VERSION 90. Though not strictly a literary...

VERSION 90. Though not strictly a literary magazine per se, Version 90 seems to be aiming itself at a zone where new versions of literacy may be blooming. An intriguing and thoroughly eclectic mix of cultural rumblings and bubblings inhabits the first two issues: an article on a pirate radio station run by blacks; Wilhelm Reich’s influence on Situationism; a report on a Festival of Plagiarism; interviews with a young filmmaker, a performance artist, and the founder of the Miniature-Art-of-the-Month Club.

There’s an evocative and elegiac cartoon strip called “Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer”; a report on the underground cassette culture in Eastern Europe; and fiction, poetry, and reviews of a resolutely postmodern variety. All this and more is intensely illustrated with eye-catching photographs and unusual (but not obtrusive) graphics. Version 90 is intent on filling a gap that many of us didn’t know existed.

Version 90, 107 Brighton Avenue, Allston, MA 02134; $10 per issue, $18 for two issues.