December 7, 2004: Contest #3 – The Discovery – The winners of Contest #3 have been announced!
November 23, 2004: Book Review – You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free – LJ Lindhurst reviews James Kelman’s “American” novel.
November 17, 2004: Columns – Jungle Mind – Michael Cisco on Eric Basso’s The Beak Doctor.
November 10, 2004: All pages – The entire site has been updated, with new works added to the pages on Borges, Eco, and García Márquez.
October 25, 2004: The Sideshow – A new edition of The Sideshow brings a host of new reviews.
October 25, 2004: Book Review – The Book of Ten Nights and a Night – Blair Mahoney reviews John Barth’s post-911 collection of stories.
October 4, 2004: Columns – Slightly Foxed – Suzanne Nixon on the wonder of words.
August 27, 2004: Columns – Jungle Mind – Michael Cisco looks at Cuban writer Virgilio Piñera.
August 23, 2004: The Modern Word – The Sideshow – The Modern Word’s section for reviewing works of short fiction is now officially open!
August 17, 2004: Spermatikos Logos (Pynchon) – Music – The “Pynchon and Music” section has been updated.
August 14, 2004: The Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) – Reviews – New reviews added for Edwin Williamson’s Borges: A Life.
August 12, 2004: Columns – Joyous Anarchy – Emmet Cole on sunlight, suicidal poets, and the quantification of the creative process.
August 7, 2004: Small Press Spotlight – FC2 – The Modern Word looks at Fiction Collective Two, publishers of “artistically adventurous, non-traditional fiction.” Includes an interview with Brenda Mills about experimental fiction.
August 6, 2004: Apmonia (Beckett) – Audio – A new section has been added to Apmonia that features Beckett-related recordings and audiobooks.
August 5, 2004: The Brazen Head – Audio – The entire “Joyce on Audio” section has been updated and revised. New reviews have been added for Naxos’ Dubliners and their unabridged Ulysses box set.
August 2, 2004: Scriptorium – Flann O’Brien Page – A new page on Irish writer Flann O’Brien has been added to The Modern Word.
August 2, 2004: Book Review – The Mirror of Love – Alan Moore and José Villarrubia’s poem of love that “dare not speak its name.”
July 29, 2004: Book Review – Oblivion – Marie Mundaca looks at David Foster Wallace’s collection of short stories.
July 24, 2004: The Modern Word – Spiral-Bound #15 – A new issue of The Modern Word’s newsletter has been posted.
July 22, 2004: Book Review – Oracle Night – Blair Mahoney reviews Paul Auster’s book-within-a-book-within-a-book....
July 15, 2004: Columns – Unreal Cities – Amy Rosenberg takes the streetcar named Desire.
July 8, 2004: Book Review – Lambent Traces – Jeff Nowak reviews Stanley Corngold’s book on Kafka.
June 30, 2004: Columns – Jungle Mind – Michael Cisco looks at the underappreciated English writer Denton Welch.
June 26, 2004: Das Schloss – Kafka’s Nonfiction – Commentary on the diaries, letters, and notebooks.
June 26, 2004: Columns – Joyous Anarchy – Emmet Cole reflects on modern art and the Saatchi fire.
June 7, 2004: The Brazen Head – Criticism – Nola Tully’s yes I said yes I will Yes.
June 7, 2004: The Brazen Head – Papers – Lindsey Warren on “Musical Allusions in Dubliners.”
June 3, 2004: Columns – Slightly Foxed – The Quail on the last ten years of the Bloomsday centennial.
May 28, 2004: Small Press Spotlight – Exact Change – The Modern Word looks at Exact Change, a small publisher devoted to the twentieth-century avant-garde.
May 28, 2004: Interview/Book Review – The End of Art – Emmet Cole interviews Donald Kuspit on the subject of his new book, The End of Art.
May 27, 2004: Columns – Hot Lunch USA – Andrew F. Duncan’s debut column looks at the past, present, and future of Lovecraftian cinema.
May 19, 2004: Columns – Unreal Cities – Amy Rosenberg’s first column goes to London looking for Mrs. Dalloway.
May 13, 2004: Porta Ludovica (Eco) – Papers – Brendon Newlon’s “Beasts and Buildings: Religious Symbolism and Medieval Memory.”
May 11, 2004: Contest #3 – The Discovery – Win a signed copy of an Alan Moore book! Contest #3 has just been announced.
May 6, 2004: Apmonia (Beckett) – Papers – David Tucker’s “Beckett's Middle Period: Authority, The Quest and Dualism.”
May 5, 2004: Spermatikos Logos (Pynchon) – Papers – Michael Koontz’s “‘An injustice that will not cancel out’: Slavery and the Voice of the Victim in Mason & Dixon.”
May 4, 2004: Columns – Jungle Mind – Michael Cisco’s first column looks at the “New Weird.”
April 2, 2004: Book Review – Celestial Harmonies – Bob Williams reviews Péter Esterházy’s sprawing novel about his famous Hungarian family.
March 30, 2004: The Modern Word – Spiral-Bound #14 – A new issue of The Modern Word’s newsletter has been posted.
March 30, 2004: The Brazen Head – Ulysses Criticism – Andrew Gibson’s Joyce’s Revenge has been included.
March 26, 2004: The Scriptorium – William Gaddis – In the essay “Gaddis: Toward the Dramatic,” Garrett Rowlan uses James Joyce to trace Gaddis’ career from the lyric through the epic to the dramatic.
March 25, 2004: The Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) – Film – The Borges Film section has been revised and expanded.
March 24, 2004: Contest #2 – Adaptation – The winners have been announced.
March 20, 2004: Book Review – A New Universal History of Infamy – A review of Rhys Hughes’ homage to Borges.
March 9, 2004: Small Press Spotlight – Graywolf Press – The Modern Word looks at Graywolf Press, a small publisher devoted to quality literature.
March 3, 2004: Book Review – My Life as a Fake – Blair Mahoney on Peter Carey’s book of literary hoaxes.
March 1, 2004: Book Review – Wakenight Emporium – Bob Williams reviews A.B. West’s book of thirty-two meditations.
February 27, 2004: Book Review – Voice of the Fire – Ismo Santala discusses Alan Moore’s debut novel.
February 24, 2004: Spermatikos Logos (Pynchon) – Film & TV – Erik Ketzan on Thomas Pynchon’s Simpsons appearance.
February 4, 2004: Apmonia (Beckett) – Papers – New paper added: John Fletcher’s in-depth comparative study, “Samuel Beckett and Jonathan Swift.”
February 4, 2004: The Brazen Head (Joyce) – Papers – New paper added: Randy Hofbauer’s “The Tool of the Martyr,” which looks at Stephen’s epiphanies in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
February 1, 2004: Book Review – Don Quixote – Bob Williams looks at Edith Grossman’s new translation of Don Quixote.
January 30, 2004: Book Review – Deep Purple and The Book of Dead Birds – Blair Mahoney reviews two books, Mayra Montero’s Deep Purple, winner of the Sonrisa Vertical, and Gayle Brandeis’ The Book of Dead Birds, winner of the Bellwether Prize.
January 27, 2004: Book Review – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Sarvas reviews Mark Haddon’s Whitbread-winning novel.
January 25, 2004: The Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) – Criticism – The Borges Criticism section has been significantly revised and expanded.
January 21, 2004: The Garden of Forking Paths (Borges) – Links – Borges link page revised and a dozen new links added.
January 16, 2004: Das Schloss (Kafka) – Works – New page added to Kafka’s Works: “Novellas,” featuring The Metamorphosis and In the Penal Colony.
January 14, 2004: Das Schloss (Kafka) – Criticism – The Criticism section of Das Schloss opens with commentary on Kafka biographies.
January 1, 2004: Revised Rotunda – An expanded and revised homepage to start the new year!
