What is the Electronic Book Review (EBR) and how is it connected to critical writing?

The Electronic Book Reivew (EBR) is a peer-reviewed journal of critical writing produced and published by the emergent digital literary network. It is an example of critical writing today, as writers bring literary concepts into the collaborative networks that are forming now in new media.

In continuous publication since 1994, it is among the longest running open-access, literary-critical journals on the Internet. To take advantage of the Web’s medium-specific constraints, EBR essays do not appear in individual volumes or issues with preset publication dates, a paradigm inherited from print media, but in “threads” according to the topic and semantics of the work. A current project is the publication of a new thread based on materials generated by the 2012 conference of the Electronic Literature Organization (www.eliterature.org).