American literary journal edited by Andrei Codrescu, founded in 1983. Happy to enrage academia, the journal was called "lively," "contreversial," and sometimes the New Yorker of the Avant-garde. (Not meant to be a compliment). Codrescu and staff relished debate and good writing. Gaining more mainstream popularity in the 1990s, its essays were reprinted in Harper's, Playboy, and the Utne Reader. In 1998, paper publication ceased and the journal moved entirely to the Web at http://www.corpse.org.