Reflections on the abject in the new world order.

Svetozar Postic, on why his contemporaries in Serbia don't write like Hemingway

Doug Nufer on big business's buy-out of history and the corporate biography's elevation to an art form untroubled by irony.

Dragica Felja on the Peripatetic Poetry of Miroslav Mandic.

Vana Goblot reconsiders the Russian Master

Piotr Parlej surveys contemporary Polish poetry

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.

Jan Baetens re-reads a print hypertext by France's leading gay author, whose work loses something in the actual translation into electronic hypertext.

Todd E. Napolitano on Going Gonzo: Following the Trail of the WWWench

De Witt Douglas Kilgore reviews Stanley Aronowitz, Barbara Martinsons, and Micahael Menser's Technoscience and Cyberculture (1996).

Walter Vannini investigates the effects of hypertext publishing in Italy's marketplace.