ebr8 reviews
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Sea of Macho Stupidities
Svetozar Postic, on why his contemporaries in Serbia don't write like Hemingway

of general interest
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Materialism at the Millennium
Geoffrey Winthrop-Young gets inside De Landa's total history

 

Making the Rounds
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

 

An Inter(e)view with Author Ben Marcus
Stacey Levine on the occasion of Dalkey Archive's reprinting of The Age of Wire and String

 

Ode to Lower Manhattan
Nikki Dillon reviews Lynne Tillman's No Lease on Life

 

The Estimable Art of Improvisation
Walton Muyumba on Scott DeVeaux, Ingrid Monson, and the writing of jazz history

 

The 'Environment' Is Us
Taking up the green thread from ebr4, Harold Fromm reviews three new books of eco-criticism
>--- ebr4 critical ecologies

 

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

 

retroREview
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The Haunting of Benjamin Britten
John Matthias reflects on Humphrey Carpenter's biography of 1992, in light of earlier work on Auden