By: Tor Aarestad

“I would rather be wrong with Sartre than right with Aron.”

By: Anthony Miller

He hated middlebrow and appreciated madness.

By: Jacob Mikanowski

His career recapitulated the mystery of the blues in miniature.

By: Adam McGovern

His grand-scale pixels pull you close.

By: Robert Wringham

He envisions a library system that is truly for all.

By: Brian Berger

Brazilian masterpieces small and humongous.

By: Robert Wringham

His boarding-school girls smoked, gambled and even murdered.

By: Adam McGovern

Lover of noise, angel of the unaccepted.

By: Deb Chachra

Inspiring role model and cautionary tale.

By: Joe Alterio

Eat your heart out, Indiana Jones.

By: Brian Berger

Fiercely intelligent, race-conscious yet jovial comedy.

By: William Nericcio

She transformed the field of Comparative Literature — and me.

By: Brian Berger

He fought against “the little men of War and Bias.”

By: Suzanne Fischer

Science fiction inspired her to an incisive, productive anger.

By: Mark Kingwell

A literary theorist with a lot of enemies.