reviews

2002

10-May-2002
Slow, Spare, and Painful

Steffen Hantke reviews the reviewers of Don DeLillo's Body Artist, dispelling the notion that, after Underworld, the shorter book is necessarily a slighter one.

Embodying the World

Lance Olsen reviews Shelley Jackson's first print collection.

2001

01-Oct-2001
The Cybernetic Turn: Literary into Cultural Criticism

Joseph Tabbi reviews the essay collection Simulacrum America.

01-Sep-2001
Accretive Dreams, Junk Narrativity, & Orphaned Excess in Moderation

Lance Olsen reviews hypertext writing, past and present, by Robert Arellano.

01-Sep-2001
America: The Usable Cliché

Sue Im-Lee reviews Reciting America by Christopher Douglas.

01-Sep-2001
Merely Extraordinary Beings

Elizabeth Wall Hinds reviews Andrew Miller's first novel, Ingenious Pain, winner of the James Black Memorial Fiction Prize and the 1999 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

01-Sep-2001
Mindful of Multiplicity

Linda Carroli reviews Michael Joyce on networked culture, whose emergence changes our ideas of change.

01-Jan-2001
An American Art Critic in Paris: a nigtmare with and about John Brunetti

--> Chicago art critic John Brunetti reviews The Truth on Tape, a survey of Daniel Wenk's art

01-Jan-2001
Signmakers 1999

Cary Wolfe reviews Allison Hunter's installation at Europas Parkas in Lithuania. In her work, interspersed as it is among that of other artists, Hunter focuses our attention on signification in the crevices of the so-called public sphere.

01-Jan-2001
Telling Tales: Shaping Artists' Myths

Chicago art critic John Brunetti reviews The Truth on Tape, a survey of Daniel Wenk's art, and Black Mountain College's Dossier Ray Johnson.

2000

30-Dec-2000
Cybertext Killed the Hypertext Star

Nick Montfort reviews Espen J. Aarseth's Cybertext, which stakes out a post-hypertextual terrain for literary criticism and practice. Interactive excerpts from some of the cybertexts that Aarseth discusses are included.

30-Dec-2000
No. No. [Novel not to die

Stacey Levine reviews Re.La.Vir (2000) by Jan Ramjerdi.

Exposed

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).

Fed Ex Un Ltd

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

More Pixels to the Inch

Thomas Hartl reviews Ron Sukenick's Mosaic Man

Ovid's Concrete Labyrinths

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

Seeking the (Black Hole) Sun

Cynthia Davidson reviews Sex for the Millennium by Harold Jaffe

1999

30-Dec-1999
Conspiracy and the Populist Imagination

Timothy Melley reviews Mark Fenster on conspiracies in fact and fiction and finds evidence against the assumption that only nonexistent conspiracies produce conspiracy theories.

30-Dec-1999
Digital vs. Traditional?

Luc Herman reviews the collection, Cyberspace Textuality by Marie-Laure Ryan, and warns against the creation of a false dichotomy between the digital and traditional print text.

30-Dec-1999
Friedrich Kittler's Technosublime

Bruce Clarke reviews the new translation of Grammophone, Film, Typewriter, a requiem and good-riddance for the era of so-called Man.