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date: 2026-04-01T09:28:08.424Z
title: The HTML Review Issue 05
bookmark_of: https://thehtml.review/05/
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When I read [A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/6dd28889-cbab-43c6-a371-92fd4f13e19b) I was gobsmacked by Eggers' use of footnotes, drawing, and other literary accoutrement; it felt like he used every feature of the printed book form to tell a story. HTML Review delights the same senses for online works. Even if you don't like the words, what the works here accomplish in form and ambition is, well, staggering.