Perusing websites pertaining to literary matters, Eye magazine cites HTML's "gaptoothed rawness" as a hindance to readability in ebr (prior to the journal's redesign).

Paul Harris examines the theoretical aspects of constrained thinking in the age of electronic textuality (in 2000 words, natch!)

William O'Rourke on the beat of the Clinton beat. Includes reviews of Andrew Morton's Monica's Story (1999); George Stephanopoulos's All Too Human: A Political Education (1999), Michael Isikoff's Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story (1999); Bob Woodward's Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate (1999); and Christopher Hitchens' No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton (1999).

Jan Baetens reviews the Raymond Federman Recyclopedia, a book whose humour - and evident bad taste - raise it above its own formidable constraints.

a short fiction by Harry Mathews

Thomas Hartl reviews Ron Sukenick's Mosaic Man

Alain Vuillemin comprehends the compendium - a summing up of four decades of Oulipian activity. A review of Harry Mathews & Alastaire Brotchie's Oulipo Compendium (1998, London: Atlas Press). Translation by James Stevens.

Tony D'Souza reviews Alex Shakar's City in Love: The New York Metamorphoses (1996).

Cynthia Davidson reviews Sex for the Millennium by Harold Jaffe

Paul Braffort studies constrained writing from Henry Adams to Braffort's own ALAMO project, and presents his findings in the form of a Triolet (between 1999 and 2000 words)

Brian Lennon considers the aesthetic that Retallack has evolved out of a cybernetic sensibility - a formalism that does not impose authoritarian codes or repressive orders, but rather hacks a pattern out of the sheer data of everyday life: directories, menus, phone books, indexes, encyclopedias, and archives.

Bernardo Schiavetta: a definition (in 2000 words)

ebr10, a satisfyingly even number published at the turn of the millennium, seemed at the time like the right occasion for calling an end to issues altogether. In the event, we would not manage to eliminate issues until February 2002 - that palindromic month and year, as satisfying in its way as the y2k.

Phillippe Bootz gives an account of the longest standing web-based literary journal in France. Translation by James Stevens

Paul Harris rediscovers the senior American member of Oulipo on the occasion of three new reprints from The Dalkey Archive Press.

Stacey Levine on the occasion of Dalkey Archive's reprinting of The Age of Wire and String