The Modern Word (http://www.themodernword.com) is one of the Web's leading literary websites, boasting a labyrinthine myriad of interconnected cubbyholes dedicated to Joyce, Beckett, Borges, and others. Overseen by "choice expert", Allen B. Ruch (the man behind the virtual bar at The Brazen Head and a host of other great literary websites), The Modern Word is a portal to the wonderful and uncanny world of modern experimental and postmodern fiction.

Joyous Anarchy 
An arts column on The Modern Word.

Update: After a hefty hiatus, The Modern Word website is back on track. Joyous Anarchy will return as a monthly column from November 2006.

Joyous Anarchy, 1, 28/06/04: Art Is The Saboteur 
Drawn into a flurry of aesthetic speculation via Donald Kuspit's 'The End of Art' and the recent Saatchi fire, I find myself drawn to the National Portrait Gallery, London where I am pursued into my dreams by a mysterious latecomer who thinks art is the saboteur.   

Joyous Anarchy, 2, 12/08/04: Hanging Chains On Sunbeams 
Poets beware. Psychologist Dr. James Kaufman, of California State University, San Bernardino, has recently discovered that you are likely to die younger than novelists, playwrights and other groups of writers.  And what's that about the Maunder Minimum and the end of the Renaissance? 

Joyous Anarchy, 3, Jan '05: Duyser's Snack and the Science of Sanctity
As Gaudi is prepared for Sainthood, I wonder whether the beatification process reduces prospective saints to the sum total of the good deeds they have performed.

Joyous Anarchy, 4, May '06: Talmudic Interview with Robert Majzels
An interview with Canadian novelist Robert Majzels. 

Other: 
An interview with philosopher of religion John D Caputo about the Joycean term "jewgreek" 
http://www.themodernword.com/features/interview_caputo.html

An interview with leading visual art critic and SUNY Professor, Donald Kuspit, about his new book 'The End of Art'. [Includes a review] 
http://www.themodernword.com/reviews/kuspit.html 

Imaginary Book Review 
Receiving special mention for submitting 'the strangest entry' to a strange literary competition is probably a compliment. Right? If, like me, you're not quite sure, try reading the offending entry here:

Apologies for this unsolicited correspondence, but I should warn you that my review of your debut novella Tapping, Tapping, Jumping is due to be published in the next issue of Les Margins, the postmodernist literary review. (I have included the text of my review in a footnote to this letter.)
http://www.themodernword.com/contests/001_tapping.html