By: Ingrid Schorr

The body has two states: expansion and contraction.

By: Joshua Glenn

Submit to loving authority, or face the consequences!

By: Katie Hennessey

He was alt-country before alt-country was cool.

By: Matthew De Abaitua

Davies’ commitment to his own idiosyncrasies is impressive.

By: Patrick Cates

He took the prog rock that punk hated so… and wrapped it up in punk.

By: Tim Carmody

The scholar must study the consequences of politics and other inconvenient facts.

By: David Smay

He suffers exactly enough to make the joke.

By: Patrick Cates

He punctuated class-centric British life with absurd question marks.

By: Matthew Battles

Truth, too, is a kind of magic, and skepticism a spell.

By: Tom Nealon

DAVID CRONENBERG (born 1943) has been lauded for his blurring of boundaries between technology and the individual, but this praise has consistently missed the point, for his films have singularly denied the existence of any […]

By: Douglas Wolk

One of his production jobs was hilariously disrespectful.

By: Tor Aarestad

Are great chess players brilliant thinkers?

By: Joshua Glenn

Many alienated, analytical, funny social/cultural critics were born in cusp years.

By: Mark Kingwell

His was a hermeneutic approach to phenomen­ology.

By: Ingrid Schorr

“I am the king of the divan!”