc Ferry's The New Ecological Order.

Steven Kellert on being "in favor of universals."

Poets Take On Guess Inc.: Poets Win

Joseph Tabbi reviews the essay collection Simulacrum America.

Taking up the green thread from ebr4, Harold Fromm reviews three new books of eco-criticism >--- ebr4 critical ecologies.

Timothy Luke reviews Nicholas Negroponte and takes a second look at 'digital subjectivity.'

Joseph McElroy shares field notes and reflections from Mount St. Helens.

Andrew McMurry reviews John Livingstone's Rogue Primate: An exploration of human domestication.

An art installation as much as an "issue," the original site for ebr4, Critical Ecologies, used variations on a concrete poem by Daniel Wenk to guide readers through the "green" and "gray" essays. Another innovation was the introduction of the riposte section.

Thomas Cohen on ecotourism in Bolivia and discovering the post-humans of the past.

Paisley Livingston on Stanislaw Lem and the history and philosphy of Virtual Reality.

Paul Harris hybridizes the terms of hypertextual discourse and takes it to a higher power.

Toward a definition of a postmodern genre: the field-novel.

Piotr Siemion discusses Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Michael Wutz reviews Bruce Clarke's Dora Marsden and Early Modernism: Gender, Individualism, Science

Carol Stabile reviews Our Stolen Future.

Matthew Fuller on The Cyborg Handbook.