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

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.

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

Jan van Looy reviews Silvio Gaggi on hypertext fiction up to the early '90s.

Walton Muyumba reviews Randall Kenan's massive meditation on race and introduces a new word into the discourse on African American literature: zugenruhe.

Matt Kirschenbaum reviews Remediation by Richard Grusin and Jay David Bolter.

Marjorie Perloff reviews Franco Moretti's Modern Epic: The World-System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez.

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.

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.'

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

Martha Henn reviews Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women by Anne Balsamo

Piotr Siemion discusses Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Carol Stabile reviews Our Stolen Future.

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

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

August Tarrier reviews the 1994 film, Bad Girls.