By: Joshua Glenn

Mechanical men, Martian vampires, and dirigible crashes.

By: Tor Aarestad

Can violence ever be praised so? What enormity is required?

By: Brian Berger

His wild sounds set off waves of enthusiasm.

By: Tucker Cummings

Creating art that is rooted in reality, not theory.

By: Mark Kingwell

Every attempt to speak plainly is doomed to failure.

By: Elina Shatkin

She was as complicated as the country she helped to found.

By: Anthony Miller

He elevated intertextuality to a literary theology.

By: Jerrold Freitag

He doesn’t do anything just because he can.

By: Erik Davis

The most heavy metal of fin-de-siècle French artists.

By: Jerrold Freitag

He was mindful of how horrible we can make one another.

By: Greg Rowland

“Just Say ‘Nah…’”

By: Devin McKinney

The individual’s mastication in the teeth of the modern state.

By: Mark Kingwell

After 9/11, he mocked knee-jerk patriotism and dumb-ass foreign policy.

By: Lucy Sante

Anarchist, litterateur, honest man.

By: Franklin Bruno

Derrida said of this pop star: “He knows his Wittgenstein.”